Classic tales will beguile goers
(NWPR-OH) – On Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 pm, the Lima Symphony Orchestra will present “Four Fables,” their annual family concert for all ages with stories that have enchanted…
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Music and art to unite in show
(PNAN-CALIF) – “Sound Art is the first in a series of brick-and-mortar exhibitions based on LarkGallery Online’s 2010 international competition, Colors of Life, which involved interactively matching art and…
Emerald Isle group is a breadth of spring
(AAPNW-TN) – As one of Ireland’s finest classical ensembles, Camerata Ireland is also known for its fresh approach and musicality. Under the direction of founder and pianist Barry Douglas,…
Watercolor works to go on view
(NWPR-OH) – If you ask people, “What kind of paintings do you most enjoy?” — the answer is very often “Watercolor.” Watercolor paintings are fresh, exciting, colorful, and very…
Show is annual highlight
(NWPR-OH) – Art students from 17 area high schools are exhibiting in the 23rd Annual Kewpee High School Art Invitational at ArtSpace/Lima. An opening reception will be held on…
Critic’s Classical Choices
(THE VITTES REPORT) – It is hard to find an authentically “German” performance of Brahms at his most epic, tragic and dramatic, and it is these qualities alone which…
She breathes by voice
(AAPNW-KY) – Born into a musical family, Hannah Ellis discovered the title of her single, “My Love” (Let It Be Me) when she took the Kentucky Future Farmers of…
It’s a feel good show
(AAPNW-MI) Opening Friday, March 11 at 8:00 pm at the Center Stage Theatre in Midland, “The Full Monty” is a musical comedy about taking charge of your life and…
A pondering of ‘hums’ to go on show
(PNAN-IA) – Opening Friday, March 4 at the Des Moines Art Center, “Off Guard: Street Photography from the Permanent Collection” is an exhibition where such artists as Harry Callahan,…
Feuer to ‘express’ the lay of the land
(PNAN-NY) – “Landscape Pairings will be comprised of pairs of oil paintings, one representational landscape with one abstract hung side-by-side. Some aspect of each pair enhances a conversation between…
Four tapped for first-ever awards
(PNAN-UT) – One of the largest companies in India, the Mahindra Group, which is known throughout the world for its commitment to excellence and to social responsibility, and one…
Teachers are on DPO’s ‘honor roll’
(NWPR-OH) – “We are out in the community all season long and we see, first-hand, the hard work of area educators serving our youth. We know, intimately, the immense…
Play is ‘hot’ with content
(NWPR-IN) – Winner of four Tony’s in 1996 and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre opens with “Rent” on Saturday, February 26 at the Arts…
Series opener is a ‘sweet’ experience
(NWPR-OH) – The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra will present the first concert in the 2011 edition of the Graeter’s Symphony Sundaes Series with a performance on Sunday, February 20 at…
AVA to make its ‘historical’ debut
(NWPR-IN) – This past November, nomination forms were sent to university art departments, public school systems, galleries, including other art organizations and art-related businesses. The nominations were compiled into…
Symphony skies to shine with stars
(AAPNW-TN) – When the Nashville Symphony returns to Schermerhorn Symphony Center this fall, it will be the start of a world-class gala of art in performance; a season that…
Father and son share ‘resting’ space
(AAPNW-KY) – On view through March 31, at the Public Policy Archives at University of Kentucky Libraries in Lexington, are works of political cartoonist and Kentuckian, Clifford Berryman and…
Bests to show their beauties
(PNAN-AK) – One of their missions is to “Maintain an active and diverse changing exhibition program that acquaints the community with the global spectrum of human artistic, cultural and…
He raised the genetic bar
(PNAN-NM) – On view through December 31 at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, “Creative Spark: The Life and Art of Tony Da” is the…
Years of dedication spawns public wealth
(PNAN-AL) – Anniversaries don’t happen without commitment, and in the most part, their intended purpose is a role that keeps on giving by building upon the original path for…
Center celebrating African culture
(AAPNW-OH) – Who am I is a question that cannot be answered with simply as son or daughter of. It takes telling the stories about those before us which…
Genres to unite in performance
(PNAN-VA) – On Thursday, February 17 from 5:30-7:30 pm, Art After 5 at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News features Sol Libre, a modern guitar duo made…
Kamin to bring his magic on stage
(NWPR-OH) – Noted for developing the physical comedy sequences for the movies, “Chaplin” and “Benny and Joon,” on Sunday, February 13 at 3:00 pm, Dan Kamin will bring to…
Emotions to be retold with music
(NWPR-OH) – On Saturday, February 12 at 7:30 pm the Lima Symphony Orchestra will perform works of Tchaikovsky and Profofiev at the Veterans’ Memorial Civic Center as well as…
People show is a pleasing study
(NWPR-OH) – Chun Arthur Wang, Evelyn Staub, Barbara Bailey, Frances Turner and Lois Fortson have united under the roof of the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in an exhibition titled: “A…
Coleman to ‘bat’ first in prose vie
