Will Jacks, Assistant Professor of Art & Design at Troy University, has received a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, along with a $5,000 grant. ASCA fellowships are awarded to individuals working in arts education, dance, design, media/photography, music, literature, theater, visual arts and crafts. These grants recognize artistic excellence as well
Visual Collaborative, an American and African owned joint ventures is redefining the art and act of travelling exhibitions Visual Collaborative, originally a traveling exhibition, was created by multidisciplinary designer and technologist Adé Abayomi Olufeko in the autumn of 2006, having observed the relationship between artists and the barriers to entry towards innovation. Initiated in Minneapolis
TORONTO, June 18, 2024 /CNW/ – Today the Art Canada Institute (ACI) proudly releases the print edition of Halifax Art and Artists: An Illustrated History by Ray Cronin, also available as an open-access online publication in the ACI’s celebrated Canadian Online Art Book Project. The visually stunning and content-rich volume joins ACI’s growing library of
Kerry County Council’s Arts Office is inviting visual artists to apply for a two-week residency at Ballinskelligs. They will award the sponsored residencies at Cill Rialaig artist retreat to two Kerry visual artists. The Cill Rialaig Residency Award 2024 includes two weeks accommodation and utilities for the artist in their own individual cottage studio. The pre-famine village of Cill
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935 by Sjeng Scheijen (Thames & Hudson) The Russian avant garde’s rise and fall, Utopian hopes and tragic demise, extreme politics, big
The six artists shortlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent prize for contemporary visual artists, were announced recently by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Sobey Art Foundation (SAF). Works by the six finalists will be on view at the NGC from October 4, 2024, to March 16, 2025. The winner will
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — Hundreds of people from throughout the ArkLaTex gathered to celebrate Juneteenth with the fourth annual art-ish. “It’s art-ish, it’s Black-ish, it’s Black artistry, it’s something to celebrate,” said Drayden Dunn, president of Art Heals. Art-ish celebrates Juneteenth annually with an event that this time was bigger and better. “Sixty visual artists
Nigerian-American ceramic sculptor, Femi Olajire Akande, is one of the few visual artists of Nigeria extraction making waves in Houston, Texas, United States of America (USA). To him, art can play a crucial role in promoting peace and reconciliation in the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Syria. This can be done in a
The local government of Angono in Rizal has nominated two visual artists hailing from the city to become national artists. According to Angono Mayor Jeri Mae Calderon, the town’s Sangguniang Bayan has issued a resolution approving the nomination of Nemesio B. Miranda Jr. as national artist for visual arts to the National Commission for Culture
Artist Chloê Langford discusses turning video games into performances, letting multiple contradictions exist, and exploring what’s desirable about our culture of overstimulation. What is your creative practice? I make performances and video games, and sometimes websites. I’m in a collective called Fantasia Malware. There’s three of us, and we create games and performances. When I