Playwright Aleshea Harris Awarded 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize
The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO), in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, has selected OBIE-winning playwright Aleshea Harris as the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, given this year in the artistic discipline of theater. Harris will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work, which will have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2023 in collaboration with the Hermitage’s presenting partner, Asolo Repertory Theatre (Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director).
The Hermitage’s Artistic Director Andy Sandberg notes that Harris was selected by a distinguished jury that included jury chair Mandy Greenfield1, a member of the Hermitage Curatorial Council and the Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival (Massachussetts); Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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Members of a pro-Trump mob storm the Capitol building to disrupt the recording of Electoral College votes to confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Jan. 6, 2020. Not long after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned his Republican colleagues that their efforts to overturn an election would send democracy into a death spiral, fear surged through the Senate chamber. Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
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.- Barbara A. Wolanin did not leave her TV much Wednesday afternoon, watching terrified, she said, as hundreds of Donald Trump rioters rushed into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building where eight large, framed historical paintings hang. She once was curator for the Architect of the Capitol, the office that preserves and maintains the buildings art and architecture. She knew much better than most the horrific possibilities that were presenting themselves. What if rioters slashed John Tr
The Ringling receives a wonderful gift of art
Beverly Pepper, Homage to the Triangle I, 1999. Marble. Signed and dated lower left side, 37 x 42 x 9 7/8 inches.
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.-The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art announced a recent gift of art to the museum from Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Bring. The donors will contribute 22 works of art by important artists in support of the modern and contemporary collection at The Ringling.
The museum is ecstatic to receive this generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Bring, said Steven High, Executive Director. These acquisitions will greatly expand our contemporary art collection. We are excited to soon be able to share these with the community.
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From Karyn Olivier, The Battle is Joined, 2017. Vernon Park, Philadelphia PA. Commissioned by Monument Lab and Mural Arts. Video documentation with audio recording of Trapeta B. Mayson’s poem Monuments to Brown Boys commissioned for public art instal (USF Contemporary Art Museum)
John Sims, Freedom Memorial at Gamble Plantation, 2020. Video animation with sound, 12 foot Afro Confederate flag, marker. (USF Contemporary Art Museum)
TAMPA, FL On Jan. 22, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the Institute for Research in Art in the College of The Arts, is launching the hybrid exhibition titled Marking Monuments in both online and physical spaces.