Haunted landscapes now showing
ATHENS, GA (PNAN) – Drawing upon her experiences in Kentucky, Florida and her maternal family’s farmland in western Tennessee, artist Allison Janae Hamilton uses this personal relationship with rural landscapes…
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Those deserving are sought
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PNAN) – Nominations for the 2022 National Medal of Arts deadline of October 1, 2022. The National Medal of Arts is the highest award given to artists and…
Innovators to bring life to Wadsworth
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Over 50 contemporary glass artists breathe new life into nature’s most volatile medium in Fired Up: Glass Today, opening at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art…
Art lecture to cover a gamut of life
DES MOINES, IA (PNAN) – The 32nd Annual Fingerman Lecture is set for Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 1:30 pm with artist Lari Pittman. Pittman will be speaking about his…
A crème de la crème show
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PNAN) – In 1992 photographer Gay Block’s first major exhibition, “Rescuers of the Holocaust: Portraits by Gay Block” was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in…
Exhibit honors a major benefactor
FORT WORTH, TX (PNAN) – Going on view Sunday, October 23, 2022, “Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne W. Marion” is an exhibition of contributions by Marion with 80 works…
Air-Cleaning plants
Plants are nature’s filters for absorbing gases through pores on the surface of their leaves. It’s this skill that facilitates photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light energy and…
They are unforgettable
Lilacs often indicate the first signs of spring. Colorful, fragrant and full with bloom, they often turn on your memory bank that brings back a favorite story, a visit…
Cast Iron Skillet benefits
Sometimes technology doesn’t offer the best results. Take cast iron skillets, for instance. Made from pig iron, recycled cast iron and recycled scrap steel, one company in Tennessee has maintained…
A better ‘mousetrap’
Peppermint oil is used by exterminators to rid buildings of mice and rats. Saturating cotton balls and batting then stuffing into holes and corners will drive them away from the…
Dream became real
Encountering new opportunities in our young lives often cause a favorite passion to sit in the back of the bus. Some finally toss off their dream as a silly notion…
Prose book roars like a ‘tsunami’
Author Rice as well as to name a few like, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Emily Bronte and Maya Angelou are not your ‘standard’ authors because they have been…
Iconic artworks re-imagined
The National Menagerie of Art by Thais Vanderheyden is a wonderfully imaginative picture book that reimagines many of the world’s best-known art masterpieces in a way that will delight both…
Writer inks her love to Dad
♥ Tell me a story of a farmer at sunrise; Starting a busy day of combining beans. Feeling joy and sadness, anticipation and relief; Of a completed harvest, a job…
A tribute to Native American modernist
GRAND PORTAGE, MN (PNAN) – The United States Postal Service celebrates the life and work of George Morrison, one of the nation’s greatest modernist artists. Morrison is best known for…
Places in the best category
ATHENS, GA (PNAN) – The Georgia Museum of Art’s Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, Shawnya L. Harris was selected among 100+…
Let there be contrast
RAPID CITY, SD (PNAN) – Opening on Friday, May 27, 2022 in the Inez & Milton Shaver Gallery of the Dahl Arts Center, “Night & Day” is an exhibition by…
Fleming to move on in 2023
DES MOINES, IA (PNAN) – Appointed director of the Des Moines Art Center in 2005, Jeff Fleming has announced his retirement in April 2023. During his 25 years, he served…
Reins passed to new driver
IRVINE, CALIF (PNAN) – Beginning Friday, July 1, 202, visionary artist and administrator Tiffany Lopez who is a proven champion for diversity and inclusion, has been named Dean of the…
Youth works ‘fight’ climate change
PORTLAND, ME (PNAN) – On Friday, April 22, 2022 six were recognized for their artworks which raise awareness to our climate crisis whereas they were bestowed with the Tidal Shift…
A gem of an art book of happiness
The children’s book, “The National Menagerie of Art” by Thais Vanderheyden is a fun way to learn about famous artists and art. People are replaced with birds and animals in…
Dual cultures told in artist’s works
DENVER, CO (PNAN) – Now showing through Saturday, April 30, 2022 at the K Contemporary, “Wounded Man, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” is a solo exhibition by…
An Iconic Cowgirl show
FORT WORTH, TX (PNAN) – “Living Large: Bob Wade’s Cowgirls” is on view in the Anne W. Marion Gallery through Sunday, July 31, 2022 at the National Cowgirl Museum and…
An art engulfing journey
DES MOINES, IA (PNAN) – On view through June 5, 2022 at the Des Moines Art Center, the exhibition, “Immersive” intends to welcome the viewer into spaces that surround them…
20th century great shows works on his 90th
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – Going on view Sunday, April 24, 2022 at the Parrish Art Museum, this exhibition, “An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints 1960-2018” includes some 70…
Castaways become works of art
