Solo show will be stunning and ‘bright’
BOULDER, CO. (PNAN) Going on view, Thursday, November 11 through December 1, 2021 in the Mary Williams Fine Arts Gallery, works by Julia Bright, ranging from atmospheric landscapes and still…
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Pumpkin art blooms at Center
CELINA, OH (NWPR) Created by David and Eleanor Stanwood, Needle felting goes back to the 1980s, which is a craft artwork created by using a needle and wool fibers. It’s a process…
Who, What, Where, When
CALIFORNIA SAWDUST ART CLASSES serve a unique population of both local in Laguna Beach, California and visiting patrons, providing year-round art classes in a variety of…
Their impact is HUGE for society
Passed by Congress in 2010, House Resolution 275 designates the week beginning with the second Sunday in September as National Arts in Education Week. During September 13 through 19, 2020…
Exhibit ponders art and beauty
FORT WAYNE, IN (AAPDN) – Opening Saturday, August 22, 2020 at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, this exhibit, “Posing Beauty in African American Culture” explores the contested ways in…
Museum to have with fabulous shows
BLOOMINGTON, IN (AAPJ) – The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at the Indiana University Bloomington, reopens to visitors on Thursday, August 27, 2020. The museum will follow the…
Set to open with guidelines
ATHENS, GA (AAPJ) – The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will reopen its galleries to the public on Thursday, August 13, 2020. Guests can expect some…
Teens artfully express themselves
NASHVILLE, TN (APPJ) – Prompted by our vision of inspiring people through art to look at their world in new ways, the Frist Art Museum is showcasing works by teens…
Shows reveal much local historical wealth
WAUSEON, OH (AAPDN) – Current exhibitions on view at the Museum of Fulton County are: Drafting a Declaration: The Marjorie Whiteman Story. 75 years before the “Me Too” movement,…
Oldies to be on show
ARCHBOLD, OH (AAPDN) – From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday, August 1, 2020, Sauder Village will celebrate the automobiles of days gone by during the Antique Car Gathering…
Performing arts season open
AUBRUN, IN (AAPDN) – Now in its 12th season, the DeKalb Outdoor Theater Project began to promote the arts. Its current updated 2020 forthcoming schedule follows: Friday, July 21, 2020…
Summer park series will ‘raise’ goers up
VAN WERT, OH (AAPDN) – Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio current updated free Summer Concert Series programming in Fountain Park in this city, and you can step back…
Kim’s art ‘speak’ native tongue
ANCHORAGE, AK (AAPDN) – On exhibit, from the Anchorage Museum’s Dena’ina language book, “Nkenaghch’: Good Words to Never Forget” are illustrations by local-based artist Ted Kim, who is known for…
Portraits of abuse show riveting
ANCHORAGE, AK (AAPDN) – On view at the Anchorage Museum through September 13, 2020, “Unheard: A Public Photography and Audio Installation” features the survivors who chose to speak publicly about…
Hopper show is marvelous
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (AAPJ)- On view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields through Sunday, October 25, 2020, “Edward Hopper and the American Hotel” is brought by Schahet Hotels welcomes…
Country singers brings their art to fair
VAN WERT COUNTY, OH (AAPDN) – On Saturday, September 5, 2020 country hit makers, John Michael Montgomery and David Nail will set the night on fire in the Van Wert…
64-year tradition cancelled
AUBURN, IN (AAPDN) – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, one of Indiana’s largest tourist events, which is over Labor Day weekend, has been cancelled.…
Pioneering show to open live
NASHVILLE, TN (AAPJ) – Opening on Friday, July 31, 2020 at the Frist Art Museum, “We Count: First-Time Voters” features the work of five local artists inspired by the 100th…
Pair to pioneer new program
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY (AAPJ) – Tania El Khoury as Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater and Performance and Ziad Abu-Rish as Visiting Associate Professor of Human Rights have been appointed by…
Curator chosen for 58th
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPJ) – Sohrab Mohebbi was chosen as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International, the longest-running survey of contemporary art in North America. The…
Exhibitions are now open
NASHVILLE, TN (AAPJ) – The Frist Art Museum is now open to the public, but they are adhering to all the health and safety protocols outlined by Mayor John Cooper…
‘Moon City’ to make ‘giant leap’
2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the first steps onto the moon. This year has special meaning to the citizens of Wapakoneta, Ohio as the man who took those steps,…
A ‘blockbuster’ of music, art, food
“We’ve moved to a day-long festival model this year,” said Ian Hinz, Sidney, Ohio Raise the Roof Executive Director. “We listened to community feedback and decided that moving to a…
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The mission at the Creative Arts Council of Wells County, headquartered in the city of Bluffton, Ohio, is to encourage, present and promote the arts for the benefit of each…
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Awards given to master artists
