March 10, 2025

Visual artists

Visual artists

Saudi Arabia’s Visual Arts Commission Announces Curatorial Team for Inaugural Edition of Art Week Riyadh

The curatorial team includes local, regional and international contemporary art specialists Vittoria Matarrese, Basma Harasani, Victoria Gandit Lelandais and Shumon Basar Art Week Riyadh’s inaugural edition takes place from 6 to 13 April 2025, under the theme At The Edge An initiative of the Ministry of Culture’s Visual Arts Commission, the event is a platform

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New €25k award fostering cross-cultural collaborations open to Cork visual artists

Visual artists are being invited to apply for the inaugural Gibson Travelling Fellowship Award recently announced by the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. The Gibson Travelling Fellowship Award is an initiative to expand international mobility and opportunities for professional visual artists. The €25,000 triennial award will offer a selected practising visual artist the means to

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Palette to Purpose: Yale undergrads use art, music and touch to chronicle the burning world

A collaboration between a climate activist and an advocate for the visually impaired led to the creation of Palette to Purpose, an art exhibit to fundraise for disaster relief and cataract surgery. Michelle So 12:00 am, Mar 03, 2025 Staff Reporter Courtesy of Dahlia Kordit Puerto Rico’s devastation in the wake of Hurricane Maria spurred

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Indy Latina Artists exhibit celebrates bold women – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indy Latina Artists beginning Friday will present a visual art exhibit designed to celebrate the act of being bold, and dedicated to Women’s History Month in March. The Atrevida exhibit will showcase collaborative pieces from 12 Indianapolis women artists who come from Latino countries. An organizer says each artist expressed a

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AMIAF to spotlight visual art landscape

L-R: Festus Adeyemi, PhD, Dean of Vocational Education, Federal College of Education Technical, Akoka Lagos; Yusuf Durodola, curator of AMIAF; Miabo Enyadike, founder/CEO, AMIAF; and Agu Uchechukwu, head of operations, AMIAF, at media preview of the 2025 edition in Lagos recently. …As bigger space, scope, unique works mark 2025 edition Riding on the success of

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Loveland artists’ St. Patrick sculpture to be added to Benson Sculpture Garden this summer – Loveland Reporter-Herald

The Visual Arts Commission and High Plains Arts Council have selected a sculpture of St. Patrick created by two Loveland artists to be the newest addition to the Benson Sculpture Garden following last year’s Sculpture in the Park show. HPAC presented the piece — a life-size sculpture of St. Patrick, holding a staff and reaching

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One of Halifax’s biggest art world talents finally gets their homecoming

It took a spot on the shortlist of Canada’s biggest prize in visual art — and an international-headline-grabbing wildfire in Arizona — for Séamus Gallagher to finally get the hometown show they deserve.  Originally from Moncton, but based in Halifax since the nascent days of their career, the self-described media artist is one of the

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San Diego weekend arts events: South Bay Zine Fest, ‘The Drawing Show’ and origami

Kerry Soori McEachern: ‘Of Love and Light’ and PARISA Projects: ‘Prelude to Resonance’ Visual art | The California Center for the Arts Escondido (CCAE) recently opened two interesting exhibits in its museum space. PARISA Projects, helmed by curator Parisa Majidy, showcases contemporary Persian artists in “Prelude to Resonance” and rotates the art pieces weekly, with

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Al Mouj Art shows incredible diversity and depth of the Omani art scene

Imagine stepping into a vibrant world where colours collide, creativity flows, and diverse artistic visions come to life. Al Mouj Muscat has been transformed into a dynamic canvas as it hosts an exhilarating art exhibition featuring the remarkable talents of 27 visual artists and four photographers. Over the course of two weeks, this dazzling display

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New book showcases Pittsburgh’s visual arts avant-garde

Among the visual artists of their time, Pittsburghers like Mary Cassatt, John Kane, Selma Burke and Andy Warhol stood out as avant-garde innovators shaking up the aesthetic establishment with exciting new ways to perceive and portray the world. Are there similar groundbreaking, norm-shattering influencers shaping Pittsburgh’s art scene today? Ask Sheila Ali, founder of Garfield’s

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