DC: Washington
WHERE: National Endowment for the Arts. WHEN: Now. BRIEF ABOUT: The NEA will award 832 grants totaling $23.3 million through its Art Works funding category and is the first of…
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MT: Missoula
WHERE: Montana Museum of Art & Culture. WHEN: Opens Thursday, January 24 and runs through April 20, 2013. TITLE: Nancy Erickson: Kindred Spirits BRIEF ABOUT: A nationally recognized fiber artist,…
Grads to work in nation’s classrooms
(AAPNW-KY) – Last spring, Teach for America selected 27 recent graduates of the University of Kentucky to serve in America’s inner cities and rural communities. The UK group, the…
She sculpts men of status
    Blending art and history is nothing new as we recall oil and watercolor portraits of somber figures, dressed in their period garb, rather smug and disinterested. But do we remember…
Americans For The Arts video
Special summer exhibitions showing
WHERE: Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville. WHEN: Through August 31, 2012. BRIEF ABOUT: A collection of works from the museum’s permanent collection, “Hollers and Harvests” highlights the relationship…
2012 NEA National Heritage Fellows
Paul and Darlene Bergren, Dog Sled and Snowshoe Designers and Builders, Minot, North Dakota. (www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2012_02&type=bio) Mike Auldridge, Dobro Player, Silver Spring, Maryland. (www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2012_01&type=bio) …
Educator given ‘evolution’ honor
(AAPNW-KY) – Biology professor James Krupa recently received his second major accolade from the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) in the past two years. After taking home the…
A magnolia blooms to the top
High school senior Kristen Dupard from Ridgeland, Mississippi, has won the 2012 Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. “My favorite poem is ‘What Work Is’ by Philip Levine,” said Dupard.…
KY: Lexington
WHERE: The Netherlands. WHEN: Through August 2012. TITLE: Fifth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam BRIEF ABOUT: The University of Kentucky College of Design architecture students will have their work in exhibition…
IN: Huntington
WHERE: Robert E. Wilson Gallery on the campus of Huntington University. WHEN: March 26 through April 5, 2012. An award reception will take place at 6:00 pm on Saturday, March…
OH: Dublin
WHERE: Dublin Arts Council. WHEN: On view through April 20, 2012. TITLE: Yesterday: Columbus College of Art & Design Student Exhibition BRIEF ABOUT: This youth-focused show is inspired by memories…
ME: Portland
WHERE: Portland Museum of Art. WHEN: Through April 1, 2012. TITLE: National Youth Art Month BRIEF ABOUT: In collaboration with the Maine Art Education Association, PMA has organized this student…
IN: Huntington
WHERE: Longaker Recital Hall of the Merillat Centre for the Arts. WHEN: Friday, March 23, 2012, 7:30 pm. BRIEF ABOUT: A combined senior recital with soprano Breana Balliet and clarinetist…
VA: Lorton
WHERE: Workhouse Arts Center. WHEN: Saturday, March 30-April 29, 2012, TITLE: 4th Annual Sgt. Scott Lange Kirkpatrick High School Poetry Scholarship BRIEF ABOUT: WAC invites 2011-2012 juniors and seniors from…
OH: Kettering
WHERE: Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church. WHEN: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 3:00 pm. TITLE: Spring Concert of the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Strings BRIEF ABOUT: Conducted by Elizabeth Hofeldt, the concert begins…
Crowned the ‘Hoosier King of prose’
(AAPNW-IN) – Chosen from 17 participating finalist from Indiana schools, Indianapolis Broad Ripple High School’s Jordan Mather-Licht took top honors in the 2012 Indiana Poetry Out Loud recitation contest.…
AL: Gadsden
WHERE: Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts. WHEN: On view through March 9, 2012. TITLE: Craig Wedderspoon: Sculpture and Installations BRIEF ABOUT: Wedderspoon has had solo exhibitions in Ohio,…
Works reflect America
(PNAN-VA) – At the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., “Together we can…” is an arts exhibit featuring award-winning artwork from 26 students nationwide selected from the…
NEA – artist’s process
Expressionism lets artists express their feelings
In the early 1900s, science was making huge leaps, and people were excited over the new discoveries about the “real world.” Art reflected this scientific outlook by becoming more…
Looking at paintings: It’s not a pipe
Rene Magritte (1898-1967), surrealist painter, was born in Lessines, Belgium. His father was a tailor and his mother was a milliner before her marriage. We know that he showed…
The original ‘Spider Woman’
In 1600s Europe insects were commonly known as the “beasts of the devil,” and most people tried to ignore them whenever possible. But from a very early age, Maria…
Children’s artwork goes through stages
As Picasso once noted, all children are artists. Their art goes through distinct stages as they develop and learn more about what paints, brushes and clay will do for…
