In this Sponsored Post, Margaret Winslow, Curator of Contemporary Art for the Delaware Art Museum gives us a glimpse into the history of the Juried Craft Exhibition, which was first formally established in 1958. Delaware Art Museum’s 2018 Juried Craft Exhibition opens Saturday, October 20, 2018 with a gallery talk with Juror Paul Sacaridiz at 2:00pm.
Read MoreAttention emerging writers and culture lovers: The New Art Writers Contest is back and better than ever with bigger prizes and a first-ever physical publication in the works!! This December 11, 2017 “From the Vault” post by last year’s contest winner, Leah Gallant, creatively combines the writer’s fascination with a renaissance painting from the PMA’s permanent collection with her desire to make sense of an infamously iconic image from our own time. Do you have things to say about the images and objects in your environment? Read on and submit your unpublished art writing to this year’s contest, open NOW!
Read MoreListen to this great podcast captured from WURD radio and appearing here with permission. WURD talk show host Stephanie Renee speaks with Imani Roach about the Artblog Art Writing Contest in this peppy ten-minute audio. Then click the links in the post for information on how to apply and get details about the cash prizes! C’mon, apply! Contest ends at Midnight, Oct. 31, 2018.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor, Sydd Cox takes in the retrospective of Ree Morton’s playful body of work, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art through December 23, 2018. “The Plant That Heals May Also Poison” includes sculptures and installation works from Morton’s brief but fruitful career infusing post-minimalism with idiosyncratic material riffs on the maternal.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor, JuWon Park, reviews “Face Tan/Night Swim,” the current solo show by Haiti-born, Virginia-based installation artist, Abigail Lucien. On view at Vox Populi through October 20, her show critiques popular images of the Caribbean as an exotic tourist haven through the subtle arrangement of artificial smells and man-made materials.
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