Tag: College

The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College to reopen next month; Free to students and county residents  NRToday.com Source link

BOSTON (AP) — Works by Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer are among 30 pieces of art worth more than $20 million that alumnus and legendary investment manager Peter Lynch is donating to Boston College’s art museum, the university announced Tuesday.The works — 27 paintings and three drawings — were collected by Lynch and his late wife Carolyn.The donation includes a $5 million ...

A local philanthropist has given Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles a $10 million gift, part of which will go toward establishing an endowment for a four-year scholarship program in perpetuity named after artist Charles White, who taught at the school during the 1960s and ’70s. The donation comes from Mei-Lee Ney, who is the chair of Otis’s board of trustees, ...

George Wells is the CFO of Quip, an online startup, and founder of the Wells Group, a New York consulting firm specializing in finance and accounting for start-ups and midsize businesses, as well as an avid art collector who recently donated notable works from his collection to help support students at Morehouse College. When I think back to what has really shaped who I ...

More than five years after two of the school’s first-ever Black students initiated a discussion about returning the work, a Benin Bronze held for more than 100 years at Jesus College in Cambridge, England, is headed back to Nigeria. Jesus College will be among the first institutions in the U.K. to undertake such a repatriation. The object being returned is a sculpture of a ...

Black Daisy, Lorenzo TownsendThe Edmonds College Art Gallery’s fall exhibit showcases the work of Lorenzo Townsend, a photographer, artist and EC alumnus. The exhibit is titled “Divergent/Interpretations” and features a series of digitally edited photographs that find beauty and wonder in everyday objects. “My hope in showing these works is to get people to look at the world in a new way, and to ...

Review: Bob Thompson exhibition at Colby College introduces beloved Black artist to new generation  The Washington Post Source link

ESCANABA — Bay College announces the exhibition, Domestic Alterations, artwork by Catherine Benda in The Hartwig Gallery – room 200F, on Main Campus in Escanaba. Her work will be on view through October 20. There will be an Artist Talk and Reception at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14. Catherine Benda grew up in Detroit and has a BFA in painting and drawing from ...

About 50 paintings by Ava Obert of Mountain Home graced the walls of the Governor's Mansion Atrium during July and August. Obert was an artist in residence at the mansion and a reception in her honor was held on Aug. 11. Family, friends, members of the Governor's Mansion Association and Gov. Asa Hutchinson were in attendance to talk with the artist and enjoy refreshments. ...

New Delhi: Due to the tussle over affiliation between Delhi government and Delhi University, admission to the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in College of Art for the new academic session is yet to start. In March 2021, Delhi government, which runs the college, had announced that COA would be affiliated with Ambedkar University Delhi but DU hadn’t responded to this till August 13, forcing ...