This week WTVI PBS Charlotte will premiere a new documentary that tells the story of Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s 2013 performance of the Abyssinian Mass in Charlotte. Below, Knight Vice President for Arts Dennis Scholl, one of the film’s directors and producers, writes about the experience. When Knight Foundation heard […]
Article · February 4, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Marika Lynch, Knight Foundation communications consultant More than 5,000 people came out to see last fall’s Interactive Hip-Hop Carnival in Detroit, a visual and aural spectacle that combined b-boy dancers in lights, island-inspired Mardi Gras costumes and music, a dancing crowd and more. What the organizers want everyone to remember though is the backstory […]
Article · February 3, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
Join producer Dennis Scholl and director & artists Willie Clark and Helene Smith at a special screening of Deep City Sunday, Feb 8 at the Miami Beach Cinemetheque. Tickets are just $5 – click here to get yours. About Deep City This one-hour original WLRN Public Televison proudction, produced by local filmmakers Marlon Johnson, Chad […]
Article · February 3, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jamie Dianne Acebo, Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus On February 11th, 2015 the Hialeah Cultural Center will be presenting a musical performance by the Miami based band PALO! PALO! is a unique band that produces a genre of music called “Afro-Cuban funk”. Based right here in Miami the band consists of five members, Leslie […]
Article · January 29, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer The sight of a Miami concert hall overflowing with enthusiastic young people is invigorating. It is a welcome rarity that should stop being rare as soon as possible. And because these days attracting new devotees to classical music is close to a feat, every means is justified, not […]
Article · January 29, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Ann Mintz, Reading Terminal Market In January, Reading Terminal Market continued its Knight-Foundation-funded series, Music @ the Market, with two performing groups anchored by a mother-daughter duo and deeply rooted in American traditions. On January 11, the Market featured the Celtic and French Canadian music of Mist Covered Mountains. This quartet features fiddler Donna […]
Article · January 28, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Robin Haines Merrill, Upper Room Art Gallery Tonight in Fort Lauderdale, the Upper Room Art Gallery will kick off a yearlong public art project centered around the traditional art of creating dugout canoes. Below, the gallery’s Robin Haines Merrill writes about the project and the importance of keeping the art alive. I’m not a […]
Article · January 27, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Adria Greenhauff, Miami City Ballet Twenty 1st and 2nd grade students from Fienberg-Fisher Elementary School in Miami Beach are learning to dance through Miami City Ballet’s Explore Dance Program. This educational outreach program is designed to promote the arts to our community’s youth through weekly classes held at MCB Studios. Led by esteemed MCB School […]
Article · January 27, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art announces two fun, informative and visually exciting exhibitions. The long-awaited African Diva Project is open through March 7 and Qarqish + Welch: Art as Form . . . Art as Function is open through March 14. Sarah Qarqish + Morgan Welch: Art […]
Article · January 26, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
By Melissa Anduiza, Charlotte Ballet dancer On a daily basis, choreographers and dancers have the privilege of diving into the ever so varied “choreographic process”. The choreographic process is especially unique when it comes to a contemporary show, such as Innovative Works, because of the endless possibilities that both artists (choreographer and dancer) can explore […]
Article · January 26, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad
Mark your calendar! On Thursday, Jan 29 artist Nicole Cherubini, whose newest body of sculptures are currently on view at PAMM, will speak about the works of the revolutionary ceramicist George Ohr and his artistic process, including his inventive experimentation with clay. The discuss is free with admission, but space is limited (first come, first seated). […]
Article · January 24, 2015 by Valerie Nahmad