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CBS News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Cherry Creek Arts Festival celebrates 34 years of creativity, family, and craft in Denver
The 34th annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival returns to the streets of Cherry Creek North this July 4 to 6, bringing with it a vibrant mix of creativity, community, and craftsmanship to Denver. Featuring 260 juried artists from across the country, this year's festival promises an unforgettable lineup of fine art, live music, and local eats -- all with free admission. From textiles and woodwork to jewelry and repurposed materials, the festival celebrates a wide range of artistic mediums. For artist Terry Evans, it's more than just another show -- it's a tradition deeply rooted in growth and connection. "I applied the first year and got accepted," Evans recalls. "Now, more than 50 years into my career, I know I have more pieces in the Denver area than anywhere else." Originally from Kansas City, Terry has taken his art around the world -- but he always makes time for Cherry Creek. And so does his daughter, Leah Evans. She was just 8 weeks old when she attended her first art show with her dad. Today, she's exhibiting her own textile-based work using papier mâché and reclaimed materials. "I grew up sanding and oiling my dad's art," she said. "Now I've stitched a style all my own." Leah Evans, right, grew up helping her dad Terry Evans, left, with his art. The two were displaying both of their art at the 34th annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver on Saturday, July 5, 2025. CBS The father-daughter duo has returned to the festival many times over the years, side by side with hundreds of other artists who not only present their craft but share their passion and perseverance. "I'm watching a daughter who works really hard to make a living," Terry says. "And nothing's guaranteed."
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Best iPad apps for unleashing and exploring your creativity
There are a number of iPad apps that can help you explore and express your creativity. Although the iPad started off as a simple device that could be used to stream content or browse the web on the go, Apple has essentially turned its iPads into powerful machines that can be used to do things like create digital art and edit videos. We've compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store. Before we get into the list, it's worth noting that although Adobe's creative apps are often top choices for creativity on the iPad, this list won't include them because they are already quite well-known. The list will instead focus on somewhat lesser-known apps. Procreate is one of the most popular drawing apps for the iPad, and for good reason. The app lets you create digital paintings, sketches, and illustrations using dozens of different types of brushes. Procreate is easy to use and features built-in gesture controls, along with a simple interface. The app allows for high-resolution canvases up to 16K by 8K on compatible iPad Pros. It also lets you create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations. Plus, you can import image files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF. Procreate includes several features that are designed to help you during the creative process on your iPad, such as QuickShape, StreamLine, Drawing Assist, and ColorDrop. Once you're finished creating your piece, you can relive your creative journey with the app's time-lapse 'Replay' feature and share a 30-second time-lapse video on social media. You can access Procreate with a one-time payment of $12.99. LumaFusion is a great app for editing videos if you're ready to graduate from iMovie. The app features numerous user-friendly features that make it perfect for aspiring videographers or indie filmmakers on a budget. With LumaFusion, you can create multiple layer edits with 4K ProRes and HDR media. You can add different effects, choose from dozens of transitions, and record voice-overs. The app lets you create multilayer titles and import fonts and graphics. Plus, you can fine-tune audio with Graphic EQ, Parametric EQ, Voice isolation, and more. The app lets you create projects with a variety of aspect ratios, including 16:9 landscape, 9:16 portrait, square, widescreen film, anamorphic, and more. LumaFusion is available for a one-time payment of $29.99. You can also purchase additional features, such as multicam editing and the ability to send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac. Canva offers a user-friendly platform that allows anyone to create visual content, even without graphic design experience. You can use it to create presentations, infographics, videos, websites, social media posts, and more with over 250,000 templates. Canva features tools for editing photos, personalizing content with logos and images, adding audio, and cropping and speeding up video. The platform also has a series of AI features that are designed to make the creation process easier. For instance, you can extend an image using 'Magic Switch' or turn ideas into images with 'Magic Media.' Canva is free but offers a $12.99 monthly subscription if you want unlimited access to its AI features, premium templates, and more. Affinity Designer 2 is a graphic design app that combines vector design, pixel-based textures, and retouching into a single platform. It's great for professional illustrators, web designers, game developers, and other creatives. The app lets you create illustrations, branding, logos, icons, UI/UX designs, typography, posters, labels, fliers, stickers, concept art, digital art, and more. It supports Apple Pencil's precision, pressure sensitivity, and tilt functionality. Affinity Designer 2 features gesture controls to speed up your workflow, and it lets you customize keyboard shortcuts. You can also do things like create your own custom font and zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision. You can access the app through a one-time payment of $18.49. Concepts is a great app for exploring your ideas and experimenting with designs. You can use the app to sketch plans, make notes and mindmaps, and draw storyboards and designs. The app features Nudge, Slice, and Select tools that allow you to easily change any element of your sketch without redrawing it. The app features realistic pens, pencils, and brushes that flow with pressure and tilt. Concepts gives you access to scale and measurement tools that calculate real-world dimensions, and also features a tool wheel or bar that you can personalize to your liking. The app's basic features are free. Concepts offers a $4.99 monthly subscription if you want access to additional features, such as the ability to create your own brushes and premium editing tools. Tayasui Sketches is a good, user-friendly sketching and drawing app. It has several different features such as a realistic watercolor brush, digital acrylic brushes, the ability to blend two colors to get the perfect shade, gradient and depth tools, and more. The app lets you multitask by opening up another app and dragging lawyers and documents between the two. There's also a 'Zen Mode' that lets you create without distractions. You can also upload your images to incorporate them into your creations. Tayasui Sketches lets you store your creations into personalized folders. Tayasui Sketches's basic features are free. The app offers a $2.99 monthly subscription that unlocks unlimited layers, new brushes and markers, an extended brush editor, the ability to backup your drawings, and more. This story originally published in December 2024 and is updated regularly with new information.
CTV News
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
New Manitoulin exhibition celebrates northern Ontario's beauty
A new exhibition celebrating Northern Ontario's landscapes opens this week at Perivale Gallery in Spring Bay on Manitoulin Island. Visitors can vote for a People's Choice Award winner. The show runs alongside the LaCloche Art Show, with the gallery open seven days a week.
Washington Post
23-06-2025
- General
- Washington Post
Arnaldo Pomodoro, whose bronze spheres decorate prominent public spaces around the world, dies at 98
ROME — Arnaldo Pomodoro, one of Italy's most prominent contemporary artists whose bronze spheres decorate iconic public spaces from the Vatican to the United Nations, has died at age 98, his foundation said Monday. Pomodoro died at home in Milan on Sunday, the eve of his 99th birthday, according to a statement from Carlotta Montebello, director general of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation.
CBC
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
See a Winnipeg artist make detailed portraits with duct tape
Duct tape is often used to make quick repairs, but one Winnipegger has gotten stuck on another use. Levi Sobering creates intricate portraits with layers of coloured duct tape.
