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The artist was a star performer in country music and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
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“Inner Cartographies” presents a collection of paintings, textile-based works, assemblages and mixed media practices that chart metaphors for lived experience, fragments of memory, familial histories, cultural inheritance and individual transformation – that is, interior landscapes that resist fixed boundaries and reveal the self as fluid and continuously evolving. The exhibition is part of this year’s Collier County ¡ARTE VIVA! Celebration. -
Roland Ruocco is a studio artist, but he’s best known for the dozens of murals he’s painted across Southwest Florida. Wendy White is an abstract impressionist painter, but she’s renowned for her award-winning short film “Roses Are Blind” and one-woman play, “The Jewish Nun,” performed Off-Broadway and internationally. Their September show, “Counterparts,” at DAAS CO-OP features their studio work. -
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Tuesday is the remembrance day for what the U.S. government calls a “genocidal” campaign against the ethnic Rohingya people in Myanmar.
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