Grazina Wade - photography
Sumati Colpitts - ceramics We are excited to once again highlight five of our magnificent Sedona women artists. Sedona is graced with a vast array of women with extraordinary creative vision. It is a pleasure to honor each one and their work, said city of Sedona Arts and Culture Coordinator Nancy Lattanzi.
In 1993, Kliewer won a competition to create a monument of Sedona Schnebly for the city of Sedona. The ten-foot high sculpture of the city s namesake was installed in front of the Sedona Library in 1994. Since then, many more of her monuments have been commissioned and installed in the U.S. and Europe. She has been a recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Governor s Arts Award at the Cowgirl Up! Show in 2007 and 2012 and the People s Choice Award at Cowgirl Up! at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona. She also received first place for her sculpture work in 2008. She is represented by Mountain Trails Gallery in Tla
kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent
Corita Kent, to the everyday miracle, 2021. Installation view, kaufmann repetto, Milan. Image: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy: Corita Art Center, Los Angeles and kaufmann repetto Milano / New York.
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.-kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent (b. 1918, Fort Dodge, d. 1986, Boston). Developed in collaboration with the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles, to the everyday miracle presents a retrospective view of Kent s work, bringing together over 40 prints and watercolors as well as a selection of archival materials spanning from the early 1950s until her death in 1986.
Corita Kent was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice whose work reflects the ascendancy of Pop Art, the spiritual renewal of the Second Vatican Council and the political activism of the 1960s. A catholic nun for more than three decades, Kent was deeply committed to cultural, social, and aesthetic innovation. He
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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and NSFW NFT takes.
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Stuart Hall who led Los Angeles artist
Todd Gray to rethink the nature of his work. The prolific Jamaican-British theorist, who died in 2014, was noted for his profound examinations of power and the ways in which culture can be deployed to maintain a certain order. In resistance, he noted, there is also power.
Joan Benefiel named arts services coordinator for Salina Arts & Humanities
The Salina Journal
Brad Anderson, executive director of Salina Arts & Humanities, announced recently that Joan Benefiel has been selected as the agency’s new arts services coordinator.
Benefiel will oversee the Smoky Hill River Festival’s juried art show, demo artists, outdoor art installations and the Art Patron Program. She also will serve as the primary liaison to the Community Art & Design Program and its advisory committee, and will serve as a regional public art and visual arts resource
Benefiel, a Wichita native, most recently lived and worked in New York City and in Brooklyn, N.Y. In the last 17 years, Benefiel’s work as a sculptor has included commissions for the Vietnam Veteran’s War Monument in Eisenhower State Park in Long Island, N.Y., and to create a St. Ignatius Memorial for Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn.
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Online: Great Lives Lecture Series: Mohandas K. Gandhi. Presented by Anand Rao. Zoom webinars open at 7:15 p.m. and the lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. Prerecorded lecture will be followed by live Q&A. umw.edu/greatlives.
Spotsy “To Go” Restaurant Week. Order takeout, delivery or curbside pickup from a number of locally owned restaurants. Collect a stamp from five different spots to earn your chance to win prizes. Through March 14. More information, including a contest passport and list of participating restaurants, is available at spotsyrestaurantweek.com.
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Fredericksburg Fine Arts Show and Sale, Dorothy Hart Community Center, 408 Canal St. 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Free admission. Masks are required, and the number of visitors will be limited. Proceeds from this show benefit the Woman’s Club of Fredericksburg’s local scholarship program and Parks, Recreation and Events programs. 540/372-1086; fredericksburgva.gov/1306/Fine-Art-Show.