Sentences with phrase «career as an artist in»

Episodic passages reveal how her flourishing talent is first recognized by her principal and later by a county - art - fair overseer, who persuades Savage to pursue a career as an artist in New York City.

Born in Philadelphia in 1900, Alice Neel trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and carved out a career as an artist in New York, often in difficult circumstances.

She established her career as an artist in New York, living in the Coenties Slip neighbourhood alongside fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana and Lenore Tawney.

Kay WalkingStick's honorary degree will be conferred in recognition of her accomplishments through her 47 - year career as an artist in work that has encompassed paintings, drawings, sculptures, and notebooks.

Through a competitive application process, 12 artists who demonstrate both success and potential to have a working career as an artist in Atlanta will be selected for this year - long program.

Through a competitive application process, 12 artists who demonstrate both success and potential to have a working career as an artist in Atlanta are selected for this year - long program.

Through a competitive application process, 12 artists who demonstrate both success and potential to have a working career as an artist in Atlanta are selected for this yearlong program.

The work of Bolivian artist Fabricio Lara started his career as an artist in the 1990's.

While working in the Philadelphia education system, Freelon continued to pursue a career as an artist in his own right.

As a young man he traveled to Paris to work with sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and he went on to develop his own unique career as an artist in New York.

Hiroyuki Doi, who was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1946, began his career as an artist in 1980 after the death of his younger brother.

From these unpromising beginnings, he forged a career as an artist in Taiwan, Italy, London and, for the latter part of his life, Cumbria in the North of England.

The 1979 death of Holley's niece and nephew in a house fire led him to carve their tombstones, which marked the beginning of his career as an artist in Birmingham, Alabama.

When Amado began his career as an artist in the early 1990s, he was a big fan of Minimalism, which he still admires to this day.

She returned to her career as an artist in 1989, through the medium of ceramics sculpture.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1978 and then worked as a commercial photographer for Polaroid until he began his career as an artist in 1982.

Spartaco began his career as an artist in 1981.

After his discharge, Morris began his career as an artist in San Francisco, producing paintings in the style of abstract expressionism.

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This attitude enabled original programming such as «Behind the Music» and «The Real World» to eventually blossom and gave artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince a national stage at early points in their careers.

Starbucks has also become a champion of emerging artists such as John Legend, Madeleine Peyroux and Fleet Foxes, introducing customers to these musicians at an early point in their careers.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Peter Voogd meets with entertainer, entrepreneur and record label CEO Nyzzy Nyce to discuss his career as a creative artist and what it took him to build his legacy.

A game is played, a picture is painted, or a garden is cultivated, and each activity is regarded by the amateur as a complete experience, rounded out within minutes, hours, or months, as the case may be, while for the worker — in the parallel cases of professional player, artist, or farmer — these achievements are but incidents within a continuous career.

«I had this whole music career — or something resembling a career — in my 20s, and I did interviews,» he says, referencing his days as a solo artist and the drummer for the indie - folk band Fleet Foxes.

Hilligoss spent much of his early career in the music industry and show business in Nashville where he sang on the Grand Ole Opry, toured with headline artists like Alan Jackson and Louise Mandrell, and worked as a producer / director for entertainment attractions giant Opryland U.S.A.

The documentary film, Lost in Living from film - maker, Mary Trunk follows four women artists over seven years as they combine motherhood with their art careers and it will be streaming for free over this Mother's Day weekend (9 - 11 May).

I founded LVanHart Artist Productions in 1997, a company that manages the careers of world - class jazz musicians who travel the globe as performers, educators and ambassadors of this uniquely American art form.

I.V.: As the economic world is changing, both scientists and artists share this uncertainty in their career paths.

I was the primary caretaker of our three kids, I worked as an artist, and I worked side - by - side with my husband in his career.

In my early career, I worked as an opera singer, actress, model, and voiceover artist in New York City, which certainly taught me a thing or two about the importance of self - care and maintaining a positive self - image, regardless of what life throws my waIn my early career, I worked as an opera singer, actress, model, and voiceover artist in New York City, which certainly taught me a thing or two about the importance of self - care and maintaining a positive self - image, regardless of what life throws my wain New York City, which certainly taught me a thing or two about the importance of self - care and maintaining a positive self - image, regardless of what life throws my way.

