Only phase one and phase two of Art from the Heart was introduced this week. The vision of the program is to continue until all areas of the hospital have special art on the walls.
A year ago, as Eric Manuel tells it, a local photographer came into the Henning House with a collection of photos. He'd been photographing interesting things in the area and as he traveled, but he really didn't have a place to display them.
This was a common problem for local artists, Manuel said. He's the creative director at the Henning House, helping to put together art shows with executive director Thom Trahan.
"So I recently added a couple of lyrics to this song because I think it's too short. It's like when you really start to enjoy it it stops. It's like a really bad orgasm. Merry Christmas New York!" she shouted. Later, she made a suggestive pose as she gave a come hither coo to Santa.
The Artisan's Gallery is currently on exhibition at the Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center at 1001 Ryan Street. Their members invite you to join them for a three-day special sale December 1, 2 and 3. This juried fine arts/fine crafts local group will be offering many items in addition to the present exhibit. Come and enjoy some cider and cookies while browsing the Bazaar for the perfect Christmas gift. Cash, checks or credit cards are welcome for purchases.
On Wednesday, November 30, in Room 108 at Central School at 5:30 p.m., the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana will host a free workshop on the economic and cultural benefits of Cultural Districts to Southwest Louisiana. The Louisiana Cultural Districts Program was initiated during the 2007 legislative session to spur community revitalization that focuses on developing cultural activity through tax incentives to local businesses and consumers. Residents and business owners alike benefit from the effects of Cultural Districts, and the public is invited to attend this workshop to better learn the extent of these benefits to our Southwest Louisiana economy.
Making a difference in the arts while supporting Southwest Louisiana businesses just got easier. The Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana, an umbrella organization to the region’s arts and cultural initiatives, is partnering with the new website OurGift to further support both the arts and business industries in the Lake Area which will help stimulate the regional economy.
This is the second year for Cajun Country Live, a NAMHSA approved model horse show with both halter and performance classes. It is being held on October 22 and October 23 at the American Legion Hall Post 208 in Vinton. The show is very similar to a live horse show, only instead of real horses, model horses will be competing. Competitions in many classes will be going on all day on both days. There will be literally thousands of models brought in by over 30 artists from all over the United States.
Joe Mathieu has illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has created thousands of illustrations for Sesame Street books and other products.
Nothing kills the mood before a show like a clunky cell phone announcement or fundraising pitch from the stage.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
I like to think of film critic Roger Ebert as a sieve. When Hollywood releases a film, it's probably going to go through him. And after taking in a flick and sharing his thoughts, his readers are left with just the stuff that they can use - a solid opinion, a little humor, an idea of whether or not they'll be wanting to shell out their money to take a look themselves.
Checklists, writes Boston surgeon and author Atul Gawande in his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” are considered by many to be beneath us. Yet Gawande proves, without a doubt, that checklists — cognitive safety nets — save lives, millions of dollars and untold heartache, whether the task is flying an airplane, building a skyscraper or operating on an adrenal gland.
Bruce Brown of Springfield first discovered comic books as a child. A specialist recommended them to Brown’s parents to help their son overcome some reading difficulties. Now he not only enjoys reading comic books, he writes them, too. Brown’s latest graphic novel, released earlier this year, is “Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom.”
Jonathan Dee’s new critically acclaimed novel “The Privileges” starts with a wedding, impressive for the deft writing that conveys the controlled chaos, the edgy anxieties, the many tensions springing from family members’ vying needs.
In bestselling author Chris Bohjalian’s “Secrets of Eden,” some mysteries untangle themselves as we approach the last pages of his cleverly told novel.
In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.
Daniel Menaker, author and editor, has been thinking a lot about the qualities of good conversation. His new book, “A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation,” is an entertaining, thought-provoking, at times irritating compendium that considers the history, the structure, the process, the value of conversation.
An exhibit of his paintings is on view in “John William Waterhouse, Garden of Enchantment,” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in the only scheduled North American stop of a tour of the paintings.
Erin Hammill selects a pen and leans over a drafting table. On the piece of art paper placed on the table, a picture of a pair of elephants is taking shape. She uses the pen — a 005, with the finest of points — to create a series of dots within the penciled-out sketch of the two animals. And slowly, the baby elephant’s ear begins to fill in, with the dots creating the most subtle of shadings of light and dark. The technique, called stippling, uses dots to create the desired effects within the design.
