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Visual artist Cedra Wood is one of Forest Fire’s participating artists, She created the Pine Cone Cloak from found materials while and Artist-in-Residence at University of California, Berkeley - Sagehen Creek Field Station's ArtSciConverge program. For FORESTFIRE it represents the human cultural relationship to the forest ecology. #californiahumanities #sierrawatershededuationpartnerships #swep #nevadacountyartscouncil #gvncculturaldistrict #truckeeartsalliance #truckeec...ulturaldistrict #truckeepublicartscommission #truckeedonnerrecreationandpark #sagehancreekfieldstation #californiaartscouncil #forestfire #forestandfire #TahoeNationalForest #DonnerMemorialStatePark #Truckee #CaliforniaWildfire #donate #gofundme #NevadaCounty #saveourforests #NevadaMuseumofArt #EnvironmentalArt #LandArtsoftheAmericanWest #CedraWood #sculpture #pinecones #forestecology See more

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On Tuesday, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its newest class of National Heritage fellows. This year's class includes artists and creators from African-American, Mexican-American, Native, Filipino, Irish-American and Puerto Rican backgrounds, whose array of mediums span many kinds of music, ribbon and lace work, tap dance and filmmaking.

Nevada County Arts Council invites arts leaders across the county to participate in a Community of Practice for Cultural Equity. In establishing this community, we assume that our fellow members will see access to the arts and creativity as a universal right, through which those who have been under-represented can experience a sense of real belonging. Join us Wednesday at 5pm - register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZUrdeGtqTguH9HVZsT6rNGDJk086Fs8t

Shahzia Sikander, Hayv Kahraman, Arghavan Khosravi, and others are harnessing miniature painting traditions to create works that foreground women’s stories.

Spectacular art by Germaine Arnaktauyok, who grew up listening to her father’s stories in Inuit legends. I was always drawing since I was little and I never qu...estioned it and just kept going, Arnaktauyok said in her video. I’m 74 years old and I’m still at it. Born near Iglulik and now a resident of Yellowknife, much of her work depicts Inuit legends in pen and ink drawings. I try to put myself in the story, you know, how they think, how they breathe, and I make them alive, I guess, in my mind, said Arnaktauyok. https://www.nunavutnews.com//artist-germaine-arnaktauyok-/

Recently, there was a dust-up over The Comedian, a piece in which Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to the wall of a gallery and sold it for $12...0,000. A gallery patron made additional news by pulling the banana off the wall and eating it. Interviews made it clear that everyone involved was trolling. The saga was catnip to people who believe that conceptual art is full of shit. Maurizio Cattelan is clearly full of shit, but his work begs the question: could an artist ever walk into a gallery with some snacks, say this may look like something I picked up at the bodega on the way here, but it is in fact my Art, behold my Art, and NOT be full of shit? In my opinion, the answer is yes. My opinion is heavily informed by this 1991 piece by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is a pile of free candy. Visitors are invited to take one piece of candy. Frivolous, right? The piece may be staged in any gallery that follows a few simple rules. The most important rule is that the pile should weigh 175 pounds. 175 pounds was the healthy weight of Gonzalez-Torres’ partner Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS. González-Torres had a Roman Catholic background, and taking the candy is meant to be an act of communion. The patron partakes in the sweetness of Ross while participating in his diminishment and torturous death. The decision to use candy has political significance. In 1991, public funding for the arts and public funding for AIDS research were both the hottest of hot-button issues. HIV positive gay male artists were being targeted for censorship. González-Torres was desperate to be heard, and part of the logic of Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) was that you can’t censor free candy without looking ridiculous. The replicability of the piece makes it indestructible; González-Torres had an intuitive, ahead-of-its-time understanding of virality that came from dealing with an actual virus rather than the internet. I’ve never seen this piece staged, but I think about it all the time. The artist, sadly, is no longer with us. But we will always have the most brilliant, heartbreaking free candy to ever be heaped in a corner. The key to conceptual art is storytelling - how well can you tell a story without words OR a proper picture? The banana on the wall sucks because it doesn’t tell a story about anything but attention-seeking and greed. I can’t stand Banana Guy or the media coverage surrounding him because stunts like that make people close their minds to unconventional art and storytelling, which can be just as sophisticated and moving as conventional art and storytelling. [Image description: a corner in a white-walled art gallery. There is a large mound of multicolored candy piled up in the corner.]

