Dancer Silas Riener is currently on tour with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour, a Knight Arts granteee. Today he checks in with his second (of several) reports from the field. By Silas Riener, Merce Cunningham Dance Company It’s a last year of lasts for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The last time for […]
Article · August 5, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
The new and expanded Miami Art Museum just took a great leap forward. The museum has announced it will welcome Tobias Ostrander as its Chief Curator and first Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs next month. Ostrander, a visual arts curator with nearly two decades of experience at some of the world’s top arts institutions, will […]
Article · August 5, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Arts education at the White House welcomes a new voice this month as Knight Foundation’s national art advisory council member Aaron Dworkin is named a Champion of Change in Arts Education. Dworkin, the founder and president of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization and President Obama’s first nominee to the National Council of the Arts, visited the White […]
Article · August 3, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Val Renner, Akron Civic Theatre This has been a busy season for the Akron Civic Theatre. With the support of Knight Foundation, the Theatre hosted 51 events between Sept 26, 2010 and May 28, 2011. Here’s a snapshot of the season: 51 total events 48,410 attendees 35 rental events (the presenter and/or producer was a […]
Article · August 3, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jean-Marie Allion, Lead Writer for Home Water Did you ever witness an argument between two cooks about what goes into an “authentic” jambalaya? The truth of the matter is… almost anything goes! What makes a jambalaya a jambalaya is the final bouquet resulting from a unique mix of flavors, textures and colors. A few […]
Article · August 3, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Rick Shiomi, MU Performing Arts My east coast book tour for the new anthology Asian American Plays for a New Generation, published by Temple University Press, began in Philadelphia. I landed on Sunday, July 24th in NYC and caught the Greyhound Express bus to Philadelphia, where I went directly from the bus depot to […]
Article · August 3, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Candice Hardie, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia’s premiere summer concert venue, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, is diving into emerging social media trends. Integrating mobile promotions such as Foursquare and Text Your Encore into their programming strengthens their already well- established social media presence on Facebook (The Mann) and […]
Article · July 31, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jean-Marie Allion, Lead Writer “Home Water” The lack of access to water is a worldwide issue that has an increasingly preponderant role in geopolitics. On a smaller scale, here at home, we can see that it is also a burning issue in urban America. When our Community Writing Circle met in November 2010 to write […]
Article · July 29, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Evy Schiffman, Community School of Music and Arts When 7-year old Ethel arrives at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) for her weekly piano lesson, she can’t wait to start playing. She’s been practicing pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky and is eager to put her fingers on the keys. And […]
Article · July 29, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Twice now, I have visited our museum’s recently installed Dance Theater of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts exhibit. The first time I explored the space, uneasy captivation quickly set-in. Uneasy, not because of anything off-putting, but because of the exact opposite. I can’t quite put it into words. Costumes […]
Article · July 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Knight Writer-in-Residence, P. Scott Cunningham performed Evening Bell as part of Poet on a Hot Tin Roof at McColl Center for Visual Art in Uptown, Charlotte. With over 100 sets of eyes looking up at Cunningham from the main gallery, the poet stood high […]
Article · July 27, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad