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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation have announced an $800,000 fund to support 80 visual arts programs at small and mid-sized organizations across the United States. Each recipient, previously funded through the National Endowment for the Arts' Challenge America initiative, will receive $10,000 to advance projects stalled after the Trump administration suspended that federal program. The announcement comes amid broader cuts to federal arts funding, including the departure of all 10 NEA grant directors and the termination of grants for organizations like n+1, SculptureCenter, Queer Art, and A.I.R. Gallery, which received notices citing misalignment with the administration's priorities.

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Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca to curate 2027 Bienal de São Paulo

Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca have been named curators of the 2027 Bienal de São Paulo. Carneiro, a curator at MASP since 2018, has organized solo exhibitions for artists including Santiago Yahuarcani, Beatriz Milhazes, and Sonia Gomes, and was part of Adriano Pedrosa’s curatorial team for the 2024 Venice Biennale. Fonseca, visual arts programmer at Culturgest and curator-at-large at the Denver Art Museum, is currently curating the Taiwan Pavilion for the 2026 Venice Biennale and co-curating the 3rd Counterpublic Triennial. He also curated the 2025 Bienal do Mercosul.

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The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation are jointly providing $800,000 in emergency grants to replace funding lost when the Trump administration abruptly cut the National Endowment for the Arts' Challenge America grants in February 2025. The grants, each worth $10,000, will support 80 small and medium-sized visual arts programs across the country that had been promised NEA funding for underserved communities, including the Kids & Art Foundation, Allentown Art Museum, Free Arts for Abused Children, InToto Creative Arts Forum, and Latinitas.

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Closely Watched Curator Raphael Fonseca Joins Lisbon’s Culturgest

Raphael Fonseca, a prominent curator specializing in Latin American art, has been appointed as the new visual arts programmer at Culturgest in Lisbon. He will relocate to Portugal in June, succeeding Bruno Marchand, while maintaining a curator-at-large position with the Denver Art Museum, where he has served since 2021.

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Lisbon’s Culturgest appoints Raphael Fonseca as visual arts programmer

Raphael Fonseca has been appointed as the new visual arts programmer at Culturgest in Lisbon, the cultural foundation of the Portuguese bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos. He will relocate to Lisbon in June while transitioning to a curator-at-large role at the Denver Art Museum, where he currently serves as curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art.

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Oodles of Art Shows to Ogle Over This Fall

Santa Barbara's fall 2025 art season offers a diverse array of exhibitions across museums and galleries, from contemporary printmaking at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to Impressionist masterworks at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Highlights include John Comer's seascapes at Santa Barbara Fine Art, David Florimbi's retrospective at the new Separate Reality gallery, and a joint show by Joan Rosenberg-Dent and Sarita Reynolds at Art & Soul Gallery. The California Nature Art Museum also celebrates its 25th anniversary with a solo exhibition by founder Patti Jacquemain.

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Primary talks about their new open exhibition and visual arts in the Lenton and Radford community

Primary, an artist-led contemporary visual arts organization and charity in Nottingham, has opened a new exhibition and visual arts program at its Seely Road location in the Lenton and Radford community. Housed in a repurposed school building, the venue includes a community garden, bakery, coffee shop, bookseller, and art studios, supporting over fifty artists. The program offers residencies and exhibition opportunities for emerging talent from the global ethnic majority and underrepresented groups, aiming to make contemporary art more accessible.

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Exhibitions Coming to West Texas & the Panhandle in Spring 2026

Art museums and institutions across West Texas and the Panhandle have announced their spring 2026 exhibition seasons. Highlights include the LHUCA Review (formerly the LHUCA Members' Show) and Laura Veles Drey's installation "Passerby: Americana" at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock; "A Texas Legacy: Gifts from the Bill and Mary Cheek Collection" and the San Angelo North American Ceramic Competition featuring Marc Leuthold at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts; and three exhibitions at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at UTEP in El Paso, including "The Edge is a Center" showcasing graphic design from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, "Les Sembrantes" by artists from La Semilla Food Center's fellowship, and Cynthia Gutierrez-Krapp's solo show "Strangers In Our Own Land."

