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Tampabay.com
April 30, 2018
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Actress Jennifer Lawrence attended an arts ceremony co-hosted by her namesake foundation in her hometown of Louisville. Lawrence was a presenter at Saturday's annual Awards in the Arts event honoring local groups and artists. The event was co-hosted by theÃâà...
Joplin Globe
April 30, 2018
At the time, according to original (and still active member) Maridan Stanley Kassab, the arts center was housed inside a small structure, and a move to a new location was in the works. Kassab told Stanley that the St. Avips Ball idea was viewed as a way “to provide some additional income” for Spiva, thoughÃâà...
Denton Record Chronicle
April 30, 2018
The 38th annual Denton Arts & Jazz Festival went off without a hitch this year, giving Denton three days of music, art and food. The event welcomed about 200,000 people to Quakertown Park, according to festival founder and executive director Carol Short. Short said the festival was lucky to see goodÃâà...
CU Columbia Spectator
April 30, 2018
When Elsa Lama, SVA '18, left Ecuador in 2016 to attend Columbia's Masters of Fine Arts Visual Arts program, she was drawn by the promise of participating in an interdisciplinary program with renowned faculty, peers, and the resources of an Ivy League university. Two years later, and a few weeks fromÃâà...
The Heights
April 30, 2018
The Stokes Arts tent housed the annual Arts Award Ceremony to recognize the extensive contributions of students, faculty, and alumni to the arts. Theatre department chair Crystal Tiala explained that since the original one-day arts festival that started on campus 20 years ago, Arts Fest has grown with theÃâà...
whotv.com
April 30, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa – One Des Moines Public School will be considered aa Turnaround Arts school for the 2018-2019 school year. Turnaround Arts schools began in 2011 by the presidents committee on the arts and humanities. It aims to inspire struggling schools through music, theater, dance and arts.
Knoxville News Sentinel
April 30, 2018
Knoxville's annual Dogwood Arts Festival returned to Market Square and Krutch Park this weekend for its 57th year bringing dozens of artists and entertainers to the center point of the city. This year's festival featured 91 artists, some from as far away as Michigan, and dozens of entertainers and activities forÃâà...
Quartz
April 30, 2018
She was explaining her conviction that helping students find meaningful work should be an integral part of a liberal-arts education. “If you get love and work right,” she said, paraphrasing Sigmund Freud, “you've sort of figured it all out.” Spencer has been head of Bates, a small college in Lewiston, Maine,Ãâà...
Crain's Cleveland Business
April 29, 2018
Based on reports of the pushback that erupted over the last year or so at Cuyahoga Arts & Culture board meetings, the casual arts observer might surmise that the local creative community was in turmoil. At issue, of course, were the steps taken by CAC concerning how to fairly distribute a shrinking pool ofÃâà...
Buffalo Rising
April 27, 2018
Buffalo Arts Movement (BAM) is a one-stop hub for all of your creative desires. Located in Depew in a former church, this full spectrum arts center offers classes in dance, creative movement, and visual arts. According to Krista Lake, BAM's sole proprietor, more course options will be making their wayÃâà...
Colorado Springs Independent
April 27, 2018
On April 27, Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts hosted The Well Between Two Words, "an experimental performance art piece about justice, desire, and the wishful immediate," created by Ella Goodine Richardson. Billed as lasting from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the performance took place in and around a hutÃâà...
Aspen Public Radio
April 27, 2018
Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! This is Week in the Arts, a curated list of upcoming exhibitions and events. Listen. Listening... /. 1:57. On Monday, "Oklahoma!" starts its three-day run at the Riviera Supper Club in Glenwood Springs. Attendees can watch the musicalÃâà...
mediabistro.com
April 27, 2018
WLIW's ALL ARTS network is a cable channel and digital, on-demand platform presenting world-class cultural content. ALL ARTS covers artists from diverse backgrounds and origins with content presented in the form of videos, interviews, written commentary and social media. Join us. A new opportunity isÃâà...
Twin Falls Times-News
April 27, 2018
TWIN FALLS — The Magic Valley Arts Council will present the Brown Bag Lecture Series season finale at 12 p.m. today at the Twin Falls Center for the Arts Sligar Auditorium, 195 River ... The arts council is an association of arts organizations, individuals, educational institutions and businesses of the area.
KCUR
April 27, 2018
Recognizing that artists had already begun to colonize the West Bottoms, as had happened in the Crossroads a generation ago, leaders of those groups sought a National Endowment of the Arts Our Town Grant, designed to spark revitalization and, as the West Bottoms Reborn website puts it, place the artsÃâà...
WBIR.com
April 27, 2018
The River and Rail Theatre Company plans to transform 111 State Street, the former Cor-Tenn Company facility, into the Old City Performing Arts Center. "There has been a hole for performing arts venues of this size both for theatre and for music," said Chyna Bracheen, the president of Attack MonkeyÃâà...
