Preview the new season of Motionpoems this week at the Walker Art Center

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Preview the new season of Motionpoems this week at the Walker Art Center

Published May 19, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Mark your calendars: Motionpoems (“the world’s only poetry film company” and a Knight Arts grantee) will premiere its fifth season of newly commissioned short film adaptations of contemporary poetry on May 22 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (Full disclosure: I’ve been a fan of this outfit for years...

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Ensuring a home for African-American artists at PAMM

Published May 18, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

Orene Harris, Marilyn Holifield, PAMM Director Thom Collins, Barron Channer & Peter London Civic leaders are getting behind the Fund for African American Art at the new Perez Art Museum Miami, joining an ambassadors group and raising more than $30,000 so far to enhance the museum’s...

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From Otis Redding to young musicians of tomorrow: New investments in the arts in Macon

Published May 17, 2014 by marika.lynch

Streetline Percussion from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. I’m in Macon with the Knight Arts team, where we just joined with Program Director Beverly Blake to announce $363,000 in support to 11 local arts organizations. The list of awards below celebrates the legacy of rich artistic and cultural traditions that are...

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Some fine art at Miami Light

Published May 16, 2014 by Anne Tschida

Juan Carlos Zaldivar's "Shiva." It would be a real shame to miss this year’s Knight Emerging Artist series Here & Now at Miami Light, now in its 15th year. This unique event highlights local artists working in a variety of media, with commissioned pieces that are...

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“School for Wives” teaches lesson about love at Coach House Theatre

Published May 16, 2014 by Roger Durbin

When Moliere's "School for Wives" was first performed, it was before the brother of the French king. Some 352 years later, the play still holds up, and we get to see a rousing, quirky, seriously funny production of it at Coach House Theatre. Things could have gone awry when actor...

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Curator Profile: Steve Panton, Hamtramck’s cultural tour de force

Published May 16, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

Steve Panton, against a backdrop of his adopted hometown of Hamtramck. I first got to know artist, engineer and curator Steve Panton through attending art occasions at his gallery space, 2739 Edwin, which offered consistently original and challenging work and workshops. The more I've learned about...

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Benjamin Grosvenor + The Escher Quartet = Dynamite

Published May 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer It seldom happens, but when it does, you feel without a doubt that you are witnessing an exceptional event. You get the urge to stop time and call other friends and music lovers to come as soon as possible to share...

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TU Dance celebrates its 10th anniversary

Published May 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Alan Post, TU Dance 2014 marks the 10 year anniversary of TU Dance – a powerful and inspiring dance company located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In celebration of this tremendous milestone, several events occurred throughout the community connecting back to TU Dance. This included a series of three open...

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La Belle Isabel

Published May 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Although La belle Isabel could well be the title of a European film, this article is about the beautiful Isabel Leonard, who, as her last name suggests, is also a young lioness of the opera world. At 32, Isabel is as...

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Lenelle Moïse

Published May 15, 2014 by Neil de la Flor

Lenelle Moïse returns to Books & Books Coral Gables this Friday, May 16th at 5 p.m. to read from her new book, Haiti Glass. Moïse, who has been to Miami several times over the last few years working with teens in Tigertail’s SpeakOut project, is known for her performance poetry...

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Forty years of The Clay Studio

Published May 15, 2014 by CSchwartz

At The Clay Studio in Old City, 2014 is a big year since it marks the institution's 40th anniversary. This Knight Arts grantee has been providing a venue for the creation and exhibition of ceramic arts in the historic section of downtown Philadelphia. They just finished up a 40-hour-long celebration...

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BlackStar Film Festival: May 2104 update

Published May 15, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Adrienne Kenton, BlackStar Film Festival Panoramic View of Pittsburgh Matthew Field, http://www.photography.mattfield.com Today is the deadline for film and screenplay submissions for the 3rd annual BlackStar Film Festival. The producing committee now goes into high gear as we continue to review works in order to...

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Summer ice skating starts May 30 at the Macon Centreplex

Published May 14, 2014 by Y-O Latimore

Indoor Ice Skating at the Macon Centreplex. Long ago, the oldest pair of ice skates were said to be found around 3000 B.C. at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland. They were supposedly made of bones from a beast, with bands of leather attached on...

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Private lives and private places the subject of ”Adorned Spaces” exhibition at Summit Artspace

Published May 14, 2014 by Roger Durbin

Two young photographers (Marissa McClellan and Andrew Thomas Lopez) share the main galleries in Summit Artspace, a Knight Arts grantee, bringing to the display works that take intimate, revealing looks at the “Adorned Spaces” (as the exhibition’s title has it) of people’s everyday lives. Most people don’t like someone snooping...

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The Sunflower Revolution sows the seeds of a bright uprising in St. Paul

Published May 14, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Marlaine Cox and Karen Kasel of low tech/high joy, the rabble-rousers behind the Sunflower Revolution. Photo courtesy of the artists Sculptor/metal-worker Marlaine Cox and painter Karen Kasel, the duo behind the collaborative art-making outfit low tech/high joy, are dear friends of mine. I’ve known both artists...