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'I like to make pieces that make you look twice': Carly Owens on her symbolic embroidery artworks and paintings

Creative Boom

Both of which have fine art and craft cultures that absolutely influenced me growing up," she explains. Black Mountain, for instance, is the home of Black Mountain College, an experimental art school attended by Anni and Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.

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Indigo Design Award 2023 winners: 7 outstanding designs to inspire your own projects

Creative Boom

Want to have your work celebrated and talked about like this, on blogs and in magazines all over the world? Organised in 1971 by community leaders and activists, The Bronx Museum in New York was founded on the belief that art is essential for the path to social justice and that it should be free for the community to experience and enjoy.

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London Design Festival 2021 – exhibitions and trade shows guide

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Exhibition: Against the Grain. Arts platform Fels and Jan Hendzel Studio have collaborated on materials and innovation-focused exhibition Against the Grain. Exhibition: 100 Days of Gratitude. Illustrated prints will also be available to buy at the exhibition at £100 each, with proceeds going towards Endometriosis UK.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

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From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. Bauhaus graphic designers embraced mixed-media collages, vibrant colours, and inventive typography to create posters, advertisements, magazines, and more that broke past conventions.

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Why 'Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage' is a must-read for photographers everywhere

Creative Boom

It's arguable that more than anyone, she transformed the discipline from being purely commercial and functional to becoming an art form in its own right. Her photography career took off in the 1970s when she began working for fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She didn't try to copy what others did to be successful.

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The Intersection of Surrealism, Expressionism, and Philosophy in Photographic Artworks of Esperanza Manzanera

Design You Trust

Esperanza Manzanera, known in the art world as Velmock, is a multifaceted visual artist and high school philosophy teacher based in Granada. Her artistic repertoire includes digital collage, photo editing, and a variety of other techniques that she uses to craft surreal and expressionist images.

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Submissions will be juried by Lauren Rosati, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and Maya Brooks, Assistant Curator, North Carolina Museum of Art. ARTS Southeast’s ON::View Artist Residency Program Featured Applications are now open for the On::View Artist Residency Program in Savannah, Georgia.

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