In this sponsored post, Roberta speaks with Velocity fund awardee Joy O. Ude about her project, ‘Threading the Needle,’ whose goal is to teach fiber art techniques to those who teach others, thereby bringing the time honored techniques to new generations and making sure the valued craft arts continue in the community.
Read MoreLane Speidel speaks with artist Chenxi Shao about their practice of art making that involves (among other things) growing mushrooms in unusual materials and combining them in agglomerations that are purposely not beautiful but that evoke the precariousness of our world today.
Read MoreIn this sponsored post, Roberta speaks with two-time Velocity Fund grantee, Yvonne Lung, about her current project “Let’s Talk Aabout Chinatown,” an informational and educational project whose heart is advocacy to save Chinatown from the implantation of an unwanted basketball arena right on its doorstep.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees a provocative series of photos having to do with the sense of touch at the ICA — installed within rooms and hallways created for the exhibit — and comments that the intimate domesticity, even with narratives that are ambiguous, is relatable.
Read MoreThis summer has been filled with News, and our Midweek News Podcast has kept you abreast. Meanwhile, here’s the old fashioned News Post, with a couple great opportunities – one of which closes today!
Read MoreWe are very sad to report that artist, writer and Artblog contributor Dereck Mangus died on July 7, 2024 at age 46.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees a show of works in homage to Yard Art, those personal outdoor installations, some with religious figurines, or ceramic gnomes or plastic deer or pink flamingos, that people put into their personal outside space.
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