Oct 28 Bringing South Asian stories to Seattle’s screens By Laila Kazmi, KCTS When Rita Meher screened her first short film, she had no idea that it would lead to a career devoted to bringing South Asian stories to the Pacific Northwest. Continue reading
Oct 21 Dance program helps Florida’s inner city youth sashay toward college By WEDU For 22 years, the Sarasota Ballet has sponsored an after school program designed to transform the lives of inner city school children. The students study classical ballet, but the lessons learned are much broader. Continue reading
Oct 14 Shedding a limiting label to embrace a new identity as artist By KLRU People with developmental disabilities can struggle to find educational opportunities or a professional outlet, but Arc of the Arts believes the bridge they’ve created to the community can help fill that void. Continue reading
Oct 07 Using long-exposure photography, Minnesota artist paints with light By Twin Cities PBS Minnesota artist Brian Hart draws with lights and cameras. He likes to think of the one-inch long LED night fishing lights that he uses as his pen; the camera is his paper. He doesn’t use Photoshop. There is no manipulation… Continue reading
Sep 30 Off-the-grid Alaskan fabric artist dips silk into glacial mud By Alaska Public Media For silk artist Wendy Smith-Wood, living “nearly” off the grid on a remote homestead in Alaska has been a double-edged sword for her art. The cabin that her husband built by hand sits in a “stunningly beautiful” valley near the… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch One Alaskan artist makes unpredictable patterns with silk By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 23 Dallas artist creates rainbows with 60 miles of thread By Alison Jardine, KERA Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe makes physically imposing and yet nebulous sculpture of thread stretched between points on the ceiling and points on the floor. He creates a multifaceted geometric shape, the color changing like a rainbow as the viewer’s eye… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch ‘Obsessive’ artist builds sculptures out of 40 miles of sewing thread By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 16 Turning negative space into a plea for environmental respect By Eric Schultz, NJ State of the Arts When one of Pat Brentano's neighbors in her upscale suburban town of Westfield, New Jersey, cut down 21 mature trees to build a gigantic house, Bretano was horrified. She used her anger as a channel for her creative work; Endangered… Continue reading
Sep 09 California artist races the tide to sculpt the beach By Cynthia Stone, KQED Walking along Bay Area beaches, you may be lucky enough to come across one of "earthscape artist" Andres Amador’s “playa paintings,” large-scale patterns he creates in the sand using rakes and ropes as his tools. Continue reading