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2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition Transforms the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

On April 26, 2025, the School of the Arts held its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, featuring twenty-nine emerging and established artists. Curated by Amal Issa, the show spans a wide range of mediums including installations, videos, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, with many works exploring themes of memory, ancestry, and identity. Notable pieces include Maya Dixon's immersive installation using gourds and found objects, Daniel Castro's surreal cityscapes, and Ridwana Rahman's interactive carpet piece that invites reflection on direction and prayer.

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Museum of Whimsy set to reopen during a month of stellar local exhibitions

Southwest Florida museums are hosting a busy month of exhibitions in November, with four new shows opening, two closing, and 23 continuing. At the Sarasota Art Museum, highlights include "Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration," featuring 100 rare posters from the Crouse Collection by master graphic designers of the 1920s and 1930s, alongside sculptural works and Art Deco furniture. Also on view is "Selina Roman: Abstract Corpulence," a photography and abstraction series exploring beauty and body politics, and "Molly Hatch: Amalgam," a site-specific installation of over 450 hand-painted earthenware plates commissioned through the museum's Inside Out Program. The Museum of Whimsy is also set to reopen during this period.

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Students Selected for Autry Museum's Arts Exhibition

Twenty-seven students from South Pasadena High School have been selected to exhibit their work in the Autry Museum of the American West's "Visions of Humanity" student show, marking the largest number of SPHS students ever accepted into the exhibition. The display runs through May 31 at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park, featuring fourteen students in painting and drawing and thirteen in photography, taught by teachers Rouzanna Berberian and Aimee Levie-Hultman.

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Brush to canvas: News from the art community

The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, will open two exhibitions in May 2025: "Architecture of the Dalí" on May 2, tracing the museum's history from its 1980s origins to its current bayfront structure, and "Dalí in America" on May 9, featuring over 70 works exploring Salvador Dalí's vision of the United States. Other notable openings include "Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan" at the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art (May 9), multidisciplinary artist Babs Reingold's solo show "After Venus" at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg (May 15), and "Cigars! Photography, Industry, and Identity" at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, commemorating Ybor City's cigar-rolling history. Additional events include Florida NOW at Florida CraftArt, Charles Morrison's "Head in the Sky, Feet on the Ground" at the Morean Center for Clay, and a photography contest sponsored by FloridaRAMA and St. Petersburg Month of Photography.

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Point of Contact Marks 50 Years With Landmark Exhibition

Point of Contact (POC), a Syracuse-based organization founded in 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a landmark exhibition titled “50 Sin Cuenta,” featuring over 100 works of contemporary Latin American art from its permanent collection. The exhibition opens September 19 at the newly renovated Warehouse Gallery at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse in downtown Syracuse, with works by artists including Luis Felipe Noé, Liliana Porter, Arnaldo Roche, and Víctor Vázquez. The show runs through October 24 and is free to the public.

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Exhibitions on view in July at Southwest Florida art centers

Southwest Florida is home to over a dozen art centers, and in July 2025, 24 exhibitions are on view across venues from Sarasota to Marco Island. Highlights include Art Center Sarasota's 'Vice and Virtue: Annual Juried Regional Show,' juried by curator Jessica Todd, exploring morality and duality; Venice Art Center's solo shows by Karen Weih and Cosette Kosiba; the 'Over the Bridge' exhibition at Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda featuring B.A. Wikoff and Lily Obsitnik; and the 'Member’s Showcase Exhibit' at the same venue. Satellite shows and the DeSoto Arts Center's annual art show round out the month's offerings.

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Art Center Sarasota's 'Rooted in Community' headlines 28 exhibitions at local art centers in March

Art Center Sarasota is launching a major suite of exhibitions this March, headlined by 'Rooted in Community,' a group show celebrating the artistic contributions of Sarasota’s historically Black neighborhoods, Newtown and Overtown. The center will also host solo presentations by Herion Park, whose fiber sculptures explore familial grief and resilience, and Kendra Frorup, a Fulbright Scholar whose work investigates cultural memory and the concept of home.

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The Pressure to Mean Something: Inside the VCUarts’ MFA Exhibition

The article covers the MFA exhibition at VCUarts, showcasing the work of graduate students in the visual arts program. It highlights the pressure on emerging artists to imbue their work with meaning and the diverse approaches taken by the exhibitors.

