ART - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Nana’s Wicker Back

Nancy-Ellen sculpted characters from her book “Nana’s Wicker Back.” The title references the scarring pattern on her own grandmother’s back from whippings as a slave. “These women are bought and…

May 15, 2012

ART ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS

Harajuku meets Lolita – Fashionistas Japan style

At the Japan Society Sakura Sunday Cherry Blossom Festival, Japanese fashion took center stage. Tamagawa Taiko dancers and drummers performed wearing traditional Japanese dress, followed by models wearing fashions inspired…

April 20, 2012

ART ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS

Adirondack chairs melt vacationers

Scott Blunk and his wife, Tyler Art School assistant professor Lisa Kay, redesigned a pair of Adirondack chairs depicting the remains of a fictional vacationing couple who became so relaxed…

March 26, 2012

ART HISTORY INTERNATIONAL

Sackbut – built it, plays it

Nate Wood, a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in trombone, makes his living freelancing with various baroque music groups, mostly in Europe. He also has two of his…

March 5, 2012

ART DISABILITY Elderly

Blind, they sculpt

Michael Gieschen, who lost his vision due to retinitis pigmentosa, sports a tee-shirt emblazoned with a group of walkers under the words “Blinds to Go” the name of his team…

February 16, 2012

ART BUILDINGS NATURE

Skyspace for new Friends Meeting in Chestnut Hill

This is a sky space in Pomona in California and I think these are houses maybe in Connecticut. I’m not quite sure. But his work is all over the…

January 9, 2012

ANIMALS ART EVENTS

Chef sculpts Ice New Year’s Eve

I’m done with all the major cuts. It’s all the way through. Now it’s kind of add feature to the snowflake and know that I only have two feet that…

January 4, 2012

ART Books Education

Brings deconstructed astronomy book to science high school interview

My book is called a deconstruction book and it’s like when you get a plain old book that nobody reads, sits on the shelves at stores and stuff and getting…

December 15, 2011

ART ENVIRONMENT ROXBOROUGH MANAYUNK

Red Riding Hood kills Wolf? SCEE’s Facts and Fables Outdoor Art Exhibit

Diminutive and softspoken artist Jeanne Jaffe spins the "Little Red Riding Hood" tale at the "Stories of the Natural World: Facts and Fables" outdoor art exhibition that just opened at…

June 27, 2011

ART EVENTS

Live brine shrimp, Chuck Connelly and friends at Chestnut Hill Gallery

Artist Chuck Connelly curates the [stunning] Chestnut Hill Gallery show that just opened featuring his oil paintings, the projected light work of Ted Victoria, the lamps and gears of Harry…

June 12, 2011