This week, Chautauqua Institution is hosting the president and vice president of Claremont Lincoln University to continue a discussion the latter sparked last year about civil dialogue. Claremont Lincoln President Eileen Aranda and Vice President
Barbara Bernstein Barbara Bernstein encourages people to live creatively. “Whether it’s through visual art, or through writing, or somebody who’s a really fantastic cook,” Bernstein said, “what I really encourage is to live a creative
Folk singer Beverlie Robertson, performing arts student Tori Wines, artist and Founder Gayle Dempsey, and Executive Director and Founder Gary Froude are shown at partner resort Clevelands House in front of a community mural painting
Before coming to Chautauqua, Amber Scoon said she was “ready to drop out of college.” But artist and philosopher Scoon, who will speak as part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Friday,
One week after Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution Artistic Director Don Kimes dropped out of graduate school and moved to New York, he cold-called art critic Louis Finkelstein. He asked if Finkelstein would be willing
Other exhibits at Strohl and Fowler- Kellogg art centers this summer have featured splashes of bright colors — some pink in a couple paintings or sculptures, a little red in others. One exhibit opening today,
Judy Barie, Susan and Jack Turben Director of Galleries, has been considering putting together a craft-centered show for a long time. “I think craft has just risen to a whole new level,” Barie said. “It
Sharon Louden’s publisher approached her about writing a book back in 2011. Louden wasn’t comfortable doing so herself, but instead chose to “invite 40 artists to start a conversation about how they sustain their creative
Lace is the element weaving together the pieces in “Ties That Bind,” but visitors won’t find much of it in the new exhibit. They will, however, see zip ties comprising a piece called “Mostly Cloudy”
Last Monday morning, a sea of neon-clad students from Milton J. Fletcher Elementary School in Jamestown squinted in the sun outside Strohl Art Center. The building was “closed for installation” according to signs on the doors,
Strohl Art Center won’t open its doors until Sunday, but the VACI Gallery Store will hold its first-ever grand opening 6 p.m. Saturday. Along with what store manager Lynn LeFauve estimated were “well over 2,000” items,
Around 150 artists submitted 450 pieces for the 61st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, which opens to the public at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 24. in Fowler-Kellogg Art Center. There are only 26 on