Junaid Jamshed after his career as an artist and singer was blessed with this opportunity to change his life in a good way, so after that he appeared as a fashion designer.

A source told us Vincent is seeking the house and a sizeable settlement in the divorce, arguing that he gave up aggressively pursuing his career as an artist to stay at home and allow her to develop her successful career.

I am a good natured, creative type individual seeking the same in another... likes to have fun, as well as cultivate the artist career, which I feel would be all the more vital along with a creative and lively girl.

Many popular Christian music artists fall within multiple musical categories, so you may find an artist within Praise & Worship Lyrics as well as in Gospel We manage the performance careers of more than thirty concert organists from the United States and Europe, in addition to offering only the finest British

Seattle, WA About Blog My art practice is rooted in the traditions of contemplative art, influenced greatly by my years as a student of Asian calligraphy and my ongoing design career as a calligrapher and letterform artist.

He began his career as a martial artist at only six years old, when he began to train at Fabiano's Karate School in Holland, Michigan.

Though in the following years, Tom's voice could be heard in a variety of animated releases, onscreen performances in shows like Monk and movies such as Bad Santa proved that the increasingly active voice - over artist was still very much committed to her onscreen career as well.

Though Strouse reportedly based his screenplay on his own difficulties making a name for himself as a playwright early in his career, the film's look into the life of struggling artist Jessica James (Jessica Williams) feels familiar at best.

Irish actor Robert Sheehan delivers a nicely nuanced performance as Picasso's friend, Carles Casagemas, a young artist who could never gain a foothold in his career and whose life spiraled downward in a haze of alcoholism, opium addiction and unrequited love for a young prostitute named Germaine (Emma Appleton).

These are just a few of the fascinating titbits 20 Feet from Stardom offers as it guides us through the highs and lows, struggles and missed opportunities throughout the careers of these artists backing for some of the biggest names in the industry.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Brolin is the male equivalent of those actresses (like Michelle Pfeiffer early in her career) who aren't taken seriously as artists because they're too pretty.

Though 34 - year - old Brie feels like she's been playing catch - up her entire career, she's now a Golden Globe - nominated actor — for her role as a female wrestler in Glow — has a starring role in James Franco's The Disaster Artist and will soon appear in Spielberg's new drama The Post.

Why it's worth watching: Tim Robbins delivers a career - best performance and Morgan Freeman sets himself up as the voiceover artist in every movie made since.

Oscar - winning actress Natalie Portman (Black Swan) joins Vulture Festival for an in - depth, career - spanning conversation about her groundbreaking work as an artist, from stage to screen.

And now here is Hiroyuki Sanada telling us about his incredible career starting out as a martial artist, to breaking barriers at the Royal Shakespeare Company, to conquering film at home in Japan and abroad.

Maud's determination for her art, along with her partnership with Everett, blossoms into a career as a famous folk artist, bringing them closer together in ways they never imagined.

Following one of the performances of his career as Tommy Wiseau in last year's The Disaster Artist, Franco plays the villain in Kin with further appearances from Zoë Kravitz and Dennis Quaid, to name a few.

It's only as the movie charges into its comparatively disastrous midsection that the viewer's interest begins to wane, with the pervasive emphasis on Valentin's downfall (ie the character loses his career, his house, his wife, etc, etc) lending the proceedings a palpably stagnant feel that persists right up until around the one - hour mark - after which point The Artist slowly - but - surely recovers in the build - up to its admittedly engaging (and appropriately feel - good) finale.

Founded in 2001 by composer Elmer Bernstein, the Film Music Foundation has supported the Film Music Program since 2013, which aims to foster greater appreciation for film composition and greater diversity among artists who are pursuing film composition as a viable, sustainable career path and an opportunity to reach wide audiences.

«The Wolf of Wall Street» If the mark of a truly significant artist is their ability to continually provoke and outrage viewers in their later years instead of falling into a complacent rut, then Scorsese once again proved himself to be a provocateur for the ages with this jaw - dropping, eye - popping depiction of the true story of a crafty little weasel (Leonardo Di Caprio in what now stands as the performance of his career) who created a billion dollar empire out of selling crappy penny stocks and subsequently rode it into the ground in a blaze of greed, hubris and more cocaine than «Scarface» and «Boogie Nights» combined.