By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy Walker West Music Academy has a developed a new website at WalkerWest.org. Thanks to the support of Thomsen Reuters, the Academy engaged a team of web developers from Thomsen Reuters FindLaw. This team worked with Academy administration for several months and provided more than 200 hours of in-kind […]
Article · February 8, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Valerie Ricordi, MOCA Over the last decade and a half, the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, has grown to be the second most prolific in the world, after India’s Bollywood. Its acclaim was initially restricted to Nigerian and African audiences but as an English language art form, its productions are now widely-distributed in the UK, […]
Article · February 6, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Lori-Anne Williams, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts On January 16 & 17th more than 300 students and educators attended the 2014 Dance to Learn Kick-Off performances. Dance to Learn is a multifaceted dance education program of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Partnership with the Arts Education Partnership and Multicultural Voices […]
Article · February 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Caitlyn Swett, Triptych Collective In their seventh season, the Triptych Collective will be continuing their mission of developing and performing socially engaged performance art in the Charlotte, N.C. community. With assistance from a Cultural Innovation grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Triptych Collective will be creating socially relevant work by […]
Article · February 5, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Nicholas Mirra, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia One of the goals of our artistic-designed bike rack project is to use the same stretch of the street twice. We want to increase the amount of available bike parking in the city; Center City Philadelphia sees some of the highest rates of bicycling in the country, […]
Article · February 4, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Hilary Saunders, New World Symphony One week before the members of United Nations convened in Switzerland for the Geneva II conference about the Syrian Civil War, hundreds of New Yorkers began to amass in Carnegie Hall. They, along with musicians representing some 70 orchestras, ensembles, and freelancers, came to the famed institution on a […]
Article · February 4, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Cathy Leff, The Wolfsonian-Florida lnternational University Cathy Leff is director of The Wolfsonian-Florida lnternational University in Miami Beach. Below, she writes about “Power of Design 2014: Complaints,” a multidisciplinary event slated for March 20-23. The festival is sponsored by Knight Foundation and curated and organized by The Wolfsonian in partnership with WLRN and the Miami Herald. Everyone has complaints, […]
Article · February 3, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carolina Candelaria, Arts for Learning/Miami Arts for Learning’s ArtWorks interns and students participated in a workshop led by Argentinian artist Santiago Cucullu on Thursday, December 5, 2013. ArtWorks Interns from summer, as well as ArtWorks School Year students took part in this unique Art Basel Miami Beach experience, organized by ArtWorks partner organization, UBS […]
Article · February 1, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Stephen Sokolouski, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Patricia Kopatchinskaja, photo by Marco Borggreve “Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s fiddling is part Gypsy princess, part Stephane Grappelli, part Paganini” – The Australian “Her playing is sovereign and animalistic, tender and sassy” – Tagesspiegel (Berlin) “If anyone thought classical music was stuffy or corseted, here was the riposte” – Financial Times “A fearless […]
Article · January 31, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Gina Russo, Locust Projects Locust Projects is pleased to announce an open call to South Florida high school students for a chance to participate in a collaborative exhibition at the organization’s 5,000 square foot exhibition space in Miami’s Design District. Installation view, LAB 2013Image courtesy of Locust Projects, MiamiImage Credit: Ginger Photography Locust Projects […]
Article · January 31, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer He preferred to be called “Claudio” rather than “maestro”, a title that defined him, even though it was unnecessary, as were those of Knight of the Republic and Senator for Life that the Italian government bestowed on him. He was always above all titles, in politics as in […]
Article · January 29, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad