March 10, 2014
Matthew Bellantoni, a senior at Parsons the New School for Design , is in the beginning stages of building a website to help veteran writers and artists. The idea is to "create an online platform for veterans to…
January 28, 2014
Michael Sporn , an award-winning animation artist best known for his film adaptations of children’s books such “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” and “Goodnight Moon, ” died at age 67 on January 19 in New York City…
October 23, 2013
The Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, has two current exhibits---the Veterans’ Art Show and “Soldier Boy, Soldier Girl”---that recognize America’s veterans, past and present. The Veterans’ Art Show, a co-production of the National Ability…
October 15, 2013
The organization Warrior Gateway is hosting an event called the Veteran Artist Program Arts & Service Celebration November 2-11 in New York City. The two-pronged event brings veterans interested in the arts to New York…
July 19, 2013
Michael Sekletar, an Ohio artist, is about to finish his second veteran's mural in Amherst, Ohio, west of Cleveland. His first was a depiction of the famed Joe Rosenthal flag raising at Iwo Jima…
March 4, 2013
A new monument (above) honoring all of those service personnel who have given their lives or have been wounded in action will be dedicated on March 8 at the front entrance of the Warrior Hope…
January 14, 2013
An excellent profile of the artist Helen White ran recently in the Nevada (Missouri) Daily Mail . The article talks about White's work and how it was influenced by her service as a…
December 3, 2012
A dozen large oil portraits of veterans are now on view at the VA's New York City Museum, located on the second floor of the VA Regional office in Manhattan. The paintings, the work of…
November 2, 2012
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced on November 1 that Danh Võ---a Conceptual artist who fled his native Vietnam with his family in 1979 and settled in Denmark when he was four years old---has been awarded…
June 6, 2012
"Lens" is the name of a New York Times blog that features photography, video, and "visual journalism." One of the current entrie s on the blog looks at the unique and innovative photographic images…