Allison Meier

Y’all Ready?

Self-Rule Tools

Housed in a 6,000-squarefoot warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront in the neighborhood of Red Hook, the Liberty Labs Foundation is a passion project for New York City’s best wood and &hellip; <a href="https://readartdesk.com/contributor/allison-meier/">Continued</a>

The High Road

Taos and Denver are rich with arts, and the road between has its own wonders. These nine towns are home to our favorite small museums, offbeat galleries, and even a DIY castle that make the journey as vibrant as the destination.

Connectivity

Transformation

In 2012, Jason Willaford started transforming discarded vinyl billboards into works that mixed sculptural elements and painting. At first the Dallas-based artist, who had long been an encaustic painter, was &hellip; <a href="https://readartdesk.com/contributor/allison-meier/">Continued</a>

The Swim of Things

Been Through It

So You Want to Go to Art School…

OUR FAVORITE COLLEGIATE ART SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES

The Absolute and Essential Importance of Arts Education

Key findings about arts education across the nation show that children, when exposed to art from a young age both in school and in their community, take that experience and apply it broadly to their lives, not only encouraging them to seek higher education but to create critical thinkers who find deeper meaning in all aspects of their world.

Marvin Sackner (1932–2020)

The Hermes 3000

Comfort and Joy

Barbara Kasten: Scenarios

Scaling Up

The Perfect Shot

Outside Voice

The Creative Experience

A new class of artists-in-residence begins this spring at Green Box in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, where animator Lynn Tomlinson and designer CoCo Ree Lemery explore nature, materials, and community.

Whale Tale

Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour

Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour at Crystal Bridges celebrates American style icons while spotlighting the immigrant, Indigenous, and Black designers long left out of mainstream fashion.

Outer Space

Natural Anthem

Although he has reached an international level of renown, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has purposefully deviated from the paths expected of a major contemporary artist, finding instead that collaboration and community are at the forefront of his practice.

Eye Line

A New Chapter

Before being appointed Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center's new executive director, Trent Riley spent years working in Oklahoma City cultural institutions.

Bigger in Texas

Mirror Mirror

The Evangelists

Behind every great artist and art scene is an army of advocates, pushing for exposure and equity. Allison Meier profiles nine of them, from Agnes Gund and Darren Walker to Jon Batiste, Misty Copeland, and Renée Fleming.

Source Material

Austrian artist Eva Schlegel's Multiple Voices, her first public artwork in the United States, brings etched text by Indigenous writers to a gleaming mirror-and-metal sculpture in Campbell Art Park outside Oklahoma Contemporary.

Looking Up

Six great American trees, from Oklahoma City's Survivor Tree to the Lahaina banyan, and the living histories rooted in each.

Sun Country

This major touring show on the Venezuelan American artist Marisol makes its final stop in Dallas.