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    September Gallery Crawl in Southend

    Published September 4, 2014 by

    Tree Party. A new month means one thing in Charlotte’s Southend: new exhibitions on view for the First Friday Gallery Crawl. Art galleries along Camden Road, Park Avenue and South Boulevard are open late tomorrow, September 5th, for a new round of art shows and other...
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    Seeing the world through the lens of Zoe Strauss

    Published September 4, 2014 by

    By Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie Zoe Strauss looks at things differently. For years, the self-taught photographer, installation artist and community activist, has been capturing reality through her lens in ways that others often don’t see. Or don’t want to see. Zoe Strauss. Photo by Flickr user Susan...
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    Fred Snitzer goes downtown

    Published September 3, 2014 by

    What chickens will come home to roost at Snitzer's new gallery? Well, it’s finally happened. After several years of planning to leave Wynwood, the Fredric Snitzer Gallery has finally decamped for a new space further south, in downtown Miami. Snitzer will be joining the neighborhood that...
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    Seeing the world through the lens of Zoe Strauss

    Published September 3, 2014 by

    Zoe Strauss. Photo by Flickr user Susan Sarmoneta. Zoe Strauss looks at things differently. For years, the self-taught photographer, installation artist and community activist, has been capturing reality through her lens in ways that others often don’t see. Or don’t want to see. Strauss, who began her professional career as a photographer in 2000 by taking pictures of fringe and marginal communities in her hometown of Philadelphia, will be in South Florida on Sept. 4 for a conversation with Dennis Scholl, vice president of arts for Knight Foundation. “Zoe sees the disenfranchised, and embraces their existence. In a way, she celebrates it,” says Scholl. “She really embraces the idea of reaching out to people, and connects with them in a profound way.” Scholl has not been immune to that power of connection. As an art collector himself, he has followed Strauss’ career for several years now, and felt that her work would resonate with South Florida audiences. “I’ve known Zoe for a long time. In fact, before I was at Knight Foundation, I commissioned Zoe to create something for the Scholl collection,” remembers Scholl, referring to a slideshow and a series of photographic prints that were exhibited at an art space, World Class Boxing, that he and his wife Debra founded.
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    ‘Knight Cities’ podcast: Innovator Bryan Boyer on the future of work

    Published September 3, 2014 by

    The work we do, where we do it, who we do it for, how much of our time we spend on it, and why we work are all in flux. To understand where all of this is going, this week “Knight Cities” talks with Bryan Boyer, principal at Dash Marshall; a partner at Makeshift Society; and a member of the board of directors at Public Policy Lab.  SIGN UP FOR EPISODE ALERTS Subscribe to the Podcast via RSS Bryan is both thinking and acting on the growth of the independent economy and what it means to America. His three-part meditation on the questions this new economy is raising appeared on Medium earlier this year while he was guiding Knight Foundation’s thinking on how to harness more talent in Knight cities. And he calls the startup of Makeshift Society in Brooklyn his exploration of what the 21st century chamber of commerce for the design community might look like. With more and more Americans needing or wanting to craft work for themselves without benefit of a traditional employer, my conversation with Bryan sheds light on what it could mean to cities and to you.
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    The Barnes Foundation – Keys to the Collection

    Published September 3, 2014 by

    Lynn Berkowitz is the program manager for family and community programs at The Barnes Foundation, a Knight Arts grantee in Philadelphia. Image credits are all to The Barnes Foundation. This article is cross-posted from The Barnes Foundation. What lies just beneath the surface of a painting? How do art elements shape composition? Why do artists do what they do? These guiding questions make for fun hands-on learning as youth aged 7 to 14 virtually roam the rooms and leap into paintings at the Barnes Foundation with the new Keys to the Collection app. The Barnes Foundation presents: Keys to the Collection from The Barnes Foundation. GAME PLAN Kids experiment with artful traditions, explore new ideas, and curate their own display as they play through a series of minigames that help them connect to the collection with thrilling new technology. With 3D immersive graphics and touchscreen capability, three game levels turn playable characters into art inspectors with dazzling encounters that take them trekking through paintings and completing an assortment of art missions. Art inspectors collect keys to enter different realms, solve an array of mysteries by restoring works of art, and add pieces to their expanding portfolio. Players earn badges and points to chart their quest for the gold key, which allows them to unlock a special room, create their own art gallery, and win the game.
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    Keys to the Collection

    Published September 3, 2014 by

    By Lynn Berkowitz, Barnes Collection family and community programs manager What lies just beneath the surface of a painting? How do art elements shape composition? Why do artists do what they do? These guiding questions make for fun hands-on learning as youth aged 7 to 14 virtually roam the rooms...
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    Loyal to Your Soil’s grand summer finale

    Published September 2, 2014 by

    By Becki Kenderes Want to know what Peck Park on Brush Street, the pedestrian bridge over 75 in Southwest Detroit, the Atheneum Hotel, Children’s Hospital, the Federal Reserve Bank, Campus Martius, the Detroit Athletic Club, and the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church have in common? They all contain works by world...
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    Artist Profile: Susannah Goodman

    Published September 2, 2014 by

    Ceramicist Susannah Goodman. All photos courtesy of the artist Train Station Mugs. All photos courtesy of the artist Rosie Sharp: What brought you to ceramics initially? Has that changed over time? Susannah Goodman: I have a distinct childhood memory of digging for...
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    Three startups win Refresh Miami’s ‘demo day’

    Published September 2, 2014 by

    The crowd at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus for Refresh Miami's 'demo day'. Photo by Carolina Wilson. Over 400 people gathered at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus as ten local startups competed for prizes in a pitch-style competition Thursday. Glip, a modern business messaging and productivity platform, took first place in Refresh Miami’s "demo night”. Glip allows users to plan, share and organize their work in a convenient and easy-to-use mobile/tablet platform or web browser. CEO and founder Peter Pezaris said the company has had success since its 2012 inception, already serving thousands of companies. “We built Glip because we know that 36 percent of the average information worker’s time is wasted everyday,” Pezaris said, citing an MIT study showing that 50 percent of the difference between low-performing and high-performing teams is the quality of communication. So, Glip takes all of the communication and management tools a business needs, and integrates them into one service on one screen including: shared calendars, instant messaging, distributed task and project management, file sharing and video conferencing.
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    Share your inspiration for Knight News Challenge: Libraries

    Published September 2, 2014 by

    Photo by New Calgary Central Library on Flickr.  “How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?” That’s the question we’ll be asking you to help answer in the next Knight News Challenge. Related Link "News Challenge to explore role of libraries in the digital age" by John Bracken on Knight Blog As we mentioned last week, we’ll open the challenge Wednesday, Sept. 10. As part of the buildup, we’re asking you to talk to us about what inspires you about libraries, about what problems and opportunities you would like to see addressed through the News Challenge. For our part, we see three key assets of libraries that we hope to build upon: librarians, the highly trained human capital that specializes in finding and sharing information; the public trust and goodwill that libraries have built as trusted institutions; and libraries themselves, the physical assets where people can safely gather with their neighbors. The challenge will be open to anyone from anywhere, but our primary focus is on U.S.-based library projects.