By Savannah G.M. Wood, Special to the AFRO On the evening of Monday, September 19, I was honored to attend a private event at the Vice President of the United States’s residence celebrating Black visual artists. Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Curator of
PAINT AND PETALS. The Pablo Center has opened art submissions for their annual Fabulous Florals and Fine Art exhibit. (“The Signal” by Dez Lezotte, Jake Lindgren) Calling all visual artists and floral designers! Ever wanted to see your artwork translated into the art of floristry or vice versa? The Pablo Center at the Confluence wants
We’re celebrating Black History Month here in The Palm Beaches by shining a light on some of our local Black artists! On the occasion of Black History Month, we have asked 8 local Black artists to share with us what they love about The Palm Beaches. Where do they find inspiration for their art? What’s
This summer, the Exploratorium and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris are pleased to present the West Coast premiere of “The Great Animal Orchestra,” a collaborative work between pioneer soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. As part of the institution’s supporting public programming, Vincent Tricon, an award-winning French filmmaker and director
Musician and visual artist Daniel Blumberg discusses discovering new joys in film scoring, collaboration versus solitude, and how age is just a number. As a musician and an artist, it seems like you’re always on some kind of adventure. I’m actually going on Sunday to record reverb impulses in Carrera [Tuscany, Italy] in a marble
(Left) 2023 Visual Artist Fellow Harold Smith (Photo by E.G. Schempf) ; (Right) 2023 Generative Performing Artist Fellow Stephonne Singleton. // Photo by Jim Barcus) Charlotte Street Foundation is looking for submissions for the 2024 Visual Artist Award and Generative Performing Artist Award. Since its conception in 1997, Charlotte Street Foundation has worked to provide
Since 2020 Americans have lived through extraordinary sociopolitical events: Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country in response to the murder of George Floyd; far-right activists stormed the Capitol, incited by Donald Trump’s false claim that the presidential election had been stolen from him; labor organizers Chris Smalls and Derrick Palmer achieved the seemingly
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Sally Van Doren ’84 with her new book of poetry, “Sibilance,” due out at the end of September. Sally Van Doren ’84 is an American poet and visual artist who graduated from Princeton with a degree in comparative literature. She began her professional career in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as a radio news director, before
Published Sep 13, 2023 by An East Carolina University alumnus has been named a state fellow and finalist for the prestigious 2023 South Arts Southern Prize for Visual Arts. Michael Webster of Spartanburg, South Carolina, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the ECU School of Art and Design in 2009. Webster is