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Rosie Sachtschale spent the summer of 2020 working on a piece combining art from The King of Staten Island and Kid Cudi s Man on the Moon. Courtesy of Rosie SachtschaleShow MoreShow Less
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While some people turned to bread baking and others to puzzles, Rasiga Gowrisankar joined the ranks of shelter-at-home stitchers. This pattern is from Chloe Jo Designs.Courtesy of Rasiga GowrisankarShow MoreShow Less
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In December 2019, before anyone had heard the term “novel coronavirus,” and certainly before any of us anticipated entering a monthslong shelter-in-place order, Rasiga Gowrisankar attended an Etsy craft fair in San Francisco and purchased some embroidery kits containing designs and supplies for crafting embroidered works of art.
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Presented by UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Eagles’ new series questions the Federal Drug Administration’s policies against blood donation based on sexual orientation, the stigma of queer blood and HIV/AIDS.
Jordan Eagles, American Carnage 6/14-II, 2018, Blood of gay man on PrEP, digital print, Dibond, 55 x 36 in.“Can You Save Superman? II,” an exhibition by artist Jordan Eagles that confronts the Federal Drug Administration’s blood donation policy against the LGBTQ community, will be on exhibition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2021.
Eagles’ ongoing cycle of art and activism addresses the stigma of “queer” blood and challenges these policies.
The Smithsonian s National Museum of Asian Art, comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, has been allotted a $2.5m grant From Lilly Endowment Inc. to support a portfolio of projects that highlight the intersection of Asian art and religious diversity Freer and Sackler staff
As cultural and academic institutions across the US struggle to make ends meet in a dispiriting Covid-19 landscape, a phalanx of grant-makers at federal and city agencies and nonprofit foundations are stepping up to assist them in both stopgap and transformative ways.
Today the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $32.8m in grants to support 213 humanities projects in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Among them are a partnership between the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and the American Council of the Blind and Helen Keller National Center to develop best practices for creating audio descriptions of humanities collectio
Alyssa Nitchun, who takes over as executive director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art on 15 February Khaled Jarrar, courtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York announced today that it had appointed Alyssa Nitchun, a culture and design consultant and former acting executive director at the public art organisation Creative Time, as its next executive director.
Nitchum, who takes over on 15 February, will advance socially concerned programming and seek financial stability and an international profile for the museum, which is dedicated to championing LGBTQ art and the artists who create it. She succeeds Laura Raicovich, a former director of the Queens Museum of Art who has served as interim director of the Leslie-Lohman since its closure in March.
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