Sentences with phrase «find artistic work»

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«This popular and fun event gives our youth the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents and serves as a fantastic opportunity for them to experience one of the jewels of Oneida County — the Munson - Williams - Proctor Art Institute,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Our Youth Bureau continues to work with municipalities, agencies and school districts to provide safe, positive and innovative programming, striving to find each child's niche where he or she can be successful.»

«This popular and fun event gives our children the opportunity to showcase their artistic talent, as the Oneida County Youth Bureau continues to work with municipalities, agencies and school districts to provide safe, positive and innovative programming, striving to find each child's niche where he or she can be successful,» Picente added.

«This event gives our children the opportunity to showcase their artistic talent, as the Oneida County Youth Bureau continues to work with municipalities, agencies and school districts to provide safe, positive and innovative programming, striving to find each child's niche where he or she can be successful,» Picente added.

Inner Fire was founded three years ago with the sole purpose of saving lives by offering the choice to avoid or taper safely off these addictive drugs by engaging in proactive, artistic therapies and physical, practical work in a supportive community.

Inner Fire was founded in 2013 and started in Brookline in 2015 with the sole purpose of saving lives «by offering the choice to avoid or taper safely off addictive psychotropic medications by engaging in proactive artistic therapies and physical, practical work in a supportive community.»

And now back to your regularly scheduled program... I've been rather busy painting the attic and laundry rooms this week, but I did find just a little time for some more artistic work, and I'm excited to share it with you.

Working with perceptive writer David Magee (Finding Neverand), Ang Lee creates one of the most thoughtful, artistic blockbusters ever made by a Hollywood studio.

As many struggling artistic folk may find after taking three weeks off work to attend 60 films in between bed - ridden bouts of the flu, I have been exhausted and poor in equal measure and have spent much of the last week and a half resting and working so that my sad, sorry bank account doesn't feel too ignored.

When those characteristics bleed together, Hitchcock is at its most illuminating about its subject, and when Alma enters the picture in the final act in her full capacity as a partner to her husband at work as well as at home, the film really finds its stride as an examination of passionate people fighting tooth - and - nail for their artistic satisfaction.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

You can expect to find intelligent discussions associated with literary periods and movements; major and minor authors and their works; and potential connections and relationships with other artistic movements and periods (e.g., music, visual arts, architecture, etc.).

I'm a literary writer and a literary reader and that's what I love from an artistic perspective but you'll find from my resume that I do enjoy digital media and how it's changing and how it works.

Being an artistic person, I found using a storyboard for my outline works for developing my childrens fiction novels.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

No matter what she puts her mind to in the artistic realm, be it drawing, photography, sprite work, or anything else, Jes somehow finds a way to make it look awesome.

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

The pattern on the carpet was toned down and as a result, we «found» a background that was entirely authentic from the family's point of view but complementary and non-intrusive from an artistic perspective and compositionally, it worked well.

Charity Malin, an abstract and minimalist artist working almost exclusively with found textiles, says that having an audience and a deadline aids her artistic process.

Manister's artistic worldview and method is underpinned by the humanist vision of the older generation, but his commitment to forging an individual practice is not hampered by the same kind of high - seriousness and obdurate self - belief often found with other painters working «after the fall.»

I'm a disabled theatre artist that is 48 and still working as artistic director at the theatre I founded in a major city (in flyover country) for the last 25 years.

Although his work was rooted in the same basic principles and ideas as that of the Abstract Expressionists, many of whom he exhibited alongside in the 1940s, Seliger found a distinctly personal voice and artistic vocabulary.

His work seeks to find a common ground in artistic experiences through a pastiche of styles and mediums.

This exhibition puts the Gee's Bend quilts in context by featuring the work of master quilt maker Mary Lee Bendolph and those she influenced, accompanied by the art of artists working in the found - object tradition who are part of her artistic sphere, including Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley.

Even so, his work is meaningfully, and indeed crucially, connected to important activities, movements, and genres of American artistic production — sculptural assemblage using found objects, appropriation of existing text and image, institutional critique, the politics of representation, performance — and, moreover, to the colonial history and political struggles of the country.

