Story Time to feature feathered flight through the alphabet
Pam Spremulli will read her book Letter Birds at 10:45 a.m. today during Story Time at the Smith Memorial Library. She will be signing books at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the bookstore.
View ArticleVACI lecturer to discuss ancient porcelain processes
In the late 1980s, Bryan Hopkins was a mathematics major until he enrolled in a ceramics class to fulfill an art requirement. After that class, he switched majors and began a career in ceramics that he...
View ArticleOpen Studios Night showcases students’ work, work spaces
For the past seven weeks, the students at the Chautauqua School of Art have been hard at work in their studios. From 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. tonight in the School of Art Quad, however, their private...
View ArticleNemett to discuss role of traveling in his work
Painter Barry Nemett will discuss the role his travels have played in his work during the last VACI lecture of the season at 7 p.m. today in the Hultquist Center.
View ArticleStrohl gallery store offers local, wearable art pieces
The Strohl Art Center gallery store offers an array of handcrafted pieces created by variety of artists. From jewelry to scarves to purses, the store offers unique pieces of “wearable art,” said store...
View ArticleJack Keenan draws his memories, talks watercolors and war
Keenan’s drawing talents, along with past experience with horn playing and typing helped him advance to master sergeant, the top grade for enlisted men, in just over two years.
View ArticlePainter Langsam to close VACI lecture series
Julie Langsam’s artistic work references everything from the early American Hudson River School to modernist abstraction — often in the same painting.
View ArticleReview: ‘Circle/Square Game’ explores impossibility through ‘pattern and wonder’
Text and subtext, sense and nonsense, run riddling through Strohl Art Center, and the visitor can pick their own pertinence, whether lining up with the minds of ancients or the fancies of artists...
View ArticleReview: ‘Carmina’ aims high, overloads Senses
My favorite moments in music performance are those when, as a member of the audience, I am able to make a connection to something personal — something musical that relates to something extra-musical,...
View ArticleReview: Punching upward to move forward
Political art is about training a critical eye upon — and opening crucial discussion about — pedestaled institutions and systems that can be difficult to approach.
View ArticleTwo Dozen Artists Present Work in 59th Chautauqua Exhibition of Contemporary Art
For Betsey Regan, art is all about reinvention. As a survivor of breast cancer and Hurricane Katrina, she uses her studio as an outlet to channel positive emotions. “Art really saved me. … I just think...
View ArticleVisual Arts Galleries Open Early to Give Area Youth a Sneak Peek
Although Judy Barie said art is an essential part of life, she acknowledges that not everyone has access to the arts, which is why for the second year, children around the Chautauqua area were able to...
View ArticleFilmmaker Saltzman to Dialogue on Male Feminism for Professional Women’s Network
Prolific, Emmy Award-winning, self-taught Canadian film and television producer-director Paul Saltzman has long been creating culturally significant and groundbreaking films, and generating community...
View ArticleJurors to Discuss Curation of 59th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of...
Art has been a part of Steven Harvey’s entire life. Now 62, the co-director of Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects has worked at art material stores, been a practicing artist, acted as an art adviser and,...
View ArticleFilmmaker Discusses Documentary on Women’s Movement
When Liz Roman Gallese graduated from Skidmore College in 1969, she and her classmates were living amidst an American paradigm shift. “We had come of age at a time when all the rules changed in the...
View ArticleRare Collaborators Actor Alan Alda, Writer Arlene Alda Take Stage in Final...
Arlene and Alan Alda have been married nearly 60 years. During that time, the couple, whose various artistic pursuits include acting, writing, photography and music, have only collaborated once. She’d...
View ArticleSome of Ceramist David East’s Biggest Influences Are His Students
Sometimes David East isn’t sure what he prioritizes most— is he an artist first and foremost, or does he see teaching as his most important job? As chair of the ceramics department at the Maryland...
View ArticleArtists Put a Spin on Nature in Exhibition at the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center
“As a maker, we can’t ever make anything as sublime and as perfect as nature,” said Rain Harris. “Nature just does it better than anybody else.” In the new exhibition at the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center...
View ArticleVACI Partners’ Sunday Art in the Park Event to Feature Eclectic Work
What is art? For some, it signifies an expensive piece of work hanging in a gallery. For Margaret Dietly, that definition can expand to include things like sneaker art and handmade soap. That’s why...
View ArticleKyle Staver to Discuss Mythology of Contemporary Female Painter
Whether it’s in her own paintings, the daily Facebook albums she posts or in her Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution lecture Tuesday night, Kyle Staver strives to emphasize the importance of...
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