Amanda Sieradzki, Council on Culture & Arts Published 12:56 p.m. ET March 13, 2021 CLOSE LaVerne Wells-Bowie created fabric artwork of Bessie Smith for virtual exhibit. (Photo: Provided by LaVerne Wells-Bowie) “I’ve always wanted to use the past and make present statements,” says artist and architect LaVerne Wells-Bowie. Locked up in […]
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virtual art exhibit at Turkel House in Detroit
The Dorothy Turkel house, one of Detroit’s most unique homes and the only one in the city’s limits designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has opened its doors for a rare peek inside as part of a virtual art exhibit, but you’d better move fast before it closes Saturday. SITE: […]
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Collaborative online exhibit puts Osher library on the map
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education is already well known to map scholars and historians for its collection of some 500,000 maps, dating back to 1475. But, in September, the 26-year-old Portland institution added to its national reputation through its inclusion in an online collaboration called […]
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Online Exhibit At Harvard’s Peabody Museum Elevates Wampanoag Voices
It’s been four centuries since Europeans first arrived on the shores of southeastern Massachusetts, but the people they met have called the region home for 12,000 years. And while for many, the arrival of the Pilgrims to the “New World” is something to remember in celebration, for others, it’s another […]