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Knox Heritage offers July photo contest
Think you can make the grade as a noteworthy photographer? Knox Heritage is offering a contest for photographers living in the Knoxville area, giving them the opportunity to participate in the organization's fall event, the Art & Architecture Tour.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Visit St. Louis with art tour
Art, sculpture, history and archeology are the themes of a fall weekend trip to St. Louis sponsored by the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Club briefs - East Lake County
DUNELAND WOODCARVERS Crown Point Duneland Woodcarvers will exhibit and demonstrate the art of woodcarving at the 24th Annual Antique Power and Steam Show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and July 13 at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 889 S. Court St. Members Sid Spoor, Bruce Johnston, Don Good and Ron Muskina will answer carving questions.Admission is $4 for adults; children 15 and younger are ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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‘Don’t mess with the General’
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
Centre Daily Times |
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Adults can exhibit at Porter County Fair
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP Adults can exhibit items in the open-class categories at the Porter County Fair. All exhibits, except food, must be entered between noon and 8 p.m. Sunday in the exhibit building at the fairgrounds, 215 Division Road. Food exhibits are entered between 9 and 10 a.m. Friday.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Summer tips
The Museum at Bethel in Bethel, N.Y., is a great day trip. This new museum is dedicated to the history of the 1960s, both historically and culturally.
The Record |
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SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
Louisiana Catfish Festival St. Gertrude Catholic Church, 17292 Highway 631, Des Allemands. Music, dancing, food, games, crafts, rides, a 5K run (7:30 a.m.), catfish-cooking and catfish-eating contests, 10 a.m.-11. Free admission. Call 985.758.7542.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Museum of Fine Art awarded a $75,000 grant
The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Meadows Foundation. The money will help support the museum's $394,000 art and history project, "Through the Generations."
The Brownsville Herald |
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Art show is hospital foundation benefit
Six noted Whidbey Island artists will show work in the 5th Annual Spirit of the Northwest Art Show, on view from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday July 12 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 13 in the Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW Alexander St. A reception with the artists will be held from 5 to 8 p.m...
Small Town Papers News Service |
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Children's Shelter president/CEO steps down, will lead art museum
Jack Downey, the president and CEO at Children's Shelter of San Antonio, has resigned to become executive director of the Dolph and Janey Briscoe Western Art Museum.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Emphasizing Inc. as an Artistic Medium
BALTIMORE -- If the New York art world can be likened to a corporation -- a coffee company, perhaps -- then the artists in the Contemporary Museum's "Cottage Industry" are the kids hawking espresso on a cart down the street. Their celebration of the down-market and the down-scaled is their business.
Washington Post |
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48 hours
See the artwork of more than 250 artists displayed at the Wyandotte Street Art Fair, taking place today in downtown Wyandotte.
Detroit News |
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Energy Bar: Fuel for a successful day
To-do list1 Begin your day among the soothing scents of the flora and fauna of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2220 N. Terrace Ave., as a garden volunteer.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Dallas chamber 'rebranding' with Cowtown in mind
What are they promoting? The Greater Dallas Chamber will officially rebrand itself Monday as the Dallas Regional Chamber, but a June 27 memo to board members and investors has sparked a dust-up Where the West Begins. The e-mail included three iconic images: the Dallas skyline, the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "We were surprised at the ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Roy's chef helps teach art of cooking
Many chefs want to keep the recipes for their food masterpieces a secret.
The News-Press |
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Profile of a Newsmaker
In the news: Hailey Bill, who recently completed first grade at St. Joseph’s Elementary School in Sprague, won a statewide handwriting contest.
The Norwich Bulletin |
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North Texans take their treasure to 'Antiques Roadshow'
By HEATHER SVOKOS The PBS Antiques Roadshow has rolled in and out of Dallas, so that means it’s time for the results of our amateur appraiser contest. We chose four people who were taking treasures to the June 28 taping, and we asked them to share their stories — and the Roadshow appraisal of their items. Each Roadshow -goer said they had fun at the event, but only one walked away with a ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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UTB-TSC student takes passion for flute overseas to music festival
Playing the flute disconnects Dulce Rodriguez from the real world and into a meditative sanctuary where she can focus on what she loves - music.
The Brownsville Herald |
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Beware offers from flimflamming real estate 'agents'
When crooks start showing up — or careless amateurs — you can be sure there's a lot of business to be had. It happens during a general building boom. Everybody's a builder. It happens after a hailstorm. Everybody's a roofer. Wind flattens a bunch of fencing? Fence fixers come calling. It always happens when one market, whether for home building, roofing, fencing, general repairs or whatever, ...
The Oklahoman |
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Auctions: Stay home and rev up the paddles
Stay-at-home vacationers might consider spending the money they saved on gas at today's Freeman's Friday sale, beginning at 11 a.m. at the gallery, 1808 Chestnut St. Many of the 335 lots on offer are expected to sell for far less than what the owner of a gas guzzler would pay to drive to Maine and back.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Tyler Museum Of Art Offers Free Family Day Sunday
As the Tyler Museum of Art prepares to send its popular exhibition of animal paintings back “into the wild,” the Museum celebrates “Into the Wild: Animal Art from Caldwell Zoo” with a free Family Day program on Sunday.
Tyler Morning Telegraph |
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Boston: Achilles Project
With its red-brick office blocks, sprawling Convention Center and waterfront piers, Fort Point Channel in Boston would seem an odd place for an arty fashion boutique like the Achilles Project . But there it is, just a short stroll from the new Institute of Contemporary Art , housed in a former warehouse.
New York Times |
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Local artist in Maker's Mark exhibit
Henderson artist Fred Reaves is among 54 artists from across Kentucky whose work will be displayed in "The Mark of Great Art" exhibit opening Sept. 5 at Maker's Mark Distillery in Loretto.
The Gleaner |
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Here Comes the Neighborhood
A housing project, Museum of Modern Art-style.
New York Times |
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Niche art, Falling for Mad Town,
John Mendels(s)ohn's lament for guitarist John Masino seems less like another Isthmus musician profile and more like a lesson in carving one's niche in a very narrow place ("Hometown Hero," 6/27/08).
Isthmus |
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