By Sarah Beth Nesbit, ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network It is our great honor and pleasure to announce Christopher Haas, the architect and exhibition designer for the ZERO1 Garage, has won a Merit Award from the AIA San Francisco’s Design Awards Program for his commissioned project with ZERO1. Haas directed the exhibition design, Discovery [...]
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At juried art shows, you rarely if ever get a rationale for why the judges of the particular event selected the works they did for awards and prizes. The same can be said for “Brushstrokes—Here and Now,” which is the name for the 80th anniversary Women’s Art League of Akron exhibit on display at Summit [...]
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For a fifth season, the flagship Community Supported Art (CSA) program will offer art-box “shares” of original, locally made work by a select group of Minnesota artists. This program takes after the buy-local ethos of the slow food movement and is modeled on the farm share programs of community supported agriculture. CSA is co-presented by [...]
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On the First Friday of every month, downtown Macon comes alive with art, music, food and more. Among the festivities for May’s First Friday are three gallery exhibits that should not be missed. The Spring Art Show at the Contemporary Arts Exchange, located on the corner of Second and Mulberry St., is one of two [...]
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I’m not a dancer, but I like to dance, and I think I can dance. Yesterday was International Dance Day, and this day was created for me. Well, not really. It was created to honor the birthday of French ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre, whom many consider the father of ballet d’action or modern ballet. Ballet [...]
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The Fountainhead Residency program, under the inspired leadership of “foundress” Kathryn Mikesell, who founded it in 2008 with husband Dan, has been positively shaking up the art scene since it started. They bring in artists from all over the globe, to introduce them to Miami, and to have them in turn broaden Miami’s artistic scope. [...]
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Without question, hair is a major issue. Mainstream hair culture still suffers along under the terribly retrograde, double-bind of a beauty standard that dictates a woman must spend a lot of time on her hair to make it look as good as possible, while also pretending to have achieved this look effortlessly. This is just [...]
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The semester-ending Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2013 is underway at Moore College of Art & Design. The exhibition fills every one of Moore’s galleries and bristles with work in an astounding number of areas by a huge group of individuals that together comprise the Class of 2013. First and foremost, it should be [...]
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Tonight, I’m at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, excited to announce the 43 winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia. This year, we were once again delightfully surprised by Philadelphia’s creative minds. I think you’ll see why. In the winners, there are several interesting trends, including ideas that will: Make art more participatory – including a performance [...]
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Lush exuberance filled the stage this weekend at the North Carolina Dance Theatre’s (a Knight Arts grantee) performance of “Contemporary Fusion.” A part of the Ulysses Festival, Charlotte’s Spring Festival of the Arts, “Contemporary Fusion” closed the Dance Theatre’s 2012-2013 season with a roaring clang. It featured three radically different ballets choreographed by Jiri Bubenicek, [...]
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