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    Inside Forcast Public Art’s OpenSpace/OpenBar

    Published December 15, 2013 by

    By Kirstin Wiegmann, Forecast Public Art Each year, Forecast Public Art hosts a series of community events focused on bringing people together to learn and connect around ideas, questions and concepts related to public art. OpenSpace/OpenBar is a mixture of structured conversation and open dialogue time — all of it...
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    New works, new feel at de la Cruz

    Published December 13, 2013 by

    Christopher Wool, Dan Colen, Mark Bradford on the first floor. Art Basel Miami Beach shows no signs of slowing down or getting stale. There seemed to be more people and the myriad satellite fairs were jam-packed for the entire time. Anyone once again trying to park...
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    DIY December shopping extravaganza

    Published December 13, 2013 by

    The open studio crowd at Pony Ride. The holiday shopping season has Detroit humming with DIY prospects and the cream of the crop of new entrepreneurship that has manifested in recent years into various collaborative maker spaces. Over in Corktown, Pony Ride held open studios on...
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    Living in the River of Grass

    Published December 13, 2013 by

    By Bill Maxwell, AIRIE Fellow Bill Maxwell at Everglades National Park ‘When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures," conservationist John Muir wrote...
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    Celebrating #LibraryActsofCulture™

    Published December 12, 2013 by

    A few years ago, Knight Foundation set out to bring art and culture into people’s everyday lives by presenting surprise opera and classical ballet performances at markets, parks and airports. More than 1,000 of these Random Acts of Culture took place in eight communities across the United States. The reaction...
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    Four projects receive NEA community arts journalism grants

    Published December 12, 2013 by

    Last year, CriticCar set out with a video camera to capture cultural events across Detroit, and asked attendees to review what they had just seen. “I saw how empowering it was for them to be handed a microphone and asked on video to give their opinion about something happening in their community,” founder Jennifer Conlin said. This week, the project was one of four to receive a community arts journalism grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Three of the projects, including CriticCar’s, are located in communities where Knight Foundation invests and will receive matching funding.   CriticCar will use $45,000 to expand its reach - so far it has been to 20 events and interviewed 200 people - and plans to create a mobile app where anyone can record, edit and upload a video review.  
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    “Focus on Justice”

    Published December 12, 2013 by

      "Focus on Justice," Levine Museum of the New South. Most of us are familiar with images of the Civil Rights Movement. We think of the people on the March from Selma to Montgomery; Rosa Parks on the bus; the screaming faces of white students and...
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    “Black Male Revisited”

    Published December 12, 2013 by

    “Black Male Revisited,” an original work by New York-based Nigerian-American curator, producer, poet, choreographer and performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, opens the 2013-14 SandBox Series at Miami Theater Center from Friday, December 13 – Sunday, December 22. Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Photo by Umi Akiyoshi. Supported by...