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The Miller Gallery's Nancy Crow retrospective finds her taking quilts to a new level.
Crow's inventiveness while working within the stylistic parameters of a particular series is rather remarkable. By Melissa Kuntz.
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Artist, photographer at Martin museum
Aviation artist and photographer Camellia A. Blackwell will be featured at the Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum's Aviation Speaker Program at 7 p.m. Monday at the Lockheed Martin auditorium, 2323 Eastern Blvd., Middle River.
Baltimore Sun |
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Katharine Dodge, 86, turned school library into a work of art
In her youth, Katharine Dodge studied art history at Vassar College. Later, she devoted herself to managing the collection, studio and gallery of her longtime companion, the famed Colorado sculptor and landscape painter Edgar Britton.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Regina art exhibit too graphic, man says
REGINA (SNN) -- A Regina man says he was "abhorred" after catching a glance of an exhibit of feminist artwork at a local public art gallery.
Saskatoon StarPhoenix |
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Kenya Shimizu: Cult Of The Warrior
An exhibition of images from Japan depicting the homoerotic fantasies of an extraordinary young talent and exclusive Adonis Art discovery - the Japanese artist Kenya Shimizu – is happening in London this July.
RainbowNetwork.com |
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Monacelli lights up Heinchon's with new art show
Customers who wandered into Heinchon's June 22 looking for their ice cream fix were treated to more than just the expected waffle cone or sundae.
Pawling News Chronicle |
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'Hats Off to Pawling'
Local artist Leslie Enders Lee recently unveiled her depictions of several of the molds to be used as the basis for the "Hats Off to Pawling" theme for the Pawling Green. Supporters and friends of the future green gathered at Enders' gallery to view her work in progress over a glass of wine.
Pawling News Chronicle |
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Fourth of July events around Napa County
Napa Festival featuring the Hometown Pride Parade, food and wine vendors, arts & crafts, free kids’ activities. Entertainment in the new amphitheater in Veteran's Memorial Park, Second and Main.
Napa Valley Register |
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Millville merchants, artists creating Arts, Antiques & Music Festival
MILLVILLE - The city has tried its hand at similar endeavors before.
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The art of recycling
About 30 kids at Roseville's Utility Exploration Center learned that one person's trash is someone else's art. Amanda Ly, 9, left, volunteer Warren Chabrier, 16, and Maddie Doumelis, 8, build a castle at the Utility Exploration Center. Riley Colliau, 5, proudly shows off his artwork.
The Sacramento Bee |
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People
Rene Mendoza, a social science teacher at Franklin High School, has been awarded a 2008 Keizai Koho Center Educator Fellowship by the National Association of Japan-America Societies. SLICE OF LIFE: Lillian Cecini of Wilton was the grand prize winner for the Casino Night fundraiser hosted by the Elk Grove Fine Arts Center on May 31. The center opened in April at Elk Grove Florin Road and ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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Festival Highlights
Noon Concessions open 7:30 p.m. Twilight air show Dusk Fireworks 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Two-person beach volleyball tournament (West End Beach) 10 a.m.-noon Big wheel race (Preferred Outlet) 11 a.m. Opening ceremony
Detroit Free Press |
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Brian McCollum's Big Gigs
This is a big stretch for Michigan music festivals -- you can find ample coverage elsewhere in this section -- but here's a taste of other music goings-on this holiday week.
Detroit Free Press |
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Best bets this week
How much is art enhanced by a viewer? To what degree does art need an observer to be complete? Those are the kinds of questions explored in the new exhibit "Drawn Together," which opened last week at the Community Arts @ Paramount Gallery inside Paramount Bank.
Detroit Free Press |
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Local & live
Thursday, July 3, 2008 • "MONTANA GHOST TOWNS": Western Heritage Center, 2822 Montana Ave. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photography by Denes G. Istvanffy. Up through Sept. 18. $3, adults; $2, ages 55, older and students; free, ages 12, younger and WHC members.256-6809.
Billings Gazette |
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5 p.m. - UOG invites artists to submit images for consideration in exhibit
5 p.m. July 3 — The Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam will bring back the “Creative Hands: Pacific, Formerly Art of the Pacific Rim” exhibit. All artists throughout the Pacific region are invited to submit images for consideration in the exhibit. The exhibit will open this December.
Pacific Daily News |
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Mystery of BritArt star Tracey Emin's £60,000 bronze bird ... which has flown its Liverpool coop (or it's been stolen)
A bronze sculpture of a bird on a pole by Tracey Emin, which was commissioned by the BBC with £60,000 of licence payers' money, has mysteriously vanished.
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Family events
For children ages 1 to 8: Take your child to story time at 10:30 a.m. at the Experience Children's Museum, 420 French St.
Erie Times-News |
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Event to honor artists
Adventure Art Gallery has scheduled a reception honoring local artists and their work with a backdrop of varied music.
The Sacramento Bee |
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On the Rocks • Turning outsider art inside out, outdoors
On Saturday, June 28, down by the railroad tracks in industrial Southeast Portland, an artists block party took place. Emanating from the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, the party was the closing ceremony for a two-month-long mural exhibition – which was a first for Portland, curator Chris ...
Portland Tribune |
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Feed the hungry, then savor the blues
The Fourth of July holiday weekend gets an early jump-start with the arrival today of the 21st Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival.
The Oregonian |
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24-Hour Funcast
Joseph Plavcan's Centennial Exhibition: See the centennial exhibit of Erie's premier artist who would have turned 100 this year.
Erie Times-News |
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"Woody Guthrie" gets powerful staging in Boulder
Review: Traditional musicals can be schmaltzy, the singing too precious, with people bursting into conversational song for no apparent reason. Then there are shows about the kind of music regular people play on back porches and in bars. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's "Woody Guthrie's American Song" falls into the latter camp.
Denver Post |
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Local Stories Public art: eyesore or eye candy? CN&R editors vote on the Hands, the Plow, and the Horns in City Plaza.
Public art rarely elicits unanimous praise (or distaste). Large-scale pieces in Chico always receive community response, both good and bad. We took a poll of...
Chico News & Review |
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For now, vacant lot is neighbors' domain
Goings-on at a vacant lot in Northeast may be best described by Maryetta Jacques-Bietz: "It's just kind of a weird quilt of artsy gardening things over there."
The Oregonian |
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