By Nicole Chipi, Knight Foundation This weekend, Knight Foundation grantee O Cinema will open ‘Hellion’, a feature film written and directed by Kat Candler. Candler, whose past directorial credits include ‘Black Metal’ and a ‘Hellion’ short, was in Miami this March, sharing her trials and triumphs in filmmaking at a Knight-funded Sundance ShortsLab at Cosford […]
Article · June 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Serlin Quah, ZERO1 ZERO1 is excited to announce the line up for our summer-long BRING IT! Performance Art Series, supported by the Knight Foundation. We’ll be featuring six innovative performances by artists who are pushing the boundaries of digital culture. Performances take place at the ZERO1 Garage located at 439 S. 1st Street, San […]
Article · June 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Stephanie Fritz, Macon Arts Alliance Amplify, a program that supports the professional development of creative entrepreneurs in central Georgia, held a Creative Professionals Mixer at the Macon Arts Alliance, a Knight Arts grantee. This mixer brought together 25 different artists from the community. “This was a wonderful opportunity for artists to meet with one […]
Article · June 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Suzie Graham, Downtown Akron Partnership Downtown Akron has never been so chic. Beautiful people, beautiful weather and beautiful music rounded out an evening of trend-setting style at the NOTO Summer Fashion Show – A Downtown Live and Local event co-sponsored by the Downtown Akron Partnership. The not-to-be-missed event included a restaurant round up with […]
Article · June 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Susan Tranbaugh, Creative Capital Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) helps artists develop a system for using strategic planning and goal setting to attain career success and stability. This year, PDP offered two workshops to Spanish-speaking artists, generously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in Charlotte and Philadelphia. Above, workshop […]
Article · June 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Dias Dobson, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture On Sunday June 15, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture will say farewell to its three current exhibitions, I See You: The Politics of Being; Question Bridge: Black Males; and African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives […]
Article · June 8, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Elite Kedan, AIRIE left: the studio. right: the chapel. or vice versa. or one and the same. I entered the Everglades residency open to a lot of ideas. Wanting to include everything – the biology, the geology, the history, the technology. At times it became overwhelming. Like a thick swamp of subjects that were […]
Article · June 6, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Dangerous Productions It began with a simple hypothesis: Karen refugees would be good at parkour. What that idea transformed into came to fruition Memorial Day weekend, as a group of 20+ Karen high schoolers and a team of artists performed a hybrid of theater and sport at a park nestled in Saint Paul’s Hamline […]
Article · June 6, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carl Atiya Swanson, Springboard for the Arts Someone stops, unsure if they should be watching. Another person cranes their neck over a computer screen while still another buries their face in a book. The reactions are different, but in the end, applause breaks out. In 2013 we did a run of Library Acts of […]
Article · June 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Ann Mintz, Reading Terminal Market The Reading Terminal Market is one of the most popular locations in downtown Philadelphia, averaging 17,000 people per day, 358 days a year for a total of 6.3 million visits each year. This creates an interesting challenge for programming and scheduling. We often schedule performances on Sundays since weekend […]
Article · June 4, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Bruney and Sonia Hendler, The Arts & Business Council of Miami The reality of a “divide” between the arts and direct and profitable partnerships with business and specific industries is certainly not a new topic. What is new, however, are ways that arts and businesses are utilizing their unique resources to bridge that […]
Article · June 2, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad