August 9, 2024
Visual artists

Artists including Nicholas Galanin, Lorraine O’Grady and Park McArthur win Guggenheim Fellowships

Anna Betbeze, Mike Cloud, Nicholas Galanin, Lotus L. Kang, Park McArthur, Lorraine O’Grady and Dyani White Hawk are among the 28 visual artists who have received 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships. Another 17 fellows are practising photographers. Administered by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the fellowships are intended to support specific projects in 52 different disciplines.

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Revealing TransLink’s Vaisakhi bus, designed by visual artist Jag Nagra

To celebrate Vaisakhi, we’ve collaborated with visual artist Jag Nagra to create an art-wrapped bus. The colourful bus will be seen around the region to mark Vaisakhi festivities! About the design: It takes inspiration from the artistry of Rumala Sahibs — the ornately embroidered fabrics found in Sikh Gurdwaras. The unique wrapped bus is covered

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The Winners of the Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Awards 2024

Carol Emmons and Tory Folliard lead the list of recipients of the 2024 Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Awards. Folliard, founder and managing director of the 25-year-old Tory Folliard Gallery, and Emmons, an artist specializing in site-specific installations, received Legacy Awards. The awards, in seven categories, are presented biennially to individuals and organizations for significant contributions

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Gallery Sitka hosting French visual artist show

SHIRLEY – Gallery Sitka announces the exhibition “Symptoms” by French visual artist Veronique Sapin, with an opening reception on Friday, April 26, from 4:30 to 6:30p.m. Sapin, whose studio is in Cugnaux, France, will be in attendance at the Shirley gallery. The show will be displayed through May 3. Also planned is an Artist Talk,

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Pia Johnson on visual artist Fiona Tan’s Disorient

Pia Johnson is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores notions of diaspora and otherness as it relates to her background as Chinese Malaysian and Italian Australian. “I spent a lot of time with my grandparents in their suburban brick home,” says Johnson, who has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the

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Artist Maisie Cousins Launches London Takeover

Rising visual artist Maisie Cousins is bringing her vivid collage prints to East London‘s coolest natural wine bar for a three-month residency, kicking off this month. Featuring 10 pieces, consisting of new and unseen works alongside some of Cousins’ classics, the takeover will see the artist bringing her distinctive aesthetic to the raw-edged appearance of

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Six Of The Best: KA Bird & Jacques Verkade | NARC. | Reliably Informed

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream is an art exhibition set to take place at Concrete, a new art gallery at the Forum Shopping Center, Wallsend.  The exhibition includes two North-East based visual artists, KA Bird and Jacques Verkade who have made work about pressing contemporary issues surrounding unchecked technologies, like surveillance and

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Bay of Fires Art Prize – ArtsHub Australia

By completing and lodging an entry in the Bay of Fires Art Prize competition, the artist is deemed to be bound by, and shall comply with, the obligations specified in these Conditions of Entry. The Bay of Fires Art Prize is awarded by The Bay of Fires Arts Association Inc. Entry is open to all

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Jerome Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grants – Twin Cities Arts Reader

Minnesota-based Ananya Dance Theatre (2023’s We Are The Procession by Michhil Amra pictured) is one of 79 organizations to receive support from the Jerome Foundation in the coming cycle. ADT’s award will underwrite its NextGen Choreolab program for early career, Minnesota-based choreographers. Photo by Canaan Mattson Photography. The Jerome Foundation – a St. Paul-based charitable

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Booker High’s new Visual and Performing Arts Center opens

Booker High’s new Visual and Performing Arts Center opens News Sports Ticket Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals Booker High School hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for the new Booker High Visual and Performing Arts Center. Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune Guests on a tour of the new Booker High Visual and Performing Arts Center,

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