(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
VFX artists have faced increased workloads and tight deadlines to complete some of the industry’s biggest budget franchise films in recent years, leading to tension between these workers and studios. In particular, Disney, which owns Marvel Studios, required immense special effects work in the last three years to complete a massive slate of superhero films
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
A recent Second Circuit case has brought the debate surrounding contentious art and intellectual property rights to the forefront. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Vermont Law School’s decision to cover a pair of murals, which the school and many of its students found to be offensive, did not violate
LOS ANGELES, CA — Marvel Studios’ Visual Effects (VFX) Workers unanimously voted in favor of unionizing with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the union announced Wednesday. This significant milestone marks the first time a unit of solely VFX Workers has unionized
Last year, the visual artist Kelly McKernan started seeing images on Twitter that seemed to be their artwork, but weren’t. “I felt they represented unfinished sketches in my head that I hadn’t even put onto paper yet,” McKernan says. “It was really disturbing.” McKernan, who is 37 and identifies as nonbinary, soon found out that
NEW YORK — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal, ethereal … dealing with discomfort in the human journey.” The word “human” has a special resonance for McKernan these days. Though it’s