The migration has finally occurred, and the art galleries and studios that formerly centered on and around Northeast 38th Street in the Design District have moved on. And we now know where some of them have landed, including Locust Projects (a Knight Arts Challenge grantee), which moved over to North Miami Avenue and is reopening with [...]
Ongoing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts Grantee) is the site-specific collaboration between two legendary artists, Joshua White and Gary Panter. Although it’s absolutely accurate to call both White and Panter artists, the term feels a bit staid in this context, and in any case isn’t particularly descriptive in terms of [...]
Last November, the Museum of Contemporary Art won a Knight Arts Challenge grant for an effort to promote creativity and build community through innovative arts programs for young people. The project, which includes a new wing at the museum, will inspire teens to become lifelong learners and lovers of art. The Art Institute will offer experiences for [...]
Forty-two commissions throughout 36 seasons. That would be an impressive pace for a professional dance company. It’s really an astonishing achievement for a youth ballet, and the tradition continues this weekend with the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet’s premiere of “The Little Mermaid“ at the Akron Civic Theatre. Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet, a Knight Arts grantee and [...]
Inkub8, a recent Knight Arts Challenge recipient, hosts a feedback forum on March 16 at 8 p.m. with emerging South Florida artists Becky Flowers, Jenny Larsson, Katie Meehan & Sam Hanson, Karen Peterson and Dancers and Pioneer Winter. The purpose of the forum is to foster deeper connections
By Kristin Korolwicz, Bass Museum The next phase of the Bass Museum’s TC: Temporary Contemporary will begin this month and will feature a group of works that explore interactions and relationships among various sites in Miami Beach. This general theme includes projects that investigate the nuances of communication and interactivity in the public sphere, as [...]
By LeToya Stairs, Rhythm of Africa Music Program & 2010 Knight Arts Challenge Winner On February 28, 2012, The City of Lauderdale Lakes recognized the student performers of Lauderdale Lakes Educational Complex with an Award of Appreciation for their cultural contributions to the community through the Rhythms of Africa : Music Around the World performance, which took place [...]
By Ela Troyano, Creative Capital As a Creative Capital grantee selected in Film/Video in the first grant year (2000) and an Artist Leader for the Professional Development Program (PDP) since its inception in 2003, I’ve watched PDP grow from an idea and a radical experiment into a fully realized, successful program that has already changed our arts [...]
The show “Message & Medium” had its opening at PhilaMOCA on Thursday, March 1. Its name is taken from the famous assertion by Marshall McLuhan that “the medium is the message.” In this exhibit, assembled by artist and curator Gaby Heit, some 20 artists display work, which is in some way based in textual elements. [...]
“Sleeping Beauty’s” timeless tale of a beautiful princess, a dashing prince and the triumph of good over evil with a single kiss has delighted audiences for years. North Carolina Dance Theatre (a Knight arts grantee) is performing the entire “Sleeping Beauty” for the very first time. “Sleeping Beauty” is a powerful and entertaining mesmerizing work [...]
