Shared humanity takes different forms in “Modulate”

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Shared humanity takes different forms in “Modulate”

Published October 25, 2011 by CSchwartz

Opening on Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists is the show “Modulate.” The reception on Thursday lasts from 5 until 7 p.m., and the exhibit itself runs through Nov. 22. The show features two artists: Allison Kaufman and Ana B. Hernandez. While they seem utterly different...

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Students Attend first Knight Artistic Engagement Fund concert

Published October 25, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

On October 7th, Community School of the Arts’ students and their families enjoyed their first free concert as part of the new Knight Artistic Engagement Fund. The Fund connects underserved music and art students with outstanding professional music concerts and art exhibitions at no cost to children or their parents....

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Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Cultural Passport Program is in full swing

Published October 25, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Matthew Sabatella, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Cultural Passport is an innovative educational initiative designed to provide all Miami-Dade County Public Schools students in grades K-12 with a different cultural field experience each school year. In partnership with South Florida’s finest cultural organizations and venues, this sequential program ensures equal...

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Detroit’s poetry movement now in motion

Published October 25, 2011 by vmiller

Images provided by "[sic]" Achille Bianchi and Jonathan Rajewski This poem is called "Punchline related to Ulysses by James Joyce," read John Brown this past Saturday at the independent bookstore Leopold's Books during the launch of “[sic],” Detroit's freshest take on exposing literary talent to the city and the world....

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A poetic vision for a globalized world in Ed Bok Lee’s ‘Whorled’

Published October 24, 2011 by Susannah Schouweiler

“Whorled,” Ed Bok Lee’s recently published collection of poems, is a far bigger book than its modest page count suggests. In it, the award-winning St. Paul-based poet addresses a broad sweep of subjects — globalization, war, love and loss; the distinctions of culture, language and identity in an age of...

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Dream makers and risk takers come out for TEDxCharlotte

Published October 24, 2011 by carmella.jarvi

The second TEDxCharlotte conference was recently held on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Queens University. This independently organized TED event was of the same “TED” non-profit that started in 1984 as an event bringing together people from the technology, entertainment and design worlds. Each TED event — and there are now...

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Inkub8 workshop series

Published October 24, 2011 by Neil de la Flor

One of my favorite lines from Jeanette Winterson's essay “Art Objects” goes like this: “If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that created them is not...

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Christine Brewer, the quintessential American soprano

Published October 24, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastián Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Grammy Award winner Christine Brewer epitomizes the quintessential American soprano. When in 2007, BBC Music Magazine asked 20 critics to name the top 10 sopranos of the recorded era, Brewer not only made the list; she was one of the four...

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Viernes Culturales/ Cultural Fridays: Your passport to Latin America and beyond

Published October 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Yvette Rodriguez Who needs to travel abroad when the sights and sounds of Latin America and the Caribbean can come to you? Little Havana’s monthly arts & culture festival, Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, is ready to take festival-goers on a tour through Colombia, Brazil and Cuba without ever leaving South...

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: Last chance to get your questions answered

Published October 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

We’re giving you one more opportunity this week to ask questions before the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia deadline at midnight on Oct. 31. Join our live web chat this Thursday, Oct. 27 from 1 - 2 p.m. at KnightArts.org. Just type in your questions and get real-time answers from Knight...

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Happy 200th, Franz, with love from FIU and UM

Published October 21, 2011 by Gregory Stepanich

On Saturday, the classical music world marks the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt, born Oct. 22, 1811 in the town of Raiding, then in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary and today a town in eastern Austria. Liszt has a complicated legacy, and today it’s...

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Side by side, the emerging and emerged

Published October 21, 2011 by Anne Tschida

The most recent show at the 6th Street Container, a Knight Arts grantee finalist for 2011 through director Adalberto Delgado, was a deceptively simple show, with two posters, a performance video, a soundtrack and glowing tape. It was from...

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Locust Projects’ signature fundraiser event “Smash and Grab” is here

Published October 21, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

By Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Locust Projects One part raffle, one part kickin’ party, the Locust Projects celebrates the 9th year of their annual “Smash & Grab” fundraiser. South Florida art collectors will convene at Locust Projects’ Design District gallery space for a slice of the action on October 29 where...

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For the love of bikes

Published October 21, 2011 by vmiller

"Tête de la Course," the newest exhibition at Center Galleries and part of the College for Creative Studies, celebrates the world of the bicycle with photographs by Donald Dietz and custom-built bicycles by Detroit Artists Darrin Brouhard, Stephen Lambers Jr., Wayne Neeley and The EastSide Riders, Larry Parker, Neil Shaddox...

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Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia: get inspired by winning ideas!

Published October 21, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad

In just the first of a three-year, $9 million initiative, Knight Foundation has funded 36 winning ideas that are bringing fresh thinking, inspiration and innovation to Philadelphia’s arts scene. Two years remain, but this year’s application deadline is fast approaching. There’s no time like the present to go for the...