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• Ready for some art and pARTy?

  Ramon Bofill at ArtCenter/South Florida.

  We like to mix our art with some parties; it goes a long way to explain why Art Basel Miami Beach is here. And Saturday night is no exception:  ArtCenter/South Florida (a multiple Knight Arts grant winner) is throwing its annual fundraiser and raffle, winningArt. What’s [...]

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• Verb Ballets honored choreographer Heinz Poll in intimate dance concert

  Heinz Poll, who co-founded and directed the Ohio Ballet for nearly 30 years, received  posthumous honors recently. Verb Ballets paid tribute to the late company director with a performance titled “Honoring Heinz Poll” at the Akron Civic Theatre (a Knight Arts grantee).

  Poll’s Ohio Ballet had significant impact on the arts in the Akron [...]

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• Two workshops and a book signing at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  At an Ohr-O’Keefe Museum Studio Ohr workshop on February 9, 2013, students used the printmaking art of linocut to create one-of-a-kind 4” x 6” Valentine cards that could be mailed, framed or given as gifts.  Linocut skills can be used to transfer [...]

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• Detroit – get your ideas ready for the Knight Arts Challenge!

  In just one week, on March 25, we’ll start accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit.

  This year, we’ll be giving away up to $3 million to arts and cultural projects that engage and enrich the city. The deadline is April 21.

  Get Detroit Arts Email Updates Email (required)  First Name  Last [...]
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• Emily Johnson premieres Niicugni at Miaim Dade County Auditorium

  Tigertail Productions always brings innovative, cutting-edge performing artists to Miami that challenge our preconceived notions of what performance art is and can be. These artists push the conceptual boundaries of art and create new points of reference. Emily Johnson is no exception.

  Emily Johnson.

  Emily Johnson is a native Alaskan who [...]

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• Friends of the SPCO’s Youth Chamber music competition goes viral

  By Kelly Belich, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

  The Friends of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s second annual Youth Chamber Music Competition, the final rounds of which will take place March 23-24, saw an interesting innovation this year.

  For the first time, the competition’s first round was judged via YouTube videos [...]

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• Preview: “How is Your School?” at 2739 Edwin Gallery

  2739 Edwin to host a timely conversation about education.

  There are few issues in Detroit more politically or emotionally fraught than the state of the Detriot Public School system. In this regard, Detroit is perhaps an extreme example, but by no means the sole instance of breakdown of the concept and [...]

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