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von Liebig’s Women of Merit
This exhibition features two and three dimensional artwork from the Naples Art Association’s Collection. Before the opening of The von Liebig Art Center in 1998, the NAA began an initiative to further its mission by collecting original works of art through gift and donation. Collier Citizen
VNA Hospice to host Camp Chrysalis in Vero
Painting, ceramics and outside games are just a few of the fun activities planned for VNA Hospice's Camp Chrysalis, a bereavement retreat for children who have lost a loved one. Vero Press Journal
2008 Air Expo on tap for Sept. 28 at MOV Regional Airport
By WAYNE TOWNER wtowner@newsandsentinel.com WILLIAMSTOWN - As the 2008 Air Expo scheduled for Sept. 28 approaches, new attractions and exhibits are being added to the full day of activities at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. "It's getting better and better every day," said event chairman Greg Smith. Parkersburg News and Sentinel
FEATURED Maryland Renaissance Festival
Today - Sun, 21 September 2008 8:00 am - 6:00 pm The 2008 Maryland Lighthouse Challenge Show/Hide details Visit some of the most scenic spots in the state as you explore Maryland's ten land-accessible lighthouses--this year's Challenge with an election year theme. The Capital
Artist's space
Judy Pfaff's unique vision inaugurates new Saint Rose gallery The College of Saint Rose's new $14 million Massry Center for the Arts is many things. For faculty and students, it's"smart" classrooms and rehearsal spaces. For the general public, it's a 400-seat recital hall and an art gallery. For artist Judy Pfaff, it's a blank canvas.Pfaff, whose site-specific installations have been at the ... Albany Times Union
Woodcarvers try to stay a cut above the rest
WILMOT Some came to catch monarch butterflies, others to hike, but it was the woodcarvers at The Wilderness Center on Saturday morning that brought the most interest. The Canton Repository
Submit your work for Miami Gardens soul art contest
he city of Miami Gardens and Carls Furniture and Design announce the First Floridian Soul Contemporary Art Contest And Exhibition. TCPalm.com
Artwork actress' medicine
Jane Seymour is full of surprises lately. Best known for roles in "Somewhere in Time," "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," and Lifetime tragedies, the actress shed her prim image, and top, in 2005's "Wedding Crashers." The Post and Courier
Fundraisers
• Signature Chef's Auction, sponsored by and benefiting the March of Dimes, will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Indian Summer Golf and Country Club, 5900 Troon Lane S.E., Olympia. Tickets are $100 per person, or $750 for a table for eight. Call Lindsey Carlisle, 253-752-9255 or e-mail lcarlisle@marchofdimes.com . The Olympian
Festival fun
These three girls were busy creating chalk drawings on the sidewalk during the Johnny Appleseed Festival in downtown Lisbon Saturday afternoon. From left, Jenifer Wilcox, 11, Codee Johnson, 10, and MaKenna Swanson, 7, all of Lisbon, are hard at work during the chalk art contest. Salem News
Where the funding comes from
Since the Gettysburg Foundation's birth in 1998, its main purpose has been to raise money to build and operate a state-of-the-art museum and visitor center for Gettysburg. York Daily Record
Redesigning RISD
A striking $34-million addition to its museum, the Chace Center is intended to give RISD a higher profile. The Providence Journal
Vatican after hours: A private tour of the Holy City
VATICAN CITY Pass by the entrance to the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums during open hours, and you’ll see patrons waiting in an agonizingly long line that snakes along the city’s stone wall. The Kansas City Star
Itinerary
•The Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama is preparing for an exhibit of Leonardo da Vinci drawings that will be shown for the first time in the United States. The exhibition, “Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin,” opens Sept. 28 and runs through Nov. 9. The Kansas City Star
Constantine Manos Receives "Key to the City" at Columbia Museum of Art
COLUMBIA, SC.- Art Daily
Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography
MIDDLETOWN.- Framing and Being Framed at Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery is an examination of how contemporary visual artists and photographers comment on traditional assumptions about documentary photography in their work. Art Daily
America and the Tintype on View at the International Center of Photography
NEW YORK.- The tintype is one of the most intriguing and little-studied forms of nineteenth-century photography. Art Daily
Innovative Lunder Conservation Center Receives Prestigious Keck Award
Conservators at work in the Lunder Conservation Center's Painting Conservation Studio at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. Photo: Carl Hansen, Smithsonian Institution. Art Daily
Nassau County Museum of Art Invites to Visit the Sensuous World of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Turtleback Chandelier, circa 1905. Tiffany Studios, New York. Blown glass, bronze with pressed glass 49 inches high x 18 inches diameter. Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Long Island City, New York. Art Daily
Slovenian Artist Saso Sedlacek Exhibits at Vienna Secession
Sašo Sedlaček, Ö-U IMMOBILIEN, Secession, 2008. VIENNA.- As the third and final project in the series FOOTNOTES, Slovenian artist Sašo Sedlaček is presenting a new site-specific project in the Secession's display case. Art Daily
Nasher Sculpture Center Celebrates 5th Anniversary with Fall Exhibition Honoring Founders
Nasher Sculpture Center with Eviva Amore (2001) by Mark di Suvero in foreground. Photo: Tim Hursley. DALLAS, TX.- Art Daily
Delaware Art Museum Presents Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds-Simple Complexities
Soporte, 2007, Carlos Nuñez (Ecuador, born 1978) Oil on acrylic, 31 x 42 inches. Lent by the artist, 2008. WILMINGTON, DE.- Art Daily
Heavenly, Stately, Courtly Exhibition at Museum Kunst Palast
DUSSELDORF.- Düsseldorf is currently holding a Jan Wellem Year to commemorate the 350th birthday of the Prince Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658-1716), lovingly called “Jan Wellem” by the local population. Art Daily