The biggest Random Act of Culture® yet took place in Philadelphia Saturday – with more than 650 singers bursting into Hallelujah from Handel’s Messiah in the middle of a downtown Macy’s. The world’s largest pipe organ – with 28,000 pipes – accompanied them. I could go on, but the video tells the whole story. You […]
Article · November 2, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
Miami-based visual artist Jillian Mayer has hit it big. Her short film Scenic Jogging is being showcased in YouTube Play: A Creative Video Biennial, a special exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which will also be seen at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice. Mayer’s Scenic Jogging was selected as one […]
Article · October 26, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
While visiting San Jose I was able to visit the artist residency program at the Montalvo Arts Center. Set on a 350-acre estate just southwest of San Jose, it is a multidisciplinary program that includes a culinary residency! I’ve often wondered why the culinary arts aren’t included in more fine arts programs. Artists live in […]
Article · September 22, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
As part of the Knight national art program I’ve been traveling around to the eight Knight resident cities (Akron, Charlotte, Detroit, Macon, Miami, Philadelphia, Saint Paul and San Jose). This week found me in San Jose for the launch of the ZERO1 Biennial, an exhibition that melds art and technology, where I spoke at the […]
Article · September 22, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
Davis Guggenheim, Oscar winning director of global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth has set his sights on his next topic – the sad state of K-12 education in America. Waiting for Superman opens Sept 24, but Dennis Scholl, Knight’s vice president of the arts and Miami program director, recently had an opportunity to preview the […]
Article · July 13, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
By Dennis Scholl, vice president/arts and Miami program director I’m in Akron today, announcing more than $700,000 for arts projects that enrich and engage the community, as part of our national arts program. The largest grant – for $200,000 – is to renovate and expand the Summit Artspace, in order to strengthen it as a […]
Article · June 25, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
In order to understand light, it is said, we must also understand its opposite. In art, that can be translated literally as well as metaphorically. Although artworks have often been viewed as objects that bring beauty into life, they have also been vehicles to question our sense of aesthetics, and of humanity. To call “Instruments […]
Article · June 8, 2010 by Dennis Scholl
NEWS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEKnight Foundation Awards Infuse Local Arts Scene with $3.7 Million Miami City Ballet Regains Live Orchestra; Wynwood Gets Arts Incubator; Indie Record Store Expands Community Programming MIAMI (Nov. 30, 2009) Emerging from 1,562 applications, 20 winners today received $3.7 million in the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest by […]
Article · November 30, 2009 by Dennis Scholl