By Linda Harris, Center City District City of Philadelphia When Janet Echelman considered how she would create a public sculpture for the new Dilworth Plaza, she knew there was much to consider. After all, City Hall is a National Historic Landmark that is adorned with 250 sculptures by Alexander Milne Calder and crowned with one [...]
Knight Foundation is celebrating its 1,000+ Random Acts of Culture™ with four big, blow-out performances in San Jose, Detroit, Miami and Philadelphia. The fun kicked off Sunday, Aug. 5 with a 250-person surprise performance in San Jose, continued Friday, Aug. 10 with a 150-person performance at Detroit’s Compuware World Headquarters, hit South Beach Saturday, Sept 1 with a [...]
By, Adrienne Kleinman, Forecast Public Art IBé is one of the featured participants in Speaking of Home, St. Paul, to be completed in 2013. IBé is a talented spoken word artist who has been living in Minnesota since he was 17 years old. He was born in Guinea, and raised in Sierra Leone. After living [...]
This spring, Erica Hawthorne and her micro-grant program, Small But Mighty Arts Grant, was one of 35 winners named in the second year of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia. Erica’s winning idea — to give a boost to local artists by giving out small grants ranging from $200 to $1,000 each — received a $60,000 [...]
By Tu Dance Center TU Dance Center was the subject of a segment of Twin Cities’ Public Television’s MN Original on May 13. The spot highlighed the work of the company in preparation for their debut as part of the inaugural season of The Cowles Center in downtown Minneapolis on May 18-20. The newly-launched educational [...]
Applications are being accepted for the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia right here through Oct. 15. We believe the arts can engage and enrich communities and that your ideas can make an impact. That’s why the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing $9 million in innovative arts ideas. To date, 71 ideas have [...]
By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College With generous support from Terra Group and Bacardi, which now celebrates its 150th anniversary, Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design presents an evocative, retrospective exhibition spanning three decades of creative collaboration between award-winning fashion designer Isabel Toledo and her husband, artist Ruben Toledo. TOLEDO/TOLEDO: Full Circle will take place at MDC’s Freedom Tower, the landmark Mediterranean [...]
By Lauren Reskin, Sweat Records When Sweat Records first opened in 2005, there wasn’t nearly as much happening around South Florida as there is today. Because of this, we felt it our duty as music and culture junkies to let our customers know not only about our own in-stores, but about every interesting/cool/worthwhile concert and [...]
By Wendy Wolf, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, one of Miami’s National Historic Landmarks, is pleased to provide field study experiences in the arts, history and environment as one of the Cultural Passport partners for 4th grade students and teachers. This year Vizcaya welcomed 896 students and 84 chaperones from 10 different schools [...]
By Carrie Chapter Philadelphia Theatre Company At Philadelphia Theatre Company, our PEP (Patron Enrichment Programming) events could be described as the goodie bags distributed at a birthday party – tasty diversions reminiscent of the core celebration, as well as a sweet way of saying, “Thank you for coming!” At least, this is how I picture our kick-off [...]
