As the temperature rises throughout the Valley, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) presents a wide range of exciting and diverse events, to keep art lovers cool in a 68-degree museum.
Purchase College, SUNY will hold its 47th annual commencement ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. Degrees will be conferred upon more than 1,000 graduating scholars representing dozens of majors and several countries.
ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE announces its 50th Birthday Gala honoring the people and legacy of EST's Marathon of One-Act Plays. The 50th Birthday Gala will take place on Monday, May 13, 2019 at 6:30PM at the New York Museum of Contemporary Art (528 West 39th Street, 3rd Fl.).
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) announces its summer 2019 exhibitions featuring works from painting and glass to interactive art and video. As SMoCA celebrates its 20th anniversary year, the Museum looks back to the beginning with an exhibition dedicated to glass and looks ahead with an exhibition featuring cutting-edge technology that speaks to SMoCA's history of pushing the boundaries of what art can be.
Queer|Art, NYC's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, is pleased to announce the new Mentors for the 2019-2020 program cycle of Queer|Art|Mentorship (QAM). Applications open May 12th.The Mentorship program is the cornerstone of Queer|Art's activity, providing a platform of support for LGBTQ+ artists focused on creative issues and long-term sustainability of artistic practice. Over the course of a year-long exchange, the program helps to forge new relationships between early-career and established LGBTQ+ artists and curators, bridging professional and social thresholds that often isolate artists by generation and discipline.
Out There, the new thought-provoking concept video album accompanied by a live performance from the art-pop psychedelic band Princess, embarks on the second half of its 40 U.S. city tour. The piece debuted on March 1stat the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and has since been galvanizing audiences across the country. Princess, embodied by artists Alexis Gideon and Michael O'Neill, has created a work that explores toxic masculinity and the role men can play during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny.
Boston Court Pasadena continues its mission of fostering new musical talent with the 3rd Annual Emerging Artists Series, May 30 June 9, 2019. The series will feature up-and-coming pianists, as well as vocalists who have been through a rigorous mentoring curriculum with some of Los Angeles' most prominent musicians and coaches including Mark Robson, Gloria Cheng, Lisa Sylvester, Vicki Ray, Brent McMunn and Paul Floyd.
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) presents the 2019 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowships. The program's visual arts exhibition will be on view at DCA's Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery located at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard in Barnsdall Park, from May 23 through July 14, 2019 with an opening reception on May 19 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. To celebrate the opening, there will be a special performance of 2019 COLA 2019 Visual Arts Fellow Katie Grinnan's 5 Seconds of Dreaming, played by musicians Kozue Matsumoto and Eugene Moon at 3:00 p.m.
The International Contemporary Ensemble, 'America's foremost new-music group' (Alex Ross), performs Tyshawn Sorey'sPerle Noire: Meditations for Josephine featuring star soprano Julia Bullock on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 10pm at Oberon, the American Repertory Theater's club venue. Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine honors the brilliance, daring, courage, and tragedies of Josephine Baker in a production conceived by Peter Sellars with original music by Tyshawn Sorey and texts by Claudia Rankine, both MacArthur Fellows.
Because community is at the heart of Scottsdale Arts and the arts are at the heart of our community, join Scottsdale Arts Education & Outreach to celebrate a "Work of HeArt" from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, during the 8th Annual Arts Education Showcase at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second St.
High Concept Laboratories NFP (HCL), a Chicago-based arts service organization and artist incubator, today announced that Sharon Hoyer has joined HCL as its new director, and Yolanda Cesta Cursach has joined as artistic director. Together they will be responsible for advancing HCL's innovative artist programs and developing new community collaborations as the organization celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2019-2020.
In conjunction with Haitian Heritage Month, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) will display "PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince" which brings together the work of over 20 artists working in the Haitian capital. The exhibition, on view April 23 to August 11, 2019, highlights Port-au-Prince's many diverse centers of cultural production, informal street life, religious heritage and mythologies to create a compelling portrait of a historically significant and intensely complex city in flux.
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival has announced two upcoming shows in its 14th annual season, as well as a workshop series sharing the craft of Japanese theater arts. Festival patrons from New York can now travel directly to Provincetown for the Festival on a round-trip charter bus.
REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the world premiere of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)'s newest stage work I Fly! or How to Keep the Devil Down in the Hole, Thursday, April 4 through Saturday, April 6, 2019.
On Monday, April 8, 2019 at 8pm and Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7:30pm the International Contemporary Ensemble continues its collaboration with the innovative composers of New York University College of Arts and Sciences.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to present Tiff Massey: A Different World, a solo exhibition by the interdisciplinary artist and metalsmith. The first exhibition of Massey's artwork in Texas, A Different World showcases three bodies of work that reference the material culture of nostalgic pasts, from 1980s hip hop to African hair braiding. Informed primarily by jewelry, Massey's diverse artistic practice deftly renders her observations on race and class in contemporary American culture.
New York Live Arts (Live Arts) to present the world premiere of Kaneza Schaal's installation The Cotillion with the remount of JACK &, April 17-20 & 24-27, 2019, having commissioned the works as part of the Live Feed Residency Program. JACK & returns to NYC after its sold out run in BAM's Next Wave Festival. JACK & is a theatrical performance considering reentry into society after prison, featuring actor Cornell Alston with text and design from artist Christopher Myers. The Cotillion, a companion piece to JACK &, is a multi-channel audio and video installation in Live Arts lobby, and a post-show on-stage experience exploring ceremonial entrances into society, such as debutante balls and rituals that welcome ancestors back into communities.
Performance Space New York in collaboration with Arika and the Whitney Museum of American Art presents I wanna be with you everywhere, a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wants to join in a series of programs that refuse policies of individuation and inclusion in favor of (and in the flavor of) whatever disability aesthetics has in bodymind. Organized by Arika, Amalle Dublon, Jerron Herman, Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur, Alice Sheppard, and Constantina Zavitsanos, the festival features performances and readings by Eli Clare, John Lee Clark, Kayla Hamilton, Johanna Hedva, Jerron Herman, Cyr e Jarelle Johnson, Camisha L. Jones, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jordan Lord, NEVE, Akemi Nishida and Alice Sheppard.
Chicago Opera Theater's Orli and Bill Staley Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya and Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson General Director Ashley Magnus today announced the plans for the company's 47th season, to include productions of two exciting contemporary operas, a Chicago premiere by Rachmaninov, and the company's second world premiere commission. Yankovskaya will conduct each of these Chicago Opera Theater (COT) productions.
This summer is filled with loads of events for the entire family at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Don't miss the multi-talented Lea Salonga, and must-see concerts featuring Martha Redbone and Keb' Mo'. Below are a few noteworthy concerts and events happening May-June at the Center.
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