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Starkville Arts Festival has record attendance
STARKVILLE — A cloudless spring day and a festival with a proven record of bringing out some of the best art — in what many say is both the quirkiest and coolest setting in the state — signaled record crowds for the Cotton District Arts Festival in Starkville Saturday.
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Silent Auction Benefits Kessel Peace Institute
Internationally recognized Mideast expert Abbas Mehdi spoke at an art auction at MSU today. The Kessel Institute for Peace along with the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences held the silent auction and lecture as a way to educate the public about Iraq. Dr. Medhi spoke about the perceptions and reality of Iraq.
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Photographic Art Centre in Delray Beach to move to West Palm Beach
It was among the first arts organizations to set up shop in Pineapple Grove. It brought thousands of students a year. And after years of talking about moving, it finally is.
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Chinese film authority vows to further commercialize its films
China's film regulator is to continue the industry reform and allow greater commercialization, a senior official has told the ongoing 15th Beijing Student Film Festival. Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of film bureau of China's State ...
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Scottsdale says Museum of West plans on track
Plans for Scottsdale's proposed $51 million Museum of the West are still on track. Acting City Manager John Little said Friday "nothing will stand in the way" of the museum, planned to rise on nearly one acre of city-owned land downtown, despite the city's recent split from Main Street Plaza developer Alan Ferris.
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Collage
ASHEVILLE -- Karen Weihs and Ginny Boyd are both from the South. Weihs began painting in Charleston S.C., when she and her husband were in the restaurant business. Boyd's mixed media work has hung in the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte.
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Webb City Earth Day Sculpture
In Webb City, students and staff of Eugene Elementary celebrated Earth Day with the dedication of a sculpture. Several local businesses donated their time, money and hard work in order to piece together the aluminum statue.
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Visual arts calendar
To best facilitate publication, send items at least two weeks in advance to Paul Clark via e-mail to pclark@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Please include the opening and closing dates of exhibits and a number that may be published to call for information.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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In the moment, in the scene
Karen Blair's passion for art bursts in huge, bold canvases capturing the Richmond landscape. Her latest work can be seen at Page Bond Gallery.
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Arts notes
CULLOWHEE -- Atlanta Contemporary Art Center curator Stuart Horodner will make a presentation at Western Carolina University at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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A-B Tech art students hold juried spring show
ASHEVILLE -- The Grove Arcade Arts & Heritage Gallery opens the annual Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Spring Exhibition with a reception 5-8 p.m. Friday.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Dream-maker: Style-setter Guadalupe Chavarria attends to business first
ASHEVILLE -- Guadalupe Chavarria arrived in Asheville 11 years ago with little money in his pocket. Now he owns two condos downtown and has an extensive art collection.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Philanthropies: April 20
n The Helen Froula Memorial Golf Challenge & Silent Auction is April 28 at Gettysvue Polo, Golf and County Club off Westland Drive. The event is a fundraiser for Hands & Feet Ministries, a faith-based nonprofit that serves single parents, at-risk children, senior citizens and families in crisis. For information, call 865-690-8012 or see www.handsandfeetministries.org.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Artist LaRoche takes viewer beyond the familiar
There is a certain inevitability in the progressively compellingpaintings of Louanne LaRoche. They move by turns ... vivid, then softly colored, then brilliantly rendered in earthy tones. Then they are all about surfaces and the cumulative texture and layers and layers of more color.
Island Packet |
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Back in the saddle again
The Museum of the American West is the gift of Gene Autry, who made a fortune in the 1930s and'40s cranking out B-Westerns 6 miles away at the old Republic Pictures studio. He bankrolled this gorgeous facility in Griffith Park and gave it his considerable collection of Old West artifacts. Autry, the original singing Western star and first billed as "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy," also struck gold ...
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PICK OF THE WEEK: Glass artists to convene in Staunton
Keeping warm will not be a problem at the sixth annual Virginia Hot Glass Festival next weekend.
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'Spanish Spring'
"El Greco to Velazquez," opening today in the Museum of Fine Arts' Gund Gallery, is more than the retrospective of name-brand Spanish painting its title implies....
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Celebrating Earth Day in Marin
It's awesome enough to see a 25-foot-long Pacific wild salmon sculpture.
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Dan Rogers to speak at organizational meeting
Dan Rogers, chairman of the anthropology department at the Smithsonian Institution is to address organizers of the Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center during a meeting Tuesday at Paris Junior College.
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19th annual student art exhibition opens
For the 19th year, the artistic abilities of Paris High School visual art students are being recognized in the Saffle Gallery Exhibit. The exhibit opens Monday at Paris Framing and Design at Saffle Gallery. It runs through May 2.
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ARTWALK has new sculpture
By Bret Buganski Posted: Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 10:46 p.m. HANNIBAL, MO. -- The Hannibal Arts Council came up with a unique way to incorporate art and at the same time, help the community. Participants found some trash and created a sculpture using what they found.
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Seattle Globe |
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Program pushes participants to new levels
"Sublimation," on display in the Brew House's SPACE 101 Gallery, is the culmination of workshops and dialogues with Pittsburgh art professionals. The exhibit features everything from tiny abstract paintings to room-size installations.
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TRAVEL BRIEFS: World War II Museum begins major expansion
The $300 million expansion of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is under way. The project, slated for completion by 2015, “will be a fitting monument to the sacrifices of a generation of Americans,” said Gordon “Nick” Mueller, president and CEO of the museum.
The Kansas City Star |
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Travel digest: Saints in the city of angels
A museum exhibit in the city of angels is looking at the legends of saints. “All the Saints of the City of the Angels,” at the Autry National Center through Sept. 7, looks at Los Angeles streets named for various saints and how life on those streets relates to the saints’ legends.
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