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Animal rescue seeks pet food donations
The Delaney Holliman Photography studio, 3040 Riverside Drive, Suite C2, Macon, is offering a free photo session and 5-by-7 print of your pet in exchange for a bag of dog or cat food. The event, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, is to benefit All About Animals Rescue of Macon. Appointments are necessary. For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call (478) 475-0475. Macon Telegraph
Art Openings, Events and Museums
Admission is free unless otherwise noted. "Icons & Iconoclasts" Artists Talk: The artists behind the "Icons & Iconoclasts" exhibit will talk about their work, process and inspirations. The Oregonian
Michelle Gaudreau
Who: Painter, copy editor (textbooks, other projects), writer (freelance and creative) and former actress (15 years of it), "concentrating on painting and gotta finish my novel. Art shows always popping up. The Oregonian
More chamber music
WOODSTOCK -- A Woodstock favorite, the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, returns Sunday, Aug. 24, for a 4 p.m. concert of works by Brahms, Webern and Arensky at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Based at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, the festival is marking its 16th year of presenting several weeks of chamber music performed by leading musicians in Randolph, Montpelier and ... The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Group dynamics
For this month's group show at Beppu Wiarda Gallery, "True Nature," Portland artist Victor Maldonado seems to have grand ambitions. "What is the true nature of contemporary fine art today?" Maldonado asks in his curator's statement. The Oregonian
Statuesque Johnson
JOHNSON -- This spring a goat and a gorilla showed up outside the Lovin' Cup Café. The sculptures by Harlan Mack got Lea Kilvadyova, Johnson's community and economic development coordinator, thinking about what it would be like to have artists display their work outside shops throughout the village. Kilvadyova contacted Leila Bandar, director of the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery at Johnson State ... The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Alfred Introduces Two New Bass Day '97 DVDs Featuring John Patitucci and Billy Sheehan
Alfred releases the ultimate Bass Day 97 experience! John Patitucci and Billy Sheehan inspire in these two DVDs featuring exclusive performance footage from the greatest bass festival of all time! Harmony Central
Zingg announces gift at convocation
CHICO — With a financial boost from a former professor, Chico State University will be able to energize the campus' anthropology programs and the Museum of Anthropology. Oroville Mercury-Register
Exhibit of de La Rosa paintings blooms in Milledgeville
Frances de La Rosa's new exhibit is so expansive that it requires multiple galleries. Opening earlier this week, the deceptively titled show - 'Frances de La Rosa: Paintings' - is on view at both the museum and Blackbridge Hall Art Gallery at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. Macon Telegraph
Openings this week New exhibits Major institutions
Tunbridge Public Library: Women of Watercolor, Aug. 22-Sept. 26, group show by Upper Valley artists; group, Route 110, Tunbridge, (802) 889-9404. Opening reception, today, 7 to 9 p.m. ... The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Festival of Strings highlights Labor Day Weekend events
There's some Major League talent headed our way for Labor Day weekend, and "major league" is the perfect term to describe these folks, for if they were athletes there would likely be a motorcade bringing them into town. Macon Telegraph
New World Festival Celebrating Vermont's French and Celtic traditions
The New World Festival, Randolph's homage to Celtic music from the United States and Canada, is gearing up for yet another excellent day of concerts on Sunday, Aug. 31, in and around the Chandler Music Hall. ... - By Art Edelstein Arts Correspondent The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Art Pick Bass Museum exhibit
It's opening weekend for the Bass Museum's anticipated exhibition of works on paper by some of the most renowned of the Spanish Modernist masters, 20th Century Works on Paper from the Fundación Mapfre Collection: Picasso, Tápies, Miró and Others. Miami Herald
Database for folk artistes in Tamil Nadu : Official
Tiruchirapalli, Aug 22 : The Art and Culture Department of Tamil Nadu Government has decided to prepare a database of all folk artistes being enrolled with the Folk Artistes Welfare Board and post it on the internet, State Tourism and Culture Secretary V Irai Anbu said. New Kerala
Pop life: Rock on -- like father, like son
Like any self-respecting teen, Brendan Phillips wasn't interested in his father's kind of music. Even, and perhaps especially, if his dad was world- renowned folk artist U. Utah Phillips. Brendan Phillips, son of folk-singing legend U. Utah Phillips, who died in May, will lead two tribute shows to his father this weekend. The Sacramento Bee
Win an iPod Nano!
This month on PDNonline, we interview photojournalist Heung Sheng Liu about his new book on the untold history of photography in China since the 1949 revolution, and present a slide show of some of the photos he unearthed. PDNonline
Santa Fe Indian Market: Ready for the show
Photo: Alex Jacobs, a Akwesasne Mohawk who lives in Santa Fe, prepares to take his work to El Museo Cultural on Thursday for the Indian Market judging. The event kicks off tonight with the Best of Show announcement and a sneak preview of award-winning artwork. The actual market begins Saturday. Santa Fe New Mexican
Hi-yo, gelatin silver, away!
"Keemosabee, me no like say cheese for that white man Curtis." Tlingit photographer and lithographer Larry McNeil has some issues with Edward S. Curtis: his images, his methods — and his notion, in the late-19th century, that the proud American Indian would soon be gone forever. Santa Fe New Mexican
Film: 10 shorts that rocked the vote screen at Red Rocks
You logged on. You watched. You voted. The winners of the first Cinemocracy online film contest are Denver Post
Artist brushes up for Obama's moment
Denver artist Malcolm Farley will be on the field when Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Thursday night. Painting history. Denver Post
Best Bets
The Denver Art Museum, West 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock Street, is usually closed on Mondays, frustrating dozens of wannabe visitors each week. Denver Post
John Fogerty heads an all-star lineup at Copper Country
John Fogertywill lead a lineup that includes Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Firefall, Desert Rose Band, the Railbenders, Poco and others at Copper Mountain's Copper Country festival Aug. 29-31. The Labor Day tradition includes a rodeo, fine art, movies and kids' events, all of which are free. Tickets for the music are on sale. ($39, copper countryfest.com) Dar Williams will drop by the Boulder Theater ... Denver Post
Antiques calendar
sharedstory SHOWS & AUCTIONS SATURDAY: Goodspeed Musicals is holding its Theatre Treasures Tag Sale with a variety of one-of-a kind items for sale, including decorative theatrical pieces from many of Goodspeed Musicals' past productions. Greenwich Time
Rock picks
Pop songs are most effective when they're forceful as well as sweet -- catchy on top, but with enough womp on the bottom to get you moving (or at least nodding your head). Exhibit A would be "Sandwich" (MoRisen Records), the latest album from Charlotte's Sammies. At the treble end of things, the guitars sparkle and shine, conjuring up jingle-jangle vibes of alternative Southern pop's '80s glory ... The News & Observer