ST. GEORGE — An exciting opportunity has opened for artists. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument announced Friday that applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Artist-in-Residence program, sponsored through a partnership with the Escalante Canyons Art Festival and Glen Canyon Conservancy. Applications must be received by midnight, April 14. Together, sponsors will select one artist […]
In this rare interview, Nonesuch Records President David Bither discusses the label's 60th anniversary, signing decisions, The Black Keys' new album Ohio Players and more Source
With “Mi Vida Loco,” Mark Clark takes us on a brief autobiographical tour from his first artistic inspirations to the present. Stepping into the artist’s creative pathway we see his family and friends serving as early inspirations, and life in the Valley combining a passion for social depictions of US-Mexico relations and a rejection of the European art style. His art finally plays with time, moving historical subject matter out of the past and into the present.
Smart Makuyana braves the hot summer temperatures as he wobbles along the 3-kilometer distance (a little under 2 miles) toward the house
Matt Wood is an illustrator and the co-founder of the cooperative animation team Bad Idea Motion Studios. Wood’s Zócalo Sketchbook imagines “what nature might look like if it insisted on innovating itself to extinction.” The series was inspired by OpenAI’s release of Sora, a way to generate photorealistic video sequences based on text prompts, earlier this year. “As a creative, it chilled me to my core,” Wood says. “When I saw where we are headed, I thought, Why are we so addicted to...
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Maurice Harris is a Los Angeles-based artist and founder of the floral design studio Bloom & Plume, and of a coffee shop with the same name. Before joining the panel for the Zócalo/Kinsey Collection event, “Can a Football Stadium Be a Black History Museum?,” he sat down in the green room at SoFi Stadium to tell us his thoughts on RuPaul, jacarandas, and some inspiring artworks.
There is no question that we are in the end times. From the signs in the heavens of the devil comet, blood moons and the April 8 eclipse, we're already seeing the physical elements in the heavens proclaim God's handiwork, and that He is coming again. We're also seeing an abundance of earthquakes, like those in Taiwan, New York and New Jersey. The construction of an altar to sacrifice a red heifer also further points us toward the preparations in the building of the third temple. Get your FREE...
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Mumbai-based Yashwant Deshmukh is a contemporary Indian artist known for his contemplative style depicting the lack of movement or the stillness of space. His abstract and meditative style heavily relies on symbolism and functions as a bridge between the material and […]
Surely everyone knows about the total solar eclipse occurring on Monday, April 8, and that northern Vermont lies in the "path of totality" — where the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks the light? And that a gazillion visitors are headed our way to experience the spectacle? If you've somehow been in the dark already, check out the preview guide in this week's issue of Seven Days for all things eclipse. Well, almost all. Here we have a roundup of area art shows centered on...
Western Australia can become a leading global source of responsibly sourced battery minerals but government support will be “critical”, a mining conference has heard. “Government support at both the state and commonwealth level is critical if we are to effectively overcome pressing issues and maximise the industry’s potential,” WA Minister for Mines David Michael said […]
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