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New art members club La Pera Projects offers a cadre of exciting artists at affordable prices through a fresh, modern and intimate approach. Aiming to transcend the traditional white walls of a gallery space, its mission is to make contemporary art more accessible to the public. La Pera Projects is the first mobile art collecting platform that provides transparent and convenient access to world class art every two weeks. Co-founded by art visionaries Clara Andrade Pereira, Director of Pablo’...

Living through a pandemic - in their words News staff FacebookTwitterEmail 30 1of30Buy PhotoMike Saccocio executive director and CEO of City Mission of Schenectady on Tuesday May 24, 2016 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)Michael P. FarrellShow MoreShow Less 3of30 4of30Spokesperson for People of Albany United for Safe Energy, Sandy Steubing, speaks at the rally by PAUSE to commemorate the two year anniversary of the Lac Megantic derailment on Monday, July 6, 2015 ...

Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) across North America are located in communities grappling with the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has intensified the stress on many Native communities already struggling with issues of economic sustainability and public health. Yet COVID-19—or Dikos Nitsaaígíí-19—has hit the Navajo Nation especially hard. According to CNN, by the late fall of 2020 almost one in 12 people in the Navajo Nation had contracted t...

UMass MIND awarded drama therapy grant by National Endowment of the Arts UMMS researchers to pilot virtual theater therapy for adults with serious mental illness By Sandra Gray March 04, 2021 The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a research grant to the UMass MIND program to investigate virtual drama therapy for people recovering from serious mental illness. UMass MIND, the community intervention initiative of the Psychotic Disorders Clinical and R...

In a normal year, Festival International de Louisiane has individual artists apply to create the annual poster and pin. But nothing in the past year has been normal. Festival has brought together three artisans with diverse backgrounds and mediums to create a piece of commissioned artwork that is unifying and unique. The organization also felt that now is the perfect time to celebrate the unity and diversity that Festival encompasses and shares with the world, the press release stated.  "Fes...

NHCC Receives $200K Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant NHCC News: ALBUQUERQUE — The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) Art Museum and Visual Arts program has been awarded a $200,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund grant. This generous gift will be used for the hiring of new positions to bolster the NHCC’s technological infrastructure, public engagement and bilingual arts education. “We are so excited and grateful. Our request was based on critical needs at this m...

Festival International chooses three visual artists for 35th annual event Festival International de Louisiane and last updated 2021-03-02 08:04:15-05 Festival International de Louisiane announced Monday, March 1, that three artists have been chosen as their Official Visual Artists for the 35th annual event. Unlike previous years, Festival says they decided to bring together multiple artisans with diverse backgrounds and mediums to create a piece of commissioned artwork that is unifying and uni...

Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) across North America are located in communities grappling with the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has intensified the stress on many Native communities already struggling with issues of economic sustainability and public health. Yet COVID-19—or Dikos Nitsaaígíí-19—has hit the Navajo Nation especially hard. According to CNN, by the late fall of 2020 almost one in 12 people in the Navajo Nation had contracted t...

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A professor at Northwestern University in Qatar has withdrawn from a $700,000 research project after members of the NU-Q community voiced concerns about a racist and sexist article she reposted online. NU-Q announced in January that political science Prof. Jocelyn Mitchell and two of her colleagues had received a grant from the Qatar National Research Fund to study women entrepreneurs in Qatar. In 2008, two years before she began teaching at NU-Q, Mitchell reposted an email on her blog which sa...