Leland ‘protégés’ strut their stuff
(NWPR-OH) – On view at the Hithergreen Center in Dayton, “Exploring Watercolor” is an exhibit of 57 paintings by students of Nita Leland. “Exhibiting gives them the opportunity to…
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Enriching times on the agenda
(PNAN-VA) – First introduced last year at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, “Escape to Black Friday” will be staged on Friday, November 26 from 9:00 am to 7:00…
Hayner Center is the place to be mesmerized
(NWPR-OH) – Showtime begins at 7:30 pm on Saturday, November 13, and who: Neil Jacobs, a master of the acoustic 12-string guitar, offers the audience a range of mesmerizing…
Show to pop with performing jewels
(AAPNW-TN) – Your ears, eyes, including your soul are in for an awakening as Jewel and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra take center stage in the Allen Arena at Lipscomb…
Locals set to open ‘cold’ season
(AAPNW-PA) – Exhibits by Brian Dean Richmond, 2010 Artist of the Year, Gregory Witt, 2010 Emerging Artist, and the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh go on view Friday, November 19,…
Hiegel imprints her historical choices
(NWPR-OH) – Going up on the walls at the Findlay Art League are the accepted artworks for the 2010 Juried Show. Michele Hiegel, who is the Executive Director of…
Gruen will ‘hold your hand’
(AAPNW-OH) – Born in the ‘Big Apple’ in 1945, Bob Gruen is best noted as both John Lennon’s personal photographer as well as their friendship. One of his photographs…
Symphony goes Broadway
(NWPR-OH) – Broadway vocalists, Rob Evan, Capathia Jenkins, Doug LeBrecque, and Anne Runolfsson will join the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday, November 12 and Saturday 13th at 8:00 pm,…
A whole lot of ‘brain-waving’ in this show
(PNAN-NY) – Opening at the American Museum of Natural History on Saturday, November 20 and remaining on view through August 14, 2011, the exhibition, “Brain: The Inside Story” will…
Photo entry guidelines available
(NWPR-OH) – The Lima Photography Club of ArtSpace/Lima has scheduled the intake dates for entries into its annual juried exhibition on Saturday, December 11 and Sunday the 12th, from…
School to showcase its artistic assets
(AAPNW-WV) – The Alban Arts Academy “Fall 2010 Showcase” opens on Thursday, November 18 and Friday, 19th with works by students, comprising paintings, sculptures, which will be on view…
City event is a cultural walk
(NWPR-OH) – A whole lot of things to do, sights to see, a savory time for the taste buds, as well as treasures for sale during this cultural event…
History recordkeeping continues on Ozark man
(AAPNW-TN) – There is a time when riches cannot buy something; it has already been gifted continuously to others throughout one’s so-far life travels in forms, like a woman’s…
‘Second City’ Editor’s pick
Where it all began “In 1946 Don Hall was a young Fort Wayne man with a background in the meat business, forty acres of swamp land and a dream. The…
Duke infuses fiscal ‘energy’ into art center
(PNAN-SC) – No more needs to be said because the photo tells the story as Community Relations Director Mike Wilson of Duke Energy presents a check for five grand…
Lima show is all about skill
(NWPR-OH) – They are artisans who are skilled at making things by hand, whether with wood, metal or about any other type of medium where the end result could…
Scholar to spread the truths
(PNAN-MT) – Some of the works by master carver John Buck are comprised of woodblock prints, rubbings, sculpture, and three-dimensional wood panels, but there is much more; a genuine…
Her California dreamin’ is a reality
PNAN-CA- It was in 1994 when Larisa Pilinsky aka Lark, who is an artist, art curator, and poet set out to leave her imprint on the art community by…
Spears hopes to ‘rise to the challenge’
(PNAN-SC) – Host of the Tonight Show, Jay Leno said, “If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and…
Walker on KMAC chat roster
(AAPNW-KY) – On Tuesday, November 9 at 6:00 pm at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, poet Frank X. Walker will give a gallery talk titled,…
Yuletide decoration created the olden way
(PNAN-ND) – Commissioned by the North Dakota Council on the Arts, Sue Jacobson picked up her paints, brushes and fired up her kiln and created an original fourth annual…
Montana museum opens with James work
(PNAN-MT) – “We hope that the community of Great Falls will come down for this exceptional show,” said Executive Director of the C.M. Russell Museum, Darrell Beauchamp. “History and…
Drews: ‘Ali does an incredible job’
(PNAN-SC) – “I am honored to be chosen Museum Educator of the Year by the South Carolina Art Education Association,” said Ali Borchardt. “Both the Columbia Museum of Art…
Symphony to party with educational ‘antiques’
(NWPR-OH) – A whole lot of sounds will hit the airways in the Crouse Performance Hall in the Veteran’s Memorial Civic and Convention Center on Saturday, November 6 at…
She is really quick on the draw
(PNAN-NC) – Speed, precision, and danger are key elements of the exhibition “VantagePoint IX – Janet Biggs: Going to Extremes” that is on view Friday, November 5 through May…
Hinkle to ‘nurture’ art center
(NWPR-IN) – Elected to the helm, Portland, Indiana resident Becky Hinkle steps as the President of Arts Place, Inc., a regional arts council founded in 1967 that provides art-related…
Center has spring internship openings
(PNAN-VA) – Those seeking to gain some hands-on experience and be part of a successful organization, the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton have available 2011 spring internship openings for…
Will you let us know who they are?