By 1958, however, as Sylvester later confessed, he found Bacon's most recent work to be so inferior that he felt «totally disillusioned about him».21 The sudden and edifying appearance of Bomberg on the critic's artistic radar that same year was, therefore, surely bound up with this contemporaneous crisis of confidence.

Then she moved to New York City and found her own artistic voice, working alongside David Hare and Mark Rothko who taught her at the experimental school The Subjects of the Artist.

Explore these works and, who knows, you might find something that touches your own artistic soul.

«The Young Masters exhibition highlights the artistic talent and creativity of these young students, whose skills have been cultivated and developed through hard work with experienced AP teachers,» remarked Edith O'Donnell, who founded the program in 1994.

With a particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal works that provide an overview of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns of artists in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity, struggling for freedom of expression and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art.

The two works on paper specialists are united by their love of drilling down into one area of artistic practice and finding resonances across the centuries.

Most recently, Havel has begun engaging other aspects of his personal self into the work by casting books found in his library, choosing those that relate closely to his own artistic practice.

In just five years — from the point in 1949 that the exhibit's curator, Walter Hopps, identifies as Rauschenberg's first artistic maturity until 1954, just before the first «combine» paintings that were to make him famous — the artist worked in paint, sculpture made of found objects, collage, and photography.

Founded in 2012, the Dallas based artist collective The Art Foundation works to cultivate artistic dialogue through their exhibitions, interventions, and the written word.

Her artistic practice has recently focused on producing works that incorporate found fabrics as well as new textiles, which the artist stretches on wooden frames to create organic and almost painterly compositions that oscillate between transparency and density, foreground and background.

«Transformer» continues Gortner's exploration of artistic production through works that incorporate both original and found elements.

A: Aside from the focus on artistic practice and rigor, I also think it is important not to shy away from pertinent political and social topics, but rather find ways to have work that critically embraces the moment.

ConFab is a series workshops and discussions designed to inspire innovative strategies for producing and presenting artistic works and projects; and facilitate discussions on how to collaborate, access resources, find your public, and re - boot / re-fresh careers.

At A+P, McMillian, whose artistic practice embodies a wide range of media and techniques, will discuss how he manipulates a multitude of materials, including those found in his everyday life, to create striking sculptural works, paintings, and videos that challenge the relationships between language, aesthetics and content.

We found the most inspiring artistic production and growth among those young artists who have dived into the multitude of possibilities offered by conceptually based works.

In this series of informal workshops, together we will work to find ways to derive meaning, create specificity, and offer more clarity and grounding in individual artistic practice, through writing exercises, readings, and wide - ranging discussions.

In contrast with the technical limitations of working with a camera, Kearney found that collage offers a less restrained realm of artistic practice; the challenge in collage comes in the infinite number of possible configurations of the subjects.

Jean - Luc Moulène's works are founded on a varied artistic analysis of life based on the aesthetics of commodities and the reproduction tendencies of their respective times.

But it wasn't until the 1900s that artists began to incorporate found objects into sculptural works as an artistic gesture.

In addition to his artistic work, Jan founded and directs PS, a highly - regarded exhibition space and program based in Amsterdam.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Birch has made the persistence of the city's African - American culture his life's work, through both his individual artistic practice and his involvement with community organizations, including the Porch, which Birch helped found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Rose belongs to a local Art Group which meets once a week and it is here that she has developed her other artistic endeavours which include painting — her paintings have found their way into public spaces and she continues to work with paint which has led her to pursue another new artistic project of Collage work which includes her paintings and collage — mixed media work and pieces of her published poetry.

Along her artistic practice exploring female subjectivity through photo and video works, she is the founding director of Franklin Furnace, an artist - run space founded in 1976 supporting the exploration, promotion, and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works.

In addition to her artistic work, Grabner and her husband, artist Brad Killam, founded and direct the experimental exhibition spaces The Suburban (Oak Park, IL) and The Poor Farm (Manawa, WI).

Founded in Beirut in 1993, Ashkal Alwan is committed to the production, research, and circulation of contemporary artistic and intellectual practices, through initiatives such as Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices (2002), a multidisciplinary platform bringing together artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and choreographers, for a public program of exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances, as well as the Home Workspace Program (2011), an annual tuition - free art - study program.