HAF member and artist, Cher Shaffer, has reworked a pair of boots. What began as a pair of plain leather moccasins is transformed into a landscape of mythical symbols — figures and shapes, bears, trees, lightning bolts, and a medicine wheel for healing. The large wolf icon represents Cher’s Native American ancestry. In addition to working on traditional canvas, Cher […]
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On July 17, 2016, photographer Spencer Tunick, USA, will be photographing 100 nude women in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio. What makes the timing of this shoot most unusual is that it will take place at sunrise, the day before the Republican National Convention. The women will each be holding mirrors as the shutter of Spencer’s camera engages;
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The long anticipated opening took place on May 19, 2016 at the Cowell theater in the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. The works of 19 international Global Art Project (GAP) artists are on display as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Dada arts movement. The featured
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Celebrate the opening of Vanessa German’s MATRIX 174 exhibition, “i come to do a violence to the lie,” on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. German — sculptor, actress, playwright, and educator — will perform her unique style of Spoken Word Opera, a vibrant hybrid of spoken word poetry combining the theatrical elements
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This is the 2nd wave of WOI’s Living Wall, featuring the visual artworks of Anwar Djuliadi, DP Arsa, Kaprus, and Oka Astawa. This is a progressive art exhibition (with artists conversations) held at Bloo Art Space at the Bloo Lagoon Resort in Padang Bai, a small town in Bali. The exhibition opens May 20 at 4pm and closes on
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Sage Gallon’s lifelong journey through addiction and other challenges has afforded him the opportunity to share his story with his art along with words that could be a source of encouragement for many of us that are living or have lived under similarly riveting circumstances. Rarely do we dare to talk about the dark side, but Sage
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Zurich is not the only city going gaga over Dada this year! During the 2016 San Francisco International Arts Festival, the artists, performers, musicians, videographers, and other creative types collectively present the imaginative results of being challenged to move beyond the Duchampian idea of ‘retinal’ art for the purpose of connecting and engaging a contemporary audience
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18 Indonesian artists will explore an ongoing dialog on identity in the Wall of Indonesia (WOI), a progressive art exhibition. The Living Wall is a white wall in Bloo Art Space at the Bloo Lagoon Resort (located in Bali) that will gradually be filled with dozens of artworks from Indonesian artists. The WOI project will be presented in 4 ‘waves.’ The first wave opens on Saturday
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Akiko Suzuki, Japan, is an award-winning fiber artist whose practice has pioneered the forward movement of the Contemporary Art Quilt. Most recently, in 2015, Akiko was awarded the Quilt Nihon Exhibition’s Reiko Sudo Award in Japan. Surprisingly, Japan’s introduction to the Western traditional quilt took place only in the 1970s, adding another layer to the rich tapestry of Asian interpretations
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HAF in the gallery: Turay Mederic, Morocco Turay Mederic was born in Ivory Coast, educated in USA and Ivory Coast and spent most of his childhood in Washington DC. “I have those two combination of cultures struggling in my soul. I think my paintings reflect that because you can see something very African in them,
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HAF new artist: Bouvy Endobo, Kinshasa Bouvy is both painter and sculptor, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa in the late 1990’s. He employs an innovative approach in terms of technical, thematic and color palette. He was born into a family of artists, including his father Modste Enkobo, sculptor. Bouvy currently
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