Blog - 04-2022 Archive

Erie Arts & Culture is proud to present this week's Friday Feature! I had the pleasure of chatting with Erie's most decorated Lyricist, Poet, and Hip Hop Emcee Cee Brown. We discussed his origins, what drives his consistent output, and his creative process.

Let's give a warm welcome to our fourth Visiting Artist of 2022, Lauren Hana Chai. Lauren is known for contrasting her traditional Korean upbringing with her modern American life and including a personal story or cultural narrative to accompany each piece. As the first in her family born in America, she was raised by her South Korean grandparents in Hawaii. She moved across the Pacific to San Francisco to study at the Academy of Art University. After some time following the technique-based curriculum, Lauren says she relished breaking the rules and mixing abstract elements into the work. Her current series places side by side traditional elements, such as Korean folk art and Buddhist temple architecture, and modern elements such as interracial relationships or sexually charged figures. She has been featured in NBC News, KBS World Radio, Houston NPR, and the Honolulu Star Bulletin.

In early 2020, Erie Arts & Culture launched a visiting artist residency program in collaboration with Long Road Projects. Through this program, Erie Arts & Culture and Long Road Projects provide contemporary artists with dedicated time and space to reflect, research, and create new bodies of work – outside of their usual environments. This program also creates opportunities for new perspectives and creative processes to be shared, which in turn positively impacts the cultural and creative landscape in Northwestern Pennsylvania. 

This visiting artist residency program is made possible through the generous support of a privately funded grant from The Erie Community Foundation. 

Erie Arts & Culture is proud to present this week's Friday Feature! We sat down with Stephen Trohoske to discuss the ebbs and flows of Blues music... and oscillating changes sweeping the music culture in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Erie Arts & Culture is proud to present this week's Friday Feature! We sat down with Jess Royer to talk about what inspires her to create the gritty, raw, and honest music that she sings from her heart and soul.

Join Erie Arts & Culture for a Learn & Learn at Radius Cowork on May 11 at 12 PM. We'll cover one of Erie Arts & Culture's exciting new grant opportunities for creative entrepreneurs.

Erie Arts and Culture is partnering with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to help creative entrepreneurs and their businesses. The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (CEAP) matches eligible creative entrepreneurs with free local small business consulting services and financial resources up to $2,000.

During the session, we'll walk you through the process and answer any questions you may have. Feel free to bring your own lunch or order some takeout!

Erie Arts & Culture recently launched the Northwestern PA Arts Recovery program, a set of funding opportunities for regional arts organizations and individual artists. We invite you to join us for an info session at RandyBillDuck Studios in PACA on May 2 at 7pm. The studio is located on the 4th floor of PACA.

This new grant program offers up to $2,500 for artists and up to $5,500 for arts and cultural organizations.

Who should attend?

• Regional artists or cultural producers/makers in any field of the arts who are actively creating, curating, or producing work
• leaders from arts & cultural organizations (*see details in the post)
  

Erie Arts & Culture is proud to present this week's Friday Feature! We sat down with Overstreet Ducasse to talk about his origins, inspirations, and willingness to go against the grain for the sake of his Art.

Let's give a warm welcome to our third Visiting Artist of 2022, Christina Tsantekidou. Christina Tsantekidou is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her practice employs a wide range of materials to address complex histories of cultural identity and universal themes of human nature. Focusing on social, political, and psychological subject matter, she explores the nature of
our existence, where reflections on circumstances of the past bring an awareness of the present.

In early 2020, Erie Arts & Culture launched a visiting artist residency program in collaboration with Long Road Projects. Through this program, Erie Arts & Culture and Long Road Projects provide contemporary artists with dedicated time and space to reflect, research, and create new bodies of work – outside of their usual environments. This program also creates opportunities for new perspectives and creative processes to be shared, which in turn positively impacts the cultural and creative landscape in Northwestern Pennsylvania. 

This visiting artist residency program is made possible through the generous support of a privately funded grant from The Erie Community Foundation.