Visual Arts

UAB’s Brett Levine Awarded Alabama State Council on the Arts 2010 Literature Fellowship

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Visual Arts Gallery Director Brett Levine is a 2010 Literature Fellowship Grant recipient from the Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA).

Read the rest here: 
UAB’s Brett Levine Awarded Alabama State Council on the Arts 2010 Literature Fellowship

Story Box: London Literature Festival 2010 – Apply Now!

Are you interested in poetry, spoken word, visual arts and music? Fancy spending the summer at Southbank Centre creating artwork and an event?

Go here to read the rest:
Story Box: London Literature Festival 2010 – Apply Now!

Mead Hall : James Rieck (2010-04-23 - 2010-05-03)

Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to announce “Mead Hall” a new solo show by artist James Rieck. Inspired by the heroic epic poem Beowulf, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on this subject, The Monsters and the Critics, Rieck’s new show engages not only with medieval themes of violence and romantic love, but also with the age-old division between literature and the visual arts.

See the original post: 
Mead Hall : James Rieck (2010-04-23 - 2010-05-03)

Relevant Links

The MEC said her department will join forces with the Correctional Services to provide a rehabilitation programme at prisons. A total of 460 inmates will undergo training on visual arts, craft, performing arts and literature writing and 14 correctional facilities have been targeted for this project.

Read the original: 
Relevant Links

Aussies are avid readers of poetry (The Australian)

A MAJOR survey has revealed 85pc of Aussies are avid readers of poetry and literature, while visual arts has the biggest number of participants.

Excerpt from:
Aussies are avid readers of poetry (The Australian)

Larry Wilson: A reading and writing renaissance in Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)

A relatively few novels and verses aside, Pasadena’s literature has underperformed its visual arts and architecture over the last 150 years. Novelist Jervey Tervalon and writer and community advocate Carla Sameth are out to change that with their Pasadena Writing Project.

Read the original post: 
Larry Wilson: A reading and writing renaissance in Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)

Students earn awards for artwork (Peninsula Gateway)

Dakotah Carr won the Visual Arts category. Key Peninsula Middle School celebrated some of its artists last month in a contest sponsored by the PTSA.

See the original post: 
Students earn awards for artwork (Peninsula Gateway)

Alameda County Arts Commission accepting grant applications (The Daily Review)

The Alameda County Arts Commission is accepting applications for its 2010 ARTSFUND Grants Program for county-based nonprofit organizations. The ARTSFUND program supports all types of arts programming such as dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary arts

Go here to read the rest:
Alameda County Arts Commission accepting grant applications (The Daily Review)

Alameda County Arts Commission excepting applications for grants (Contra Costa Times)

The Alameda County Arts Commission now is accepting applications for its 2010 ARTSFUND Grants Program for county-based nonprofit organizations. The ARTSFUND Grants Program supports all types of arts programming such as dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary

View original post here:
Alameda County Arts Commission excepting applications for grants (Contra Costa Times)

Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture (Arts Journal)

Consider attendance at several arts activities: classical music concerts, jazz concerts, musical theater, non-musical plays, art museums & galleries, craft & visual arts festivals, parks & historic sites, and reading of literature.

Go here to read the rest: 
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture (Arts Journal)

Next Page »