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    MOCAD looks ahead to summer 2012

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    By Kelli Kavanaugh, MOCAD As our exciting winter season progresses, MOCAD looks ahead to summer with a Call for Submissions for Post Industrial Complex, an in-depth survey of contemporary small-scale fabrication and creative service development within the city of Detroit, celebrating the vitality and necessity of the art and industry...
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    Mary Griep brings centuries-old sacred spaces to life

    Published March 14, 2012 by

    Standing before one of Mary Griep’s mixed-media drawings in the “Anastylosis” series, the viewer cannot but be overwhelmed. Through a series of piecemeal sketches and lavish, elaborate collages, she reproduces some of the world’s most magnificent holy sites dating from the medieval period, from the 10th to 12th centuries C.E....
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    Virtuoso + veteran

    Published March 14, 2012 by

    The Akron Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Christopher Wilkins, has a knack for spotting important talent on the rise. Pianist Yuja Wang performed in Akron just as her international career was gaining traction. Now, violin-lovers won’t want to miss a program on Saturday, March 17, featuring the rising young violinist Chad...
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    KnightArts.org celebrates 2,000 posts

    Published March 13, 2012 by

    This week we hit 2,000 posts on KnightArts.org! We also recently reached 3,500,000 page views and over 850,000 visitors. None of this would be possible without so many of our grantees and bloggers making a commitment to connect each of us to their communities and the unlimited amount of cultural...
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    inkub8 2012 update

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    By inkub8 staff inkub8 announces its 2012 Artists in Residence Shaneeka Harrell Niurca Marquez Alexey Taran (ERE Bistoury) Antonia Wright The inkub8 (open-studio) Residency Program, a four-week residency in Miami’s Wynwood arts district that offers time, space, and a modest stipend in exchange for artists teaching classes and exhibiting works....
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    A deep breath for art

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    What a difference a space makes. When art works get enough room to breathe, to express themselves, sometime with rooms and walls all to their own, it changes the viewing experience dramatically. The temporary "pop-up" gallery that...
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    Inside the Art Blog’s First Friday Art Safari

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    By TheArtBlog.org staff On Friday March 2, theartblog.org launched its brand new First Friday Art Safaris which seek to expose audiences to the far-flung art around Philadelphia that they may otherwise not be aware of. With galleries and underground locales dotting the city, many of these spaces are difficult to...
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    Akron Art Museum’s 90th anniversary celebration

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    By Antoinette George, Akron Art Museum On February 1, 1922, the Akron Art Museum opened its doors as the Akron Art Institute in two borrowed rooms in the basement of the city’s public library. In the past 90 years, the museum has survived and grown despite significant hardships including the...
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    Ryan Hinkel’s “Skyscapes” at the Traction Company

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    The windows of the Philadelphia Traction Company — a collaborative workspace and art center in West Philly — have just begun the newest chapter in their lives courtesy artist Ryan Hinkel. The nine, four-by ten-foot covered spaces and two, seven-foot squares, which now house prints, have been transformed into “Skyscapes”...