Human identity is a thread that runs through the work of visual artist and Fractured Atlas member Kelly Mudge. Her current project, “Portraits of Hope and Survival: The Lost Boys of Sudan”, takes as its subject the thousands of young men who emigrated to America from that war-torn country in 2001.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council will begin accepting online applications for the next session of its Swing Space program on December 10, 2008. In partnership with area landlords, LMCC makes vacant storefront, commercial and office space downtown available to artists, curators, and cultural organizations for periods of two to four months. The program is designed to [...]
Check out this two session seminar on Monday, November 17th, 6-8:30pm and Monday, December 1st, 6-8:30pm at NYFA.
Inside the Grant Process:
From Applications to the Panel
Grants provide much needed funding, yet the process can be overwhelming. Join NYFA for a two part workshop on grant seeking, including an inside look at how a grant panel is [...]
A Philadelphia-area visual artist and member of Fractured Atlas since December 2003, Ellen Priest has taken jazz as the subject of her paintings since 1990. She creates a series of mixed-media paintings based on a single jazz composition. Her recent work has used jazz pianist/composer Edward Simon’s “Venezuelan Suite” as its inspiration.
Name: Jari Chevalier
Websites: http://jariart.com, http://livinghero.com, http://jariscope.com
Hometown: New York, NY
Artistic Disciplines: Visual art, writing
Fractured Atlas Member Since: Spring 2008
Fractured Atlas Service Used: Fiscal Sponsorship
Jari Chevalier is a mixed media artist and writer whose current visual work integrates the mysteries of the human body with cosmological and deep sea imagery, conjuring eerie narrative landscapes. Her influences [...]
Check out Add-Art. It’s an extension for the Firefox web browser (which if you aren’t using, you should be) that replaces most web advertising with images of contemporary art. Here’s how the project is described on its site:
Add-Art is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated [...]
You might have noticed this already, but there are a whole lot of arts contests swirling around nowadays. From Fractured Atlas’ video contest that happened last year (non-profit), to the Doritos spot during a recent Superbowl (for-profit), to public art design contests in almost every major city (government). I even just found a [...]
This morning I heard on the radio about a new art group in San Francisco with a radical business model: selling “subscriptions” to new works by contemporary artists. From their website:
THE THING is an object based quarterly publication. Each issue of THE THING is conceived of by an individual artist, reproduced and wrapped by [...]
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