Harold Klosterkemper, a fiddle player from Decatur County, Indiana and Debra Bolaños, a ballet folklórico dancer and instructor in East Chicago, Indiana were honored for their lifetime achievement as artists.…
Major first show for figurative artist
Going on view Sunday, June 2, 2019 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, “David Park: A Retrospective†is the first major museum exhibition in more than 30 years…
40 years of Architecture Innovation
Founded in 1979, the international Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to a living architect or architects for significant contribution to the art of architecture. This exhibition at the Carnegie…
Theatre Camp begins in June
Beginning in June, the Historic Sidney Theatre in Sidney, Ohio will host its annual Summer Theatre Camp with two sessions. The first begins on Monday, June 3 through June 7,…
Exhibit to have treasures from ago
The 2019 Wayne County Extension Homemakers Biennial Quilt Show “Timeless Treasures” is set for Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm at the Wayne…
Airways to fill with many hits
Directed by Chelsea Whirledge and accompanied by Christopher Andres, on Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 pm and on Sunday, May 19 at 2:00 pm, the Greenville High School Vocal Music…
Society to be at Lilac Festival
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, members of the Defiance Society of Artists will be exhibiting, demonstrating, including member’s works in oil, acrylic and watercolor…
Annual Quilt Show will be ‘spectacular’
Opening Wednesday, May 1 through Sunday, May 5, 2019, at Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio will be the 43rd Annual Quilt Show is a kaleidoscope of color and creativity on…
Concert series has much action
Beginning on Thursdays, from May 30 through July 18, 2019, the Indiana Historical Society’s Concerts on the Canal begins with live music from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Eugene…
Marion-born artist debuts at museum
Opening Friday, March 15, 2019 at the Newfields, “Samuel Levi Jones: Left of Center” is an exhibition that provides visual commentary on the oppressive nature of American power structures.…
Book sales benefit animals
CHARLESTOWN, IN (NWPR) – Author Mary Ann Evans pseudonym George Eliot (1819-1880) wrote, “Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms,” and today,…
Good times to roll again
PIQUA, OH (NWPR) – Year 2019 marks the 25th year for Mainstreet Piqua’s annual Taste of the Arts celebration. Goers will experience art, food and music on Friday, May 10…
Maple Syrup on tap at Camp Palmer
FAYETTE, OH (NWPR) – Tucked in the woods next to Harrison Lake State Park, 4-H Camp Palmer has scheduled an event on Sunday, March 17, 2019 for visitors to learn…
Festival only a few “yarns’ away
PORTLAND, IN (NWPR)  – On Friday, March 8 and Saturday 9th, the Jay County Visitor and Tourism Bureau will hold its 16th annual Jay County Fiber Arts Festival at the…
Winter concert set
EDON, OH (NWPR) – The Edon High Music Department will hold its annual Winter Band and Choir Concert on Tuesday, March 5 at 7:00 pm in the Edon Schools Auditeria,…
Show exhibits real imagination
PIQUA, OH (NWPR) – The recent opening of the Piqua Arts Council’s exhibit, “Rockwell Reimagined” at the Piqua Public Library drew a parade of people to feast upon artworks…
First show about slavery
At Skokie, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, “Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865” is an exhibition that illuminates just how widespread the practice of…
She answered call of photography
On view in the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee from Friday, March 15 through May 27, 2019, “Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing” is an exhibition that examines a…
Artist images ponder concerns
The Artistry opens with “A Minnesota Rookery: Paintings and Drawings from Fergus Falls by Laura Corcoran” on Friday, February 22, 2019 in the Atrium Gallery at the Bloomington Center for…
Series puts spotlight on imagemaker
Showing now at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas through March 17, 2019, “FOCUS: Dirk Braeckman” are photographs of this Ghent-based artist (b. 1958, Eeklo, Belgium) which have…
Painter is the lead of new show
Viewing Thursday, February 7 through May 5, 2019, “Emily Mae Smith / MATRIX 181†features experimental art, performance art and explore new developments in painting. Marking the first MATRIX…
New exhibits to open
The Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles opens two new exhibits on Sunday, February 10, 2019. In the Project Room, Maryam Jafri will have her first American museum exhibition…
A new look at ‘identity’
“Stony the Road We Trod” is an exhibition featuring works by African American artists in the Georgia Museum of Art Museum’s permanent collection and Leo Twiggs, the 2019 Larry…
Illustrator works are expressive
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, “Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective” opens at the University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington. Featuring more than 100 original artworks and prints, this show…
Clay artists keep awareness alive
The Central Maine Clay Artists is a group of professional potters and ceramic artists working in the Kennebec Valley Area. To bring forth a few, they are Neil and Barb…