Guadalupe Maravilla: I was born on December 12th Retablo, 2021, oil on tin and mixed mediums on wood, 44 by 26 by 5 inches. Courtesy the artist and PPOW, New York The artist discusses his “Retablo” (2019–) works, one of whichis included as a print in our September/October issue. When I was eight, I fled the Salvadoran Civil War and came to the US ...
ST. GEORGE — To mark the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students, who went missing after visiting Iguala, a city in the state of Guererro in Mexico, Steve Lee, the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Services at Dixie State University is producing a series of events at the university. Photo of the figures that make up “Remember the 43 Students” ...
It seems fitting that the Phillips Collection’s centennial celebration would include a major exhibition of works by painter Jacob Lawrence, whose career was deeply entangled with the Washington, D.C., institution. Collector Duncan Phillips, who founded the museum with his mother, was one of the artist’s early champions who solidified his support by purchasing all odd-numbered panels of Lawrence’s sixty-part epic “The Migration Series” (1940–41) ...
Yolanda López, an artist acclaimed for her reimagined paintings of the Virgen de Guadalupe as well as her early work in political posters, died of cancer this morning at her home on San Jose Avenue. She was 79 years old. Her son, the artist Rio Yáñez, said his mother died peacefully. López had been in hospice care at her home for more than a ...
BasildON Creative People & Place initiative recently teamed up with ReFRAMED Productions and the two realized Our Towns, an innovative street art initiative that brought a number of large-scale murals to the streets of Basil-don town center in the past few months. With the initiative’s focus on putting the local community at the heart of driving and delivering diverse and engaging projects, this original ...
Graphic by Ryan Slone, Photo by Ishmil Waterman Dori Tunstall The School of Art in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is excited to launch the 2021-22 Visiting Lecture Series with designer, educator and advocate Elizabeth "Dori" Tunstall. The lecture series will be held virtually and will welcome Tunstall this at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 2. Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual and design advocate who works at the intersections ...
Views: 31 VIRTUAL & IN-PERSONFinding Water Begins Sunday, September 1210:30 am – 12 pmJulia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way series, the inspiration for our mission and community at Arts Mission Oak Cliff, continues with Finding Water. We explore a chapter each week to discover the creativity within ourselves. All are welcome. You don’t have to be an artist to participate. Being human requires its own artistic expression. Register ...
The Miami Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) will host a new season of the Artist Lecture series, ICA Speaks, with a conversation with Isaac Julien on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm. Virtual and face-to-face events at the Miami Design District, held annually until May, are represented by ICA Miami’s permanent collections such as Isaac Julian, Lyle Aston Harris, Stephanie Heinze, Luis Fratino and ...
MakersPlace, one of the original NFT marketplaces, announced a $30 million Series A round of venture financing today. The deal was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital. Significantly, it also includes a range of backers from the venture arm of Coinbase, a crypto-currency exchange and Sony Music Entertainment to a number of individuals who play important roles in the worlds of sports, ...
