Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]
Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. Zee Avi performs at Halcyon in Austin at ReadyMade Rocks! AUSTIN – Austin was rocking this past weekend, and ReadyMade was there to help make sure the creative juices were flowing. This was ReadyMade’s first appearance [...]
Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]
The Good Negro opens in New York. The play had premiered at the Dallas Theater Center last year. The current Public Theater production (in association with the DTC) gets a good-to-mixed review from Charles Isherwood in the New York Times: “The play will bring no fresh revelations or powerful insights for those well versed in [...]
AUSTIN – SXSW has always been a festival that caters to filmmakers. Sure, the occasional moviestar makes an appearance (as Seth Rogen is doing tonight), but the talent behind the camera normally takes centerstage. The reason for that is that part of SXSW’s mission is education. Hence the dozens of daily panels on everything from [...]
AUSTIN — Late Monday morning, a group of 75 or so artists and crafters crammed into a meeting room in the Austin Convention Center to solve a problem: How do you sell your creations online? Everyone from photographers to T-shirt makers to jewelery makers to painters and musicians were present. Ideas were bandied about, and [...]
The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the NEA report that CultureGrrl did earlier (sparking a little discussion here). According to the NEA: Artists are now unemployed at about twice the rate of other professional workers. Approximately 129,000 artists were out of work nationwide in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the report [...]
KERA radio story: Expanded online story: With a camera and a computer, you can post a homemade video to YouTube. But where do aspiring auteurs learn the skills to actually call themselves filmmakers? For a group of students in Birdville ISD, the answer is: high school. The students in Birdville ISD’s Media Tech program weren’t [...]
In a crazy way you can link Kevin Todora’s fondness for David Lynch, and particularly Lynch’s cult TV show Twin Peaks, to the unexpected, giant and literal holes in his art work. It’s as if someone took a gargantuan hole puncher to a seemingly nice, decent photograph, and that photograph responds to its butchering by happily bleeding some brightly-hued paint. It’s [...]
Today in the Art&Seek Spotlight we feature Ready to Write at the Denton Public Library North Branch. For more on the event: FIND: For directions to the library, visit the branch’s organization profile or the library’s Web site. And for more information on the library’s second annual writing contest, click here. REACT: If you had [...]