(PNAN-SC) – Nominations for the 2011 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts are due Wednesday, December 15. The awards are presented to South Carolina businesses, organizations and…
They are feeling their heritage
(AAPNW-KY) –Annually in nine different award categories, those who have made a difference, changed the course, upheld all what the Arts have to offer will be feeling those sounds…
Originals to go on the block
(PNAN-ME) On Saturday, December 4, the Bangor Art Society is holding its “8th Annual Holiday Art Auction” at the Masonic Center, located in the former Bangor Theological Seminary campus…
Indiana County officials ink yeas
JAY COUNTY Commissioners recently issued a proclamation acknowledging October as National Arts and Humanities Month. Shown (l-r) front row: Commissioners Milo Miller, James Zimmerman and Faron Parr. Back row from…
Heartstrings forever tied
“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good,…
Youth caught between two worlds
(PNAN-CA) – Director Eyad Zahra explores the complexities of being young and Muslim in today’s America. Chosen as an official selection by the 2010 SXSW Film & Music Festival…
Artist’s childhood memories to ‘play’ again
(NWPR-IN) – More than 68 artists have submitted works for the “Toys & Book Illustrations” show that opens on Friday, October 29 at the Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery in…
Who would know in a rush?
(PNAN-ME) Opening Saturday, October 30, in conjunction with “John Haberle: American Master of Illusion” currently on view through December 12, “False Documents & Other Illusions” is the second Circa…
The Lady reveals who are on the list
(PNAN-PA) – Each year, the ceremony moves to a different community to enable more citizens to share in this celebration of the arts. However this year, the honoring event…
Exhibits are engaging viewers
(PNAN-ID) – On view at the Boise Art Museum through Sunday, December 5, the “Idaho Triennial” juried show highlights the works by wide group of Idaho artists. The theme,…
What you get will be worth the wait
(PNAN-AL) – The music will be flowing, songs will be sung, speeches of gratitude will be given, culinary delights will be savored, and even children’s faces will be painted.…
Council wants youths to compete for title
(PNAN-ND) – Who will be the next McGarths, Lowmans, an author of another “Northern Lights” as well as an ‘Early Cutting’ Roland Flint that will “When they take the…
Artist’s final major work to rest in the sun
(PNAN-FL) – Its discovery dates to the 1880s, when tales of abundance of blue skies and waters, fish and game, tropical mild climate were noted by not only seekers…
Bay area to be first mesmerized again
(PNAN-CA) – Recognized as one of the leading presenters in the world, the San Francisco Performances joins the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the Novellus Theater for…
Pine Tree State artists chosen for show
(PNAN-ME) – If you were Jim Kempner of Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York, or David Row, a painter based in New York and Maine, or even Joanna…
Duo hees and haws for God
(NWPR-IN) – Do you like the taste of chocolate and vanilla? How about the tasteful comedy act from the Dave & Dwayne Ministries? The duo strives to spread the…
They did ask, but not for them
    (PNAN) – For what he has done for the Arts, how fitting is it to know that an artist’s words were a sign of support which can be traced…
Dakotah nabs best in youth photo show
(NWPR-OH) – The Collective Center, the St. Marys, Ohio facility for Arts Place, recently held a reception and award ceremony for the “Walk with Nature Youth Photography Exhibit” that…
Profs to show their stuff
(NWPR-IN) – Performing the sounds of the violin and cello, Dr. Robert Lynn and Elizabeth Smith will be on stage as part of the Faculty Artist Series program, Thursday,…
Classy gent in the red suit bids ten
(NWPR-IN) – It is going to be another ‘Ho, Ho, Ho’ time in the Goodrich Hall at Arts Place in Portland. It is there 28th annual Holiday Benefit Auction,…
First Lady Michelle Obama honors…
It’s his first lone show in U.S. museum
(AAPNW) – With an expressive vocabulary that relies on deadpan humor, absurdist enunciation, poetry and childlike imagery, museum goers will see in the “Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They…
All in the family to perform
(NWPR-IN) – They are Juilliard-trained musicians as well as award-winning songwriters with a musical foundation in classical, pop and jazz; in fact, they are all in the same family…