In the past few weeks I have managed to experience my first hurricane and my first earthquake; given, by the time each reached the Fractured Atlas office they were nowhere near as dramatic as they were in most other parts of the country, but it really gets one thinking.
My first thought was of disaster films. [...]
I journey to Portland, Belfast, Liberty, Montvale, Camden, Rockport, and Rockland, to take in the very artistic state of Maine.
As the Director of Membership & Program Development, I’m constantly watching the growth of the Fractured Atlas community. In the past few weeks, we have achieved quite a few milestones that I’m extremely excited to report on….
There’s no sauna and no pool (sorry!), but Brooklyn Artists Gym offers visual artists exactly what they need for a “healthy” career: affordable space and a supportive community.
Find out more by reading on…. It has to do with Fractured Atlas’ Open Arts Network!
I grew up reading MAD magazine, marveling at Mort Drucker’s spot-on pen and ink caricatures of television and movie celebrities. Al Hirschfeld, Honoré Daumier, Thomas Nast, Miguel Covarrubias, even Leonardo da Vinci — all are artists who were masters of exaggeration and whose caricatures are fascinating. “There are infinite ways of capturing a likeness without any two drawings looking alike,” says ISCA’s president Robert Bauer.
The founders of this think-tank/venue aim to make contemporary art, film and design accessible to Honolulu audiences, thereby expanding the bounds of creative possibility within their community.
Recess offers schoolchildren a host of opportunities: creativity, self-expression, the exchange of ideas… How appropriate then for a new contemporary art venue in NYC that prioritizes and facilitates interactions between working artists and the community to call itself “Recess”.
Karen Atkinson, one of Fractured Atlas’ close colleagues and collaborators from California, is celebrating her birthday today. In celebration, we’re launching her second free course on Fractured U.!
We were fortunate enough to gain four new Open Arts Network partners in the past two months. Please allow us to tell you a little bit about them.
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