Calling Artists: 556th Litchfield Park Festival of the Arts AZ. November 7-8, 2026, Application Deadline 9/6/2026 see below details.

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56th Litchfield Park Festival of Arts (AZ) November 7-8, 2026 Application Deadline 9/6/26 APPLY HERE Call to Artists WHAT: 56th Annual Litchfield Park Festival of Arts  WHERE: Litchfield Square Park, Litchfield Park, Arizona WHEN: November 7-8, 2026 | Sat 9am - 5pm | Sun 9am - 5pm NOTEWORTHY: 150 participating artists Convenient & easy load-in/load-out Free artist parking Professional overnight security Friday and Saturday nights Volunteers on site Booth sitters RV parking available Jury Fee: $25 (Non-refundable) Booth Fees: $400 (10' x 10'); $600 (10' x 20'); $800 (10' x 30') Electricity: $35 (per plug - first-come, first-served basis) NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS on ZAPP Application Deadline: September 6, 2026 Artist Notification: September 14, 2026 Booth Fee Due: October 3, 2025 Visit the City of Litchfield Park website for more info   Event Questions? Email: EventOps@litchfieldpark.gov or call (623) 935-9040 The City of Litchfield Park is proud to present this two-day festival, now in its 56th year. The Litchfield Park Festival of Arts is a favorite of artists and attendees alike! The festival takes place in Litchfield Park, Arizona, next to the historic Wigwam Resort, and shows off the diverse fine art and craftsmanship of over 150 top artists from around the country. Throughout the weekend, various musicians keep the festival atmosphere lively. The beer and wine garden attracts festival goers who want to discover new favorites, as well as those taking a shopping break to sit and relax for a spell. Our food court also offers a variety of snacks, sweets and hot food choices sure to please all. Expected event attendance is 15,000 throughout the weekend. This show is a favorite of tourists visiting Arizona to enjoy the beautiful weather! #litchfieldparkfestival#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com #sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunartists#arfuncreate#artfunnow#artfunvisit#artfunhappy,

Hi the Whitney Museum Exhibition~ The Lost World of Minnie Evans~ Opens August 22, 2026. see details below

 

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PRESENTS THE FIRST MAJOR SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF MINNIE EVANS IN MORE THAN FIVE DECADES Marking fifty years since the Whitney debuted the artist's first museum solo exhibition, this landmark survey celebrates the visionary work of one of America's most revered self-taught artists. — The Whitney Museum of American Art presents The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, opening August 22, 2026, just over fifty years after the Whitney organized Evans's groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975. The exhibition reintroduces audiences to one of the most extraordinary and original artistic voices in twentieth-century America.  Minnie Evans began making art in her early forties and spent the following four decades creating radiant drawings, paintings, and collages inspired by dreams, visions, spiritual revelation, mythology, popular culture, and the natural world. Guided by a profound religious faith and a vivid inner life, Evans transformed flowers, birds, angels, and human faces into intricate compositions that blur the boundaries between the earthly and the divine. She described these visionary works as portals into a Biblical Eden she called the "lost world."  Bringing together works created between 1935 and 1981 in Wilmington, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, the exhibition reveals the artist's remarkable ability to envision harmony and transcendence amid a world of social and racial tensions. Through densely layered imagery, luminous color, and recurring spiritual motifs, Evans created a body of work that remains as relevant and resonant today as when it was first made.  The exhibition arrives at a moment of renewed interest in Evans's work. While her drawings and paintings have appeared in influential exhibitions such as The Milk of Dreams at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2022) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Evans has not been the subject of a major solo museum presentation since the 1990s. This landmark exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the full breadth of her artistic vision and legacy.  “Evans is part of a long tradition of American artists who found sacred meaning in the natural world,” said Barbara Haskell, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Her decades of working at the Airlie Gardens gave her a profoundly personal relationship to nature. In filtering her experience of the gardens through dreams and visions that resonated with her inner life, fears, and religious faith, she created images of a lost paradise whose abundance can feel simultaneously ecstatic and claustrophobic.”   "The Whitney’s 1975 exhibition played a transformative role in introducing Evans's work to museum audiences in New York and beyond,” said Kim Conaty, the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney. “Fifty years later, we’re thrilled to train our focus once again on this exceptional artist, whose exquisite works offer a powerful lens through which to examine American history, spirituality, creativity, and resilience.”    The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans returns the artist to the institution where a historic milestone began and reflects the Whitney's ongoing commitment to expanding the story of American art by highlighting artists whose contributions have historically been overlooked. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary range of creative expression, foregrounding the achievements of a Black woman artist working independently in the American South during much of the twentieth century.   The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.  PRESS CONTACT For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact: Cree Solomon-Bonhomme, Publicist    Whitney Museum of American Art   (212)-671-1845 Cree_Solomon@whitney.org   Whitney Press Office whitney.org/press (212) 570-3633 pressoffice@whitney.org EXHIBITION SUPPORT Major support for The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is provided by the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund and the Kapadia Equity Fund. ABOUT THE WHITNEY The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today. Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website. VISITOR INFORMATION The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Public hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 am–6 pm; Friday, 10:30 am–10 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am–6 pm. Closed Tuesday. Visitors twenty-five years and under and Whitney members: FREE. The Museum offers FREE admission and special programming for visitors of all ages every Friday evening from 5–10 pm and on the second Sunday of every month.

