Knight Arts

Today, ArtPlace America, a nationwide initiative that puts the arts at the heart of community revitalization, announced $15.2 million in funding for new projects in 44 communities across the United States. We’re excited to see that arts leaders in seven of the communities where Knight invests – Miami, Philadelphia, St. Paul, San Jose, Macon, Detroit and [...]

Today, I’m excited to present the 66 finalists in the Miami Knight Arts Challenge. Our goal is to make it so that everywhere you go in South Florida, you have an encounter with art. In that vein, one of the things that excites us most about this group is their geographic diversity. They don’t just [...]

This city comes alive with music during the summer. It’s almost as if you have to work at it to miss hearing the strains of rock, jazz, blues and country as you move around town. Think of it. The City of Akron provides a series of concerts throughout the summer that covers nearly every day [...]

The Summer Pops Concert Series by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (a Knight Arts grantee) is just around the corner, with the first concert scheduled for June 9 at Symphony Park. Tickets are $10 for adults, entrance for children under 18 is free, and a series pass is available for all five concerts for $35. Park [...]

Next Friday, May 31, Dance Now! will host its first annual Gala Fundraiser honoring City of Miami Beach Mayor Matti H. Bower. The proceeds raised from the gala will go towards Dance Now!’s Summer

Have you ever dreamed of being a photographer? And not like the digital Instagram breed, but a real chemistry-and-darkroom Ansel Adams photographer? Well, now is your opportunity to get a crash course in manual photography and developing with “24 Hour Photo: A Crash Course in Darkroom Photography,” courtesy of Knight Arts grantee Fleisher Art Memorial [...]

The pieces are coming together in Macon’s College Hill Corridor, a geographic region comprised of the neighborhoods connecting downtown Macon and the campus of Mercer University (a Knight grantee). The area is in the midst of a renaissance. The newest piece in the revitalization puzzle is the announcement of an ArtPlace America grant to support the [...]

From May through September, Lock 3, in downtown Akron plays host to Akron’s biggest festivals, a weekly farmers market, a large number of community events and the City of Akron’s official 4th of July fireworks display. But also, music fans, it features a seemingly unending season of live music – lots of it free. And it [...]

The Fountainhead Residency program is one of the better incubators for Miami’s art scene, with about six artists from all over the world coming to work in a house in Morningside for several-month stints. But there is also the Fountainhead Studios, also spearheaded by Kathryn and Dan Mikesell, which while not a residency aims to [...]

Charlotte’s grassroots art scene hit the stage Sunday as the  documentary “BUSK! – The Heart of Street Performance“  premiered at McGlohon Theater. The 42-minute film was released for free to raise awareness of the benefits of grassroots art can have on a city. Watch it above and share with fellow arts enthusiasts.  

I’m going to swap my journalist’s hat for that of an advocate today, but it’s in the service of a good cause (and one, full disclosure, in which I’m a participant as part of my day job with mnartists.org): Northern Spark, the one-night-only, nuit blanche-style, public arts festival will be held in St. Paul’s Lowertown [...]

Robert Sestok contains an awful lot of Detroit’s history for such an unassuming presence. The unraveling of his understated personality reveals an astounding cultural and historical index of Detroit, painstakingly accumulated since his move to the city in ’67, against the tidal wave of outward migration. In his time, Sestok has seen the rise and [...]