Not exact matches
I spent the first 13
years of my professional life doing what was more akin to
art than to business:
commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.
A street artist that used to sneak into the rail yards
years ago to create
art illegally was now
commissioned to produce a massive piece for BCG, bringing things full circle.
We
commission art, music etc on the Bible and last
year we focused on sheep passages for a month.
170
year - old paper innovators, James Cropper and heritage clothing brand, Thomas Pink joined forces to
commission a stunning paper bar and set of paper drinking accessories, designed to stand as a centrepiece in the hallowed halls of London's Institute of Contemporary
Arts (ICA) during the London Collections fashion event.
Earlier this
year, Gemak was awarded a contract to manufacture and
commission a state - of - the -
art continuous yogurt processing plant at Llaeth y Llan, Village Dairy where Gareth Roberts and his family have been producing superb, award winning yogurts since the «80s.
For this
year's edition of Vendemmia d'Artista, the
art project that Ornellaia launched in 2009 to revive, in a modern key, the Renaissance tradition and cultural value of artistic
commissions, the winery selected Canadian artist Rodney Graham to interpret L'Infinito (Infinity), the quality that characterises Ornellaia 2011.
The winning photograph will be enlarged and framed, with costs to be paid by the
Arts Commission, and will be displayed for approximately one
year and possibly longer in the Village Hall.
The California State Athletic
Commission has revoked upstate native Jon Jones» mixed martial
arts license and fined him $ 205,000 after his failed doping test last
year.
The state Athletic
Commission has finalized its draft rules for mixed martial
arts, pro bouts of which were legalized by the state Legislature earlier this
year.
«Looking forward, the
Arts Council's two major policy initiatives, the 25 -
year Creative Talent Plan and the Durham
Commission on Creativity and Education, will be exploring the importance of culture in young people's lives, and make proposals to government on unlocking creativity in children through education.»
UHMS received a $ 50,000 grant for each of six
years to work with the Connecticut
Commission on the
Arts.
Produced by Artichoke and
commissioned by 14 - 18 NOW, the UK's
arts programme for the First World War centenary, PROCESSIONS will commemorate 100
years since the first women in the UK won the vote.
This two
year study examined the impact that
arts integration has on the academic performance of 4,275 students enrolled in Mississippi public elementary schools and 1,172 students enrolled in Catholic elementary schools that are currently participating in the Mississippi Arts Commission's Whole Schools Initiat
arts integration has on the academic performance of 4,275 students enrolled in Mississippi public elementary schools and 1,172 students enrolled in Catholic elementary schools that are currently participating in the Mississippi
Arts Commission's Whole Schools Initiat
Arts Commission's Whole Schools Initiative.
For eight
years Francisco served on the Nevada Athletic
Commission which regulates boxing and mixed martial
arts.
Since then, BMW has
commissioned seventeen more
art cars, starting with Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol and continuing in more recent
years with David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, and Jeff Koons.
1989 marked a milestone for the
Art Car program, as it was the first instance where BMW
commissioned two examples in a single
year — both based off race - spec forms of its awesome first - generation M3.
Accomplishments Independent Publisher Book Award (Bronze) for BLOOD OF A STONE in the national category of religious fiction Finalist for 2015 Independent Author Network Book of the
Year Awards for BLOOD OF A STONE Fellowships from Ragdale and the Arizona
Commission on the
Arts MFA in Writing, Vermont College of Fine
Arts 1st place, WOW!
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«I have used Fine
Art America for just over a
year now and have netted $ 787 in sales
commissions on prints.
«Real Fake» is one of the five new artworks installed along the Riverwalk as part of the city's
Year of Public
Art — a $ 1.5 million initiative to
commission artists to create new works for spaces across Chicago.
The artist will also present new work
commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary
Art, Miami, for the opening of its new building later this
year.
Bowring served as staff and commissioner, as well as chair, of the Public
Art Commission for a total of 12
years.
For this
year's edition of Nuit blanche à Montréal, DHC /
ART Education has
commissioned interdisciplinary creation company projets hybris to stage thegiftsofthegifted, a performative and interactive intervention in response to the exhibitions L'OFFRE and Bill Viola: Naissance à rebours, presented at DHC /
ART until March 11.
