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Whitdel Arts galley in Southwest Detroit wanted to kick off its season on a strong note, so it stayed close to home. "We wanted to pay homage to our arts community," "Detroit Artists Feature"...
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Contemporary classical composers have a higher profile these days than they did not long ago, which marks something of a return to an older time when the names of living composers were as well-known as performers. One musician who’s helped raise public awareness... -
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By Aaron Fiedler, Arts & Science Council On Monday, the Arts & Science Council launched power2give.org – a project that was more than a year in the making for ASC. The website is an innovative new way to support arts, science, history and heritage projects in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.... -
ArticleThe Charlotte Observer this week covered the launch of Power2give.org a new website that gives Charlotte art lovers the opportunity to choose exactly how they want their money to be spent on cultural projects. The article highlights the new site’s unique way of engaging and connecting visitors directly with the wide variety of cultural events in the city and how it allows them to share their ideas with others: “A visitor to the site can filter the requests by topic - such as music, visual art, history or science - or search for a specific cultural group. A viewer who's won over by a project can make a donation by credit card. Links to Facebook and Twitter enable donors to tip off their friends.”
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Artist and teacher Kip Deeds has been busy reinterpreting not only the way we see things, but also the techniques he uses for revealing them. Deeds works in a variety of mediums, including printmaking, drawing and painting, to create an ongoing, open-ended narrative. His content often involves pieces of his... -
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The fifth annual Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival is gearing up for three days of great music in Mears Park, Saint Paul. Concrete and Grass welcomes music lovers of all ages and celebrates that people are not one-dimensional in their musical tastes. Thanks to the support from the Knight... -
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By Keith Freund, Akron Art Museum The Akron Art Museum Online Collection is now available to explore. Thanks to generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we have completed initial design and implementation of our website and launched with approximately 500 objects from the museum’s collection.... -
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By Carlie Dennis, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Since MOCAD is currently closed for the installation of its next two exhibitions, Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory) and barely there (part two). We thought we’d use this month’s blog post to share some exciting things going on in... -
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Akron's Neotropolis TV program recently featured Eric Johnson. After only one year on the job, University Park Alliance’s executive director, Eric Johnson, is emerging as an Akron leader with a vision. His op-ed article in the Akron Beacon Journal offers insight into the promising future of Akron and the strength behind an engaged community: -
ArticleKnight Foundation's Trabian Shorters on BME from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. What motivates you to engage in your community? Why do you lead others? Any Detroiter’s list would surely include an uncommon love of city. Detroit in 2011 is a town bubbling with change agents: loyal and resourceful citizens are working together to create inviting public spaces, help our children succeed in school, build community-based small businesses, and much, much more.
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Today is the first day of September. The slight cool nip in the air is a foreshadowing of fall right around the corner. Most kids are back in school. It’s Labor Day weekend, three days off and the last hurrah of the summer for many. It also means some long... -
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I interviewed director, choreographer and co-founder of the Borscht Film Festival (a Knight Arts grantee) Yara Travieso last May when "SET," her latest work, premiered during the Metamoto Musician + Choreographer Forum at the New World Symphony. Travieso's work is sonic, visceral and rich. It is also unexpected. In this... -
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By Evy Schiffman, Community School of Music and Arts It’s Saturday afternoon, and the ceramics instructor at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) is prepping students for their first experience with throwing clay on the wheel. One of the teen students, Jordan, is particularly excited to explore this... -
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By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History August was quite a month for The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, as we used it to bring attention to the breadth of African culture with both new and old traditions. I am not usually fazed... -
ArticleThe Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership is starting to produce some very interesting ideas. I recently browsed through projects proposed by the 60+ participants of the program’s Learning Lab, which is just one aspect of the program that aims to speed media innovation in newsrooms. What I like most about these projects is that they provide concepts that any media organization can use. Some of the ideas could be easily implemented using the resources media organizations already have.