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Photos: Somersfield Host Visual Arts Exhibition

Somersfield Academy recently hosted its DP2 Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition at the Rock Island Café, showcasing the final portfolios of students Nico Bean, Hayden Smith, and Excell Jordan. The event marked the conclusion of a two-year International Baccalaureate (IB) creative journey, featuring a diverse range of works including acrylic pour paintings, marine-inspired dot paintings, and detailed anatomical illustrations of dinosaurs.

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Visit these four amazing (and free) new art exhibits in downtown St. Pete

Four new free art exhibits have opened at the Morean Arts Center in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The shows include Rebecca Sexton Larson's solo exhibition "Where Leaves Remember," featuring soft paintings and hand-colored photographs; "Day Dreams," a collaboration with SARTQ Artist Collective exploring dream imagery; "A Journey Through My Imagination," a juried exhibition by the National Association of Women Artists; and the Morean Center for Clay's Artist in Residence program show. The first three exhibits run through March 26, while the clay residency show closes February 16.

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Studio Joli launches new year with Canvas Caribbean

Studio Joli has launched its 2026 programming with a new exhibition titled "Artistic Expressions" presented by Canvas Caribbean, an artists' group formed in 2004 by graduates of the visual arts programmes of the University of the West Indies (UWI). The show features works by six members—Leona Fabien, Adele Bynoe, Raymond Alexander, Kathy Farabi, Tricia Ward, and Vejaya Mungal—spanning vibrant florals on silk, bold wildlife in acrylic, faceted copper, watercolours, and mixed media. The exhibition opens on January 21 and runs through February 2 at Studio Joli in St James, Trinidad.

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Former Guilford Student Selected For Prestigious Art Exhibition

Keoni Mcfee, a former Guilford High School student who graduated in 2025 and now attends the University of Hartford, has been selected for the 2025 AP Art and Design Digital Exhibition presented by the College Board. His artwork, drawn from his AP Drawing Sustained Investigation, explores the relationship between human growth and nature using mixed media, collage techniques, and wild-style graffiti. Mcfee is one of only 51 student artists chosen from over 82,000 portfolios submitted worldwide.

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A Confluence of Art and Community | 2025 | News & Stories

Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University presents a new faculty art exhibition titled "Tempo/Tempus: Rhythm and Time in Visual Art" at the Behnke Gallery on the South Lake Union campus. Curated by Robert Campbell, a Cornish art faculty member and Behnke Gallery curator, the show features works by nine Seattle University faculty artists: Kristofer Carlson, Francisco Guerrero, Naomi Kasumi, Jim Y. H. Li, Aunna Moriarty, Alexander Mouton, Trung Pham, Miha Sarani, and Arielle Simmons. The exhibition marks the first of six planned shows for the 2025-26 academic year, celebrating the recent merger of Cornish College of the Arts into Seattle University.

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Artapolooza 2026: Crestview student wins Best of Show at Mid-Ohio ESC regional art exhibition

Artapolooza 2026, a regional student art exhibition organized by the Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center, took place from April 17 to 22 in Mansfield, Ohio. Over 3,000 student artists from 23 local school districts participated, with Gracie Gallaway of Crestview Senior High School winning Best of Show for her acrylic floral portrait. Other top honors included Kayla Mendez, Anastasia Stimens, and Aria Wright in the High School Division, and Eelyn Crist, Ariel Ramsey, and Olive Richards in the Middle School Division. The revived Rising Star Award was presented to Georgia Gantz of Highland High School, who received professional art supplies to support her artistic development.

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NJCU Visual Arts Gallery presents: Intertwined: 2026 NJCU BFA Thesis Exhibition

The New Jersey City University (NJCU) Visual Arts Gallery is hosting the 2026 BFA Thesis Exhibition titled 'Intertwined.' The exhibition showcases the culminating work of students completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees, presenting a diverse range of artistic practices and media.

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Explore the Talent of Berks County’s Young Artists at Secondary Art Exhibition

The Berks County Intermediate Unit is hosting its annual Secondary Art Exhibition, showcasing the work of student artists from middle and high schools across the county. The exhibition features a diverse range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and digital art, highlighting the creative output of the region's youth.

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