Philadelphia’s Sculpture Gym makes headlines as it is featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal this month. Reporter Jared Shelly profiles the gym and founder Darla Jackson, who won a $20,000 Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia grant to start the Sculpture Gym. Click here to read the complete piece & continue below to read an excerpt: Reprinted […]
Article · July 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Sage Crump of nominee Complex Movements, an artist collective that expresses the connections between science and social justice through hip-hop, art-installations, interactive performance and technology, talks about why the group should get […]
Article · July 26, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Brandon D. Nixon, Harvey B. Gantt Center I had been away traveling in the Middle East for a few weeks and hardly knew what to expect from the Harvey B. Gantt Center’s current exhibition, The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey – Where Art and History Intersect. With the increased activity […]
Article · July 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Dywayne Neeley of nominee East Side Riders, a group of artists who customize bikes as their means of creative expression, talks about why his group should get your vote. To see the […]
Article · July 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art On Saturday, July 13, 2013, the Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi was proud to host visiting artist Sheri Marshall of Holly Springs, Mississippi for a Studio Ohr workshop. Marshall creates beautiful carved tiles featuring various species of birds. Each student created two clay tiles […]
Article · July 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] JULY! Its hot. Its sticky. and Miami just got one blonde blue-eyed stud hotter. Sorry to break the news like this…but our in-house hunk, David Hemphill, Artistic Director of The Project [theatre] is happening to Miami all over again, and this time with concerted permanence. What does this mean […]
Article · July 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Pati Vargas, viernesculturales.org Join us July 26th for another Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday. Little Havana’s popular art, music and culture festival for everyone. The last Friday of every month, enjoy music, free walking tour by Historian Dr. Paul George, free face painting for children and discover works by local artisans in our iconic Domino Plaza on […]
Article · July 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Richard Wohlfeil of nominee LO & Behold! Records & Books, talks about why his group should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to text to vote, visit knightarts.org/peopleschoice. Q. […]
Article · July 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Founded in 2004 as The PlayGround Theater under the artistic direction of Stephanie Ansin, the theatre company was renamed MTC/Miami Theater Center in 2012. In the near decade since its inception, MTC audiences have numbered over 185,000 children and adults of all ages. Under the helm of Executive Director and Producer, Elaiza Irizarry, together with […]
Article · July 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Thais Menendez, Florida Grand Opera Florida Grand Opera, the state’s oldest arts organization, starts a new tradition this season by honoring renowned opera star Deborah Voigt with an extravagant black tie celebration entitled “Smoke & Mirrors,” hosted by event chairs Gloria Portal and Isa Leibowitz. Held at the DuPont Building in Downtown Miami on […]
Article · July 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Jeff Sturges of nominee Mt. Elliott Makerspace, which provides a space where people can create, tinker and learn together, talks about why his group should get your vote. To see the […]
Article · July 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad