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Art happens at Plein Air Festival
What do you like to do outside in the summertime? While kids are running through the sprinkler or eating watermelon, several dozen local artists will be enjoying the sunshine at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. Provo Daily Herald
Books become art at Temple Gallery
If you spend half your household income on books and own personal stock in Amazon.com, you might want to check out an unusual art exhibit on view now at Temple University. Courier-Post
Music in the neighborhood
The West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival returns for the fifth year, bringing music, art, food and fun to Ogontz Avenue's 7100 to 7400 blocks for three days. Courier-Post
Kids on the move
The Please Touch Museum, 210 North 21st St., Philadelphia is getting kids moving in June with the ABC Games. Courier-Post
Cape May celebrates its roots as Harbor Fest kicks off today
CAPE MAY - Cape May Harbor will provide the backdrop for the first annual Harbor Fest today and Saturday, celebrating the city's rich maritime history. Most of the city's nonprofits and harbor-based businesses have helped to organize the festival, which will include land and sea-based activities in and around Cape May Harbor and the Nature Center of Cape May, 1600 Delaware Ave. Press of Atlantic City
Celebration of Aboriginal Day
An exhibition of the work of First Nations artists is timed to appear around National Aboriginal Day on Saturday. Coast Reporter
More of today's best
8 Days in June: Featuring classical, chamber and jazz music, plus drama, spoken word, film, lectures and visual art, Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward, Detroit. 313-576-5111. $10-$40, $100 festival pass, $200 VIP pass. Detroit Free Press
Airport launches giant expansion project
After eight years of planning, Sacramento officials on Thursday ceremoniously launched what they say may be the county's biggest project ever – a $1.27 billion expansion of Sacramento International Airport. An artist's rendering shows the new terminal, a four-story, steel-and-glass structure being built to replace the outmoded Terminal B. An artist's rendering shows the view from ... The Sacramento Bee
First impressions on "Inspiring Impressionism": That title is pretty much 0-for-2
Don't get the idea that Seattle Art Museum's new show, "Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and Art of the Past," is a drop-dead... Seattle Times
Corrections- OregonLive.com
UPDATED: :22 a.m. PDT, June 20, 2008 Austin Winters, 10, is a critically ill leukemia patient who won a contest for the superhero he created, Bacon Boy. At the Tacoma Museum of Glass workers they made the superhero in glass and fried bacon for the occasion. The Oregonian
5:15 p.m. -- Isla Center invites artist to submit images for “Creative Hands” exhibit
5:15 p.m. — The Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam will bring back the “Creative Hands: Pacific, Formerly Art of the Pacific Rim” exhibit. All artists throughout the Pacific region are invited to submit images for consideration in the exhibit. The exhibit will open this December. Pacific Daily News
Gabbiani's paper collages, rooms full of life
Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani's new exhibit "Once We Were Trees" attracted her Austin devotees to the Lora Reynolds Gallery to meet the artist and hear her speak about her enigmatic, beautiful work. Gabbiani, who primarily works in the media of colored paper collaging, drawing and airbrushing, described her work as an "unpopulated sculptural process of an exterior space in the ... The Daily Texan
Shows of note
Pints for PICA Once again, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art is having its annual fundraiser -- over drinks. Pints for PICA will be held at the Low Brow Lounge. The Oregonian
Stay busy in Rochester all weekend
The Rochester MusicFest and the Rochester Harbor and Carousel Festival are among the things to do this weekend. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Three great ideas for your next 48 hours
See the first Erie Summer Festival of the Arts Invitational Exhibit from 6 to 8 p.m. at Gannon University's Schuster Art Gallery, 619 Sassafras St. Erie Times-News
Get Out Guide
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts: This year's special exhibit is titled "Painting With Fire: Wood Fired Ceramics." Many lectures and demonstrations in many art forms as well as live music, crafts fair, children's entertainment and more in nearby George Rogers Park. Fri-Sun, June 20-22. The Oregonian
Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family Blockbuster exhibit reveals relationship between America's Impressionist and the ...
For centuries, the Madonna and child was one of the primary subjects of Western painting. Nearly every Italian Renaissance painter and Dutch master from Bellini to Van Eyck immortalized this fundamental miracle of Christianity -- the virgin birth of God's only son. ... - By Anne Galloway Times Argus Staff The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Openings this week
BigTown Gallery: Penelope Jencks, June 28-July 30, bronze, terracotta and plaster, Route 100, Rochester, (802) 767-9670, www.bigtowngallery.com. Opening reception, Saturday, June 28, 5 to 7 p.m. ... The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Art Openings, Events and Museums
Admission is free unless otherwise noted. Beppu Wiarda Gallery artist talk: Taliaferro Jones discusses her kiln-cast glass pieces, on exhibition at the gallery as part of the "Flux" show through June 30. 5:30 p.m. The Oregonian
Thursday MOCA's Battle of the Bands
MOCA'S BATTLE OF THE BANDS: Museum of Contemporary Art, Paradise Courtyard, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami; 305-893-6211; $5. As part of the exhibit Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, MOCA presents the first of three Battle of the Bands, with contestants selected by MOCA and Miami indie-music store Sweat Records. The original South Florida bands will each play a 20-minute ... Miami Herald
Five Live: Performance
1. Astoria Music Festival Leonard Bernstein's razzmatazz "Candide" Overture kicks off the six-day festival, which includes Verdi's "Rigoletto." 7:30 p.m. Friday, Liberty Theater, through July 29, $12-$35; 503-325-5922 or TicketsWest, 503-224-8499 The Oregonian
Special to The Oregonian
In 2001, while earning a master's degree in photography at the University of Wales, New Mexico-based artist KayLynn Deveney met and began taking pictures of one of her neighbors, an elderly Welshman named Albert Hastings. The Oregonian
Portland's art gallery scene suffers a loss with the closing of Small A Projects
The richness of the local art gallery scene has suffered a loss, one that strangely reconfirms the strengths and weaknesses of the Portland art world. The Oregonian
Around the County
Sorticulture, Everett's annual garden festival, begins today and runs through Sunday. Now in its 11th year, Sorticulture showcases Northwest-made garden furniture, water features and birdhouses as well as nurseries offering an array of plants. Everett Herald