OregonLive.com
April 27, 2018
... bestowed his Tony Award-winning touch on the show, which was nominated for Best Musical. Kristin Robinson stars in Lakewood Theatre Company's production. Various times and dates, April 27-June 10, Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State St. $37-$39, lakewood-center.org or 503-635-3901.
Harvard Crimson
April 27, 2018
The novel is currently being adapted to an Amazon Studios television series written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning writer-director of “Moonlight.” In an hour-long interview with actor John Lithgow '67—winner of last year's Arts Medal—Whitehead discussed a range of topics including hisÃâà...
austin360 (blog)
April 27, 2018
Feb. 8: “Songs of Freedom.” Drummer Ulysses Owns, Jr. leads a group interpreting Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone as part of the center's series on protest arts. March 27: “A Thousand Thoughts.” The Kronos Quartet team with Oscar-nominaed filmmaker Sam Green for this live documentary.
Midland Daily News
April 27, 2018
The reception, dinner with entertainment and awards ceremony recognizes arts organizations, businesses, volunteers and civic leaders whose efforts on behalf of the arts have enhanced the quality of life in Saginaw County and the Great Lakes Bay Region. The event is open to the public and tickets areÃâà...
Moorpark Acorn
April 27, 2018
Those who've taken in a show at the High Street Arts Center know there's not a bad seat at the popular community theater, but patrons will be glad to hear that their seats will also be a bit more comfortable in the future. The upgrade is just one of 13 renovation projects that will be coming to the venue duringÃâà...
Gainesville Times
April 26, 2018
Celestial Studios in Gainesville was alive on a rainy Sunday afternoon as art lovers came to support the Healing Through the Arts program at a High Tea fundraiser. Organized by the Quinlan Visual Arts Center and The Guest House, the event featured sales of tea bag art made by members of theÃâà...
Boulder Daily Camera
April 26, 2018
Faculty members in the University of Colorado's College of Arts and Sciences were surprised to learn that interim Dean Jim White had been reappointed to serve another year, according to the chair of their governing body. They wish they'd had a larger voice in the decision-making process, said Arts andÃâà...
Sunbury Daily Item
April 26, 2018
LEWISBURG — Always striving to add new events, the Lewisburg Arts Festival this year will extend a welcoming platform to local talents on the verge of being discovered. “We're having an Emerging Artists tent for people who have never been in a festival before,” said Sarah Kelley, past president of theÃâà...
Harvard Gazette
April 26, 2018
It is only fitting that as Harvard builds its new campus in Allston, the arts community would quickly follow. Arts First, the annual spring festival that begins Thursday, will make its debut on the other side of the river with concerts, exhibitions, and a historic work of theater that Harvard hasn't seen in 35 years.
Tallahassee.com
April 26, 2018
The Council on Culture & Arts announces the award of a $35,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their project “Arts Entrepreneurs: Accelerating the Creative Economy in Tallahassee.” The funding will support the creation of the Tallahassee Arts Entrepreneurs Institute (TAEI).
jacksonprogress-argus
April 26, 2018
“The painting was done by local artist Dale Hill and it is of a variegated fritillary butterfly,” Jackson-Butts County Council for the Arts Fine Arts Festival Chairperson Pamela Stevenson wrote in an email. “Proceeds from our raffle will go toward our arts council scholarship program which benefits a graduatingÃâà...
AL.com
April 26, 2018
Staff reports. After a rainy week, the weather is looking great for Arts Huntsville's annual Panoply Arts Festival this weekend in downtown Huntsville's Big Spring Park. There's only a 10-20 percent chance of showers Friday afternoon and the forecast is sunny and clear with highs around 70 Saturday andÃâà...
Cleburne Times-Review
April 26, 2018
Kelly Flores, Annie Gerlock, Cheyenne Cameron, Dani Murguia, Austin Price, Gabby Monsalve and Victoria Wadlington, top medalists at the Region XI Visual Art Scholastic Event, will be among the students with work on exhibit at Thursday's Cleburne High School Fine Arts Showcase, starting at 6:30 p.m.Ãâà...
MassLive.com
April 26, 2018
For nearly 100 years, Worcester youths learned to swim, took vocational classes and played basketball for as little as 25 cents per day in the Boys Club on Ionic Avenue. The 1914 building was a safe place for hundreds of children of immigrant families who came to the area during the manufacturing boom.
Gaston Gazette
April 26, 2018
Gaston Christian School founder M.O. Owens Jr. will turn 105 this September, and he will have another reason to celebrate when the school opens its new fine arts center bearing his name. The M.O. Owens Jr. Worship and Fine Arts Center, located in the center of the private school's campus in Lowell, willÃâà...
Variety
April 26, 2018
Held in collaboration with the Careyes Foundation, which establishes programs in education, sports, ecology and the arts for local communities, the emphasis of ArteCareyes is not on buying up content for distribution or negotiating sleek film biz deals, but on nurturing one's inner artist and igniting theÃâà...
