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Oklahoma artists awarded quarterly grants
As part of its mission to grow and develop Oklahoma’s visual arts community, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition provides funding to visual artists through quarterly grants. These grants help artists at all stages of their careers to develop creatively and grow professionally.
The winter 2021 grant awardees are Julie Alpert, of Tulsa; Tanner Bowen, of Oklahoma City; and Lauren Rosenfelt, of Norman.
“We congratulate these artists on being selected this grant cycle, which was particularly competitive,” says Krystle Kaye, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition executive director. “We look forward to seeing all three of these projects come to fruition over the next several months and
Rebecca Stone and Natalie Neuert, Lane Series Team
Live music presentation has been one of the hardest hit industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Typical concert venues, where the audience sits elbow to elbow to fill the seating to capacity are on hold. But the UVM Lane Series, an organization dedicated to presenting live classical, jazz, folk, chamber, and choral music continues to soar. Through creative solutions, a determined staff, a generous audience, and just a bit of luck, the Series has continued to prosper and thrive, even in a global pandemic. Central to its success is The Lane Series’ dedicated staff: Natalie Neuert, Director and Department of Music faculty member; Rebecca Stone, Manager; and Freda Farrell, Operations Coordinator.
Holiday Events for the Whole Family: The lights continue to shine
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HOLIDAY ART DISPLAY: The “From Russia with Art Holiday” exhibit will be on display at The Picture Place, 320A Harvard St., Brookline, through Dec. 30.
The exhibition is open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays.
The exhibition is curated by Olesya and Jerry Koenig and Tom Coppi. Masks and social distancing are required. Etchings, oil paintings and mixed media will be on display.
Featured artists are Anatoly Dverin, Alexander Korman, Misha Lenn, Stanislav Nikireev, Alexander Vetrov, Irena Makoveeva, George Lapchinsky and Vladimir Vorobyov.
The tumultuous upside-down, inside-out year of 2020 is finally grinding to a conclusion. Happily, it’s going to end with a much-loved tradition still intact, albeit in a slightly different form. “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” the holiday-themed variety show created and hosted by Brian O’Donovan, and usually presented live from multiple locations each year, is retitled as “A Virtual Christmas Celtic Sojourn” this time around.
The 2020 show will be pre-recorded, featuring O’Donovan hosting, telling a story or two, maybe reciting a poem, along with his Christmas Celtic Ensemble and a roster of guests, some, through technical wizardry, performing from other countries. It will be streamed, Dec. 15-20, with the show emanating from the stage of the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, and will have separate intros from O’Donovan each night, suggesting that the performance is coming from the usual different venues.