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Ward Jackson (September 10, 1928 in Petersburg, Virginia – February 3, 2004) was an American visual artist most closely associated with post painterly abstraction and minimalism, an archivist at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the co-founder and editor of the publication "Art Now Gallery Guide".
As the Springfield Art Museum prepares to shutter for three years of renovations, museum staff are packing up for a new, temporary location.. The art museum will conclude all programs and ...
The Mattoon Street neighborhood features many of Springfield's most prestigious residential addresses, on Mattoon Street, Salem Street, Elliot Street, etc. It also features one of the famous architect H.H. Richardson's first works in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the Hispanic Baptist Church. Early each Fall, the neighborhood hosts a large ...
Looking toward the new year, the Springfield Art Museum is preparing for two new exhibitions and a temporary closure starting in the fall. All of the museum's exhibitions will conclude by Sept. 1 ...
The George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum is an art museum in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is the oldest of the five museums on the Quadrangle. The museum is named for the collection's original owner. Smith and his wife, Belle Townsley Smith, bequeathed their notable collection to begin the museum. [1]
The Fine Arts museum is facing the Springfield Science Museum; both buildings were designed together as a unit. [5] In 1943, the museum held a mural competition to find an artist to paint a mural in the museum's library, with Honoré Sharrer submitting a design; Sante Graziani ultimately won. [6] Graziani painted his winning mural in 1947. [6]
Jackson Ward, previously known as Central Wards, [4] is a historically African-American district in Richmond, Virginia, with a long tradition of African-American businesses. It is located less than a mile from the Virginia State Capitol , sitting to the west of Court End and north of Broad Street .
The Richmond Arts and Culture District stretches from the Institute for Contemporary Art on West Broad to the Virginia State Capitol and spans the Monroe Ward and Jackson Ward neighborhoods The Arts District was designed to be the center of artistic, cultural, civic, and commercial activity. [ 1 ]