by Sandy | Feb 9, 2024 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Learning, Live Performance
“ Vision & Sound: An African American Experience program highlights the work of eight prolific artists that represent various mediums and genres of art…”
“We strive to build supportive relationships to encourage cultural equity throughout Arizona and beyond – recognizing that professional American artists of African descent are too often overlooked.”
Featured Artists:
- Patricia Bohannon
- Dorrell Bradford
- Jacqueline Chanda
- Amber Doe
- Debra Edgerton
- Jerome Fleming
- Isse Maloi
- Bob Martin
- Chip Thomas
- George Welch
- Shoreigh Williams
~Schedule of Events and Exhibitions~
Sedona, Goodyear, Peoria
*January 5-March 27, 2024
Peoria Library Exhibition / Peoria Main Library
8463 W Monroe St, Peoria, AZ 85345
Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Jacqueline Chanda, Dorrell
Bradford, Jerome Fleming, and Isse Maloi.
*February 1-29, 2024
Sedona Arts Center Vision & Sound Exhibition & Sale
15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ
Open: Mon-Sat 10AM – 5PM, Sun 12PM-5PM,
Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Jacqueline
Chanda, Amber Doe, Debra Edgerton, Jerome Fleming, Isse Maloi, Chip Thomas, and
George Welch
*January 31- March 26, 2024
Goodyear Library Exhibition
Georgia T Lord Library, Goodyear, AZ
1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, AZ 85395
Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Amber Doe,
Jerome Fleming, Isse Maloi, and Bob Martin
*Sunday-Monday, February 25-26, 2024
Vision and Sound Symposium
Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ
The Symposium will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, performances, receptions,
and reflections. In addition, ADEI training will be included throughout, incorporating Critical
Response methodology. This year’s symposium will feature guest speaker Chip Thomas and a workshop led by Liz Lerman.
*Saturday, March 2, 2024, 9am-3pm
Peoria Arts Festival, City of Peoria
Vision and Sound artists will be demonstrating and providing workshops during the event.
*Saturday, March 2, 2024, 7-8:30pm
Concert featuring Don William and Friends
Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, Peoria
10580 N 83rd Dr, Peoria, AZ 85345
Join us for a special concert featuring Don William and Friends.
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by Bob Martin | Jan 27, 2024 | Art, Creativity, Drawing, Education
(Originally posted 8/13/09)
This week I participated in another sketch class and struck up a conversation with a couple of the artists about how different artists have a philosophy about or an approach to life drawing, painting, music etc and that it is important, regardless of what artistic discipline you are involved with, that you find and be comfortable with your own “voice”. In many aspects of our daily lives, we compromise ourselves so that we can fit in at work, school and maybe even family, however being creative is about not fitting in. The term self expression is not meant to mean “our expression”.
Tony Ryder
Egon Schiele
So I’ve always cautioned artists (myself included) in avoiding mimicking or embeding
themselves totally in the philosophy of other artists. Here are some drawings from artists who’s work I admire – yet they are very different from each other and from my own drawings.
The keywords are “Self Expression”
Bob Martin
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by Sandy | Jan 10, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll
The Portland Art Museum has the work of 69 Black artists on view until March 17, 2024.
“Through the narrative flow of the exhibition, visitors will experience work by Black artists across decades and generations. Particular attention is given to the works of Black artists who were producing work during the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s…”
Some of the 69 artists included in the presentation:
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991)
damali ayo (b. 1972)
Natalie Ball (b. 1980)
J.S. Bell (1882-1925)
Harrison Branch (b. 1947)
Nikesha Breeze (b. 1979)
Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)
Richard Brown (b. 1939)
Black Artists of Oregon
Portland Art Museum
Until Mar 17, 2024
1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR
(Image: Isaka Shamsud-Din, “Rock of Ages”, 1976)
by Sandy | Jan 1, 2024 | Art
“Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction introduces U.S. audiences to this legendary artist with the first major survey of his work in over 35 years. During his brief three-year career, Ángel developed a unique artistic style that successfully captured the rapidly changing society and culture of Mexico in the early 20th century.”
Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction
Dallas Museum of Art / DMA ~ 9/10/23 until 1/28/24
(Image: Abraham Ángel, Self-portrait (1923), oil on cardboard)
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by Sandy | Dec 23, 2023 | Art
“…Henri Matisse and Andre Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism. Their daring, energetic experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective changed the course of French painting; it marked an introduction to early modernism…”
“At the Salon d’Automne in 1905, when Matisse and Derain unveiled their controversial canvases, a prominent French journalist labeled them “les Fauves,” or wild beasts.”
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Until January 21, 2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Dec 2, 2023 | Artist, Exhibits
I love this so much. Color!
“Bisa Butler’s portrait quilts vividly capture personal and historical narratives of Black life…Her quilts present an expansive view of history through their engagement with themes such as family, community, migration, the promise of youth, and artistic and intellectual legacies. ”
Bisa Butler: Portraits
(Image: The Safety Patrol, 2018, Bisa Butler)
*From the AIC exhibit
by Sandy | Nov 18, 2023 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll
“For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. “
Henry Taylor: B Side
Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
by Sandy | Nov 5, 2023 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.
“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”
The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)
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by Sandy | Oct 21, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
Closed for 2 years, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, has reopened.
It is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”
Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly”.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Avenue and 13th Street, NW, DC
(“Cuatro Pescaditos”, Graciela Iturbide – Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986)
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by Sandy | Oct 11, 2023 | Art, Blogroll, Culture
“Experience the beauty and complexity of Blackness in Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s debut solo museum exhibition Soul of Black Folks.”
Love his portraits. Love how he does skin.
“When I’m making paintings,
I want the characters to be strong,
I want them to be free,
I want them to be independent,
I want them to be unapologetic.”
— Amoako Boafo
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
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