Janet Echelman: Creating new public art in the midst of history

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Janet Echelman: Creating new public art in the midst of history

Published September 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Linda Harris, Center City District City of Philadelphia When Janet Echelman considered how she would create a public sculpture for the new Dilworth Plaza, she knew there was much to consider. After all, City Hall is a National Historic Landmark that is adorned with 250 sculptures by Alexander Milne...

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DANCECleveland and The University of Akron present dance favorite Trey McIntyre Project

Published September 21, 2012 by Roger Durbin

DANCECleveland, a Knight Arts grantee, and The University of Akron have got a good thing going for the dance world. For five years now, the two groups have collaborated to bring outstanding dance companies to the Akron area for performances and to hold special master classes for university students. This...

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DDF 2012: Detroit Design Festival running all weekend long

Published September 21, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

The 2nd annual Detroit Design Festival (DDF) kicked off on Wednesday, with an opening night party at the historic Fisher Building, and a wide range of “happenings” to take place continuously or intermittently between September 19-23, at points of interest all over some of Detroit’s most popular neighborhoods. [caption id="attachment_44991"...

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Random Acts of Culture™ takes over Philly’s 30th Street Station

Published September 20, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Knight Foundation is celebrating its 1,000+ Random Acts of Culture™ with four big, blow-out performances in San Jose, Detroit, Miami and Philadelphia. The fun kicked off Sunday, Aug. 5 with a 250-person surprise performance in San Jose, continued Friday, Aug. 10 with a 150-person performance at Detroit's Compuware World Headquarters,...

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CAD Series: Lines in Space with Matthais Pliessnig

Published September 20, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

Of the 60 works in “Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design” Matthias Pliessnig’s work stands out. Pliessnig’s uses the traditional technique of coopering to steam bend thin strips of wood, creating furniture pieces attuned to form, function and physics. His work is representative of the exhibition’s...

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Tasha Lewis surprises by leaps and bounds

Published September 20, 2012 by CSchwartz

When entering Napoleon this month, one’s first reaction is to duck or run for cover. Perhaps this assessment is not entirely literal, but the space is occupied by a stampeding herd of beasts which appear to be passing through the walls of the gallery. Like Mustafa’s death scene in “The...

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Performing Arts Exchange, the Miami Light Project and the Little Haiti Cultural Center

Published September 20, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

The Performing Arts Exchange (PAE), the annual performing arts booking, showcasing and professional development conference, is already in progress but there's time to catch the juried showcase performance scheduled for this Thursday and Friday, September 20th - 21st at the Colony Theatre. The juried showcase performances, which are free and...

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“Home . . . Is A Space In Your Heart”: A Look at Speaking of Home participant, IBé

Published September 20, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By, Adrienne Kleinman, Forecast Public Art IBé is one of the featured participants in Speaking of Home, St. Paul, to be completed in 2013. IBe (left) is pictured here at 14 years of age with a few of his classmates IBé is a talented spoken word...

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“Now Is the Time”: A Call to Action from Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia winner Erica Hawthorne

Published September 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

This spring, Erica Hawthorne and her micro-grant program, Small But Mighty Arts Grant, was one of 35 winners named in the second year of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia. Erica’s winning idea — to give a boost to local artists by giving out small grants ranging from $200 to $1,000...

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New music, Russian bravura get classical season going

Published September 19, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Michael Francis. Photo by Chris Christodoulou The season proper gets going this weekend with concerts by the New World Symphony (in a “pre-season” free event) and the first concert in this year’s season of eight in the Sunday Afternoons of Music series. Saturday night, it’s the...

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Weekend offers a full lineup of arts events in Macon

Published September 19, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

The Cortona Trio is violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, cellist Julie Albers and pianist Elizabeth Pridgen. Fall is a great time of the year, because theater and musical seasons are just beginning. In Macon, the weekend of September 21-23 is jam-packed with incredible events for every taste...

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“Swiss Bliss,” a group show curated by Chris Larson, now at Bethel University’s Olson Gallery

Published September 19, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Herbert Weber, "papierbaum oder der widerstand der dinge (papertree, or the resistance of things)," digital photograph, 2008. Courtesy of Bethel University and the artist Bethel University’s Olson Gallery is an airy, sunlit space situated on the second floor of the school’s student center; the exhibition space...

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church art gallery hosts Akron Society of Artists’ 2012 juried show

Published September 19, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Who knew that St. Paul's Episcopal Church had a sizable and nicely laid out art gallery? Apparently lots of local artists and groups, for church receptionist and gallery helper Julie McFarland says that the spaces are steadily booked. "Shows change every two months," McFarland noted. "They are all local artists...

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The actual art of Fredric Snitzer

Published September 18, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Fredric Snitzer sculpture at 6th Street Container. Fredric Snitzer runs the most prominent contemporary art gallery in Miami, there’s little doubt about it. He sits on the board of Art Basel Miami Beach (his gallery is always included in the main fair) and has taught at...

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Performance exhibit “Make It, Break It, Rebuild It” was a Philly Fringe highlight

Published September 18, 2012 by CSchwartz

At the future home of Oxford Mills, a repurposed warehouse space in Fishtown, the massive art and performance exhibit “Make It, Break It, Rebuild It” just wrapped up its second weekend of performances for the Knight Arts Grantee Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. In a distinctly huge, individual warehouse...