Houston's nationally-ranked Bayou City Art Festival Downtown primes the heart of the city for a weekend of art in the city. The juried fine art festival, framed by Houston's world-class skyline, is a one-of-a-kind outdoor gallery with its highly acclaimed mix of visual, performing, culinary and ...
Posted Tuesday, June 30th 2009 at 5:43PM
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MIAMI BEACH — If it’s the lure of controversy that gets your heart racing, check out “Freedom Fighters: American Legends Re-Imagined,’’ an exhibit on display at the ArtCenter/South Florida in South Beach through July 19.
Based on the ‘70s Blaxploitation film genre, the exhibit features sur ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 5:03PM
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YOUNGSTOWN — Creating art out of recycled materials has been occurring for years, but the emphasis on “greening” the arts is taking center stage with the first Eco-Art Contest, presented by the Summer Festival of the Arts on July 11 and 12 at Youngstown State University.
The Eco-Art Contest ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:57PM
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Every summer, when the Heartland Art Guild presents its annual exhibit of miniature art works, it proves again the old adage that good things come in small packages.
The fifth annual Miniatures Art Show will run from Monday to Aug. 1 at the Swan River Museum, 12 E. Peoria St. in Paola. Museu ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:47PM
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Art and culture have held an active and significant part in Carroll County's history. In the mid-1950s Delphi Community School Corporation art teacher Jack Sanders teamed with the Delphi Tri Kappa to create an environment to showcase student, local and state art. The location and the concept of ...
Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:42PM
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If a marauding spacecraft were to visit Manhattan in the next four days and beam up the former Dia Art Foundation headquarters in Chelsea, a large chunk of the world’s nonprofit art spaces would disappear too.
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Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:38PM
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This is a Repost of an Earlier Article on Grief. It is important to grieve and fans grieve just like family. This is an extra long Post and I hope you print it out and refer back to it.
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Bereavement Burns Like A Fire (286 h ...
Posted Thursday, June 25th 2009 at 7:45PM
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This is a Repost of an Earlier Article on Grief. It is important to grieve and fans grieve just like family. This is an extra long Post and I hope you print it out and refer back to it.
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Bereavement Burns Like A Fire (286 h ...
Posted Thursday, June 25th 2009 at 7:44PM
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RICHMOND, VA : A powerful Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century ivory figure of a woman carved in the round by a South Indian or Sri Lankan artist has been acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA).
Also added to the collection by the museum's trustees are a 2005 watercolor by American ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2009 at 5:29PM
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Although Henry Ossawa Tanner rose to prominence as the first great African-American artist, in the minds of many of his contemporaries, he always remained exactly that—an “African-American” artist and not just an artist. Born June 21, 1859, Tanner painted to escape from the prejudices of his ti ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2009 at 5:24PM
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The first Historic West Main Street Art Festival showcased local artists Saturday along the 1600 and 1700 blocks of West Main Street.
“Ultimately, we wanted to bring people down to West Main Street,” said Nebraska Neighborhood Association president Chris Shatto, “and to be able to show local ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 at 3:59PM
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The Baltimore Choral Arts Society's 2009-2010 season will sample various musical styles, from a classically proportioned Schubert Mass to the premiere of a gospel-influenced work by African-American composer Rosephanye Dunn Powell.
Popular American songs will be showcased in the season-opener ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 at 3:44PM
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It's an unusual name for an art show. Eschatology is a branch of religious study that deals with endings in general and the Last Judgment in particular. Local artist John Barnes felt it was an appropriate term to use for his current crop of wooden sculptures inspired by old shotgun houses that ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 11:14PM
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Last winter, a South Carver boy named Josh Fenton won a national art contest that was created to allow people with epilepsy to show off their talent. His award-winning piece he titled “Growing Out of Epilepsy” was lauded for its color, creativity and heart-felt depiction of how Josh copes with ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 10:56PM
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SEGUIN — An artist can draw inspiration from many places.
Local painter Crestino Chapa likes to think back to times during his early childhood when he would watch his father draw, which led to the urge to put brush to canvas and let his own creativity take over.
“Ever since I was a little ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 6:27PM
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IT’S hard to believe that only nine months ago art dealers everywhere were still dreaming up plans for vast multinational expansions. Since September, however, the contemporary art market has careened from boom to bust. Nowhere has that reversal of fortune been more sharply felt than in New Yor ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 6:11PM
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Dean Mitchell was always drawing pictures. He sold his paintings and drawings as a youngster, professionally since he was 23.
Now 52, he won the top prize at the Southern Watercolor Society’s members exhibit in Columbus on June 6.
“I sold works to people when I was in junior high for 50 bucks ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 6:02PM
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As I reflect back on the Nineteenth of June, I wanted to acknowledge some hero's of the African American comunity.
Tubman, Harriet, c.1820–1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most succe ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 5:50PM
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!! ~ :)
Today is YOUR day! It is YOUR day to sit back and kick up your feet and enjoy the gifts and breakfast smorgasboard. Relax in front of the television and stretch your toes in your new pair of slippers.
By this afte ...
Posted Sunday, June 21st 2009 at 10:59AM
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It is with sooo much pleasure that I share with you that I will be appearing on the Early Morning Show on Channel 11, WBAL TV at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 20, 2009, in the Baltimore viewing area.
When I stated last week that I would be sharing a ...
Posted Friday, June 19th 2009 at 3:26PM
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ATLANTA, GA.- This summer the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the High Museum of Art have joined together for a special “Moore & Monet” joint discounted-admission offer to “Moore in America: The Monumental Sculpture of Henry Moore” at the Garden and “Monet Water Lilies” at the High. The joint tick ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 11:38PM
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From the glass jewel box facing south and east in the new wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art, you can see a couple of the region's major architectural projects. To the east, through the trees, there's Frank Gehry's vision of curled stainless ribbons ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 11:28PM
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See the works of more than fifty African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century. Drawn from one of the most esteemed private collections of works by African-American artists, this special exhibition features over nine ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 11:22PM
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NATCHEZ — John and Pam Finley did not lose a home to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but many of their possessions did.
The Finleys were housing a collection of West African and African-American folk art in the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Biloxi when the bu ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 2:15PM
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William Hemmerling, 66, whose portraits and paintings of African American life attracted admirers around the country, died Monday at his Ponchatoula, La., home after a two-year battle with cancer.
A self-taught folk artist, Mr. Hemmerling often use ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 2:10PM
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