By Miami Lyric Opera Miami Lyric Opera begins its performances at Olympia Theater of Gusman Arts Center with Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor April 14-15. This important step is a milestone in providing accessible quality opera productions to our community. The cast includes:: Karin White, Jorge Pita, Oscar Martinez, Diego Baner, Jesse Vargas, Kelly Delgado, Herman [...]
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March is “National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month” and once again art is helping to heal. Charlotte Art League is highlighting its partnership with Goodwill Industries with its fifth annual “Color My Dreams” art exhibit through March 30. A dream is something close to our hearts. It may complete us. In an ideal world, we could [...]
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In 2010, the City of Miami Beach received a Knight Arts Challenge grant to inspire and unite South Florida with a third annual Sleepless Night festival, featuring indoor and outdoor art and performances at dozens of Miami Beach venues. The City of Miami Beach also won a Challenge grant for the festival in 2008. Knight Foundation [...]
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“Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty,” Jeanette Winterson writes, “begin to make it again … in song, out of dust and
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Julie Davidow’s paintings are getting some much-deserved attention at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery, with the solo exhibit “archiTECTONICS.” Davidow’s handsome and smart art works always add to the tapestry of Miami’s scene wherever they are found. At Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery, the new paintings revolve around an interesting intersection in contemporary art these [...]
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By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy This April, Walker West Music Academy will be offering its second installment of the American History Band Project, a performance ensemble program that performs early 20th century American band music. The AHBP has a strong emphasis on music fundamentals but its main component is historical, playing the same [...]
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By Dee Grano, The Light Factory The Light Factory will host renowned photographer and lecturer Camille Seaman, 2011 TED fellow and 2007 Critical Mass Monograph award winner, on Thursday, March 22 at 7pm. Seaman has agreed to host a workshop for photographers called “Finding Your Focus” Saturday, March 24 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. [...]
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By Terrell Sandefur, Macon Film Festival “Sundance is thrilling, South by Southwest is rockin, Cannes is glamorous… but I still say that Macon Film Festival is one of the best experiences a filmmaker can have.” – Michael Dunaway, Paste Magazine The 7th annual Macon film festival is now a wrap. By all accounts it was the [...]
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You love the arts, but you don’t have money? Looking for ways to make South Florida sunny? (Sing along to the music in the video above…we are You’re in luck! The Knight Arts Miami Challenge is now in its second week of accepting applications. There are lots of great ideas out there, so how can you [...]
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In Alexandria, Va., an old torpedo factory has been repurposed as a cooperative artist space. In Santa Cruz, Calif., the site of a former tannery was transformed into 100 live/work spaces for artists. There’s a common thread of urban redevelopment at work. The mission of Artspace, a non-profit real estate developer, is to help [...]
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