Lowell Sun
April 26, 2018
LOWELL -- Driving or walking by the new Middlesex Community College Academic Arts Center on Central Street, you may notice a space on the building that's almost asking for a name. That spot will be filled in the coming months with the name of a well-known family in Lowell -- a philanthropic family thatÃâà...
ReporterNews.com
April 26, 2018
The Arts Rally handouts contain specific information about the Hotel Occupancy Tax and how revenues may be used. In a news release from the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, Executive Director Lynn Barnett said the three entities work together “to enhance the quality of life and promote Abilene as anÃâà...
YourObserver.com
April 26, 2018
Sarasota County Commissioners awarded Longboat Key $400,000 on Wednesday to support preparations for the town's proposed Arts, Cultural and Education Center at Town Center. This funding, which came from the county's community reinvestment program established to fund “infrastructure inÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 25, 2018
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Horsey is a syndicated political cartoonist. See more of David's work at: st.news/DavidHorsey. David Horsey. View Comments. No personal attacks or insults, no hate speech, no profanity. Please keep the conversation civil and help us moderate this thread byÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 25, 2018
What do you do? I'm the editor in chief of City Arts magazine. How did you get started in that field? I studied journalism in college, though my degree is in creative writing. When I moved to Seattle in 2001, I started a high-end arts zine that I ran out of my apartment for seven years while working as aÃâà...
UW Today
April 25, 2018
This week in the arts, visit a graduation exhibit featuring the works of Interdisciplinary Visual Arts students, see Tony Kushner's epic tale of AIDS in the 1980s, attend a lecture by award-winning author and frequent New Yorker contributor Gary Shteyngart, learn about themes related to Seattle Art Museum'sÃâà...
Colorado Public Radio
April 25, 2018
The Denver School of the Arts is a public secondary magnet school where children must survive competitive auditions to get in. Artistic talent reigns in the school of 1,100 students, though it is also prized for its rigorous academics. CPR News spoke to current and former students, parents and faculty aboutÃâà...
Page Six
April 25, 2018
American filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been awarded Spain's Princess of Astorias award for the arts, with the jury describing him as an uncontested major figure of contemporary cinema. New York-born of Italian descent, Scorsese has produced and directed dozens of fiction and documentary films,Ãâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 25, 2018
Groundworks 10th annual benefit “It Takes Two,” 7 p.m., Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleve. Starts at $50 at bit.ly/2FGDern. For more info, call 216-751-0088. “My First Time” theatrical performance, 8 p.m., Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood. $12-$31 at bit.ly/2GkFDvw.
Publishers Weekly
April 25, 2018
The National Coalition Against Censorship has joined more than 30 other prominent arts organizations in a friend of the court brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down the third version of the Trump travel ban issued in September 2017. On Wednesday the case, State of Hawaii v. Trump, will be heardÃâà...
Artsy
April 25, 2018
This week on the Artsy Podcast, we tackle the question of how creativity and the arts are being impacted by the digital age. On one hand, we're constantly fending off distraction; on the other, the internet has created amazing new tools for viewing art and helping artists get their work funded.
Daily Utah Chronicle
April 25, 2018
In her opening remarks at an ArtsLINK conference held at the University of Utah on March 3, Kelby McIntyre-Martinez, assistant dean for Arts Education & Community Engagement at the U, explained the creativity and confidence of children is boundless. “When you ask a group of children 'Who is a dancer?
EdSurge
April 24, 2018
Many who were in the room work at small liberal arts colleges that are grappling with similar questions around whether or not to pursue online learning—and, if so, how to get campus buy-in. Located in Minnesota, Carleton College serves about 2,000 students, the majority of which are white and hail fromÃâà...
The Daily Tar Heel
April 24, 2018
On Monday afternoon, dozens of Tar Heels marched from the Hanes Art Center to the steps of the South Building amid chants of, “Arts buildings in disrepair, does UNC even care?” In what they called the Carol Folt Revolt, protesters aimed to draw attention to the lack of funding for the UNC Department ofÃâà...
Wicked Local
April 24, 2018
It's finally begun to feel like spring, just in time for Melrose Arts' 13th annual Arts in April festival, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29, at Memorial Hall. Organizers hope people from Melrose and beyond decide to shake off the long, cold winter with a festival celebrating local art and artists ofÃâà...
ARTnews
April 24, 2018
For nearly a decade, Real Fine Arts made New York City a much more interesting place. Tyler Dobson and Ben Morgan-Cleveland, both artists, opened the gallery in December of 2008 on the ground floor of an apartment building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, at 673 Meeker Avenue, right next to the noisyÃâà...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund has pledged $10 million to fund arts programs focused on mental health issues in New York City. The new initiative is an open-ended commitment that seeks to improve the lives of those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, fight stigma around mental illnesses andÃâà...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
April 24, 2018
Performing Arts Council members say they have faced issues related to lack of performance and rehearsal spaces for years, and they have recently taken a formal step in the hope of finding a permanent solution. The PAC Executive Board in March finalized a report outlining the challenges of performingÃâà...
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