Kevin Cole graduated high school with 11 college scholarship offers in academic, athletics and the arts. Cole had planned on becoming a welder COLE and bricklayer, but his father wanted him to try art school
Lisa Weiss Lisa Weiss was glad it rained in Chautauqua during Week Four. It reminded her of the last time she was on the grounds — as a teenage piano prodigy studying at the School
Ron Donoughe’s first instructor advised him to paint what he knew. Donoughe knew the Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania area, so he started painting that, and hasn’t stopped. Donoughe’s work will make up Visual Arts at
Jeff Greenham, a ceramicist who worked at Chautauqua’s School of Art for more than 30 years, has returned to deliver a talk as part of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution’s Lecture Series. In his lecture,
Starting this Sunday, July 22, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center will be filled with hundreds of pieces, showcasing what the School of Art students have been working on all summer. This year’s Chautauqua School of Art Annual
Howie Lee Weiss will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, July 20, at the Hultquist Center as part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series, though he wants to be clear that he doesn’t lecture in the
This week, Strohl Art Center’s exhibits are “ flipping,” said Judy Barie, Susan and Jack Turben Director of Galleries. The abstract “Design, Flow, Interpret, Repeat” opens at 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, with a reception
When Charity Baker started painting at Chautauqua’s School of Art in the early 1990s, she knew it was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. But another part of her —
Judith Glantzman is not interested in generalizations. The painter, who will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, in the Hultquist Center as part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series, wants to “make that general
Photographer Michael Haritan, self-described “man with a mission,” could speak about that mission for hours. His presentation at 5 p.m. Monday, July 16, at the Hultquist Center and lecture at 9 a.m. Friday, July 20,
“After Countenance,” a piece byKyle Hackett, who will speak at7 p.m. tonight in the HultquistCenter as part of the Visual ArtsLecture Series. Not everyone sees the connection between civic engineering and fine arts, but Kyle
Lisa Corinne Davis is known for incorporating maps as metaphors into her paintings. By doing so, she hopes to allow viewers to experience the same “feeling of being located and dislocated,” Davis said, that she’s
Artists from Pittsburgh-based trade group Monmade will have their work featured at a trunk show from noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, in Strohl Art Center, hosted by Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution.
Playing into Week Three’s theme, writer Steven Johnson will speak at the 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, July 10, in the Amphitheater. Johnson has written 11 books. Most recently, he published Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern
Leslie Calimeri at Gallery. RILEY ROBINSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER After seven years working as Chautauqua Institution’s digital communications manager, artist Leslie Calimeri opened her own gallery in Lakewood last winter. In addition to Calimeri’s own work, the
Like many New Yorkers, Kate Werble tends to start her work days with a meeting. Unlike most New Yorkers, Werble tends to visit museums and art galleries before arriving at her own gallery, where she