Macon Film Festival 2012

Article

Macon Film Festival 2012

Published February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Terrell Sandefur, Macon Film Festival “The Friendliest Little Film Festival in the Country” kicks off its seventh annual event on Thursday, Feb. 16 at three venues in historic downtown Macon. The festival will continue through Sunday, Feb. 19,with screenings, workshops, special guests and raucous after parties. The Macon Film...

Article

Organ recital sheds light on black composers

Published February 12, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

You don’t often find the names of Florence Price and John W. Work III on organ recitals, much less classical music programs in general. But this afternoon at St. Agnes Episcopal Church in Miami, works by these two African-American composers and three others...

Article

Knight Arts grantees noted as “bright spots” in today’s nonprofit sector

Published February 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

Twice a month, WolfBrown shares its consultants' thoughts and insights via its What On Our Minds newsletter. In the February 8 edition, senior consultant Jane Culbert explores a new report commissioned by the Duke Charitable Foundation highlighting "bright spots" in today's nonprofit sector. Three Knight Arts grantees were singled out...

Article

Some offerings you can’t refuse

Published February 10, 2012 by Anne Tschida

February's group of gallery shows are set to open, and there are a number of attractive offerings from local artists out there, for instance at Snitzer, Dorsch, Diana Lowenstein and Castillo galleries. Non-local intriguing options will be hanging at Diet and...

Article

Miami New Music Festival “marches on”

Published February 10, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

For almost 20 years now, Miami has been home to an annual festival of new classical composition and performance. What began in 1993 as the May in Miami Music Festival became the Miami New Music Festival not long after that, and last month...

Article

Detroit Soup to celebrate its two-year anniversary on Sunday

Published February 10, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

This coming Sunday at 6:30 p.m., Detroit Soup will celebrate its two-year anniversary with a dinner at 2900 E. Grand Blvd., featuring a performance by The Detroit Flyhouse Circus School. There is quite a lot to celebrate. Begun by a handful of participants, the micro-granting dinner has undergone steady expansion,...

Article

Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellows at Moore College of Art & Design

Published February 9, 2012 by CSchwartz

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) is currently showing “Introduction 2012” in the Widener Foundation Memorial Gallery at Moore College of Art & Design. The exhibit highlights works by the six new Career Development Program Fellows at Center for Emerging Visual Artists: Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay...

Article

The Arts Factory is not about black, white or other. It’s about change.

Published February 9, 2012 by carmella.jarvi

It’s not about black. And, it’s not about white or other. Johnson C. Smith University is about urban diversity, coming together for a better future of growth and success for its students and the surrounding communities. At the forefront of this change is its new arts curriculum and the “Arts...

Article

When the sun goes down

Published February 9, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

Let’s face it. Miami is s expensive, especially if you want to hear live music during a night on the town. However, thanks to Miami Made Festival 2012: When the Sun Goes Down, March 1 through 4, 2012, you have the chance to listen to hip local bands do their...

Article

Springboard for the Arts helps Minnesota artists get medical care

Published February 8, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

In the wake of a 2007 economic impact study of individual artists, which revealed that Minnesota artists are twice as likely as the general population to be uninsured, Springboard for the Arts (a Knight Arts grantee), under the direction of Laura Zabel, decided to do something about it. The organization...

Article

MOCAD’s Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show

Published February 8, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kelli Kavanaugh, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit MOCAD’s winter exhibition is going to be outta-sight! Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show is a new exhibition organized especially for the Museum by two great pioneers of multimedia art, and it opens this Friday, February 10. White and Panter have...

Article

Our diversity, in small artistic pieces

Published February 8, 2012 by Anne Tschida

A couple of museums have shows that tell a little off-the-beaten path tale about the histories of the people who make up Miami today. Rather than huge exhibits trying to cover broad topics,...

Article

Last chance to participate in Community Supported Art Miami!

Published February 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts One of the most enjoyable aspects of working with the Community Supported Art program in the past year has been seeing the various ways it’s been adapted for different cities. Since our replication program launched a year ago, we have worked with over...

Article

Ft. Lauderdale soprano shines on the Florida Grand Opera Stage

Published February 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Alejandra Serna, Florida Grand Opera Verdi’s Rigoletto, one of the world’s most beloved operas, centers on a lurid plot of lust and revenge. Yet, even the darkest story has a soft glimmer of light. In this smash-hit production by Florida Grand Opera, light comes to the stage in the...

Article

Margarita Cabrera’s “Space In Between”

Published February 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art As one of McColl Center for Visual Art’s Knight Artists-in-Residence, Margarita Cabrera is currently conducting her community outreach project entitled Space In Between. In conjunction with FLORESCA, a corporation founded by the artist in 2010, she has invited members of the Charlotte-based...