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• A dialogue with Nancy Ann Coyne, creator of Speaking of Home

  By Adrienne Kleinman, Forecast Public Art

  Hailing from New York City, artist and designer Nancy Ann Coyne is no stranger to busy metropolises. In 2008, she launched Speaking of Home [insert hyperlink], a radical new public art project in bustling downtown Minneapolis. She was the first artist in the city’s history granted [...]

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• Grooving with the North Carolina Dance Theatre

  “Limitless” program.

  “Astounding!”  “Absolutely amazing!”  “Superb!”

  One could hear these exclamations abounding in the lobby of the Knight Theatre this past weekend after the North Carolina Dance Theatre’s season opener, “Limitless.” And indeed the performance deserved all of this praise; it was exhilarating, provocative, lively and even flirtatious at times. [...]

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• Join the Clown Workshop with Nina Hlava

  It’s been a spooky weekend, and things are about get spookier when the all ghosts and ghouls come out to play this Halloween. The rush of zombie-inspired walks springing up across Miami have raised the stakes for next year. But this Halloween, like most, will leave many of us blue [...]

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• College Street mural nears completion as commission renews focus on public art

  Clinite’s mural is the result of a KNC grant acquired by The Facade Squad, a group which aims to beautify the College Hill Corridor. It is more than 75 percent complete as of October 28, 2012.

  In late September, artist Heidi Clinite began work on a mural on the [...]

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• Irrigate Arts celebrates a year of creative placemaking along St. Paul’s Central Corridor

  In the Irrigate-sponsored project “Resurrecting of Beauty” artists Yang Mee-Moua Yang and Nonmala Xiong worked with the Center for Hmong Art and Talent to make use of unconventional materials found along the light rail, from origami to glass jars, and transform them into fashion. Photo courtesy of Irrigate Arts

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• Art Live and everywhere

  The structures of “Orpheus and Eurydice” at the YoungArts+Dorsch Gallery booths.

  The interactive and performance-based art fair, now called Art Live, has moved from its inaugural outdoor Wynwood home of last year, indoors to the Coconut Grove Convention Center. But the basics remain the same: the three-day fair will [...]

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• The Villages’ fall festival to “Open for Business” this Saturday

  I believe in Detroit because there is very strong evidence that it exists.

  In a city facing a more than 50 percent population deficit, the definition of neighborhood becomes somewhat loose. Really, anywhere in Detroit that you find three square streets hanging together with no rotten apples, you have something beginning to [...]

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• Apollo’s Fire tour “Passacaglia” has stop at Fairlawn Lutheran Church

  Apollo’s Fire will be bringing its classy and artistic brand of period music and performances to the Akron area once more for its beginning concert tour of the season. Four singers (Nell Snaidas, soprano; Jeffrey Strauss, baritone; Karim Sulayman, tenor haut-contre; and Oliver Mercer, tenor) will join four virtuoso string [...]

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• Los Angeles and Tokyo meet Philadelphia at Space 1026

  Space 1026 has a show entitled “New Work and Then Some” that spans the globe from Tokyo to Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Three artists – Ako Castuera, Rob Sato and Ryohei Tanaka – grace the walls of the gallery with a glut of work from ceramics to [...]

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• Despite Tropical Storm Sandy…

  Despite Tropical Storm Sandy’s feigned threats to ruin our weekend, a storm of cultural events will unfold across South Florida  — rain or shine — from Miami Nice Jazz Festival at the Gusman Center (October 26-28) to Art Live Fair at the Coconut Grove Convention Center (October 26–28).

  Moona Luna.

  The [...]

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