Tag Archive "artspace"

News: Fleisher @ the White House, Barnes educates construction workers, and lots of opportunities!

News Fleisher Art Memorial @ the White House Student Zulmarie Nazario, 16, attended a ceremony on November 2 at the White House where she received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama on behalf of the Fleisher Art Memorial. The prestigious award is for Fleisher’s work to develop learning and life skills in young people through the arts and creative experience. Nazario is one of many students who participate in Fleisher’s after school program in which a number of activities help young people explore their artistic and creative abilities.

Retelling Histories at Artspace in Sydney

Since the early 1980s, Artspace Visual Arts Centre has established itself as a centre for residency-based contemporary installation art both by Australian and international artists. The three installations currently on display at Artspace only reinforces that fact. Each of the works serves as a rich deconstruction of history, exposing multiple layers of events past. With complex stories from Australia, Brazil, Canada and beyond, Artspace’s current offerings deserve full attention and complete immersion. The experience presents pathways of historical reinterpretation worthy of consideration.

LINC to PLACE: affordable live/work space is coming

Remember LINC? artblog covered the day-long symposium LINC and others sponsored that was all about creating affordable work/live space and other issues (health care for artists). Here is a post and here is another and you’ll find more links in our index under “linc.” Today, one of the LINC participants, Chris Velasco, who at the time of the LINC symposium was with a group called ARTSPACE, sent out a news blast from his new organization (new to me at any rate) PLACE. Velasco was the housing-sector expert at the LINC meeting. Aside from the acronymification of the non-profit sector, the ...