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• Opening: Assistant Director of Educational Programs

  03-02-2025 22:57 via artsjournal.com
  General SummaryThe Assistant Director of Educational Programs manages all facets of the educational and curricular initiatives that form the core of BMC’s mission. This position directly supports the Senior Director of Artistic Planning & Educational Programs in shaping and executing the Brevard Music Center’s (BMC) educational vision, delivering an unparalleled learning experience for all students.
  The primary emphasis of this role focuses on the direction and management of the
  
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• Chief Financial Officer – La Jolla Playhouse

  03-02-2025 22:55 via artsjournal.com
  La Jolla Playhouse (the Playhouse) is seeking its next Chief Financial Officer, the senior leader charged with the management, oversight, and strategy of one of the nation’s premiere regional theatres. The Chief Financial Officer is responsible for overseeing and managing the organization’s financial planning and accounting, as well as providing the required data and analytical information for the overall successful financial management of the organization.
  The Chief Financial Office
  
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• Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds review – ravishing sensuality from an unsung surrealist

  03-02-2025 18:06
  
  Tate St Ives
  This thrilling, visually hypnotic exhibition beautifully captures the delightful energy of the painter’s work, even if it does treat her belief in the occult with too much reverenceThe natural surrealism of the St Ives seaside, barnacles and limpets clinging to suggestively shaped rocks, is the perfect context for the surrealist art of Ithell Colquhoun. While sea shells, corals and translucent green water are far from her only subjects, she did paint them with a ravishing, hyp
  
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• This firefighter survived the worst of black summer. His new exhibition hurls you right in

  03-02-2025 15:00
  CJ Taylor was pushing back a fire front when a wind change almost killed him. A new exhibition aims to recreate a flashover – and disturb the public into actionThe roar of an advancing bushfire, for those who have heard it, is often described as being as loud as an aircraft or an approaching freight train. “But my recollection was the opposite,” says volunteer firefighter and visual artist CJ Taylor, of the moment a fire burned over him. “Everything went quiet.”It w
  
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• A new start after 60: I wanted to retire from farming – but never dreamed I would become an artist

  03-02-2025 07:55
  
  On holiday in the American south, John Ingall discovered that one of the local crops was being turned into remarkable works of art. So he went home, grew his own gourds and set about transforming them – and himselfIt was while touring Mississippi in an old RV that John Ingall and his wife, Jane, first spotted the plant that would change their lives: the hardshell gourd, a plump, squash-like fruit with a thick, woody skin. After that, they saw them almost everywhere they went: carved gourds
  
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