August 9, 2024
Visual artists

John Yau Talks About the Art of Collaboration

LEXINGTON, Ky.— Currently at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Disguise the Limit: John Yau’s Collaborations offers a survey of the poet’s collaborations with more than 40 artists over the last three decades. The exhibition highlights the many different ways Yau has worked with a wide range of visual artists over the past five decades.

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Artists paint horrors of Sudan’s civil war

Amnesty International Kenya (AIK) had been planning to commemorate (or commiserate) the first anniversary since the latest round of the civil war in Sudan began on April 15, 2023. But it took a small nudge from the Sudan Democracy First Group (SDFG) to suggest the concept of ‘Art for Aid’ be the theme of that

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Festival Unveils Visual Arts Showcase for 2024

Henley Festival has announced this year’s stunning line-up of art which will include Britain’s best-selling figurative painters Mark Demsteader, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and Archibald People’s Choice Award-winning artist Esther Erlich, and sculptor Holly Bendall, who creates striking bronzes including a Greenpeace-supported permanent public installation that can be experienced in Porthleven. The Festival

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Alberta artists featured at Royal Alberta Museum

The Royal Alberta Museum and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) unveiled a new exhibit Wednesday morning. Here & Now features 16 newly acquired artworks which focus on themes of identity, female strength, human impacts on the land and the ideas of disability versus ability. The exhibition showcases different mediums including

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Cey Adams, The Visual Artist Behind The Dawn of Hip-Hop, Takes Center Stage – PRINT Magazine

Stars like Jay-Z, Run DMC, and The Notorious B.I.G. don’t just appear overnight. It takes a village, and a very talented village at that, to create personas of such magnitude. Many of these backstage figures have been there from the beginning, helping to craft aura, style—that special something—that propels someone from person icon. Artist Cey

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A guide to St. Petersburg’s free Mainsail Art Festival in Vinoy Park

St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront is always lively these days, and will be even more so when longtime tradition the Mainsail Art Festival returns to Vinoy Park on April 20-21. Now in its 49th year, the fine art and craft festival brings artists working in painting, photography, ceramics, glass, outdoor sculpture, jewelry, wood, fiber, metal and

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Sarasota Art Museum showcases works of Hermitage visual artists

For the recent nationwide AEP6 study by Americans for the Arts, the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County identified more than 200 nonprofit arts and culture organizations in our area.  Now imagine what happens when those 200 arts groups start collaborating with each other. The cross-pollination possibilities are endless. Just look at the annual

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Provo High Dance Company and AP Art Students’ Film, “The Star,” Selected for Utah Dance Film Festival

Download the MP4 video. Last term, Provo High School’s Dance Company and AP Art students collaborated to create their visual arts film, “The Star,” which was selected for the prestigious Utah Dance Film Festival. This marks a significant achievement for all involved and is the first of its kind for Provo High. The Star emerged

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Top 10 most emergent Polish female visual artists now | Contemporary Lynx

The artisanal process of extracting new shapes from recycled materials, especially those classified as worthless, requires a lot of attention, concentration, and perseverance. In the shadow of conscious actions and repetitive ritual practices such as sewing, embroidery, mending, and reappropriation of used fabrics or contents of visual culture, the revolutionary potential of organic work emerges,

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The 2024 HeART of Portland: A Portland Public Schools K-12 Arts Showcase Visual Art Exhibition

Come see the extraordinary work of student artists in the HeART of Portland visual art exhibition! This exhibition features over 100 works that highlight the diversity of arts offerings across Portland Public Schools. It also includes the collaborative art project, Artistic Alchemy: Transformative Art Making, which takes inspiration from the Portland Art Museum exhibition Throughlines:

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