• Beautiful Art

    UCF Celebrates the Arts 2022 Brings ‘Shrek’, Concerts in Steinmetz Hall and the Return of Visual Art Exhibitions

    Every year, UCF brings its best and brightest artists to Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts for a large-scale celebration of the things that make our world more interesting and beautiful. This year, UCF Celebrates the Arts is bigger than ever, with a multi-day production of an award-winning, family-friendly musical, concerts in the new Steinmetz Hall, lectures and discussions, multimedia events, chamber music, an expanded visual arts presence throughout the center and more. The annual festival, which started in 2015 during the performing arts center’s inaugural year, has allowed thousands of UCF artists to showcase their talents in a world-class, professional venue and for Central Florida audiences to see…

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  • New Art

    New Year brings new art and artists to Gallery Walk

    The new calendar year brings new artwork and new artists to Friday night’s month to month Gallery Wander. Justus Great Art Gallery, 827 Central Ave., will function new perform by Matthew Hasty, “a Memphis artist, (who) does a lot of Southern landscapes, and Delta scenes,” gallery owner Dolores Justus mentioned. “It can be type of appealing, mainly because the Delta is so flat, so much of the function is about the sky. And so he does a good deal of moonscapes and sunsets. He does cotton fields quite a little bit in moonlight. He just does stunning work,” she explained. The gallery will also aspect function by artists like Mark…

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  • New Art

    Rehoboth-based nonprofit brings together art and community development

    Lots of men and women have knowledgeable the ability of artwork, whether or not they’ve realized it or not. Probably your breath caught when looking at a film or perhaps one thing stirred when you read a poem. It could even be a lyric in a tune or the strokes in a portray that branded by itself into your memory. For one Delaware artist, this realization about art’s ability established her lifetime and job on a entire new route. Leah Beach was in artwork faculty when she took on a susceptible project: photographing her great grandmother who had dementia. As she captured the tragic fact of her terrific-grandmother’s encounter, she…

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  • New Art

    New art gallery brings opportunity for artists, art lovers | Local News

    OSKALOOSA — Artists in Mahaska County and beyond now have the opportunity to showcase their work at the newly-opened Envision Art Gallery. Located in Penn Central Mall, the gallery has something for every price point, from $5 prints to $1,000 paintings and everything in between. Owner Vera Babich decided to open the gallery after noticing a high concentration of artists and art lovers in the area. “It is a very artistically rich and diverse community,” she said. “Since we moved here in 2009, we’ve met so many talented people and seen so much beautiful art done by them.” SEGUE “We needed a place where people can come any time and…

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  • Beautiful Art

    The Yadkin Arts Council brings the Appalachian Nativity Musical ”Beautiful Star” back to the Willingham Theater stage Dec. 9-12, 2021 | Music

    (Yadkinville, NC) –Beautiful Star, a down-home celebration and joyous musical revue, is back for an encore stage run this season from December 9-12, 2021. Beginning with the story of Adam and Eve, leading up to the birth of Jesus, this dramatized retelling will have you tapping your toes and singing its praises. Catchy Appalachian tunes and that peculiar mountain sense of humor make this a holiday favorite of families everywhere. This show also features backtrack recordings by local Bluegrass Americana band, None of the Above.   Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity Book by Preston Lane, Music and lyrics by Laurelyn Dossett  Show Directed by Jessie Grant & Presented by Willingham Performing…

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  • Landscaping

    McNay says welcome with $6.25 million landscaping makeover that brings the San Antonio art museum out of hiding

    The McNay Art Museum will be celebrating something big on Sunday: the very first major renovation of the museum’s grounds in its 67-year history. The $6.25 million makeover, which took nearly two years to complete, transformed the grounds from an enclosed campus hidden behind wrought-iron fences and dense hedges into a park-like expanse designed to be more welcoming. The project has been in the works for a long time. In 2005, board chairman Tom Frost hosted a series of focus groups, asking people from all over San Antonio what they thought of the museum. It was eye-opening for Frost, who served on the board from 1971 until his death in…

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