To many people, the mention of metal or heavy music brings to mind venues full of guys with beards, long hair, and patch-covered vests. While the metal world is indisputably male-dominated, many women ...

When Karen Smith decided to travel to Senegal for a metalsmith apprenticeship, the self-taught metal artist didn’t realize how much she would have to overcome while in the West African country. Not ...

The 1990s were a definitive era for rock and roll, with subgenres like grunge, nu metal, and Britpop taking over the scene and stomping out the previous decade’s sex-fueled glam metal landscape. Music ...

Festival season is upon us, and with that comes a new array of lineups and artists on the rise. Similar to other industries, the music industry has a history of racial discrimination as well as ...

David Throsby receives funding from the Australia Council for the Arts , Australian Research Council (ARC), and from the Commonwealth, WA, NT, SA and QLD governments. Katya Petetskaya receives funding ...

Celebrating the beauty of Blackness and protesting “environmental decadence” for a cleaner, waste-free future: that’s the vision of award-winning Nigerian metal sculptor and visual artist Dotun ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Three female artists are ‘welding’ their way into the Michigan art scene. The ‘Working Hands’ exhibition, featured at the Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center, is an ...

In the Lucille M. & Richard F. X. Spagnuolo Art Gallery, nine three-foot aluminum embroidery hoops are affixed to pink, papered walls. In her exhibition, “Alex McQuilkin: That Hand-Touch Sensibility,” ...

From its earliest days, hip-hop has been fundamentally about storytelling, with artists repurposing existing sounds to create new forms of self-expression. While the genre is often perceived as ...