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Fort Collins Artist Gets State Department Commission

Fort Collins Artist Gets State Department Commission

Sleeping with Anemones – Fused glass triptych “Sleeping with Anemones” by Fort Collins artist Mary Barron is her whimsical depiction of life on the sea floor. It was selected by the U.S. Department of State as the basis of a new work to include cichlids, a type of fish found in Lake Tanganyika, on the […]

Reed College Magazine – Geoffrey Pagen – Ambassador of Art

Reed College Magazine – The art of Geoffrey Pagen, director of Reed College’s ceramic program, will grace the exterior of the new U.S. embassy in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi. Pagen has previously exhibited his work in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the State Department’s Art in Embassies […]
Geoffrey Pagen - Ambassador of Art
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are – Batman might have a hard time recognizing the kaleidoscopic suit that he inspired artist Nick Cave to make; for one thing, there are spinning globes instead of a cape. “When Batman hits someone, there are all these words and images that explode,” explains Cave, 53, whose lair is in […]

AIE RISD and Jim Drain Rabat sculpture project

Jim Drain shares some images with Art in Embassies, of the process up until casting of the new sculpture for the U.S. Embassy in Rabat. The images were taken from his time with RISD students throughout the process.
RISD Morocco project students and Jim Drain

Ambassador Krol hosts AIE reception

Art is a language that requires no translation. On June 15, Ambassador Krol hosted a reception at the Ambassadorial Residence to showcase American artwork displayed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State’s ART in Embassies program. This program gives American ambassadors the opportunity to select works contributed by American artists, illustrating a theme […]

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USTA.edu – A photograph by Arturo Infante Almeida, art specialist and curator of the UTSA Art Collection, is part of a permanent exhibition of works by 38 American artists in the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico. The photo (above), “Barrio Baroque,” was selected by the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies (AIE) program. “I’m […]
Arturo Almeida, Barrio Baroque, 2010
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1951, Oil on canvas, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Conversations with American Artists: Brice Marden

Brice Marden inaugurated the “American Artist Lecture Series” at the Tate Modern Museum in London on May 14, 2012. He is shown speaking with Marjorie Susman, wife of U.S. Ambassador to the UK Louis Susman, about the “ART in Embassies” (AIE) exhibition of modern art at Winfield House, the Ambassador’s official residence in London. In […]

Conversations with American Artists: Brice Marden Video

Brice Marden inaugurated the “American Artist Lecture Series” at the Tate Modern Museum in London on May 14, 2012. He is shown speaking with Marjorie Susman, wife of U.S. Ambassador to the UK Louis Susman, about the “ART in Embassies” (AIE) exhibition of modern art at Winfield House, the Ambassador’s official residence in London. In […]
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American Artist Lecture Series: Brice Marden at TATE Modern

The AIE American Artists Lecture Series, a three year programmatic collaboration among Art in Embassies, the Tate Modern Museum, and Embassy London – building relationships and sharing ideas in support of cultural diplomacy. This inaugural lecture features internationally regarded artist Brice Marden.
Brice Marden at the first TATE American Artist Lecture series in 2012

Painting that could cure diseases

Painting that could cure diseases – At 6.15pm on a drizzly Monday, dozens of people are queuing in front of Tate Modern in London. Above, the rainclouds are swelling to a brooding, luminous pewter not dissimilar from the shade used by Brice Marden for his early monochrome paintings. Exhibited in mid-1960s New York, they set […]

AIE and TATE Artist Lecture Series

American Artist Lecture Series Inauguration – The Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) is pleased to announce the AIE American Artist Lecture Series at the Tate Modern-London, in a unique collaboration with Embassy London. In celebration of AIE’s 50th anniversary, the three-year-long program will feature six noted American artists. Brice Marden, internationally […]
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AIE announces new collaboration

American Artist Lecture Series Inauguration – The Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) is pleased to announce the AIE American Artist Lecture Series at the Tate Modern-London, in a unique collaboration with Embassy London. In Brice Marden’s early work brought together the painterly quality of abstract expressionism with the intellectual rigours of […]

Sharing art and friendship in Jamaica

If there’s a better art and goodwill ambassador from Fredericksburg than Johnny Johnson, it’s news to me. That’s why I was interested to learn that the longtime artist, educator and force for good in the community recently had a special reception and display of his work in Kingston, Jamaica. The art exhibition of some two […]
Johnny Johnson painting
Sharon Cosgrove teaching at Kostanay Orphanage

Sharon Cosgrove heading to Astana

Though Wilkes University associate professor of art Sharon Cosgrove speaks neither Kazakh nor Russian, the two primary languages of Kazakhstan, she said that when she travels there at the end of the month, she doesn’t expect the language barrier to be much of a problem. As part of the U.S. Department of State’s ART in […]

Sharing the Artful Impulse

Stonington – Inside the La Grua Center Friday afternoon, art became a truly cooperative process. Five individuals worked together in silence on a single, enormous canvas. One woman dabbed orange onto her brush. Another slid a line of yellow onto the work. Once the participants added something, they tended to step back and appraise where […]
Local residents learn about Tunisian Collaborative Painting

Rhode Island School of Design creates US embassy art

RI School of Design creates US embassy art Students at the Rhode Island School of Design are getting a crash course in international diplomacy as they work with a professional sculptor on artwork for a new U.S. Embassy in Morocco. The collaboration with the U.S. State Department’s ART in Embassies program is a first for […]

US Embassy brings fabric artist to Thrapong

One of Botswana’s finest art galleries, Thapong Visual Art Medium this week welcomed Victoria ‘Tori’ Greising, an American artist who will be working with local artists and residents in creating a three -dimensional fabric sculpture. This is part of the Art in Embassies Programme which the American government has been running since 1963 although this […]
Tori Greising in Gaborone

US Ambassador hosts art exhibition

RIYADH: US Ambassador to Riyadh James B. Smith and his wife Dr. Janet Breslin-Smith hosted on Sunday night at their Riyadh residence the “ART in Embassies” exhibition dubbed “Connecting Families,” which was attended by media and both Saudi and American artists. The US ambassador’s residence is named after the USS Quincy, the battleship on which […]

RISD Students Help Design Sculpture For New U.S. Embassy in Morocco

Visiting artist and RISD alum Jim Drain is leading a class of ten RISD students to design a sculpture for the outside of the new U.S. embassy in Morocco. See more at http://www.RIMonthly.com.
RISD Jim Drain class
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