Decades of interpretation and reinterpretation have created a widening chasm between how modern readers perceive the author and how they receive his work. The author died on this day in 1898.

January Virtual Creatives Meetup Join Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District, Truckee Arts Alliance, Nevada County Arts Council and Nevada City Film Festival for our first Virtual Creatives Meetup of the year on Thursday, January 14th, 2021, at 5:30pm. Let’s celebrate new beginnings, hear from one another with our local creatives news, and share important opportunities for our local creative sector, including upcoming grants, fresh resources and new calls to artists. ... Don't forget to register in advance here., after which you will receive an email with a link to join the gathering. REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZ0vc-quqzsjGdRcsBkocPbZt17IbG0WG

Thank you to our three expert Art Judges, who select the award-winners from the 2021 Wild and Scenic Art Exhibition Consuelo (Chelo) Montoya is an artist, educator, and cultural producer specializing in community engagement strategies. She is the Assistant Vice President of Adult Education and Public Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she oversees the music, film, docent and public programs. She previously served as Director of Education and Public Program...s at the California African American Museum. Under her leadership there, she contributed to the exponential growth of the museum’s attendance through a dynamic offering of public programs. Denise Domergue is the Founder and Creative Director of Made Out of WHAT, a Los Angeles-based organization raising awareness about industrial and consumer waste by showcasing brilliant, practical solutions from artists and designers around the world. Its goals are to help accelerate the movement toward adaptive re-use; encourage sustainable innovation and pro-environmental values which foster zero-waste communities; and promote the circular economy. Domergue is a curator, writer, and conservator of contemporary art based Los Angeles, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. Lori Horne was in partnership with Howard Greenberg (Howard Greenberg Gallery, N.Y.C.) in their business, Heritage Graphics. Heritage Graphics was a photographic licensing company representing work by photographers Henri Cartier Bresson, Imogen Cunningham Estate, Robert Capa Estate, and many other artists represented by Magnum Photos. To read full bios and learn more: www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/art-judges Logo for Nevada County Arts Council

The discovery of an intricately crafted Roman mosaic might not seem wholly surprising, but archaeologists say there’s something very unusual about the design seen at Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, England.

Charley Pride, the pioneering black country singer known for such hits as Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' and Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone, has died from complications related to Covid-19, according to his publicist. He was 86.

Harriet Powers, the folk artist known as the "mother of African-American quilting," was born on this day in 1839. Powers was born into slavery near Athens, Geor...gia, and spent her early life on a plantation where she first learned how to sew. Her quilts are considered among the finest examples of 19th century Southern quilting, although only two of her quilts, both of which were made after the Civil War, survive today. Her quilts are a unique blend of both European quilting traditions and African textile arts, and were made using both appliqué and piecework. The two surviving quilts, the Bible Quilt from 1886 and the Pictorial Quilt from 1898, contain numerous pictorial squares that depict either biblical scenes or celestial events. Powers also created a key for both quilts, explaining the meaning behind each panel. Today, her quilts are displayed in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. For an inspiring picture book about Harriet Powers, we highly recommend "Sewing Stories" for ages 5 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/sewing-stories-harriet-powers For a fascinating book for book for adults about her work, we recommend "This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces" at http://amzn.to/2zNl0QQ For more books about the significance of quilts to enslaved African Americans, we recommend "Show Way" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/show-way) and "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/sweet-clara-and-the-freedom-qui) For a fun no-sew quilting set for kids ages 5 and up, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/created-by-me-quilt-set -- or discover more fabric arts options for children in our "Fabric Crafts" section at http://amgrl.co/2loxL1T

Happy Birthday Roy Lichtenstein 1923.

Tulsa Artist Fellowship is accepting applications for its 20212023 term. Open to professionally established artists and arts workers of any medium or discipline, the submission process is open through Friday, January 15, 2021.