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IGVP Presents: Dance the Past Into The Future
The International Guild of Visual Peacemakers (IGVP) is creating a documentary titled Dance The Past Into the Future. This is a human story that will bring humans closer together. QUICK SUMMARY Follow 3 generations of Turkish people standing at the intersections of history & progress. The stories of a few represent a global shift we're all a part of: the tension in balancing our own values & culture with ...
OKC Thunder and the Arts Inspire a City
If you're following the NBA Playoffs, you know that the Oklahoma City Thunder are making a great playoff run for an NBA Championship. Check out this video of the Oklahoma City creative community and how they've been inspired by their OKC Thunder who are currently in the NBA Western Conference Finals! Photographers, Videographers, Graphic Design Artists, and more share how the game of basketball has woven itself ...
Princeton Explores the Art of Science
Check out this article via Metafilter about the Art of Science Competition at Princeton University Princeton's 5th Annual Art of Science Exhibition "The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. These practices both involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what you perceive suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its...
The Imagination of Alexander McQueen
[caption id="attachment_8605" align="alignright" width="280" caption="Credit: Solve Sundsbo/Art & Commerce for the Metropolitan Museum of Art"][/caption] One Saturday evening this month, I attended the Savage Beauty, an exhibition of the work of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (The Met). This specific Saturday evening happened to be the second to las...
Mumbai to Open its First Museum of Christian Art
Check out the recent article The Times of India recently posted entitled Mumbai to Get Museum of Christian Art. "Mumbai, which has a sizeable Christian population and rich tradition of reliquious architecture, is set to get its first museum of Christian art." .............................................................................. "The museum will sensitize Christians and the general public to Christ...
Do We Value Sculpture?
The New York Times recently posted an article Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? "Is it me, or do we seem to have a problem with sculpture today?" .................................................................. "It’s (sculpture) too literal, too direct, too steeped in religious ceremony and too complex for a historically amnesiac culture. We prefer the multicolored distractions of illusion...
Ruminate Magazine Visual Art Prize
Ruminate Magazine: "Chewing on Life, Faith and Art" announces a call to artists for a juried print exhibition in the Winter Issue #22, which releases mid-December and is distributed nationally. $500 cash prize and publication in Issue #22 for first place, plus publication in Issue 22 for runner-up. The finalist juror is award-winning artist Sandra Bowden. The prize is open to all mediums and artists of all levels; no...
Combat Paper Project Gives War Veterans an Artistic Outlet
Over at GOOD there is a post about the Combat Paper Project. Check out: An Artistic Outlet for Veterans: The Combat Paper Project The Combat Paper Project, hosts papermaking workshops that help veterans come to terms with their personal experiences in combat through art therapy. "Through papermaking workshops veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. By witnessing their unifor...