SAN FRANCISO, CA (PNAN) – Set to open on Friday, April 1, 2022 at the Jack Fischer Gallery, “Still Finding My Way” is a show the sculptures of Byron Ryono.…
State capitol to bustle with artworks
COLUMBUS, OH (AAPNW) – On Saturday, April 2, 2022, the April Gallery Hop will feature never-before-seen works by Columbus artist and great American voice, Aminah Robinson at Hammond Harkins Galleries…
Absurd realism in the spotlight
MIAMI, FL (PNAN) – On view at the Fabien Castanier Gallery is through April 23, 2002, “The Harder They Come” is the third solo exhibition by artist Mark Jenkins, featuring…
Dual mediums in show
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PNAN) – On view at the Jack Fischer Gallery through Saturday, April 9, 2022, “two solos: oil and clay” are paintings of Jenny Bloomfield and the sculptures…
Tradition lives on
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – Artworks of more than 1,000 young artists from Eastern Long Island schools goes on view in the Parrish Art Museum during its annual Student Exhibition on…
Jazz Masters Tribute Concert
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PNAN) – The National Endowment for the Arts will honor the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters and kick off a year-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the program…
Artist captured the micro-macro details
NEW YORK, NY (PNAN) – Opening Friday, April 8, 2022 at Gray, the work of American artist Evelyn Statsinger (1927-2016) in the solo exhibition, “Currents” which will feature her paintings…
Deadline for Art Competition and Show
TROY, OH (NWPR) – The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center is inviting all artists ages 15 and older to enter an art competition entitled: Master Works Remixed: An Art’s Alive at the…
50th Anniversary Exhibition
ANCHORAGE, AK (PNAN) – On view through Sunday, April 3, 2022, the Anchorage School District Youth 50th Art Exhibition is a celebration by young student artists from kindergarten through high…
Calling all artists
FORT WAYNE, IN (NWPR) – Applications are now being accepted through May 6, 2022 for The Fort Wayne Arts Festival at Jefferson Pointe which is an exclusive juried outdoor festival…
Works tell their story
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (PNAN) – On view at the Fresh Eye Gallery through Saturday, April 23, 2022, “The Land Within Us” features the work of 31 artists from around the US…
Northern Plains Native Americans show
RAPID CITY, SD (PNAN) – Going on view Friday, April 8, 2022 at the Dahl Arts Center, “Shadow Catcher” is an exhibition of wet plate photographs by image-maker Shane Balkowitsch,…
Colorist roots are deep in Hartford society
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Going on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Saturday, March 5, works by Milton Avery, who is considered one of North America’s greatest…
Colorful works in the Capitol
BISMARCK, ND (PNAN) – In the Capitol building on the observatory floor through April 28, 2022, the North Dakota Council on the Arts is exhibiting a variety of intricately painted…
Icon’s painting in the spotlight
BLOOMINGTON, IN (NWPR) – On view through May 22, 2022 in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, “Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural”…
Art and Academics meet at the fork
CHICAGO, IL (AAPNW) – Viewing now through March 13, 2022, “On Drawing Drawing On: Ten Years of Fellowship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry…
Visionary painter’s show a must-see
CHICAGO, IL (AAPNW) – Going on view Tuesday, February 15 in the Smart Museum of Art, “Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine” is an exhibition offering a rich reconsideration of…
Fine art of wood is real artistry
BLOOMINGTON, MN (PNAN) – Opening at 6:00 pm on Thursday, February 24, 2022, Art of the Grain will be a group art exhibition featuring a collection of Minnesota based wood…
Innovator chosen for museum’s agenda
PORTLAND, ME (PNAN) – This March 2022, Ramey Mize becomes the Assistant Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art, where she will support the museum’s Art for…
Museum has hometown artist on their mind
ATHENS, GA (PNAN) – Since 1962, Lou Stovall has lived and worked in Washington, D.C., but his artistic journey will come full circle next year, with a return to his…
A kaleidoscopic colors and patterns
DAYTON, OH (NWPR) – Going on view on Thursday, February 3, 2022 at the Contemporary Dayton, Odili Donald Odita opens his exhibition, “3 Steps From Center” in the Ira H.…
Roll ‘em, roll ‘em to the 58th
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPNW) – For its 2022 season, the Carnegie Museum of Art has on schedule exhibitions that probe local concerns and national histories as part of the museum’s wider…
Architect’s stories are towering
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – Opening Saturday, February 26, 2022 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, “Container/Contained: Phil Freelon Design Strategies for Telling African American Stories” will be an exhibition…
Dancers to take stage
DAYTON, OH (NWPR) – On Friday, February 11 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, February 12 at 7:30 pm; and Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 2:30 pm in the Victoria Theatre, the…
A chosen literary gem
As a child, I treasured picture books. Today that passion has dramatically increased; in fact, to the point where my library’s bookshelves are over stuffed with beautiful works of art…