Philadelphia Sculpture Gym is a reliquary for contemporary wooden iconography

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Philadelphia Sculpture Gym is a reliquary for contemporary wooden iconography

Published November 25, 2014 by CSchwartz

If the third time is the charm, then the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym's “Process: Wood III” show is surely the enchanted culmination of its two predecessors. This Knight Arts grantee acts as the reliquary for a number of artifacts, many of which seem to cast a spiritual slant on one of...

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Voting for ArtPop 2015 now open

Published November 24, 2014 by Katherine Balcerek

Allyson Burke, 2015 ArtPop entry. I voted. Have you? No, I am not talking about the midterm elections, but rather the 2015 roster of ArtPop candidates. ArtPop is an exciting partnership between Adams Outdoor Advertising and the Arts and Science Council to promote local artists through...

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A timely exhibition at Macalester College combines oral histories and printmaking to bring immigrant experiences to life

Published November 24, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Raoul Deal, "DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)," Immigration Series #10, woodcut, 2013. In light of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, announced last week, Raoul Deal’s exhibition of new and recent work in Macalester College’s Law Warschaw Gallery seems especially timely. At the center of...

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A one-night-only screening of “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution”

Published November 24, 2014 by Y-O Latimore

A Deborah Riley Draper film: "Versailles '73: An American Runway Revolution." Fashion embraces so many arts disciplines – acting, dancing, designing, singing, speaking and writing. A little more than 40 years ago, Eleanor Lambert, a marketer of fashion, teamed up with Gerald Van der Kemp, a...

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Dustin Lance Black applauds Cinetopia Film Festival

Published November 22, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Drew Waller, Michigan Theater This year, the Cinetopia International Film Festival in Ann Arbor, Mich., a winner of the 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit, premiered the important documentary “The Case Against 8.” We took advantage of this opportunity to bring in filmmaker Dustin Lance Black, who wrote the stage...

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EXILE yourself in art books at the Book Fair

Published November 21, 2014 by Anne Tschida

Detail from Amanda Keeley's pop-up Exile Books. There is a super cool new addition to this year’s Miami Book Fair International, which will culminate this weekend Downtown. Artist Amanda Keeley has “opened” her new arts book lounge during the fair, which offers a mix of literary...

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Public Pool mans up with “Beer, Bacon and Bullets”

Published November 21, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

Artist Alexander Buzzalini mounting his piece "Good Bye, Old Paint." Public Pool hosted a playful investigation of several hallmarks of traditional masculinity with "Beer, Bacon and Bullets," a three-man show featuring the work of Alexander Buzzalini, Angelo Conti and Matthew Hunt. "California...

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” at None Too Fragile Theater

Published November 21, 2014 by Roger Durbin

None Too Fragile Theater is noted for regularly bringing tense and darkly comic tales to the stage. It’s done it again with Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning script is densely and intricately written; it requires a lot of thought once you leave the performance. That’s a good thing with...

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North Carolina Governor honors Gantt Center Founders

Published November 21, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Bonita Buford, Harvey B. Gantt Center As on many campuses in the early 1970s, students at the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC) held sit-ins, demanding that the rich history and contributions of African-Americans be acknowledged. Campus leaders heeded the students’ rallying cry and launched what was to become...

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Palm Beach Opera successfully matches grant

Published November 20, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Ceci Dadisman, director of communications Palm Beach Opera, a winner of the 2013 Knight Arts Challenge South Florida More than a year ago, we were excited to learn that we would receive an $80,000 Knight Arts Challenge matching grant from Knight Foundation. The funds from the Knight Arts Challenge...

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Open Studio at the AIRIELAB

Published November 20, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Deborah Mitchell, AIRIE/Artists in Residence in Everglades Regina Jestrow, Sabal Palm Frond, 2014, 18”x58”, conte on rice paper Regina Jestrow is the AIRIE November resident. She has been walking the trails of the park, creating “rubbings” of her surroundings, and paintings about her research. Canoeing,...

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100 Words Film Festival

Published November 20, 2014 by Katherine Balcerek

100 Words Film Festival. Shorts, an original film under 40 minutes, used to be a widely popular type of movie widely shown in conjunction with a major feature film in the early years of cinema. But with the extravagance of movie making these days both in...

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Tim Eads and his optical bacchanal at Pentimenti

Published November 20, 2014 by CSchwartz

The mind of Tim Eads must be an astonishing place. Fortunately, by setting foot in Pentimenti Gallery right now, it is possible to wade through the extraordinary imagery of this prolific patternmaker, and catch a brief glimpse of the fantastical features that pepper this artist's outlandish imagination. In “Vector Forms,”...

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Inside Penumbra Theatre’s “Let’s Talk: Ferguson”

Published November 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Shellae Mueller, Penumbra Theatre On September 10, 2014, Over 200 people turned out at Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, MN for Let’s Talk: Ferguson. This special program was created to invite the community to share in a conversation around the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the long-standing...

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Guest artists bring excitement and expertise to the DSA

Published November 19, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Christopher Tiffany, Detroit School of Arts This fall, the Detroit School of Arts (DSA) began the school year with a burst of music. Through a program funded in part by the Knight Foundation, the DSA is able to bring in artists and groups from around the region to provide...