Peace Garden events all about art
(PNAN-ND) – “Creative Communities: The Art of the State of North Dakota,” is the biennial Statewide Arts Conference taking place on Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 6. Regardless if…
Month: March 2011
Living legend of prose focus of show
(AAPNW-NY) – Opening Friday, April 1 at the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) in Rochester, “John Ashbery and Friends: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” is an exhibition centering around the…
Dual shows opens soon
By Hope Wallace, Executive Director This Sunday marks the opening of our new dual exhibit “It’s in the Cards” and “The Art of Therapy”. In the Cards showcases an unusual…
Ganesha: The elephant-headed god
Paintings and sculptures of the elephant-headed deity popularly known as Ganesha have intrigued people for thousands of years. Hindu sacred texts relate a variety of stories explaining his appearance. …
Hands of humanitarians are decade old
(AAPNW-IN) – Marking its 10th anniversary, the Clay Bowl Giving Project will not only celebrate its milestone on Thursday, April 21, but also some new additions to the agenda.…
Works are natural healers for artist
(PNAN-AK) – On Saturday, April 1 at the Anchorage Museum, Fairbanks artist Rachelle Dowdy makes her first appearance with “Juggernauts,” an exhibition of sculpture which explores the union of…
Russian trio has ‘crystal clear’ sounds
(NWPR-OH) – They are Russian musicians, Igor Sklyarov, Vladimir Perminov and Vladimir Popras, who play the glass instruments, producing deep low sounds that give birth by a stream…
‘High stake’ musical to close season
(NWPR-IN) – To be performed by the Huntington University Theatre Company, one of the most popular American musicals of all time, “Guys and Dolls” comes to the Zurcher Auditorium…
‘Monarch of the Glen’ by Landseer
It is a highly recognizable painting — a magnificent stag standing alertly against a mountain background. If you haven’t seen a picture of the painting itself, you may have…
Artist gives Trifu thumbs up
(PNAN-US) – Cape Town, South Africa artist, author and actress, Leeorah Hursky has cast her vote of approval for Canadian film producer, Daria Trifu to be considered for the…
Series is part of the woodwork
(PNAN-AL) – It was in 1986 when the Huntsville Museum of Art launched “Encounters,” a series with a mission to feature works by a regional contemporary artist. Today and…
Storyteller bestowed Heritage Award
(PNAN-MT) – World-renowned songwriter, storyteller, recording artist, and television and radio personality, Red Steagall is the recipient of the 2011 Charles M. Russell Heritage Award. “Steagall is a true patriot…
Week of the Young Child
This is the Week of the Young Child and one of the most important things in a young child’s life is imagination. It’s important to encourage children to use…
Style and purpose is show’s theme
(PNAN-ME) – From portraits and figure studies to landscapes and architectural studies, “European Drawings” at the Portland Museum of Art is an exhibition that will showcase a spectrum of…
New season brings ‘mills of art’
(NWPR-OH) – Through April 24, still life paintings by Anita Tresslar from the Dayton area share the spotlight with glass creations by Berry Davis and Collette Fortin of Neptune Hot…
A portrait of Felice Willat
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Works of beauty is a…
Photographer ‘freezes’ His artworks
In the space of a few seconds, Susan Miller Cormier uses her camera to capture the vibrant color and life of the natural world around us. Her photographs are…
MFA student work next for the walls
(AAPNW-MI) – On view through April 3, at the Kresge Art Museum in East Lansing, works of art by Amy Jo Brown, Deon Foster, Clarissa R. Gerber, Jesse Howell, Ann…
Galleries join ‘art umbrellas’
(PNAN-CALIF) – Affinity Galleries and LarkGallery Online have united in series of events combining visual and performing arts entitled: “Spring Equinox.” The following events began recently with opening receptions at the Phantom…
A book with many revelations . . . . . .
Some books are read because the already words expressed serves as an endorsement about what we found in the first several pages. There are also other visual reasons that come…
A legacy of art-in-the sky
(AAPNW-MO) – The St. Louis Arch soars, gleaming untarnished against the bright blue Midwestern skies, a powerful welcoming for those choosing to pioneer west. It is an architectural design…
Winners ‘captured’ by Judge Jividen
(NWPR-OH) – And the winners are in the Findlay Art League’s “Photo 29” show are: Best of Show, Mr. Fred Aldrich Award, Rich Kaplan for “Skyward”; First Place Award,…
Artistic gene prominent in a Kennedy
Maya Angelou said, “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true,…
What’s in a watercolor besides water?
(NWPR-OH) – “Watercolor” encompasses many mediums and techniques, and quite a few of them can be found in the Ohio Watercolor Society Exhibit which opened at the Wassenberg…
Works are all about Friley
(AAPNW-OH) – On view at the Dublin Arts Council through April 22, “All about Evenatom” are works by Professor Emeritus Eugene Friley, who taught for more than four decades…
Buckeye screenplay vie open
    (AAPNW-OH) –  Who will be standing center stage and bestowed for one of the three categories: Best Screenplay, Best Voice of Color Screenplay (written by or about people of…
No childhood storybook romance in film
(PNAN-USA) – Projected to hit the marquees in New York, Los Angeles and Bucharest in November 2011, the movie “Abused in America” will not only raise the eyebrows of…
Terrific treats
(THE VITTES REPORT) – The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann, Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic, RCA Red Seal (once again a valuable trademark) The audiophile, watch your…
Hoosier has a prose champ
(AAPNW-IN) – Roses are red, violets are blue, just so you know there is one outstanding Indiana high school student, who is now new and has been added to…
Looking ahead to the watercolor exhibit
    (NWPR-OH) – The Wassenberg Art Center’s exhibit, “The Art of Fiber,†ended last Friday. As these story-backed quilts and rugs come down to make way for the traveling Ohio…