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About the author: Founded by artist Anne Brooke, Art Presence is an art organization operating as a non-profit under the Arts Council of Southern Oregon. We've grown from a small group of Jacksonville artists with our board meeting at the GoodBean Cafe to over 100 artists with an art center and gallery in the historic core of our charming town. Our mission is to encourage and develop a growing art presence in the city of Jacksonville, to provide venues for artists which will enhance their work and encourage patronage, to work with the merchants of Jacksonville to promote a variety of outstanding events and displays to draw visitors downtown, to inspire and educate and provide additional beauty to our city. For contact information and web links, please visit our listing at the Southern Oregon Artists Resource You can also see more of my work by visiting my Flickr Photostream. Continue reading Art Presence Member Profile: Painter Eva Thiemann By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts November 18, 2011 By Victoria Hutter Visual artist Anne Percoco created a mobile sculpture Indra’s Cloud made of more than 1,000 water bottles sewn together with plastic rope. The sculpture was floated down the severely polluted Yamuna River in India and around the town Vrindavan to highlight the profoundly degraded condition of the river as […] Continue reading The Art of Marine Debris? By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts September 13, 2011 By Rocco Landesman Rocco caught a fish THIS big at the Silver Salmon Camp. Photo by Sven Haakanson As you read yesterday, my first day in Alaska was truly jam-packed. The pace didn’t let up! On the second day of our trip with the Rasmuson Foundation, we went to Bethel, and a […] Continue reading Postcard from Alaska, Part Two By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts September 12, 2011 By Rocco Landesman A 2004 performance of Julie Jensen’s play Wait! at Perseverance Theatre, an NEA grantee in Douglas, Alaska. Rocco caught up with Perseverance’s executive artistic director, Art Rotch, during his whirlwind tour of Alaska. Photo courtesy of Perseverance Theatre Last week I was in Alaska as part of the Rasmuson […] Continue reading Postcard from Alaska, Part One By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts August 31, 2011 by Charlotte Fox, Executive Director, Alaska State Council on the Arts Students from the 2011 Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Photo by Clark Mischler Back in 2002, when I was just beginning this job and a naive state arts agency director, I made a remark at a statewide public meeting that it was […] Continue reading Arts Education Alaska Style: Success is in the Partnerships By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts
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About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab. Reading the blog entry by Stephanie Evans Hanson that focused on the beginnings of new methods through close observance of our conversations reminded me that changes employed by Fairbanks Arts Association (FAA) on the issue of art-for-sale at fundraisers started with conversations. One of my previous posts told of FAA’s new direction for art auctions […] Continue reading From Art Auctions to Art Lotteries: A Better Way to Fundraise? By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts
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About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab. It’s a cold snowy morning in Fairbanks, AK. Volunteer ushers are gathered in the lobby of Hering Auditorium, anticipating the arrival of 1300 students who will be attending a performance. One of the volunteers, local artist Carol Hilgemann, knowing that I would be interested, brought a copy of an article dealing with considerations that art […] Continue reading Fundraising Innovation: Solving the Artist Auction Dilemma By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts
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About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab. I was born in Fairbanks, AK, at St. Joseph’s Hospital, now Denali State Bank. Our town has gone through many changes, but we remain the same spirited people that I remember as I was growing up. People from all walks of life choose to live here and there’s a special thread that weaves us all […] Continue reading Making the Best Use of What We Have By Art Works, 329 contributed posts
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About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts July 20, 2011 by Don Ball The Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR), published at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, calls itself “a literary magazine of consequence” with good reason. For a literary journal produced in one of the more far-flung regions of the country, it has generated considerable notice for its stories: Pushcart Prizes, O. […] Continue reading Art Talk with Ron Spatz of Alaska Quarterly Review | |