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 whitney.org                                Discover the Whitney’s audio guides and accessible content on Bloomberg Connects.  Update your preferences to change the types of emails you receive from the Whitney. Forward this email to a friend. Unsubscribe from all Whitney emails. Image credit: Minnie Evans, Untitled (Three Figures and Angels Collage), 1961–1967. Oil, crayon, and pencil on paper and canvas, 14 × 19 in. (35.56 × 48.26 cm). Collection of John Jerit. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  Minnie Evans, Untitled (The Lions of Judah Collage), 1968. Oil and crayon on paper and board, 19 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (49.53 × 59.69 cm). Collection of Christian Daniel. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  #thewhitneymuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunfantasy #artfunnow#artfun

L'Alliance New York September 18 - December 20, 2026 an international survey of experimental arts presentation in all disciplines & multidisciplinary programs .

 

L’Alliance New York Announces  2026 Crossing The Line Festival Tickets Now On Sale “The one fest to rule them all is L’Alliance’s Crossing The Line.” – Helen Shaw, The New Yorker

From September 18-December 20, 2026, L’Alliance New York will present an international survey of new experiments in audience and form, highlighting a diversity of artists working at the intersections of visual art, music, film, dance, and theater. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit lallianceny.org/event/crossing-the-line-2026.  This year’s Crossing The Line festival highlights new collisions and experiments in audience and form, inviting art lovers to experience boundary-breaking visual art, music, film, dance, and theater across New York City and, for the first time in the festival’s history, in upstate New York. Featuring fourteen leading global artists, seven North American premieres and four New York premieres, the festival creates a unique opportunity for New York audiences to engage with thrilling and innovative international performance. “Crossing The Line contributes to keeping our performing arts scene diverse, curious, and cutting-edge. This year, recent newcomers in the festival return with expanded runs and larger projects, while two artists make their US début. With roots in Greece, Guadeloupe, Rwanda, Nigeria, or Vietnam, our line-up embraces migratory voices and encourages audiences to travel just as far in their imagination.”—Violaine Huisman, Crossing The Line Curator Full Festival Lineup: The Birds, Lenio Kaklea Dance New York Premiere Friday, September 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance (Chatham, NY) Returning to Crossing The Line after Αγρίμι / Fauve in 2024, choreographer Lenio Kaklea continues her exploration of ecology through dance. In The Birds, she takes inspiration from the ways in which birds structure their behavior through dance and song, from mating rituals to hunting patterns. Bright colors, acrobatics, and energetic movements contrast with the eerie sense of being watched, as Kaklea questions the precarious equilibrium between freedom and subjugation. The Birds is co-presented by PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance and L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival Commedia dell’arte, Camille Henrot Theater New York Premiere Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Friday, September 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 2 PM L'Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater Camille Henrot brings her interdisciplinary practice to the stage for the first time, incorporating the stock characters and comic ploys of the Italian Renaissance theatrical tradition within a modern-day New York City apartment building. The delivery of a package triggers a cascade of uncanny events among tenants, as the tragi-comedic play attempts to make sense out of the senseless. Followed by Crossing The Line Reception on Sep 23. Commedia dell’arte is co-presented by Performa and L'Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival.   Co-commissioned by Performa, Aspen Art Museum / Wheeler Opera House, and LYRA Art Foundation. Commedia dell'arte is curated by RoseLee Goldberg, founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa, and Eliza Ryan, Curator at Large, Aspen Art Museum. World Premiere at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen as part of the Aspen Art Museum’s 2026 AIR Festival, July 30, 2026. Traces of Gounouj, Léo Lérus   Dance North American Premiere Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 12:30 PM, 2 PM, 3:30 PM, rain date Oct 4 Governors Island This site-specific performance brings together dancers Asha Thomas and Robert Cornejo to present excerpts of Gounouj In Situ, a work by choreographer Léo Lérus inspired by the natural beauty of his native Guadeloupe and the island’s resilient ability to adapt to the impact of human activity. The dancers' movement mirrors the complex mix of feelings around environmental preservation, juxtaposing disappointment and anger with an enduring hope and a shared movement toward a positive future. Co-Presented by L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival and Governors Island Arts’ INTERVENTIONS Performance Series. Ad Libitum, Simon Le Borgne & Ulysse Zangs  Dance, Music North American Premiere Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Friday, October 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM Le Skyroom at L’Alliance New York A Latin expression, literally meaning “in accordance with one’s wishes or until satiety,” Ad Libitum is a piece about the desire to create, to step outside oneself, to expand. Dancer Simon Le Borgne and musician Ulysse Zangs explore the idea of molting, of emptying yourself through dance and live music. Driven by a musical score of drums, electric guitar, and synths, the performance expresses the need to change skin and shed all substance, as well as the need to embody yourself, to fill your own container. With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; supported by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation