By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy This February, Walker West Music Academy began the new Young Artist Professional Training Program, a program giving young artists the chance to compose, record and produce an album of original music. Program participants just completed the first section where they’ve composed five original jazz tunes with the support […]
Article · April 6, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Casey Craig, National Jewish Theater Foundation The National Jewish Theater Foundation/Holocaust Theater Archive is pleased to announce the successful opening of Jeff Cohen’s new play The Soap Myth. Directed by NJTF/HTA Founder and President Arnold Mittelman, this Off-Broadway production officially premiered on March 26th, and has been met with positive reception from both critics and […]
Article · April 6, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jenifer Mangione Vogt, Art & Italian culture writer Francesco Simeti is a contemporary Italian artist that was born in Palermo, Sicily and now divides his time between Sicily and New York. He’s primarily an installation artist, who creates large site-specific works that are imaginative and complex. His work is currently on display at the […]
Article · April 5, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Michelle Hauske, Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Inside|Out program, now in its third year, brings 80 reproductions of masterpieces from the DIA’s collection to the streets and parks of metro Detroit, pleasantly surprising residents of the participating communities. Where possible, the works are clustered within walking or biking distance […]
Article · April 4, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
Miami Dade College (MDC) will wrap up two of its successful cultural series this month with two show-stopping performances. MDC Live! Performing Arts Series closes its 2011-12 season with the Miami premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, created and performed by renowned American choreographer and dancer John Jasperse and four […]
Article · April 4, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Andrea Stevenson, Community School of the Arts As Community School of the Arts reviews the feedback surveys of the many financial aid and outreach students attending concerts and exhibitions through the Knight Artistic Engagement Fund, we cannot resist sharing a selection of their comments in their own voices. This is the sound of young […]
Article · April 3, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art offers a free event on the second Saturday of each month. The event, called Studio Ohr, focuses on a variety of art demonstrations, hands on activities and other educational opportunities for children and adults. Artists from all over the State of Mississippi […]
Article · April 2, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Chris Feeley, Young At Art Museum As the exhibitions are being installed in the new $26 million Young At Art Museum and Broward County Library, which will open to the public on Saturday, May 5, the impact of what families and visitors share becomes more and more evident. At the new museum, multi-cultural artistic […]
Article · April 2, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Megan O’Connell, Signal-Return, Inc “Begin anywhere”, instructs American composer John Cage. In compiling an overview of the goings-on at Signal-Return, the swath of what we are actualizing looks so wide and seamless, it is challenging to know where to start. As a crossroads and meeting place, Signal-Return is thriving. Taking Cage’s words to heart, […]
Article · March 31, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
March was a busy month for the Cleveland Orchestra Miami delivering educational activities throughout Miami-Dade County. The centerpieces of the Cleveland Orchestra’s comprehensive array of educational activities presented in Miami each season are the Education Concerts at the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Nearly 4,000 second grade […]
Article · March 30, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Matthew Jaber Stiffler, Arab American National Museum The first full of week of March 2012 was a week of VIPs and discussions of democratic ideals at the Arab American National Museum (AANM). Among the events was a talk by internationally acclaimed Egyptian-born filmmaker, Jihan El-Tahri; a tour of the museum with Bothaina Kamel, a female […]
Article · March 30, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad