August 5, 2024
Visual artists

Meow Wolf Reveals Visual Artists and Performers for Vortex 2023

Meow Wolf is gearing up for the second edition of Vortex at the JunkYard with massive musicians, huge art installations, live performers, and more. Meow Wolf is one of the most colorful and coveted art exhibits across the country. With its most recent structure popping up in Denver in September of 2021, the beloved brand

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Louth saxophonist Robert Finegan looks forward to launching debut EP in Dundalk

Robert’s dad is the well-known local photographer Ken Finegan, whose work can be seen in The Argus every week, and Tara’s father is a visual artist. Having crowd-funded for the EP, they decided to embrace modern technology, so not only would the music be available on streaming platforms, but listeners could use a QR which

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A Brief Retrospective of Visual Artists Who’ve Made Beauty Brands Cooler

While many celebrities are involved in the beauty industry as spokespersons and models, there are comparatively few partnerships between beauty brands and visual artists. Yet a handful of brilliant alliances do exist and are worthy of shining a light on. Salvador Dali for Schiaparelli Le Roy Soleil perfume ad and perfume bottle within its gold

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Visual art and music converge in new Lake Tahoe exhibit

In a groundbreaking fusion of art and music, visual artist Emily Ward Bivens and musician Josh D. Reed have joined forces in their new exhibit, “Human, Robot, Human.” The immersive experience opens to the public July 29 at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s Prim Library with an artists’ reception and talk on

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Faculty Artist Captures Hollywood Through a Feminist Lens

Julie Orser, associate professor of art Growing up in the 1980s, Julie Orser always had her family’s 35mm film camera in her hand.  Whether she was taking pictures or developing photos in her high school’s darkroom, the Cal State Fullerton associate professor of art has always been fascinated with visual

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Visual Artists Wanted for “Barrels O’Art” in Hackensack

originally published: 07/15/2023 (HACKENSACK, NJ) — The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s ArtsBergen has announced a call for ten visual artists and/or artist teams to design and paint murals on ten rain barrels in the City of Hackensack.  Each rain barrel serves as a canvas for a painted mural.  The selected artists paint themes on

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Up the Wall With the Visual Artists Rights Act

In light of the recent case between muralist, Samuel Kerson, and Vermont Law School, along with several other examples, consideration of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) should be at the forefront of mural artists, and their attorneys. One glaring aspect of murals that differs from other mediums of visual art, protected by VARA, is

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30 artists named 2023 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award winners, awarded $550,000

15th award cycle highlights metro Detroit’s literary and visual artists Thirty metro Detroit artists will share an unrestricted $550,000 in the 2023 Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Awards. The no strings attached awards were announced Thursday by the Kresge Arts in Detroit office located at the College for Creative Studies, which administers

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Animation Career Review Recognizes UCF’s Visual Arts, Design Programs Among Best in Nation

Through persistent efforts toward excellence and innovation, UCF is recognized for preparing students pursuing studies in art programs to be successful visual artists in the billion-dollar animation industry. Animation Career Review, which serves as a comprehensive database of universities and college art programs throughout the nation, has recognized the successes of several of the School

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Writing advice for artists and visual thinkers

Yesterday designer Jessica Hische tweeted, “I have it in my head that I should pursue an MFA in creative writing to be a better writer and find more space for writing in my life. Really, I should find a way to carve out time to focus on writing without paying tens of thousands of dollars

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