through the FUSED program. This Is Unreal, Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard  Dance, Theater North American Premiere Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 7 PM; Friday, October 16, 2026 at 7 PM; Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 7 PM The Chocolate Factory Theater  Dancer and choreographer Liz Santoro recounts her life onstage. Some memories are real, others are generated by artificial intelligence; some movements originate from her body, others are fabricated by an algorithm trained on her dancing. This Is Unreal constructs a hybrid world that asks: Where does the body end and the machine begin? Co-presented with the Chocolate Factory Theater. Toi, moi, Tituba..., Dorothée Munyaneza & Kadidi Company  Dance US Premiere Friday, October 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM New York Live Arts Toi, moi, Tituba… is based on French philosopher Elsa Dorlin’s essay on Maryse Condé’s heroine Tituba. As a Black woman and so-called witch, Tituba gives a voice to those who are silenced by force. Inspired by this story, Dorothée Munyaneza uses her own body as an archive, and with composer Khyam Allami, presents a multiplicity of silenced voices and perspectives to revive memories and celebrate them through dance and music. Toi, moi, Tituba... is presented by New York Live Arts, in association with BAM, L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line, and Villa Albertine  Mille secrets de poussins, Collectif Quatre Ailes  Theater, Family Program North American Premiere Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 11:30 AM and 3 PM Le Skyroom at L’Alliance New York A narrator begins reading Claude Ponti’s Mille secrets de poussins, but things don’t go as planned... Full of mischief, the poussins (chicks) have hidden themselves in the library and start popping out of the books to play tricks on him. Accompanied by animated videos and multimedia effects, the performer leads the audience into a playful world. Mirlitons, François Chaignaud & Aymeric Hainaux  Dance, Music New York City Premiere Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Friday, November 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM Le Skyroom at L’Alliance New York Choreographer François Chaignaud and beatboxer Aymeric Hainaux engage in a percussive duel. Through their voices, feet, arms, props, and costumes, the artists create a duet that is as uncategorizable as the word mirliton (which ranges in definition from a kid’s flute to a style of military hat). With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; supported by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation through the FUSED program. BAM in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival Presents adaku, part 2, sweat variant—Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born  Dance New York Premiere Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Friday, November 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 3 PM BAM Fisher In adaku, part 2, sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born continues a speculative trilogy exploring one family’s entanglement with the transatlantic slave trade, set in a near-future United States. At the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual arts, this piece invites audiences into cycles of ritual and repair. BAM in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival Presents La Distance Festival d’Avignon  Text and Direction by Tiago Rodrigues  Theater North American Premiere Wednesday, November 18 through Sunday, November 29, 2026 BAM Harvey Theater Visionary playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues returns to Crossing The Line for the third year in a row with an urgent, unforgettable new work exploring separation, communication, and the consequences of our decisions. As humanity struggles to survive on Earth in 2077, a daughter chooses life in exile on Mars, leaving her father behind to grapple with love, loss, and the challenge of maintaining connections across unnavigable distances. Losing Your Bag, Pascal Rambert & Pauline Chalamet  Theater English Language World Premiere Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Friday, November 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM Le Skyroom at L’Alliance New York Making its English-language premiere, this one-woman piece is a collaboration between renowned French playwright Pascal Rambert and actress Pauline Chalamet. The play follows a young woman with a Master's degree, who is—temporarily—a window cleaner, as she expresses her anger at social stratification and grapples with loneliness. Nexus de l’adoration, Joris Lacoste  Theater North American Premiere Friday, November 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 7:30PM NYU Skirball Part ritual, part concert, part theatrical assembly, Nexus de l’adoration gathers song, speech, choreography, and devotion into a vivid ceremony for a fractured contemporary world. Paying homage to our world’s fascinating and expansive diversity, nine officiants sing, dance, and speak in a hybrid liturgy for our time.  Presented in Partnership with NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. St. Ann’s Warehouse Presents National Theatre of Strasbourg Saigon, Caroline Guiela Nguyen  Theater North American Premiere Thursday, December 3 through Sunday, December 20, 2026 St. Ann’s Warehouse Returning after the sold-out US Premiere of LACRIMA during last year’s Crossing The Line, Caroline Guiela Nguyen conjures up a vision of France as it exists beyond the limits it has been given, beyond its own borders. Set between 1990s France and 1950s Vietnam, Saigon unfolds in a vibrant restaurant where people gather to rebuild fragments of their lives across generations and continents. Support for Crossing The Line Festival  Air France, Albertine Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Van Cleef & Arpels, Wescustogo Foundation L'Alliance New York's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. #lalliancenewyork#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com, #artfunnow#artfunartists#arfuncreate#artfunpreform#artfunnew #