The first program of its type, the Arts Writers Program was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to
a vital artistic culture.
Not exact matches
His juxtaposition of opposing elements and sentiments — the comically grotesque with highbrow
culture, anger with affection — earned him national acclaim and helped to establish San Francisco as a
vital center for
artistic creativity.
Culture was changing so much; it was in such a state of upheaval, that one could not even count on the
vital artistic drive to produce easily recognizable art work.
Featuring Curt McDowell, Tom Rubnitz and Robert Ford, with Seth Bogart, Rafa Esparza, Aimee Goguen + Brontez Purnell Press release excerpt: «Through expressive self - portraiture, utopian world making, and scene charting «zine
cultures, the materials assembled in «THINGS» evince the intensely
vital and political potential of craft to reflect the world as it appears or is perceived at immensely personal moments of
artistic reflection.»
It is a
vital forum for the advanced
artistic culture of our time that offers an exceptional facility and professional support to diverse living artists while engaging equally diverse audiences in their work.
The dramatic crisis in European
culture drew American artists closer to the spirit of continental modernism, and migration of European intellectuals and artists to these shores renewed
vital artistic contacts that had lain moribund for many years.