Good news for arts journalism. The Macon Arts Alliance has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant. The grant is for $80,000 ($40K from NEA, $40K match from Knight Foundation) for a multi-pronged program, including: A series of critic/artist symposiums where a prominent critic and a practicing artist is brought in to [...]
By Garrick R. Black II, Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop On April 6, 2013, the day was filled with anticipation and excitement as we heard from each character of Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop’s (YEPAW) encore presentation of The Wiz at the Akron Civic Theatre. Under the direction of Mr. Myron Lewis, and in conjunction [...]
By Chris Quinn, Borsht Corp Starting today, we are going to be posting videos from the Borscht vault online for the world to see. We will release a new one every few weeks or so for the rest of the year. Most will be accompanied by an essay from someone we like. In honor of [...]
By Taylor Bakken, American Composers Forum Alongside having some of the most virtuosic musicians in St. Paul’s music scene, Cherry Spoon Collective has been lucky to utilize the help of some incredibly talented students from the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. One of these students is Jacqueline Johnston, a sophomore at St. Paul Conservatory [...]
By Bonnie Marshall, Cherry Spoon Collective Cherry Spoon Collective announces its inaugural ‘mini-season’ in St. Paul with two performances. On Friday, April 26 at 7pm and 9pm Cherry Spoon Collective will perform at Studio Z (275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200) during the St. Paul Art Crawl and will include street performances in lowertown prior [...]
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s efforts to engage the community are making headlines. The Detroit News reports on the Symphony’s efforts this week. Click here to read the complete article and scroll below for an excerpt. “Two years after a debilitating strike pushed the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to the brink of its storied existence, the band [...]
By Melissa Macker, The 567 Center for Renewal, Inc. Cheri Lesauskis will teach a beginner’s jewelry-making workshop at The 567 Center for Renewal (a Knight Arts grantee) on Thursday, April 18. Lesauskis is a highly skilled jewelry artist whose work has been featured in galleries and boutiques alike. Most recently, her jewelry is on display [...]
By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy Walker West Music Academy is gearing up for summer and the Summer Music Enrichment Program, the Academy’s annual 3-week summer day camp! Even though the Minnesota weather has kept us bundled up and covered in snow, we know that sunny summer days are right around the corner. Designed [...]
By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Anthony (Tony) Allegro is one of the local artists who have worked mostly in this field of video art. His long and sustained development began towards the late 1960s, right in the center of the algid New York avant-garde scene that was the leading edge of this form of [...]
By Robert Harkins, HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center The HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center is proud to feature Joe Zeytoonian as the Heritage Spotlight artist-in-residence for April-June 2013. While growing up in Boston’s Armenian community, Joe learned to play the oud, a Middle Eastern guitar-like instrument. An oud master, he also specializes in doumbek, a [...]
