Half century feast of fashions

Opening in the Grand Gallery on Sunday, January 31,“Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair” and remaining on view through April 24, 2016 at the Memorial Art Gallery in…

Show focuses on Needleworks

On view through February 28, 2016 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, “Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality’” focuses on ornamental needlework created…

WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery. WHEN: Through January 24, 2016. Une Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester’s Dance) The silent, black-and-white video work by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, which is repeated…

Indy museum has ‘false’ ceiling

WHERE: Indianapolis Museum of Art. WHEN: Through June 5, 2016.     Richard Wentworth: False Ceiling—Indianapolis   This large-scale work by Wentworth is the most ambitious installation to date and…

Works talk visually

Nashville is also noted for its love of storytelling in words, images and voices. For years, the city has been home to major publishing houses, printing presses, nationally recognized writing…

Bay Area composer a first

As its first Composer Lab & Workshop Fellow, the Nashville Symphony named Gabriella Smith to return several times next year to work with music director Giancarlo Guerrero and the orchestra.…

MI: Detroit

WHERE: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit/MOCAD. WHEN: On view October 16, 2015 through January 3, 2016. Dor Guez: The Sick Man of Europe: The Architect Artist Dor Guez focuses on…

TN: Nashville

WHERE: Frist Center for the Visual Arts. WHEN: October 30, 2015 through January 6, 2016.   Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti   This exhibition offers…

Germany: Düsseldorf

  WHERE: K21 Ständehaus. WHEN: On view through January 24, 2016. The Problem of God BRIEF ABOUT: Christian iconography is omnipresent in our collective memory, and many contemporary artists incorporate…

Deputy Director’s desk filled

Miah Michaelsen of Bloomington, Indiana has become the next Indiana Arts Commission agency’s deputy director. “We are so thrilled to have Miah join the staff of the Arts Commission,” said…

They ‘raised’ him up

Promoted to Associate Conductor, Vinay Parameswaran said, “It is an incredible honor to be a part of the Nashville Symphony, and I am excited for the next three years as…

She is number 1

Shawnya L. Harris became the first Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art recently for the Georgia Museum of Art at the University…

New leader chosen for Museum

Gary Stoppelman has been named the Museum’s Deputy Director for Marketing and External Affairs of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. “Having worked at three of the world’s most prominent museums,…

KY: Prestonsburg

WHERE: Mountain Arts Center. WHEN: Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 7:00 pm. Bluegrass Extravaganza BRIEF ABOUT: Featuring Nathan Stanley/ http://www.nathanstanleymusic.com/index.html with the Clinch Mountain Boys and Russell Moore & IIIrd…

NY: Rochester

  WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery grounds. WHEN: Saturday, September 12 and Sunday 13, 2015. M&T Bank Clothesline Festival BRIEF ABOUT: Original work by 400+ artists from across New York State,…

Exhibit mirrors artists’ worlds

In the Inez Greenberg Gallery at the Artistry in the Bloomington Center for the Arts in Bloomington, Minnesota, on view through October 9, 2015, “It’s Personal” is an exhibition with…

Artist 1st solo in the Motor City

Opening Friday, September 18, 2015, this multi-year research program is one of the most ambitious undertakings to date for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit/MOCAD.  Detroit City is comprised of…

Ioannides to pass baton

  At the helm for 12 seasons, Music Director and Conductor of Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarah Ioannides will be passing the baton to her new successor at the end of…

Indy to ‘rock’ with Booth

On Friday, September 4, 2015 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, Actor, business owner, entrepreneur, author and renowned teaching artist Eric Booth will be our…

CA: San Francisco

  WHERE: Throughout the Bay Area. WHEN: October 2-10, 2015. Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area BRIEF ABOUT: West Coast’s first, major region wide event celebrating Asian art, involving 17…

Symphony picks new CFO

A certified public accountant in the state of Tennessee, Marye Walker Lewis began her career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen. After an extensive nationwide search by the Nashville Symphony,…

WHERE: Moonlight Studios (1446 West Kinzie Street) WHEN: Sunday, September 6, 2015 from 6:00-10:00 pm. Fashion Loves Art BRIEF ABOUT: Hosted by SAStyle Studio founder, Stephanie Alexis White, the goal…

University seeks ‘possible people’

Since its inception in 1990 and still one of University of Kentucky’s most prestigious awards, the Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement, nominations are now sought for the 2016 through Friday,…

IMA appoints 8 new leaders

The Indianapolis Museum of Art elected eight new members to its Board of Governors at its recent 131st annual meeting. They are:      David Barrett is president and CEO of…

OH: Chillicothe

WHERE: Pump House Center for the Arts at 1 Enderlin Circle. WHEN: Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:00 pm through June 27, 2015 at 8:00 pm. Ohio Watercolor Society’s 37th…

Bender-Vogel show set to open

  The exhibition, “Marjorie Bender and Barbara Vogel: Family and Friends” of photos, collage, acrylic, mixed media and clay will be on view in the Dublin Arts Council gallery at…

Curb Concerto Competition winners

The Nashville Symphony has chosen the winners of the 2015 Curb Concerto Competition, one of Tennessee’s most prestigious student competitions, which annually showcases gifted music students between the ages of…

OH: Columbus

WHERE: Wexner Center for the Arts in the Mershon Auditorium. WHEN: April 23 through 26, 2015   the theater is a blank page   This world premiere production is the…

Show to dazzle viewers

Opening April 1, 2015 at the Lilly House, the historic mansion which is the cornerstone of the 52-acre Oldfields Estate of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the exhibit, “Tiffany, Gorham,…

Art of Humanity

On March 1 and March 3, 2015, Window World of Tidewater sponsored two Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) transporting Lieutenant Commander Scott Woods and his family to and from Memphis, Tennessee,…

Saraceno installation extended

It shakes, has holes, and is 80 feet high above the ground, but that hasn’t stopped 100,000 people from visiting and climbing this K21 Museum’s giant art installation that looks…

150 years strong

  In February 1865, just before the end of the Civil War, farmer and lawyer John Bryan Bowman challenged the Kentucky state legislature to take advantage of the opportunity offered…

For this Columbus, Ohio-based artist, his solo exhibition, “Mac Worthington: Urban Sprawls” marks a primarily new medium and context of acrylic paintings and sculpture. His show opens with a reception…

Media giants moved by Baitz play

Opening Friday, February 27 through March 22, 2015 at the Bloomington Theatre and Art Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, “Other Desert Cities” by Playwright Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Robert…

Visual tales to be told

At the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, “Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th-Century American Art” opens on Friday, February 27 and runs through June 7,…

  “To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” – Ecclesiastes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon “As long as we live, they too will live; for they are…

New creator to build dream

  On January 15, 2015, Don Bacigalupi joined the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as the museum’s founding President. With more than 20 years of experience in collection and exhibition…

First introduced in 1958, the Illinois State Scholars has chosen over 18,800 elite honorees to join the other top Illinois high school students honored with the prestigious designation for 2015-16,…

TN: Nashville

WHERE: Frist Center for the Visual Arts. WHEN: Opens Friday, October 31, 2014 and on view through January 25, 2015. Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders…

NY: Rochester

  WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery. WHEN: On view through January 4, 2015. Golden Legacy: 65 Years of Golden Books BRIEF ABOUT: This major traveling exhibition represents the most extensive public…