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Artist Sketched Fellow Passengers On The Ferry In Amsterdam In A Tiny Sketchbook

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Her multimedia art project, Faces on the Ferry, marked her return to the world of fine arts and captured the attention of Het Parool, Flow Magazine, and The Guardian. She also writes and illustrates her own books, most recently Texas Tracts. She co-founded creative collective Therewise Enterprises with her husband, J.C.

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“Suburbia”: The Melancholic and Mythological Artworks by Carlos Barahona Possollo

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Degree in Painting, final mark of 18/20, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Lisbon University. He was officially commissioned to paint the Portrait of the Portuguese president Cavaco Silva, shown at the Presidents’ Gallery permanent collection in the Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, since 2016.

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Cheryl D. Miller Forged the Path Towards a More Inclusive Design Industry

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That seminal work, subsequently published by Print magazine in 1987 under the headline “ Black Designers: Missing in Action ,” catalyzed a discourse around diversity and inclusion in the design industry that continues to unfold in conference talks, hiring decisions, statements of purpose, and the makeup of AIGA’s national and chapter leadership.

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Florence Henri: the forgotten female pioneer of surreal photography

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This photo was published in the avant-garde magazine i10. Atlas Gallery | Fine Art Photography. 2016, March 2). The Museum of Modern Art. Self-portrait in a mirror, Florence Henri, 1928 (Bunyan, 2014) In the photo, the drawing board occupies more than half of the space, becoming the main subject. Www.artsy.net.

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Remembering Bob Gill: “There’s no such thing as a bad client”

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He later studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before moving to New York. Early professional work included illustrations for magazines such as Esquire and Seventeen. Gill was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931, where he was raised by his mother.

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Skate culture: No comply

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Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer Reece Leung – Vaughan Jones (2015) In one of my first ‘proper’ fine art classes in about 2011 we were given a brief for a new project; it was simply called “Passions and Obsessions”. Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. The everything.

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Photographers Celebrate Black History, from the 1920s to Now

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Gordon Parks, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Pictures That Changed the World As LIFE magazine’s first Black photojournalist, Gordon Parks spent years documenting the Civil Rights Movement and the unseen, sometimes deeply private, moments that unfolded behind the scenes.