By Christopher Reiger, AIRIE Fellow This post is associated with artist and writer Christopher Reiger‘s 2-week-long Artists In Residence In the Everglades (AIRIE) writing and art residency in Everglades National Park. Notes from Day 10: – I danced a slow-motion tango with the American alligator pictured above. The animal was only about 6 feet long (which […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Christopher Reiger, AIRIE Fellow This post is associated with artist and writer Christopher Reiger‘s 2-week-long Artists In Residence In the Everglades (AIRIE) writing and art residency in Everglades National Park. Notes from Days 6 & 7: – Before this residency, I knew that the Everglades is a birder’s paradise. I didn’t really know this until […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Christopher Reiger, AIRIE Fellow Friday, October 14, 2011: Tomorrow night, I’ll fly from San Francisco to Miami, Florida. Early on Sunday morning, I’ll drive a rental car southwest into the Everglades National Park, the site of my 2-week-long Artists In Residence In the Everglades (AIRIE) writing and art residency. In my application to the National […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Reina Chadwick, Arts & Business Council of Miami Business leaders are faced with many decisions. They are responsible for a staff, various departments, as well as decisions that affect the company and ultimately their own livelihood. Within these decisions lies a leader’s ability to ‘think outside of the box.’ Business leaders around the country are […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Andi Stevenson, Community School of the Arts Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending a Charlotte Symphony performance with a large group of Community School of the Arts music students participating in the Knight Artistic Engagement Fund ticket access program. Led by music director Christopher Warren-Green, the evening including Don Juan by […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist This Friday, February 17, marks the opening of a new exhibition space in Miami: Mercenary Square. Located in Little Havana and under the direction of the keen eye of Carlos Suarez de Jesus -very well known by his biting art column at the Miami New Times, Mercenary Square, with a program of hard […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Terrell Sandefur, Macon Film Festival “The Friendliest Little Film Festival in the Country” kicks off its seventh annual event on Thursday, Feb. 16 at three venues in historic downtown Macon. The festival will continue through Sunday, Feb. 19,with screenings, workshops, special guests and raucous after parties. The Macon Film Festival was created to celebrate […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
Twice a month, WolfBrown shares its consultants’ thoughts and insights via its What On Our Minds newsletter. In the February 8 edition, senior consultant Jane Culbert explores a new report commissioned by the Duke Charitable Foundation highlighting “bright spots” in today’s nonprofit sector. Three Knight Arts grantees were singled out in the report and Culbert’s […]
Article · February 12, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Kelli Kavanaugh, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit MOCAD’s winter exhibition is going to be outta-sight! Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show is a new exhibition organized especially for the Museum by two great pioneers of multimedia art, and it opens this Friday, February 10. White and Panter have been working together since the […]
Article · February 8, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts One of the most enjoyable aspects of working with the Community Supported Art program in the past year has been seeing the various ways it’s been adapted for different cities. Since our replication program launched a year ago, we have worked with over thirty organizations to help them […]
Article · February 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Alejandra Serna, Florida Grand Opera Verdi’s Rigoletto, one of the world’s most beloved operas, centers on a lurid plot of lust and revenge. Yet, even the darkest story has a soft glimmer of light. In this smash-hit production by Florida Grand Opera, light comes to the stage in the form of Rigoletto’s innocent daughter, Gilda, […]
Article · February 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad