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    Where is your well?

    Published July 27, 2011 by

    By Jean-Marie Allion, Lead Writer, "Home Water" This evening, after eight months of gestation and not without some trepidation, our Community Playwright Circle presented our most recently born child to the world. In this particular case, the world turned out to be the studio of Matrix Theatre, a Knight Arts...
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    Teen council brings students into the art world

    Published July 26, 2011 by

    By Stephanie Necuze, Florida Grand Opera This September, Florida Grand Opera, a Knight Arts grantee, will be launching a new education program called Teen Council. This year-long, career-centric high school program is designed to give students who are interested in the arts a real world look at arts administration and...
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    Faces of a new China

    Published July 26, 2011 by

    The dizzying speed that Chinese contemporary art became popular, and profitable, is head-spinning. Paralleling the rise of the juggernaut economy, Chinese art went from piquing a niche interest in the 1980s to hauling in some astronomical sums at...
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    Willie Stewart teaches “Fun School”

    Published July 26, 2011 by

    By LeToya Stairs, Rhythm of Africa Music Program & 2010 Knight Arts Challenge Winner Summer break usually means an unlimited supply of popsicles and trips to the playground, but at New Mirawood Academy, summer camp means learning about the world in unique ways. The humble multi-ethnic community day care and...
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    40th annual Pewabic staff & student show

    Published July 26, 2011 by

    Founded in 1903, the Detroit ceramic design studio Pewabic Pottery earned national acclaim throughout much of the 20th century for its distinctive tiles, vessels, jewelry and architectural ornamentation, which can be seen all over metro-Detroit. (You'll find it elsewhere in the country, too, including Chicago's Shedd Aquarium and Nebraska's State...
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    Let’s do the time warp again

    Published July 25, 2011 by

    Do you have fond memories of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the midnight movies? A lot of people don’t realize the campy story of Brad and Janet’s innocence lost was actually a film adaptation of the British rock musical stage play "The Rocky Horror Show," written by Richard O’Brien....
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    Creative placemaking in Miami

    Published July 25, 2011 by

    The National Endowment for the Arts releases a free podcast each Thursday featuring one-on-one interviews with personalities ranging from NEA Jazz Masters to leading arts experts to National Medal of Arts winners. This week's podcast features three of Miami's cultural organizers, and Knight Arts Challenge winners, discussing the power of...
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    Miami gears up for “The Games We Play”

    Published July 25, 2011 by

    Let the (dancing) games begin. This Friday, July 29, the Little Haiti Cultural Center presents "The Games We Play," an evening of multicultural performances by choreographers who blend traditional and contemporary dance styles from West African, Afro-Caribbean, flamenco, tap, contemporary, modern and ballet. The event, which is also free and...
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    St. Paul celebrates America’s musical roots

    Published July 25, 2011 by

    Mears Park, a jewel in the crown of St. Paul’s arts district near downtown, is hopping with live music throughout the summer months. There’s something going on nearly every weekend, from the Music in Mears free concert series to the eclectic Concrete and Grass festival in September. And this Saturday,...
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    The act of art work worship

    Published July 23, 2011 by

    These paintings in the ground-floor entrance area of the Bass Museum (a Knight Arts Challenge winner) are figurative, seemingly bucolic, most of them small. They are punctuated by a triptych in the middle, facing the ramp that leads to the Bass's main galleries upstairs. The...