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Nation’s best artists descend on Nicolet gallery
World class art makes its way to the Northwoods each year during the Northern National Art Competition.
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Folks will be ‘goin home to da blues' this September
For the Delta Democrat Times Mississippi Action for Community Development unveiled its 2008 Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival poster this morning.
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Southeastern Minnesota digest
ON: Spaghetti dinner fundraiser A spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Curt Benter of Lewiston, who has lupus, will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. July 26 at LA Lanes in Lewiston. There will be door prizes, beer specials and a raffle. WINONA: Museum hosts even
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Clay to the extreme
Cole Loving, 7, adds a coat of paint to turtle that he designed using clay Tuesday during the extreme ceramics camp at the Ellen Noël Art Museum.
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Business Fine Arts for Children & Teens (FACT)
FACT is an 18-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to transforming young lives in Northern New Mexico through the visual arts. After-school and summer classes at the ARTbarn community studio at 1516 Pacheco Street offer fun, hands-on art lessons that build self-esteem and encourage creativity.
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7 (x1) Samurai @ Fringe
Hey, David Gaines! It's not you, Baby. It's me. Gaines is the gifted mime and movement artist who reduces Akira Kurosawa's epic 1954 masterpiece The Seven Samurai to 45 minutes and a cast of one in 7 (x1) Samurai. He is by any standard an estimable man with a list of credits longer than Toshiro Mifune's katana. He evokes distinct characters using only his body and his voice (though he ...
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Two-Alarm Fire Damages San Anselmo Art Gallery
A two-alarm fire early Tuesday damaged most of the Art Abloom Studio & Gallery in San Anselmo, police said. The art gallery, located on 735 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., was reported to be on fire at about 5:55 a.m., and authorities closed the street, the Ross Valley Fire Department reported.
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Pupils' art on display
ELEVEN pupils from Westgate School have created a series of paintings and sketches called Moments in Time' for an exhibition in Winchester. They were encouraged to study unusual views and places around the city, and the fruits of their labour have been exhibited in The View display in Bridge Street.
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Comedy Club Chain Gives Phila. Jokesters a Shot
Comedy is not pretty. That much was evident at Tuesday's noon-hour tryouts for a comedy contest that continues Tuesday evening from 5 to 9pm at Dave and Buster's on Columbus Boulevard.
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Tunes, talent, Tommy at Taylor's
On Friday at Taylor's Contemporanea Art Gallery, 204 Exchange Street in downtown Hot Springs, starting at 6 p.m., the Jazz Society will present the tunes and talent from Broadway with guest vocalist Tommy Nichols. Nichols studied vocal music at Henderson State University and National Park Community College.
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Unique works of art in Bumanlag exhibit
HE'S a Manilan but has decided to settle in Davao City that he called his second home -- where he has been showcasing art pieces he created.
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Foodoir Photography: Fried Pickles at Hole in the Wall
Photo by Laura at dininginaustinblog Hungry to share your most provocative Austin food photos? Send them here. Make sure to include your name, where the photo was taken and a complete description of the food.
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Best Bets for today, Wednesday
bToday/b Bold and brash brass music is on the docket at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Musuems Concert in the Garden. Kevin Van Ess The Talk of the Town will play from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the museums sculpture garden, 700 N. 12th St., Wausau. For more information, call the museum at 845-7010 or log on to www.lywam.org.
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‘Rodney Hayden Music Festival’ set Wilson County News July 22, 2008
McCOY — An all-day music festival in the wilds of Atascosa County will offer fans of Texas music an opportunity to enjoy nonstop entertainment on Saturday, July 26. The event, from noon to midnight at the Wildcat Grill & Saloon, will feature a host of bands and musicians, including Rodney Hayden, Jason Allen, Gary P. Nunn, the “Scott Wiggins Band,” and “Two Tons of Steel.”
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We Need To See Evidence Of This: relational art that relates to working class people online only
The work is a recreation of a benefits office embedded in the gallery. Visitors are made to feel as if they are benefits claimants. On arrival you are given a ticket and told to wait your turn. Instructions are barked out by the artists – "You have missed your appointment, come back later!",
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Miniature art entries accepted
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - The Council for the Arts announces that entries will be accepted until Saturday, Sept. 27, for its Miniature Art 2008 exhibition from Thursday, Nov. 6, through Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009.
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Visual arts
Seventeen artists; Ceramic sculpture exhibits; Miniatures and more; 'Then and Now'; Art in the hallway; Photographs
The Herald-Mail |
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Residents contest possible aquatic center location
A proposed $33 million aquatic center, which could include a retractable roof, was taken a step further Thursday when the Downers Grove Park District Board saw a conceptual idea of the possible facility and a cost analysis.
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Fire snarls traffic on Sir Francis Drake in San Anselmo
An early-morning apartment fire in San Anselmo damaged an art studio and gallery Tuesday and jammed commute traffic.
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Pixar, Sony, and Lucasfilm Host Studio Nights at SIGGRAPH
As part of the newly expanded format of the Computer Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH 2008 will feature three all-star Production Studio Nights hosted by industry powerhouses Pixar Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Lucasfilm.
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Qwest Foundation aids native arts education
The Qwest Foundation will provide a $49,000 grant to the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe, which will use it in its educational outreach programs that serve New Mexico students.
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DAISY Foundation recognizes nurses at Community North
Indianapolis, IN -- A Community Hospital North nurse was honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses today. Stephanie Isenberg, a registered nurse on the medical/surgical unit at the hospital, received the award as part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the clinical skills, extraordinary compassion and care exhibited by nurses every day. The award at Community North is ...
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Carving out a career: Students spend summer apprenticing as artists
Jianna Fernandez carefully etched an image into a square of standard linoleum using a short, screwdriver-shaped tool. She focused intently throughout the process so she wouldn't slip, distorting the image or - even worse - losing some of the skin on her finger.
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Final Festing
If you haven't checked out the film festival yet, you still have one last chance tonight. Hosts Robert Drake and Michaela Majoun present the 14th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival’s Audience and Jury Awards, and a showing of the lush, gender-bending festival closer Were the World Mine follows. See you there!
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Busted Jesus Comix @ Fringe
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund exists to help comics artists and merchants who fall victim to dubious obscenity law prosecutions, like the one that anchors the premise of David Johnson's Busted Jesus Comics. While the Fringe Festival isn't supposed to have an ethos, really, Busted Jesus still feels like an ideal piece of material for it: The show is initially abrasive, almost daring ...
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