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Last Words From SaveWorldDraw
Last Words From SaveWorldDraw by Sherburn LaBelle | Jan 14, 2023 | About SWD, Hummingbirds, News, Potentials of Art | 0 comments It was January 2001 that Save World Draw started it’s first big project in which I had to...
The Women Weavers of the Bauhaus Have Inspired Generations of Textile Artists
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt / The Bauhaus was supposed to be an equitable place. When Walter Gropiusfounded the progressive school in 1919, he called for an environment that treated art and design—as well as men and women—with the same level of...
At Age 86, Legendary Artist Sam Gilliam Is More in Demand Than Ever
BY LUCY REES / Galerie newsletter/ Ahead of his first major exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, Gilliam shares some of his most significant career moments After six decades quietly building a respected career, the octogenarian abstract painter Sam...
Three Native artists on carving out space in a changing world
by Manola Secaira / From Crosscut (Information about the author and publisher at end of article) Thanks to several new public art projects, Coast Salish and Columbia River carvers say their artwork and traditions are finally getting the spotlight. When...
A Giant Chandelier in the Forest Made From Raindrops: Artist, John Grade/RESERVOIR
Artist John Grade, RESERVOIR Reservoir is made up of 5000 heat-formed plastic parts wrapped around steam-bent strips of Alaskan yellow cedar. Each droplet is attached to a pair of marine nets with fish line. The nets have been seamed to create a fluted tapering upper...
Metropolitan Museum of Art Hires First Full-Time Curator of Native American Art
Author: NORA MCGREEVY / ~~Patricia Marroquin Norby previously worked at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian–New York~~ The Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to mark a major milestone in its approximately 150-year history. As the New York cultural...
Dear Artist, This is what we train for.
Dear artists, This is what we train for. This moment is a health crisis, a brutal one. It is also a crisis of meaning. It is a crisis of connection, of story. It is a crisis of who we are to each other and the agreements that hold us together. And those are things we...
Germany Has Rolled Out a Staggering €50 Billion Aid Package For Small Businesses That Boosts Artists and Galleries—and Puts Other Countries to Shame
Written by Kate Brown "Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now," says the country's culture minister. The German federal government is stepping in with a sweeping aid package for the country’s creative and cultural sectors. According to a...
Don’t forget to support our artists, the chroniclers of such crisis
Suzy Delvalle/ April 2, 2020 / Suzy Delvalle, the president of Creative Capital, urges us all to help artists hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. Our cultural infrastructure has never felt secure, even in the best of circumstances. In the US, one of the wealthiest...
How 10 Artists Are Staying Creative through COVID-19
Scott Indrisek / Mar 23, 2020 / From Artsy Katherine Bernhardt’s new public mural painted in Guatemala, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.How else to describe these past few weeks other than surreal? Seemingly overnight, the entire fabric of daily life has been turned...
How to redefine your value in the arts industry
Written by arts advocate and community organizer Frances Cathryn/ Tips for establishing your role as an artist, putting your work in context, and defining the overall meaning and value of what you make. In the art world, value is too often reduced to financial...
Ancient Artists Carved Camels in Saudi Desert’s Stone
Author: NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Some 2,000 years ago, perhaps, ancient artists in the Arabian desert climbed tall rock outcrops and carved life-size camels into the stone. Now, archaeologists exploring a site in northwest Saudi Arabia have discovered about a dozen of the...