Author Archives: artstudio

in the pop-up: ‘The Beauty of Wood’ puts handcarved, exotic wood on display

By Eleanor Skelton Woodcarving has been Richard Spinney’s hobby for half a century. He creates both abstract and more realistic pieces with all types of wood. He carves and his wife paints some of his finished pieces. “I just finished a couple of seagulls, and they’re about half life-size,” he said. “We’re doing a flying

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Allegory of Light by Travis Walthall

“Recalibration of Realities” embraces dream-like contemporary surrealism with schizoid space journey, and apocalyptic strangeness of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Eleanor Skelton People often process difficult circumstances through art. The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s vibe that the world we knew is over is filtering through our collective consciousness into the art world.  These are the main themes that surface in a new show at The Art Studio, coming this fall.  “Recalibration of Realities” will

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New Historiography for Black Excellence: Jamal Cyrus “The End of My Beginning” at the Blaffer Art Museum

by Caitlin Duerler Chávez At the 1900 Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Dubois presented an award-winning display of “data portraits”—colorful depictions of demographics of African Americans post-slavery through the turn of the century. Information such as the large concentration of Black people in southern states and the total value of their financial assets were illustrated in a

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