Screening footage of over 20 selected
commissions that debuted as part of the Performa biennial, this display exhibits significant performance works from the past decade and examines the impact that the organisation has had on the development of live
art over the past twelve
years.
In 2014, the Imperial College Healthcare Charity
Art Collection
commissioned the artist to make a permanent 56 - meter mural, her first for 27
years, for St Mary's Hospital, London; the work was installed on the 10th floor of the hospital's Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Wing, joining two others for the 8th and 9th floors completed by Riley more than 20
years earlier.
This
year our partners will present over 36 exhibitions across 25 venues, combining ambitious presentations of Scottish & international contemporary
art with landmark
art historical survey shows & newly
commissioned work.
With beautiful galleries, exhibitions, artist
commissions, collection displays, historic archives, education resources, inspiring
art courses, café / bar and bookshop, the Gallery is open all
year round, so there is always something free to see.
In the same
year Ms. Gibson - Hunter was awarded the Artist Fellowship Program Grant, from the DC
Commission of the
Arts and Humanities.
With beautiful galleries, exhibitions, artist
commissions, collection displays, historic archives, education resources, inspiring
art courses, dining room and bookshop, the Gallery is open all
year round, so there is always something free to see.
Most recently, Labyrinth, 2013, a major and permanent
commission for
Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150
years of the London Underground.
Atlanta Contemporary is a participating institution in Pledges of Allegiance, a nationwide,
year - long public
art project featuring a serialized
commission of flags created by acclaimed artists and presented by New York - based public
art nonprofit Creative Time.
The paintings depict the two eldest sons of banker and
art collector William Forbes, and were
commissioned when the boys were around seven
years of age between 1809 and 1811.
«This
year, artist Alan Kane has been invited to devise an exciting new work for Tate Britain's Christmas
art commission.
Armory Focus is an invitational section on Pier 94 that spotlights the artistic landscape of a different region each
year, bringing together influential galleries, artists and
art professionals to present unique geographic and cultural perspectives via gallery presentations, special projects, a dedicated symposium and the annual Armory Artist
Commission.
At
Art Basel, the Karachi - based Gandhara
Art gallery dedicated half of its booth to works that Toronto's Aga Khan Museum
commissioned from the artist for its inaugural exhibition last
year.
Commissioned by Qatar Museums, contemporary artist CAI Guo - Qiang has devoted three
years to the curatorial research and development of the large - scale exhibition What About the
Art?
The
Arts Now: LA County Arts Education Summit marked 15 years of coordinated efforts in arts education for the County, and was co-presented by the LA County Arts Ed Collective, the California Alliance for Arts Education, Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commiss
Arts Now: LA County
Arts Education Summit marked 15 years of coordinated efforts in arts education for the County, and was co-presented by the LA County Arts Ed Collective, the California Alliance for Arts Education, Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commiss
Arts Education Summit marked 15
years of coordinated efforts in
arts education for the County, and was co-presented by the LA County Arts Ed Collective, the California Alliance for Arts Education, Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commiss
arts education for the County, and was co-presented by the LA County
Arts Ed Collective, the California Alliance for Arts Education, Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commiss
Arts Ed Collective, the California Alliance for
Arts Education, Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commiss
Arts Education,
Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County Arts Commiss
Arts for LA and the Los Angeles County
Arts Commiss
Arts Commission.
Developed by the San Francisco
Arts Commission, a city agency, the Treasure Island plan entails spending nearly $ 50 million on artwork over a 20 -
year period, with funding during that time coming from a «1 percent for
art» program that collects a fraction of the new project's costs from the island's developers.
In 2011, she was granted a fellowship in sculpture by the New York Foundation for the
Arts, and two
years later her work was
commissioned among sixteen others by nonprofit contemporary
art organization YARAT for Love Me Love Me Not, an exhibition held during the 55th Venice Biennale.
