Fired Works accentuates Macon’s history of pottery

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Fired Works accentuates Macon’s history of pottery

Published April 23, 2014 by Y-O Latimore

The ultimate purpose of the Fired Works Ceramics Exhibition and Sale is to raise funds, preserve history and support artists. This year commemorates nine years of almost 100 ceramic potters connecting with the Macon community via their presentation, products and skills. The event draws people from all over that flock...

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“Tony Feher” exhibit at Akron Art Museum a must see display of found object art

Published April 23, 2014 by Roger Durbin

If you drive by the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, you will notice three giant red balls hanging from three sides of the building. Dangling really, as if to guide you to come and see what's going on there. That's exactly what the artist, Tony Feher, whose name...

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Composer Torke evokes Miami, 10-piano style

Published April 23, 2014 by Gregory Stepanich

Michael Torke. Photo by Bryan Hainer There’s a relatively short list of music that pays tribute to the city of Miami, but this weekend at Barry University, the list will grow by 10 pianos at a single stroke. Michael Torke, whose accessible, melodic music has made...

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Inside April’s Site Specific at the Miami Design District

Published April 23, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Aaron Glickman, SocialMiami.com The Miami Design District presented its April edition of Site Specific, a series that brings performance out of the traditional theater and into the venues in the Design District. The April edition featured four acts from local performers. In keeping with National Poetry Month, each act...

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Explore the future of urban life by way of “One Day in the Twin Cities”

Published April 23, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Remember the crowdsourced film, “One Day on Earth,” that came out a few years ago? Billed as a global “participatory media experiment,” the project invited video entries from amateur and professional filmmakers – documentation of individual, day-to-day lives around the world – captured over a single 24-hour period, October 10,...

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What it takes to win the St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge

Published April 22, 2014 by marika.lynch

Knight's Tatiana Hernandez answers questions during a session at Intermedia Arts At six community Q&A sessions this month in St. Paul, Arts Program Officer Tatiana Hernandez shared tips to help applicants be more competitive in the Knight Arts Challenge, which is offering $4.5 million over the...

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‘Flat Rock’ at MOCA anything but flat art

Published April 22, 2014 by Anne Tschida

Overview of Overton's "Flat Rock." Photo by Daniel Portnoy The main show at MOCA is the huge solo exhibit from Wangechi Mutu, and more on that amazing survey of works in a separate review. But tucked into the back of the museum is another gem, “Flat...

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Gourfink & Andrieux perform at FLA-FRA

Published April 22, 2014 by Neil de la Flor

Deciding where to invest one's cultural dollars can be a challenge. That's why Tigertail Productions has announced a Knight Arts Challenge Special: half off all FLA-FRA dance tickets purchased by Friday, April 25th at 3 p.m. (See code below.) Cedric Andrieux. Photo by Marco Caselli Nirmal...

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“Samurai: Beyond the Sword,” a window into history at the DIA

Published April 22, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

"Samurai: Beyond the Sword" is going on at the Detroit Institute of Arts through June 1. The latest special exhibit at the DIA, "Samurai: Beyond the Sword," seeks to contextualize one of history’s most romanticized figures, the samurai warriors of Edo period Japan. The Edo period...

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Three interpret place and location for Fleisher Wind Challenge

Published April 22, 2014 by CSchwartz

With a smattering of printmaking, painting and installations, Fleisher Art Memorial is in the midst of their third Wind Challenge event of the past year. Each Wind Challenge event by this Knight Arts grantee highlights three emerging artists, this year from a pool of 239 applicants, with the goal of...

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Milton Esterow to lecture at the Bechtler

Published April 21, 2014 by Katherine Balcerek

Photograph of Milton Esterow courtesy Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Milton Esterow, ARTnews editor and publisher, will speak at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art on April 24th at 7 p.m. Esterow will discuss “How to Look at Art without Feeling Inferior,” sharing his ample knowledge and experience with...

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18th Annual Pan African Festival of Georgia delivers a weekend of culture and art

Published April 21, 2014 by Y-O Latimore

Tubman African American Museum logo. For the last three years, the Tubman African American Museum (a Knight Arts grantee), has held its annual Pan African Festival in downtown Macon at the Douglass Theatre and in the Cherry Street Plaza. Previously, the majority of the festivities took...

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Button Poetry is taking poems online to reach young audiences – and they’re going viral

Published April 21, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Pro tip: Don’t follow the link to Button Poetry’s YouTube channel unless you’ve got an hour to spend poring through the archive. Trust me. I’ve lost track of all kinds of “work” time to the talented poet-performers featured there after clicking a link shared on Facebook – hours, probably. I...

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LitCrawl Miami

Published April 21, 2014 by Neil de la Flor

Lace up those sneakers, select a designated driver and come to South Beach for the first-ever (and hopefully annual) LitCrawl Miami. LitCrawl, somewhat invented in San Francisco, is a literary pub crawl series brought to Miami from the folks at the O, Miami Poetry Festival. Lit...

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Film and screenplay submissions are open for Philadelphia’s 2014 BlackStar Film Festival

Published April 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Adrienne Kenton, BlackStar Film Festival The producing committee and advisory board of the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia held a special cocktail reception, sponsored by The Capital Grille, to celebrate past and future donors of the fledgling festival. Attendees included prominent supporters of arts and culture including Knight Foundation...