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 [...]
“Lorca in a Green Dress,” Pulitzer-winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s surreal homage to poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, opened at the Ritz Theater last weekend. The play, directed by Teatro del Pueblo’s Alberto Justiniano, marks the fourth collaborative production by the Knight Arts grantee company and Pangea World Theater. The curtain opens on 1936 Spain and [...]
Bragg Jam has become Macon’s largest music event. Every year, the crowds get larger and the list of musical acts grows longer. The annual festival began as an impromptu jam session in 1999 in honor of late musicians Brax and Tate Bragg, and it’s grown into a massive music and arts festival. Proceeds from the annual [...]
Much-lauded actor John Lithgow has some strong theatrical roots in the Akron area, and he’s coming back to town to talk to his former friends and neighbors about “The Power of Storytelling.” His father, Arthur, a theatrical producer and director, directed a Shakespeare festival at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, where the present Ohio Shakespeare [...]
Status update: The Knight Arts Challenge Detroit application period is now closed. Video: Detroit 2020/Knight Arts Challenge from WXYZ-TV/Detroit With just a few days left to submit an idea for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit, we wanted to share all our tips (and a few tricks) to applying in one place. So before you hit [...]
Hernan Bas relocated to Detroit several years ago. It’s a move that appears, on canvas, to have been a great choice. Although his paintings never really disappeared here in Miami, he has a number of works up now, at the Snitzer Gallery for a solo show of new works, at MOCA in its 15th-anniversary show, [...]
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 [...]
Following the Friday night DFT screening of the short film Frames for the People: A City of Halos, I had a chance to talk with Corrie Baldauf, a 2011 Kresge Fellow in Visual Arts and co-creator of the piece with filmmakers Stephen and Cory McGee. Baldauf was on hand for a Q&A session after the [...]
In Philadelphia, Practice, the art space that opened not so long ago in 2012, focuses on performance, participation, and experimentation. Their current exhibit is entitled “Taken” and aims to analyze the processes which revolve around appropriation. Whether you call them rip-offs, artistic license, or anything else, in the 21st century, few themes are as relevant [...]
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 [...]
