An art exhibit aimed at uniting women against bigotry, intolerance and racism is now in Madison but intended to travel throughout Wisconsin, gaining collaborators along the way. Artists Kelly Parks Snider, J. Leigh Garcia [MFA ’18] and Rachael Griffin [MFA...
The Tory Folliard Gallery is ushering in summer with two new exhibitions by painter Mary Alice Wimmer [MFA ’64] and metalworker and sculptor Jessica Calderwood. On display through July 6, Wimmer’s “New Paintings” and Calderwood’s “New Sculpture” feature fine...
Angelica Contreras, a mixed-media artist with a full-time job as a bilingual resource specialist, recently worked afternoons, evenings and weekends creating 61 small paintings — mixed-media, wash and acrylic paintings on paper, depicting Day of the Dead dolls with...
Jim Cohen [MFA ’04] used to be a lawyer. He’s good with words and a great conversationalist. But when he began to explain a sterling silver yad and a Torah breastplate he made and donated to the U.S. Armed Forces, words began catching in his throat. Cohen had...
How to convey the magnitude of Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, the show opening this June at the Minneapolis Institute of Art? How about this: Simply imagine a grand colonial role reversal. Starting around, say, 1492, Native American women storm into...
VISALIA – Artists draw from a variety of places for inspiration, including other artists. That is why Arts Visalia chooses to occasionally feature artists from outside of the area. This month, the gallery is showing the paintings of Seattle artist Teresa Getty [MFA...
