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• Performance kaleidoscope highlights Macon’s performing arts talent

  Douglass Jazz Ensemble. Photo by Connie Davis

  On Thursday, June 13, Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) held the first Macon-Bibb County Arts Advocacy Breakfast at The Grand Opera House in downtown Macon. The purpose of the event was to showcase the rich arts and cultural resources [...]

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• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s OPEN AIR earns national recognition as one of the outstanding public art projects of 2012

  By Penny Balkin Bach, Association for Public Art

  Great news! Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s OPEN AIR was recognized nationally as one of the outstanding public art project of 2012 by the Public Art Network of the Americans for the Arts.

  Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, “Open Air”. Commissioned by the Association for Public [...]

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• ‘Punk Poet’ Paul D. wants to put you in a “Midway State of Mind”

  Midway neighborhood. Photo courtesy of Paul Dickinson

  I know what I’m doing this Saturday afternoon: “Punk Poet” Paul Dickinson (founder of the Riot Act Reading series) is hosting “Midway on My Mind,”  an idiosyncratic cultural tour of St. Paul’s University Avenue. A native of the Hamline-Midway area, [...]

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• Downtown@Dusk returns for its 29th season at Akron Art Museum

  It’s pretty amazing that the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, has been both hosting and presenting the Downtown@Dusk concert series for 28 years and is kicking off yet another season.

  The free concerts (food and drinks are available for purchase) are held on consecutive Thursday evenings [...]

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• Celebrating Trey McIntyre Project at the Broward Performing Arts Center

  By Michelle Weinberg, Funding Arts Broward

  In 10 years, Funding Arts Broward has awarded $2 million  to Broward County art and culture nonprofits. This video celebrates the April 2013 residency of Trey McIntyre Project at Broward Performing Arts Center, winner of the 2012-13 FAB/Knight New Work Award, which supports innovative [...]

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• Oh, Snoopy, you’re so fine

  The comics of Charles Schulz.

  Not a generation, but a number of generations, grew up under the influence of Charles Schulz and his drawings – those of the Peanuts characters of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Lucy. These weren’t average characters in an average comic, they became household names, beloved [...]

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• Cultural Passport students explore Vizcaya

  By Wendy Wolf, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

  Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, one of Miami’s National Historic Landmarks, is pleased to provide field study experiences in the arts, history and environment as one of the Cultural Passport partners for 4th grade students and teachers. This year Vizcaya welcomed 674 students and [...]

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• “Black Farmers/Black Freedom” by Dr. Monica White

  Dr. Monica M. White, at the start of her impassioned lecture.

  On Saturday, June 15th, Monica M. White, Ph.D gave a lecture at the Detroit Public Library Main Branch on the subject of “Black Farmers/Black Freedom.” Dr. White presented some of the research and outline for her forthcoming book on [...]

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• Gillian Pears offers a trip “Elsewhere” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid

  In the Tiger Strikes Asteroid space – a Knight Arts grantee – the photographic locales found in the work of Gillian Pears truly serve to usher the viewer “Elsewhere,” which is appropriately also the title of [...]

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• The Project [theatre] June 2013 update

  By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre]

  To the naked-eye it may appear that we’ve been a bit dormant for the past couple of months, but amidst our Rip Van Winkling has surfaced a plethora of changes. And as a company insistent on committing to the evolution of theater and community [...]

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