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• Viernes Culturales / Cultural Fridays

  
  
  

  By Viernes Culturales

  Join us on August 31, 2012 for another Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday.  Little Havana’s popular arts and culture festival. Enjoy music, discover works by local artists and artisans in and around our iconic Domino Plaza on SW 8th Street and SW 15th Avenue, and visit [...]

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• Macon begins process to create a comprehensive plan for public art

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  “Chewy” by John Clement is a public sculpture in Macon’s Ocmulgee Heritage Park. Photo by Katie Clenney

  On Thursday, August 23 the Community Foundation of Central Georgia held a public meeting to discuss public art in Macon. The meeting was led by Cesar Trasobares, a [...]

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• De La Soul and Pete Rock & CL Smooth to headline 5th annual Hip-hop Showcase

  
  
  

  Akron will be hopping this week. Hip-hopping, that is, because, for the 5th year in a row, the Akron Civic Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee, will be hosting the annual Hip-hop Showcase put on by Keepers of the Art, also a Knight Arts [...]

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• Knight Arts leaders honored by Barry’s Blog

  
  
  

  Barry’s Blog, a leading arts blog published as a “service of the Western States Arts Federation,”  has honored several Knight Arts leaders in its fifth annual listing of the 50 most powerful and influential people in the nonprofit arts. Each year, national leaders anonymously submit nominations for [...]

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• Cultural Passport Adds Urban Parks of Greater Miami, an eco-study tour for 8th grade students with the Urban Tour Host

  
  
  

  By David Brown, Urban Tour Host

  During the 2011-2012 school year, The Urban Tour Host featured its Urban Parks of Greater Miami Tour highlighting the Ecology and History of Miami’s Downtown Region. Four parks in the City of Miami were featured including:  Simpson Park, Miami Circle Park, Bayfront Park and [...]

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• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer presents “Open Air” with the Association for Public Art

  
  
  

  On September 20th, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will come alive with more than just the bright colors of autumn. Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will transform a stretch of Philadelphia’s famous cultural promenade with 24 of the brightest searchlights in the world for an interactive [...]

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• A new cultural ‘Message’

  
  
  

  “Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks.”

  It will have been hard to miss the work of Rashid Johnson this year if you have even a passing interest in art. The unique output of this Chicago-raised artist, who became a hit almost the moment he entered the scene [...]

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• An open-studio tour of the Russell Industrial Center

  
  
  

  The Russell Industrial Center is a recognizable monolith and a herald for the passage into Detroit from the northern suburbs. The highly visible ex-industrial facility, once an auto-body supplier, now houses a series of privately leased studio spaces, home to a vivid array of more than 150 [...]

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• Community Supported Art continues to spread organically across the country

  
  
  

  By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts

  What we’ve learned about the Community Supported Art model is that it is tremendously malleable to fit the needs of communities of very different sizes, geographies, and artistic disciplines. As long as a few core values are in place, all [...]

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• Make This Your Year: The Knight Arts Challenge opens Sept. 17!

  
  
  

  Now in its third year, the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia will call for your best ideas for the arts in Philadelphia Sept. 17. – Oct. 15. The $9 million initiative seeks the most innovative cultural ideas to engage and enrich Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.

  Launched in 2010, the challenge [...]

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