Symphony releases scores
(NWPR) – Recorded live during their 2008-09 season, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra has released a new compact disc recording of two 20th century works: William Grant Still’s Symphony No.…
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Art is born again
(AAPNW) – New works by wood artist Tom Hawley goes on view during the fifth anniversary of the renovation of the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio on Sunday, September…
Teacher’s work chosen for award
(AAPNW) – Since 2002, the Alma Wallace Lesch Award has been presented annually at the Kentucky State Fair for fiber or textile work using innovation in color or technique, which is…
Museum director stages workshops
(NWPR) – Workshops by Fort Wayne Museum of Art Executive Director Charles A. Shepard III are being conducted at Arts Place facilities in Portland, Indiana and St. Marys, Ohio.…
Show to reveal works that push beyond
(AAPNW) – Opening Tuesday, November 9, in conjunction with the 21st anniversary of the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, “Six Solos” includes six independent exhibitions of the work by…
Paying Forward people also on honor roll
(NWPR) – Homecoming week, Friday, October 1 and Saturday 2nd, “Celebrating the Arts-HU style” pays not only honors to the 20th anniversary of the Merillat Centre for the Arts…
Goal: a goose egg score
(PNAN) – “Today’s news is very encouraging. It means that UNICEF and its partners are making many significant inroads against the gravest threats to children,” said President and CEO…
Fashion show to feature a pool of the bests
(AAPNW) – The Indianapolis Museum of Art will present a runway fashion show featuring uncanny silhouettes and unexpected materials. “Project IMA: Fashion Unbound” is all about the works by…
Ben ‘unfolds’ his hands willingly
(AAPNW) – Nashville resident Ben Folds wants to help the Nashville Symphony, which sustained an estimated $40 million in losses after its concert hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, was severely…
Texas city to bloom with the arts
(PNAN) – On Saturday, September 25 between 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, the museums and Fort Worth Community Arts Center in the Fort Worth Cultural District will stage the…
Art center new location is ageless
(NWPR) – Known as those upstairs storage areas, in the century old buildings that line downtown many main thoroughfares have and are becoming the center stages that bustle with the…
What’s between show ‘caught’ for IMA’s walls
(AAPNW) – Opening on Friday, November 5, in the Forefront Galleries at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and remaining on view through March 6, 2011, “Framed” is an exhibition…
Show to be an ‘uprising’ view for goers
(AAPNW) – Featuring works by international artists, Zheng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, Shen Jaiwei and Hung Liu, opening Saturday, October 16 at the Akron Art Museum, “Culture Revolution” allows viewers…
Aspiring youth poets sought to compete
(PNAN) – “The Council is proud to support Poetry Out Loud because it challenges students of all levels to discover their own unique voices and to express themselves in…
Hengst: They have ‘amazing talent’
(AAPNW) – Executive director of the Ohioana Library, Linda Hengst expressed, “Ohio has fostered amazing talent! Among this year’s award recipients are former Poet Laureate of the United States…
Prose choices sought Hoosier commission
(AAPNW) – Nominations for Indiana Poet Laureate are being enlisted by the Indiana Arts Commission, to be submitted by email only by Monday, November 1, no later than 5:00…
Brown sounds open AP’s season
(NWPR) – Launching the Arts Place 2010-11 Performance Series at the Portland Center on Saturday, October 9 at 7:30 pm, the Alison Brown Quartet showcases an original instrumental sound…
Show to shine on works of time
(NWPR) – On Friday, September 24, at Bear’s Mill, paintings by Evelyn Mahrt and along with cabinets crafted by Bruce Bayman are the exhibiting highlights that will be on…
The ‘beat’ is on for Lincoln’s Windy City
(AAPNW) – Move over Hollywood because Illinois’ film industry is on track to experience tremendous growth in 2010. Last year film and television productions in Illinois generated more than…
Noche del Bicentenario de Mexico en Chicago
State’s ‘coal miner son’ joins the fight
(AAPNW) – Governor Joe Manchin joined the West Virginia Coal Association, Citizens for Coal, the Federation for American Coal, members of the FACES of Coal campaign, and many West…
University project to spur job growth
(AAPNW) – The University of Chicago no longer needs to have their visions remain on pins and needles. Governor Pat Quinn told them to begin planning their campus…
Wife to tell all about husband and horses
(AAPNW) – A gallery talk by Lisa Borel, wife of Derby winning jockey Calvin Borel, will be on Thursday, September 23 at 6:00 pm at the Kentucky Museum of…
Actors sought for final play
(NWPR) – Since 1988, New World Arts have been dedicated in their mission in the production of quality plays. As the only all-volunteer theater in Northeastern Indiana, this Goshen…
National Ohio landmark ‘legend’ to live again
