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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. ” Jah Defender, Demond Melancon, 2020 Photo: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbe. I like to listen to podcasts and art interviews, or I’m listening to my reggae music.

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Best of 2020: Top 10 Architecture Projects of the Year

Azure Magazine

In January, our pre-pandemic selection of 10 striking projects to shape architecture in 2020 looked ahead to a very different future. From hospitals and schools to affordable homes and civic hubs, these are the architecture projects that drew our eye – and lifted our spirits – in 2020: Bevan Road Terrace, London, U.K.,

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

Lee Alumni Centre and Ponderosa Hub, both at the University of British Columbia (UBC); Ottawa’s Global Centre for Pluralism for the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada; the Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan; and the recently completed Harrison McCain Pavilion for Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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Saskatchewan’s Art Now Fine Art Fair Celebrates a Thriving Creative Milieu

Azure Magazine

And while the Remai museum remains a beacon, a rich array of independent galleries and artists spans the province — with the community converging for this month’s much-anticipated Art Now Fine Art Fair. Now in its sixth edition, the free annual fair brings a coalition of local galleries into the national spotlight.

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Picks of the month: the best (at home) design events in February

Design Week

The virtual landscape is dotted with “structures of diverse programs and aesthetics” Users contribute to this environment by travelling between locations: visiting the kitchens, for example to leave behind recipes, or the forest to share or learn lessons in wildlife or scavenging. Collect 2021, Crafts Council.

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Here’s What We’re Excited to See at EXPO CHICAGO 2024

Colossal

Photo by Justin Barbin Next week marks the biggest and busiest art week of the year in Colossal’s back yard, EXPO CHICAGO returns to the Navy Pier from April 11 to 14 with hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and satellite programming across the city. Gio Swaby with Claire Oliver Gallery , booth #356.

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Jon Key Explores What It Means to Search For Identity as a Black Queer Designer

Eye on Design

How many Black people were in their university program? In early 2020 (pre-pandemic), my graphic design studio Morcos Key , which I run with my husband Wael Morcos, shared our work in a lunch-style lecture series to Yale MFA students. How do these objects pass into art/institutional and gallery spaces?