Although Smith has worked with glass for 20
years, she has refocused on the medium though recent public
commissions, including her
Art Production Fund installation of 2012, Kiki Smith's Chorus, and the 16 - foot East Window for the Museum at Eldridge Street / Eldridge Street Synagogue, both in New York and from 2012.
2010 British Council Collection: Thresholds: 9 January — 14 March 2010 Melanie Manchot: Celebration (Cyprus Street): 13 January — 14 March 2010
Art in the Auditorium: Charly Nijensohn and Nova Paul: 21 January — 18 April 2010 Where Three Dreams Cross: 150
Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: 21 January — 11 April 2010 John Latham: Anarchive: 2 April — 5 September 2010
Art in the Auditoirum: Lars Laumann and Aïda Ruilova: 20 April — 5 July 2010 Robbrecht and Daem: Pacing Through Architecture: 24 April — 20 June 2010 Rachel Harrison: Conquest of the Useless: 30 April — 20 June 2010 The Bloomberg
Commission: Claire Barclay: Shadow Spans: 26 May 2010 — 1 May 2011 Artists in Residence: The School Looks Around: 10 June — 2 August 2010 Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: Act 1: The Corporeal.
Her work has been shown at the New
Art Exchange (Nottingham), Victoria & Albert (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), National Portrait Gallery (London), IKON gallery (Birmingham), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona),
Art Dubai (Dubai), Centre d'
Art Contemporain (Geneva), Palazzo Papesse (Siena), and this
year she will be presenting a new
commission at the 56th Venice Biennale.
In recent
years the gallery activities have expanded to encompass
art - advisory services for larger projects in collaboration with architects and to handling
commissions for public sculpture.
The following
year, she received a sculpture
commission from fashion designer Pierre Cardin and represented the United States in the first World Festival of Negro
Arts held in Dakar, Senegal.
Recent site - specific
commissions include: An Accident Looking for Somewhere to Happen for
Art Across the City, Swansea, 2012 and This Time Next
Year Things Are Going To Be Different for The Tatton Park Biennial, Tatton Park, Cheshire, 2010.
Recent group exhibitions include «Fifty
Years of Bay Area
Art: The SECA Awards» at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, CA; «Drawing the Line» at The Boston Center for the
Arts, Boston, MA; «Exonome» at the Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco, CA; «Selections from the Collection,» BAM / PFA, Berkeley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; «Regarding Truth, An Exhibition of Work by Artadia Award Winners» at the California College of the
Arts, San Francisco, CA; «Hair Rising» at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary
Art, San Jose, CA; «2004 SECA
Art Award» at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, CA; «Wall - to - Wall» at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; «In My Empire Life is Sweet» at DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY; «Next New» at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary
Art, San Jose, CA; «
Commission» 04» at the San Francisco
Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA; «Warped Space» at CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary
Arts, San Francisco, CA; «Cream» at ArtsBenicia, Benicia, CA; «Comers... up and 2» at Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, CA; «M.F.A. Exhibition» at Mills College
Art Museum, Oakland, CA; «Graduating Student Exhibition» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «Post-Baccalaureate Class Exhibition» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «S.M.F.A. Annual Juried Exhibition» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «Post-Bac» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «B.F.A. Honors Student Exhibition» at the Cleveland Institute of
Art, Cleveland, OH; «Graduating Students Exhibition» at the Cleveland Institute of
Art, Cleveland, OH; «Collective Sculpture Exhibition» at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; and «Collective Drawing Exhibition,» Leon, Spain.
This
year, Bernhardt will present a
commissioned project at the Lever House
Art Collection in New York.
Awarded in the magazine's 40th - anniversary
year, the $ 100,000 grant from grant will go to support the print magazine, the
Art Papers Live public talk series,
Art Papers Learn, an artist project
commission series, and an exhibitions program.
In July 2015, Carl Marin completed Home Range (pictured above), a $ 30,000 four -
year long Percent for
Art commission at the recently renov
As a way of honoring those collectors who have made generous gifts to the Museum in recent
years,
Arts & Letters
commissioned a new song by renowned composer Robert Beaser and poet Daniel Mark Epstein entitled Vision at Dawn, which premiered at this event.