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Blaise Tobia
Blaise Tobia (born January 20, 1953) is a contemporary artist and photographer who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married to sculptor, Virginia Maksymowicz. Together they maintain TandM Arts Studio. Early life and education Tobia was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Stuyvesant High School, and went on to study art at Brooklyn College, CUNY: his principal photography teacher was Walter Rosenblum; he studied drawing with Philip Pearlstein and sculpture with Ron Mehlman. After receiving his BA in 1974, he headed for California, to become part of the MFA program at the University of California, San Diego. During that trip, he documented two significant artworks on the ranch of Stanley Marsh 3: Robert Smithson's Amarillo Ramp and the then-recently completed Ant Farm's ''Cadillac Ranch''. Tobia's unique book, ''Cadillac Ranch Sequences'', was accepted into the Ant Farm's archive in 2003. At UCSD, he studied primarily with photographers Fred Lonidier and Phel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Maksymowicz
Virginia Maksymowicz (born February 19, 1952) is an American artist whose sculptural installations incorporate a variety of media. She lives in Philadelphia, PA and is married to artist-photographer, Blaise Tobia. Early life and education Maksymowicz was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (New York) to working-class parents of Polish-Irish-German-English heritage. Her father worked as a bartender at the Seafarers International Union. She studied art on the undergraduate level at Brooklyn College, CUNY (BA 1973) with Lucas Samaras, Ronald Mehlman, David Sawin, Morris Dorsky, Murray Israel and Walter Rosenblum. From 1973 to 1974 she attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School where she studied figurative sculpture with Barney Hodes. She met Blaise Tobia at Brooklyn College and in 1974, both Maksymowicz and Tobia entered the MFA program at the University of California, San Diego, where each earned an MFA (1977). Maksymowicz worked with Allan Kaprow, The Harrison Studio, Newton & Helen Harrison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CETA Employment Of Artists Nationally (1974-1981)
CETA Employment of Artists (1974–1981) refers to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), which federally employed more than 10,000 artists – visual, performing, and literary – during a span of eight years. This was the largest number of artists supported by Federal funding since the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s. It is estimated that an additional 10,000 arts support staff were funded as well. During its peak year, 1980, CETA funding for arts employment funneled up to $300 million (more than $1 billion in 2020 dollars) into the cultural sector – and the economy – of the United States. In comparison, the National Endowment for the Arts budget that year was $159 million. Unlike the WPA, which included artists in its original design through five specific projects, CETA was designed as a generalized program to provide training and employment for economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons. In addition, federal funding was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Contemporary Artists
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Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo (magazine)
''Leonardo'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the MIT Press covering the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. History ''Leonardo'' journal was established in 1968 by artist and scientist Frank Malina in Paris, France. ''Leonardo'' has published writings by artists who work with science- and technology-based art media for 50 years. Journal operations were moved to the San Francisco Bay Area by Frank's son Roger Malina, an astronomer and space scientist, who took over operations of the journal upon Frank Malina's death in 1981. In 1982, the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) was founded to further the aims of ''Leonardo'' by providing avenues of communication for artists working in contemporary media. The society also publishes ''Leonardo Music Journal'', the ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'', ''Leonardo Reviews'', and the ''Leonardo Book Series''. All publications are produced in collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpture (magazine)
''Sculpture'' is an art magazine, published in Jersey City, NJ, by the International Sculpture Center. Described as "the essential source of information, criticism, and dialogue on all forms of contemporary sculpture internationally," ''Sculpture'' is published in print form and digitally six times per year. ''Sculpture'' is indexed in the Art Index and the Bibliography of the History of Art. History and operations The magazine was founded by David Furchgott, with the first issue published in 1987. It is partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. See also * List of art magazines * List of United States magazines This is a list of United States magazines. Automotive * ''Automotive News'' * ''Car and Driver'' * '' Four Wheeler'' * '' Hot Rod'' * ''Motor Trend'' * '' Motorcycle Classics'' * ''Road & Track'' * ''Truckin' Magazine'' (defunct) Business ... References External links sculpturemagazine.art the magazine's official website s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drexel University
Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, it was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936, before assuming its current name in 1970. , more than 24,000 students were enrolled in over 70 undergraduate programs and more than 100 master's, doctoral, and professional programs at the university. Drexel's cooperative education program (co-op) is a prominent aspect of the school's degree programs, offering students the opportunity to gain up to 18 months of paid, full-time work experience in a field relevant to their undergraduate major or graduate degree program prior to graduation. History Drexel University was founded in 1891 as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, by Philadelphia financier and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel. The orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Art Documentation/Distribution
Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D) PAD/D was originally simply called "Political Art Documentation", but "Distribution" was added to the group title after a year or so of operation. was an American leftist art collective based in New York City and dedicated to artistic activism. Their primary aim was to "provide artists with an organized relationship to society, to demonstrate the political effectiveness of image making, and to provide a framework within which progressive artists can discuss and develop alternatives to the mainstream art system." The collective was active from around 1980 to 1988, when its 501(c)(3) non-profit status formally expired, and was based out of 339 Lafayette Street for several years. PAD/D was originally founded by Lucy Lippard, Margia Kramer, and Gregory Sholette, among others. Lucy Lippard claims that one of her early inspirations for PAD/D was the London art scene and its dedication to combining political and community art, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Wayne State University, along with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, compose the University Research Corridor of Michigan. Wayne State is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Wayne State's main campus comprises 203 acres linking more than 100 education and research buildings. It also has four satellite campuses in Macomb, Wayne and Jackson counties. The Wayne State Warriors compete in the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). History The Wayne State University was established in 1868 as the Detroit Medical College by five returning Civil War veterans. The college charter from 1868 was signed by f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Birch
Willie Birch is an American visual artist who works in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, and sculpture. Birch was born in New Orleans, and currently lives and works in New Orleans. He completed his BA at Southern University in New Orleans, and received an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Work Birch lived in New York after graduate school, where he became known for papier-mâché sculptures. While in New York, during the years 1978 and 1979, he was part of the Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project, funded by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Reviewing an exhibition at Exit Art in New York City, Roberta Smith described his 1990s work in the New York Times as "a storytelling art carried out with immense visual expertise." Birch moved back to New Orleans in 1994, and in 1997 he began working on a series of portraits of people in his neighborhood. Birch conceptualized the project as a protest against stereo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard (née Karoliszyn; born 1942) is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for creating large-scale works influenced by nature, primarily using cedar and other forms of timber. Early life and education Von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany in 1942 to a Polish mother and Ukrainian father. As a young child, the artist and her six siblings experienced the German occupation of Poland and the trauma of World War II, followed by five years in eight different German refugee camps for displaced Poles. In 1959, through the U.S. Marshall Plan and with the assistance of Catholic agencies, her family of peasant farmers boarded a ship to the United States where they eventually settled in Plainville, Connecticut. She received a BA and MA from University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida in 1965 and an MFA from Columbia University in New York City in 1975. In the late 1970s, she was part of NYC's Cultural Council Foundation Artists' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
