Looking ahead to the 2018 season, Don Kimes plans to bring the artwork of one of his favorite teachers to Chautauqua. From 1977 to 1979, Gretna Campbell taught Kimes at the New York Studio School.
As Don Kimes, artistic director for the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, recalls, the request was for something “interesting.” John Shedd, director of operations, asked Kimes last summer to design a crosswalk to be painted
As the season winds down, the VACI Gallery Store will hold a 25 percent off sale on all items beginning Friday and continuing through Tuesday, the store’s last day of business. Ceramics in the Bridge
President Michael E. Hill calls himself the “guy that just keeps saying these three words.” Those words being: muscular civil dialogue. Hill’s remarks opened a session led by David W. Carter of Claremont Lincoln University
The unveiling of a Jun Kaneko sculpture, donated by Chautauquans Dan and Linda Silverberg, was shaping up to be a dramatic moment. It was the 2 o’clock hour on Aug. 3, and the Chautauqua Symphony
The lives of two women living centuries apart — a contemporary New Yorker and a historical queen — run parallel in the 2016 novel The Imperial Wife. “The two narratives are really about women who
In his Three Taps speech at the beginning of the season, Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill said: “We need a ‘muscular’ (civil) dialogue for this time in our nation.” But what does that mean?
When artist Lee Tribe speaks at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Hultquist Center, he won’t lack for a well of experience from which to draw. In the last “Artists on their Art” Visual Arts at
Inviting visitors is an unusual occurrence at the School of Art. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the School of Art studios, Chautauquans will have the chance to visit student studios, talk to the
Unlike art exhibitions organized around a predetermined theme, the defining characteristic of the VACI Open Members Exhibition is simply that the artwork be that of exhibiting members of VACI Partners. “It’s a fun challenge finding
Kyle Houser is, by his own admission, a busy guy. “I do too many things, is what I do,” he said. He works full time as the studio arts program manager at Pittsburgh Center for
Writer and local historian Kathleen Evans will hold a book signing at noon today in the Author’s Alcove for her newest book, The History of the Robert H. Jackson Center: From Grassroots to Global Recognition.
Laughter is everywhere, said neuroscientist Sophie Scott. “It’s happening all the time,” she said. “We use laughter continuously in interactions.” Scott is the Wellcome Trust senior fellow and deputy director of University College London’s Institute
Jennifer Samet has always been interested in paintings and the artists who make them. “I can remember vividly being taken to the Met and looking at (the work of) Jackson Pollock,” she said. In her
On a mild July evening, art students gathered on the School of Art’s grassy quad and debated what to call their fast-approaching pop-up art show. A few suggested doing an online poll, but Katherine Plourde,
Robin Hill prefers the artistic process to inspiration. “I’m a believer that ideas don’t come because you have an epiphany and you’re on fire and full of passion and motivation to work,” she said. “I