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New art contest open to Kingston youth
The Sydenham District Association (SDA) is managing an artwork contest open to youth in Kingston. Tuesday, Jan. 31, is the submission deadline. Winners will be declared on Feb. 10 throughout numerous age categories—the greatest in the 15-18 and 19-25 brackets will each just take property $50. The Journal spoke with Tara Sharkey, SDA board member, about the contest and applying artwork to improve associations among youth and the community. “We required to involve the [19-25] age team to permit the college students of Queen’s know that we are listed here. We would love for them to be portion of it,” Sharkey explained. The contest prompt is ‘What I Like About…
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Homeowners Are Hiring Interior Designers to Bring Their Personal Collections Into the Open
Homeowners feeling pressure to clear out their clutter are taking a different route when that jumble includes a personal collection: committing to a proper display. A sizable collection can set the tone for a home’s entire design, says Goil Amornvivat, a New York designer who has worked with clients’ amassed dolls, sculptures and textiles. He uses custom shelving, nooks and lighting to emphasize smaller pieces and finds the right space for larger pieces throughout living areas. “When the client comes to us with a collection, we take it seriously,” he says. “It’s a part of who they are, and we really want it to reflect that.” Here are examples of…
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Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness open doors to their tranquil beach house
Composed by Megan C. Hills, CNN When Hugh Jackman and his artist wife Deborra-Lee Furness made a decision to construct their dream property, it ended up getting a project six decades in the creating. Furness understood she desired a nominal, fashionable beach household to share with her spouse, their two small children and two canine — a household impressed by the pair’s travels across the entire world. The ensuing oasis, developed largely from scratch in East Hampton, New York, arrives with an infinity pool, gymnasium, artwork studio, film screening space and unlimited sights above the ocean. Opening the doors to the tranquil home for the December situation of Architectural Digest…
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New art exhibit now open at MACC | Arts & Entertainment
Partner-and-spouse Jim and Rita Duxbury will have their picket artwork on exhibit and for sale at the Mebane Arts & Group Center in Mebane from November 11 via January 9. Their purposeful, 3-D artwork, crafted on a wooden lathe working with neighborhood woods and exotic woods from all over the earth is exceptional and 1-of-a-type. The items include things like an beautiful hickory bowl on a walnut stand, parts incorporating spiral illusions, wooden-stemmed wine glasses and other special merchandise. Rita Zoccolante Duxbury is a Massachusetts native. She is a part-time librarian at Alamance Local community School. A retired U.S. Naval Intelligence officer, she has traveled the planet. With an appreciation…
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New art and science exhibit to open at Bigelow Laboratory Nov. 9
A new two-story artwork installation that celebrates ocean lifetime in the Gulf of Maine and the scientific attempts to understand it will open at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences on Nov. 9. “Majestic Fragility” was made by Gulf of Maine EcoArts artists, in collaboration with ocean researchers and pupils from across the state. The show is the culmination of a three-12 months undertaking with Bigelow Laboratory experts. Impressed by the pure earth beneath the waves, the artists worked to develop a scene of the usually unseen. The installation aims to seize the dynamic biodiversity of our oceans and encourage people to think about how they are related to it. “Our…
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Yan Pascal Tortelier on conducting: ‘Art and beauty enlighten, elevate and open unexpected doors’
For his return to the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra’s podium for the initially time in nearly 3 decades, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts a really evocative, impressionistic system this 7 days that includes selections from Suites Nos. 1 and 2 of George Bizet’s L’Arlésienne, an NSO co-commission by Angélica Negrón (En otra noche, en otro mundo) and the whole “choreographic symphony” of Maurice Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé. Tortelier spoke with DC Metro Theater Arts about his very long-standing friendship with NSO audio director Gianandrea Noseda, the “idyllic” week he expended with the orchestra, how he transmits music, his musical lineage—and not just his celebrated cellist father, the late Paul Tortelier—and his…
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