Walk in the door of Minnesota Museum of American Art’s new exhibition, “String | Felt | Theory,” and you’re assaulted by color. Just left of the entry way, Liz Miller’s “Sublime Retaliation Scheme” is suspended from the ceiling by thin wires — draped garlands of vivid felt work, like a Michael’s-made wedding arch waiting for a [...]
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Poetic Peace Arts (a Knight Arts grantee) regularly hosts Poetic Peace Open Mic events at JD’s Drama and Dinner Theater in downtown Macon. Along with open mic sets, Poetic Peace also features regional and nationally known spoken word artists and writers. According to Y-O Latimore, of Poetic Peace Arts, spoken word artist Oak Morse and [...]
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Bunny Yeager is a South Florida icon, and also a pioneer in a way many wouldn’t recognize. While she may be best known as the hand behind some of the most famous “pin-up” photographs from the 1950s and ’60s, most famously Bettie Page, the fact that she was a woman, and a model, herself made [...]
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Sunday’s closing concert of the Mainly Mozart Festival will bring an organizational changing of the guard. And if all goes well, it also will inaugurate a new era of cutting-edge chamber music in Miami. The just-formed Miami Chamber Music Society, founded by arts activist and Coral Gables attorney Lewis “Mike” Eidson and Ukrainian-American pianist Marina [...]
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In a seamless progression from last month’s opening of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, the latest group show opened at the MOCAD (a Knight Arts grantee) last weekend, and continues to approach art from the perspective of home (and vice-versa). (IN)HABITATION, curated by Greg Tom, features work of Jason J. Ferguson, Matt Kenyon and Osman Khan, [...]
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Maybe it’s a tradition among musicians, but frequently music directors, choir directors, musical comedy directors, and the like will provide a certain kind of spotlight tribute to the people who have helped them or been significant in their artistic lives. If it’s not a practice, it wouldn’t hurt if it became one. Jazz and classical [...]
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The Tigertail Spoken Word Workshops and Slam begins Thursday, June 27th at Miami Beach Botanical Garden with free workshops for Miami-Dade teens (13-19 years old). All City Slam starts off with an afternoon of intensive
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By Elizabeth Miller, Knight Foundation As an artistically-inclined child, Tatiana Hernandez gravitated toward dance. Flamenco and tap helped her find her own rhythm. Years later, her experience working with a group of local artists and performers ignited that same passion. “I wanted to know and do things that were joyous,” Hernandez said of her job [...]
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Wow, Detroit. You completely blew us away. After receiving a record-breaking 1,400 applications to this year’s Knight Arts Challenge, we weren’t sure what to expect. And then we started reading… STAY UPDATED Register here for updates on the Detroit Knight Arts Challenge. What we found was a community bursting with creative, innovative and distinctly DETROIT ideas. Many [...]
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“Connectivity,” the collaborative exhibition between the McColl Center for Visual Art (a Knight Arts grantee) and Cynthia-Reeves Projects, ends this Saturday, June 15. Exploring and mapping the complex intersections of inspiration and creativity, “Connectivity” evokes the mission of the McColl Center and its dedication to creating connections between artists, communities, and contemporary art. Through artist [...]
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