Louis Wain: The artist of Catland
Louis Wain (1860-1936) was born in London, England, to an artist father and a textile-designer mother. As a child he was fascinated by colors and amused himself for hours by…
African masks unmasked
Many people in Western society think of a mask as a disguise or a way to play the role of another person or animal at Halloween. But when Pablo Picasso…
Milt Caniff and ‘Terry and the Pirates’
Milt Caniff (1907-1988) was unique among American cartoonists of his time because he had a college education. Caniff attended Ohio State University, graduating in 1930. During his time at OSU,…
Animal drawing requires observation
Animals are one of the most popular subjects for paintings, drawings and sculpture. From the Stone Age to the present, artists have been inspired by animals. But even with…
Herblock lampooned the mighty
    “The political cartoon is not a news story and not an oil portrait. It’s essentially a means for poking fun, for puncturing pomposity. Cartooning is an irreverent form of…
Cameras help expand our global knowledge
The earliest cameras were used to record the appearance of things — people, animals, landscapes, buildings. The very first photograph showed a cluttered worktable. At first there was the…
They are history-makers for university
(AAPNW-KY) – University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto today announced that the 4,140 students comprising this fall’s first-year enrollment represent the most academically accomplished class in this institution’s nearly…
The glamour star of Art Deco
For many designers, the bold bright colors and geometric designs of Art Deco (“Arts Decoratifs”), which reached its peak in the Roaring 20s, represent the best and purest forms…
His pictures talk a thousand words
The art of photography can take years of work to finally achieve that satisfying impact of a professional artist. Rarely does anyone pick up a camera and immediately…
It’s official: Capilouto to reign
UPDATE: With a unanimous final vote today (Tuesday, May 3), the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees selected University of Alabama Birmingham Provost Eli Capilouto to be UK’s 12th president. He…
Chosen new ‘leader of the pack’
(NWPR-OH) – Having served as interim dean since August 2010, effectively May 1, 2011 it becomes official for Bonnie K. Mathies, Ph.D., who was appointed dean of the Wright…
Art program truly giveths forward
Off in the distance a siren screams but never comes close to deafening the war on the other side of the bedroom wall. School is a refuge but…
Images of ago are a historical feast
(PNAN-AK) – “Sailing for Salmon: The Early Years of Commercial Fishing in Alaska’s Bristol Bay” exhibition will take visitors on a trip down memory lane, to a time when Bristol…
He made art of great beauty
Edourd Manet (1832-83) promoted a very quiet revolution in painting. The fashion of the day, in painting, called for careful color, subtle blending and polished “finish.” But Manet preferred…
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. …
‘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…
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…
New school on the horizon
(AAPNW-IL) – Chicago’s first charter high school, Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy, which is dedicated to preparing students for health science careers, got Governor Pat Quinn’s ‘foot of approval’…
‘Boosts of green’ are awarded
(AAPNW-OH) – Through the Greater Columbus Arts Council Board of Trustees’ vision and leadership, advocacy and collaboration, they have stepped up to the plate and awarded 11 grants totaling…
Scott is new ‘in-house guest’
(PNAN-MT) – “My pieces often have a feel of something ancient. I know everything I am comes from that which is ancient and will continue on in the process…
POL finals a Hoosier go
(AAPNW-IN) – Beginning at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 26, the sixth annual Poetry Out Loud Indiana State Finals goes on ‘ear’ at the Clowes Auditorium of the Indianapolis-Marion…
Fellowship program is for art voices
(PNAN-CALIF) – Applications are being accepted by Tuesday, March 29 for the Seventh NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg…
A real ‘vintage’ shoe
If you’re a woman who wears a size 7 shoe and you happen to be 5,500 years old, your lost right moccasin has been found, and it’s in great…
Fee to ‘rap’ on Jesus
(NWPR-IN) – Dr. Christopher Fee will examine “The Anglo-Saxon Christ Militant” during the Forester Lecture Series at Huntington University on Thursday, February 24 at 7:00 pm in the Zurcher…
Whose work will lead the pack?
(NWPR-IN) – “Color My World” is a colored pencil drawing by Adeline Jackson that took the Best of Show 2010. Who will be the 2011 winner will be known during…
Getting to the mood with Color
    The alarm clock goes off and you reach to swat the off button. After a few moans and groans, you rub your eyes to awaken them, and swing yourself…