(NWPR-OH) – Authors of Prose have been speaking their creations at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center for a decade in the Poetry Series. To earmark the program’s longevity, the Center…
Mag to show ‘faces of time’
(PNAN-NY) – Best known as an American music journalist and editor, Timothy White (1952-2002) said, “No publication is a staple of life. It’s not bread and water. You have…
From ‘rags’ to an artist’s apex
(PNAN-AL) – Born just prior to the Civil War in Louisville, Kentucky, Helen Maria Turner (1858-1958) became one of America’s foremost Impressionist painters, despite of artwork by women still…
Casalini ‘spirits’ on view
(NWPR-IN) – Photographic portrait artist Tom Casalini wants to show you his images at the Richmond Art Museum. He is featuring those creators behind the canvases, some are in their…
Images to ‘bean’ with the alphabet
(NWPR-OH) – His philosophy (excerpted) that deals with his artistic forum is: “We all see the world differently and that’s something that should be celebrated. Photography allows me to…
Artist ‘coming out’ in public show
(NWPR-OH) –As a beaming light for his words, “The public has a right to art. Art is for everybody,” he painted his last work in June 1989, a mural…
Icon’s visual puzzles ‘pops’ with realism
(AAPNW-OH) – “We are so excited to offer viewers the chance to become enchanted with Escher’s unique vision of the world,” said Curator of Exhibitions Ellen Rudolph. “Spending…
New Yorker given a Sloan ‘kick’
(PNAN-NY) – “We are delighted to join Film Independent in supporting Valley of Saints with a post-production grant through their distinguished Producer’s Lab,” said Doron Weber at the Alfred…
US epidemic to be exposed in film
(PNAN-CALIF) – Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Canadian author, Carol Ann Shields (1935-2003), who is best known for her 1993 novel, “The Stone Diaries,” which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize…
Past revisited with a ‘new great’
(PNAN-CALIF) – For its 25th anniversary, Claude Lanzmann’s historical documentary, “Shoah” has been re-released in a new 35mm print. Two screenings are scheduled for Saturday, February 5 (first half)…
Cream of the crops unite in show
(AAPNW-NY) – Albert Einstein once said, “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” The latter comes visually prevalent during the…
Sweet play has ‘soapy’ reminders
(PNAN-NY) – A witty, smart and often moving tale of the ties that bind and the ties that can so quickly unravel before our eyes, which will on Friday,…
Film grants honors trio ‘green spirit’
(PNAN-CALIF) – “This is the 18th year we have given out these grant awards, and they have now helped 47 emerging artists share their work with a larger audience,…
‘Hills’ to come alive with sounds of Africa
(AAPNW-TN) – With a so-far four decade history and noted for melding South African harmonies and rhythms with the sound and soul of gospel music, the Ladysmith Black Mambazo…
Goers will want ‘overtimes’
(NWPR-IN) – Since 2007, Winnipeg/Montreal-based vocal quintet, Chic Gamine has been entertaining its audiences with their voices as instruments, effortlessly launching into intricate string arrangements, bass-heavy rhythm sections and…
Faculty works to go on view
(NWPR-IN) – At Huntington University, the Visual Arts Faculty Art Show opens Monday, January 31 in the Wilson Gallery and will remain on view February 22. The gallery is…
NEA dollars keep the legends living
(PNAN-DC) – “Live interactions between musicians and audiences are essential to jazz,” said NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. “These NEA Jazz Masters Live grants will provide audiences across the country…
Best to give music recital
(NWPR-IN) – On Wednesday, January 26 at 7:30 pm, Arts Place will hold a MusicWorks Honors Recital in Hall-Moser Theatre at the Portland Center, Indiana center, located at 131 East…
Show of cultural grandeur set for Nashville
(AAPNW-TN) – “We are honored to organize and present Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior, the first major exhibition to explore the Vaishnava tradition in art,” said Frist Center Executive Director Susan…
Fine ‘wine art’ traces roots
    (AAPNW-NY) - How fitting are words by Edward Fitzgerald, an English poet (1809-1883): “A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou, 
Actors sought for Kesselring play
(AAPNW-WV) – Auditions for “Arsenic and Old Lace” by American playwright Joseph Kesselring (1902-1967) are scheduled at the Alban Arts and Conference Center in St. Albans on Saturday, January…
Artworks will serve as reminder
(AAPNW-IN) – Fifty or sixty years or even a century from Monday, February 21, recipients could or their generations to follow will also have a visual reminder that marked…
Maine’s terrain is show’s focal point
(PNAN-ME) – There is a Proverb, “From small beginnings come great things,” and in 1983, when the Friends of the Collection group made itself known, the Portland Museum of…
A voice for humanity to ‘rise’ again
(PNAN-CANADA) – Filmmakers, Toronto Pictures “wants the rights of women and children respected,” as summed up by Bruno Pischiutta, and he remains on that path because they “want to win…
The Chosen: Glass artist Ben
(AAPNW-IN) – Selected from a field of seven glass artists from around the state, the Indiana Arts Commission has inked Ben Johnson of Cicero. “As the creator of the…