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Art Schools Across the Country participate in the America: Now and Here Commencement Project Artists and prominent art schools across the country, many from the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), will explore themes inspired by America: Now and Here during 2012 commencement…
Read more »Applying a pinch of technology to his art, San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell is transforming the third dimension as we know it. Campbell, who earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematics from M.I.T, is helping to push the boundaries of both sculpture and cinema by bringing otherwise…
Read more »Here, there, and a few stops between, America: Now and Here asked artists Ed Ruscha, Glenn Ligon, and Robert Pinsky to think about the one place in the U.S. that inspires them most. With so many different types of sites to see and places to…
Read more »Drawing inspiration from America: Now and Here, celebrity artist to the stars and teacher Michael Bell asked his high school students to contemplate and illustrate a single human right they felt strongly about. Bell’s project, titled 30 Human Rights, successfully sparked community engagement as well as…
Read more »Feeling compelled, America: Now and Here core artist Andres Serrano has written, “I Declare,” a call to “reconcile the interests of the many and the few.” The text is presented as a video projecting its alternately powerful and hypnotic words forward to the horizon line…
Read more »Coast-to-coast, the American landscape reveals an inspiring composite of the beautiful and bizarre. Artists Laurie Simmons and Bill Viola share a common curiosity for one of the strangest places in the U.S., the lowest, driest, and hottest spot in North America: Death Valley National Park.…
Read more »Leonard Nimoy is famous for a number of things, but here are two biggies: he was the Christ-like Vulcan, Spock, from Star Trek; and he is a photographer who embraces nude models (so to speak). He had a photograph in the America: Now and Here…
Read more »Part of the challenge of America: Now and Here is to see it as more than an art show. People come to the exhibit and expect to talk about art, and some of them have a lot to say about the artists— the artist’s technique,…
Read more »There is a family activity guide that we provide at America: Now and Here, but there are no cartoon characters or balloon-shaped arrows leading to a kid’s area. The absence of boundaries has been refreshing, for me as a guide and for the children I’ve…
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