By Robert Harkins, South Florida Folklife Center, HistoryMiami As part of its Heritage Spotlight Series, the HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center is ready to launch its third artist residency. Our new featured artist will be Mieko Kubota, a master practitioner of ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. Mieko has crafted ikebana pieces for more [...]
On Sept 14, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami held an open house for the five artists selected to be part of Trading Spaces 2, MOCA’s innovative two-month residency program.Through the program, five South Florida artists, Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus Sigurdarson, Rick Ulysse and Antonia Wright, will give up his/her studio in exchange for an exhibition [...]
By Rick Shiomi, Mu Performing Arts As I took the stage to accept my Ivey Award for Lifetime Achievement, I thought about my journey at Mu, from the days in the early 1990s when I wondered if an Asian American theater company was even possible in Minnesota, to the last few years when Mu entered our “golden [...]
As applications are rolling in for this year’s Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia (due date: Oct. 15), it’s a great time to check in with winners from the first year of the Challenge and take note of the kind of lasting impact their winning ideas are having on the community. One success story is that of Fresh [...]
By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College Award-winning choreographers and founders of the renowned Nuevo Ballet Español, Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez, will present Cambio de Tercio for the first time in the U.S. as part of Miami Dade College’s MDC Live Arts performing arts series at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 – 6, at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. At the forefront of emerging [...]
Have a question about the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia? We’re giving you two opportunities to learn more and get your questions answered before the Oct. 15 application deadline. Bring your questions directly to Knight Foundation reps, who’ll answer them in person at our Philly Town Hall Meeting (October 3) — or join us for a [...]
The 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Miami is bigger and better than ever with the addition of its first People’s Choice Award. Knight Foundation has selected five local nominees from this year’s group of finalists – the rest is up to you. Vote for your favorite and the winner will receive $20,000 for their Miami art project. [...]
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 [...]
