The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra hits the “Ballroom!”

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The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra hits the “Ballroom!”

Published January 25, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

Clement Joly and Tatiana Kazakova,premier instructors and co-owners, Metropolitan Ballroom. Photo courtesy of Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Experience the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) (a Knight Arts grantee) in a new way with the rhythm and movement of the Metropolitan Ballroom dancers at 7:30 p.m. on January 25...

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“Beauty is Embarrassing” and the DFT is enchanting

Published January 25, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Artist Wayne White takes a puppet head of Lyndon B. Johnson for lark through the Hollywood Hills. For whoever’s counting, the Detroit Film Theatre (DFT) is off to a monster start in 2013, with a second consecutive weekend featuring a documentary about a particular artistic process....

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“Fiction” tells the murky truth in Actors’ Summit production

Published January 25, 2013 by Roger Durbin

If you like “talky” dramas, go see “Fiction” that is being put on by Actors’ Summit, a Knight Arts grantee. Unfortunately I don’t, and that’s too bad because the playwright, Steven Dietz, is a gifted scriptwriter. The language, the references and allusions to literary works and philosophical ideas – these...

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Explore an arts journalism funding opportunity from NEA

Published January 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

The National Endowment for the Arts is hosting a webinar next week to answer questions on how to prepare a strong application for arts journalism project grants. The webinar is January 29, 4-5pm ET on arts.gov. Click here to join or listen to the archive. There will be an overview...

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YoungArts poetry finalist Peter LaBerge is brave as a lion

Published January 24, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Peter LaBerge was just nominated for 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and may be the next Poet Laureate of the United States because anything thing seems possible from this young, energetic 2013 YoungArts Week Writing Finalist in Poetry. LaBerge's poetry, and personality, is thoughtful and electric, intense yet...

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Rebekah Templeton straddles the cosmic and the mundane

Published January 24, 2013 by CSchwartz

Currently at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is the show “Plainsight, Plainspoken” by Corey Antis and Anna Neighbor. Although the title of the exhibit implies the mundane or the regular, the work focuses on a variety of forms and ideas that explore the uncanny and strange. This show was originally assembled...

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Celebrate Carnival with Viernes Culturales/Cultural Friday

Published January 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Pati Vargas, Viernes Culturales Join us Friday, January 25th from 7 pm to 11 pm for another Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday. Little Havana's popular art and culture festival is a great event for the whole family. Enjoy music, discover works by local artists and artisans in and around our iconic...

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Looking Forward to the HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center 2013 Heritage Spotlight series

Published January 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Robert Harkins, HistoryMiami The first year of the HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center’s Heritage Spotlight series was a resounding success! We hosted three artists-in-residence: Ezequiel Torres, an Afro-Cuban batá drummer and drum maker; James Kelly, an Irish fiddler; and Mieko Kubota, a practitioner of ikebana, the Japanese art of...

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Tony Lewis’ exhibition leaves its mark at the Bindery Projects

Published January 23, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Installation view of "Tony Lewis: 48 Keep a tight rein on your temper". Photo by the author As I walked into the Bindery Projects last Saturday night, I nearly stumbled over a woman hunched at the door, putting blue booties over her shoes. It was the...

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Queen Sheba to perform at Groove Speak

Published January 23, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

In August 2012, The B.L.A.C.K. Poets began a monthly event called Groove Speak at The 567 Center for Renewal, a Knight Arts grantee. "B.L.A.C.K." is an acronym for "Believing Love and Cherishing Knowledge." The group is comprised of artists who live throughout Georgia who have come together to "use spoken...

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Recent abstract art focus of Summit Artspace exhibition

Published January 23, 2013 by Roger Durbin

The current exhibit at Summit Artspace, a Knight arts grantee, might seem a little confusing from the handout enumerating and describing the installation. It reads as though the whole show featuring abstract painters/mixed media artists Michael Gable and Natalie Petrosky is called “More Songs about Buildings and Land.” In walking...

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WEIRD MIAMI presents: Tyson Reeder – Beach Painting Club

Published January 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Naomi Fisher, Bas Fisher Invitational Living in Miami, the idea of painting at the beach perhaps is corrupted by legions of Sunday painters whose work populate doctor's offices and cruise ships with crude representations of a tourist’s dream. Contemporary Art in Miami often comments on the perpetually-under-construction shifts of...

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The Project [theatre]: January 2013 update

Published January 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jackie Rivera, Project [theatre] The last six months have been a whirlwind for The Project [theatre], we know with only two months out from the announcement of our incredible and challenging gift from Knight Foundation the four months prior should be moot. However, it is important for us to...

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Pantoja’s latest palette

Published January 22, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Jorge Pantoja "Self Defense." Jorge Pantoja lives for his art. This might sound like a cliché, but many of the trappings of modern American life don’t seem to interest him much – making paintings out of a tiny apartment, often in the wee hours of the...

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Tacita Dean at Arcadia University

Published January 22, 2013 by CSchwartz

Internationally acclaimed artist Tacita Dean is presenting a new film specifically commissioned for the Arcadia University Art Gallery and made possible by funding from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The film, entitled “JG” will be on display at Arcadia University starting on February 7 through April 21. [caption...