Name: Hank Kaminsky
Website: www.sculptor.kaminsky.com
Hometown: Fayetteville, AR
Artistic Discipline: Sculpture
Fractured Atlas Member Since: November 2007
Fractured Atlas Services Used: Public Art Insurance
Today, we’re featuring Hank Kaminsky, a clay-based and sand casting sculptor originally from New York City. Kaminsky honed his technique at [...]
I just want to quickly congratulate our most recent Fractured Atlas Development Grant recipients, Flux Theatre Ensemble and Judith Z. Miller.
Flux Theatre Ensemble was awarded a $500 Organizational Development grant. Their award will provide funding for the purchase of Microsoft Office Professional 2007, membership in Constant Contact’s email marketing solutions, and the extension [...]
Hey there Fractured Atlas members! As you probably already know, we’ve been talking about a few surveys recently. Well, we’re still keeping them open since we really want to hear from you!
And, if you take one of the surveys, you get a free month of membership! Take both, get two months free! [...]
Hey there Fractured Atlas friends! Welcome to Week One of our new Wednesday blog of featured Fractured Atlas members!
Name: Achinta McDaniel, blue13 dance company
Website: www.blue13dance.org or www.myspace.com/blue13dance
Hometown: Venice, CA
Artistic Discipline: Dance
Fractured Atlas Member Since: October 2003
Fractured Atlas Services Used: Fiscal Sponsorship, Annual Liability Insurance, Health Insurance
Today, we’re featuring Achinta McDaniel, head [...]
Back when I worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, I was lucky enough to be an adjudicator for the Coming Up Taller Awards, which are granted by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities on an annual basis. These awards recognize “the accomplishments of exceptional arts and humanities after-school and out-of-school programs. [...]
For those of you who have been living under a rock recently, we have two major artist strikes going on simultaneously, both of which are taking a toll on our economy at large.
First off, we have the really big one… The Writer’s Guild of America. Over 12,000 film and TV writers walked off of their [...]
Last week, I attended the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC) conference in Austin. In one of the sessions I attended, someone spoke about how, in the computer age, it has become difficult to distinguish good and bad art, as there is simply an overabundance of the stuff. Amateurs sometimes get more attention [...]
Sorry about the lack of blogs in the past two months.
Anyway, I just wanted to say a little about public art. I only realized that public art it was such a huge facet of the art world recently. I was meeting with Arthouse, a really cool visual arts organization in Austin, and we were discussing [...]
I’d like to revisit my first post, in which I deemed “American Idol” as art. No, I have not changed my stance. Instead, I’d like to elaborate on how the TV shows we’ve denounced have actually enhanced the arts in this country. Many artists condemn these shows for promoting amateur/unprofessional/low-quality art and artists. They don’t [...]
I know I just wrote my first post, but I felt it was more of an overview than anything else. I wanted to follow up with this one, which takes me back to my days as an entry-level employee in the Theater & Musical Theater disciplines at the National Endowment for the Arts. I support [...]
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