(NWPR) – “Harvest time was and is a time of celebration for agricultural communities like Darke County,” said outreach manager Becky Dynes of the Friends of Bear’s Mill in…
Vermont arts provider to celebrate 25th
(PNAN) – National arts organization, CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resource) will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a reunion, workshops, and a fundraising auction at Snow…
Jackie Evancho
Alumni show on view
(AAPNW) – The Huntington University (Indiana) Visual Arts Alumni Exhibit has opened in the Robert E. Wilson Gallery. The exhibit features recent works by visual arts alumni, is open until…
Black Broadway by Holly Bass
Piazzolla’ s scores shout with amore
(AAPNW) – Recorded by the Tennessee’s Nashville Symphony at the end of 2009 in Schermerhorn Symphony Center, works by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s (1921-1992) highlights his “nuevo tango” style…
Buckeye creators sought for new series
(AAPNW) – The Dublin Arts Council puts Ohio artists on notice about the new series in the public artwork program, entitled the “Riverboxes Tributary Project” that will be installed…
Todd calls it quits
(AAPNW) – “Whether as an award-winning faculty member, a successful entrepreneur or outstanding president of the institution that he loves, there’s never been any question that Kentucky and her future…
Buds become beasts over beauty
(AAPNW) – The Pultizer-prize play, “Picnic” made its debut at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre in February 1953 and ran for 477 performances. Beginning on Thursday, September 23 at 7:30…
Neal and his ‘band’ to go live
(NWPR) – Beginning on Thursday, September 23 and then on Saturday the 25th, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2010-2011 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Classical Series will open with…
Grant applications filing open
(APPNW) – Tuesday, October 12 at 4:30 pm, the window closes to file online grant application through the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) for grants through its Technical Assistance Program.…
A historical trip for Humanity
(PNAN) – Albert Schweitzer {1875-1965} Humanitarian, 1952 Nobel Peace Prize once said, “One other thing stirs me when I look back at my youthful days, the fact that so…
North Carolina Arts Council tagged by Rocco
(PNAN) – Earlier this month, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman bestowed news of greatness on the North Carolina Arts Council, for being the chosen…
Ichthus to ‘swim’ in AAP
(NWPR) – Over four decades ago, Bob Lyon, who then was an Asbury Seminary professor and along with some of his students, started what is known today as…
Non-human appraisals sought
(NWPR) – Got something tucked away from your past or something that has been handed down, or even one of those that caught your fancy while bargain hunting? If…
Kalcec added to Collective staff
(NWPR) – Arts Place, headquartered in Portland, Indiana, has added Everett Kalcec to instruct the MusicWorks program at the Collective Center in St. Marys, Ohio. Kalcec will be teaching…
Colors of a city to shine with events
(PNAN) – The Hudson Valley is mecca of artistic talent, including Kingston, New York where a biennial citywide custom begins with the Arts Society of Kingston’s 2010 Open Studio…
Ceramists to ‘fire’ their works
(NWPR) – Opening Friday, September 17 at ArtSpace/Lima with an artist’s reception between 6:30-8:30 pm, the show “For The Fire: Makers of Wood-Fired Ceramics and Selections from Their Collections”…
Participants are enjoying drawing classes
From Michele Hiegel The “Creative Drawing” classes have begun here at the Wassenberg Art Center, and instructor Pat Rayman is leading the group through a series of exercises designed…
Ricci team lauds union
(APPNW) – “We are excited to enter into this new partnership arrangement with the City of Bloomington and the Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District, and believe they are well positioned…
Dance concert to be on the ‘banks of DAC’
(APPNW) – “Creating dance works in the outdoors presents an exciting challenge and opportunity to collaborate with the most expert and talented of all artists – nature,” said…
A ‘Hog Heaven’ show is a gem for all eyes
(AAPNW) – Whether it would those ‘Diamonds are a girl’s best friend’ types: Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, or Betsy Ross, Harriet Powers, including Mamie Hughley, Annie Heard, Mary E.…
Delphos Area Art Guild says . . .
Young ‘shooters’ to meet in the Big Apple
    (PNAN) – Judges Stephen Mayes, Managing Director at VII Photo, Steve Diamond, Executive Director of Photography at Scholastic Inc., Spencer Jones, CEO at Glasshouse Images, and YPA founder Jerry…
Painters to perform for whole family
(NWPR) – On Sunday, September 26, more than 20 noted local artists will be painting in Artlink’s “Wet Paint Auction” which is an every other year event at Lakeside…
Bookbinding workshop on agenda
(NWPR) – Senior Conservator Gerald Ward at Etherington Conservation Services in North Manchester, Indiana is presenting an “Introduction to Bookbinding” workshop on Wednesday, September 22 from 6:00 to 9:00…