Regional Show on the ‘marquee’
(NWPR-IN) – Works of art will be showcased in 8th Regional Exhibition at Artlink in Fort Wayne on Friday, December 10. A Gallery Walk-through begins at 6:00 pm with…
At the Centers dept
Members have show’s spotlight
(NWPR-OH) – Part of the Wassenberg Art Center’s (WAC) mission is to encourage and support local artists, who a number of the members work in the fine and creative…
Art center launches ‘talk show’
(NWPR-OH) – Evolving out of a past exhibit title, “Where Do We Go From Here?” which was held at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, new programming is the…
Virginia show loaded with wows and wees
(PNAN-VA) – The 2010 Biennial award-winning works are on view at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News through January 2, 2011. Chosen for exhibition by Richard Hunt…
Hub happenings to be told
(AAPNW-OH) – On Saturday, November 20 at 2:00 pm, “Art Hub: Dialogue with Contemporary Art Curators” hosted by the Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art will…
Couple’s passions set for view
(AAPNW-MI) – First time ever shown at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, “A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and ‘70s from the Collins Collection” opens on Saturday,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
Japanese ceramic artist to exhibit
(AAPNW-OH) – “What I like best about Miyajima Masayuki’s work is its dignity and sense of place,” says Fred G. Notehelfer, professor and director of the UCLA Center for…
Show is a 10 with national notables
(AAPNW-NY) – No, it is not about Bo Derek, but it is when it comes to works of art that goes on view and sale at the “Memorial Art Gallery’s…
Quilt works warms Depot’s walls
(NWPR-IN) – “The stitches may say craft, but the designs are fine art,” said Jan Roestamadji, Executive Director of the Arts Depot in Union City, Indiana. “On the Walls”…
Wixom works to show exodus to triumph
“All waters flow eventually to the sea; all creativity in its diversity is still one with the human impulse to reflect, understand, and communicate those insights with others.” Vindora Wixom…
Japanese cartooning on the curriculum
    (NWPR-OH) – Beginning Tuesday, November 2 and for the following eight weeks at the Findlay Art League, a drawing class, “Anime Character Design†with instructor Rachel DeVene is designed…
Woody’s ‘eyes’ captures winning works
(NWPR-OH) – If our human memory begins to fade our recollection of a time, place or person; photographs can instantly refresh as they hold a preservation of sorts to…
Members’ Show set for the walls
(NWPR-OH) – The 20th Annual Members’ Show and Sale will go on view from Sunday, November 20 at the Wassenberg Art Center in Van Wert, Ohio, and displayed through…
A rural cultural fort steps on homeplate
(NWPR-IN-OH) It was in 1993 when National Arts & Humanities Month was formed in the United States and it is officially celebrated every October. Its central purpose is to…
Works from a cast of hundreds set for view
(AAPNW-OH) – On Friday, November 19, the opening of “Kaleidoscope 2010” goes on view with a public opening between 6:00-9:00 pm at Summit Artspace Gallery in Akron, Ohio. The…
Call issued for imaginary minds
(NWPR-OH) – The Boos, Oooos, Aahhhs will roam the airways in the ‘Haunted Gallery’ at the Riverside Art Center in Wapakoneta, Ohio on Saturday, October 16 between 7:00-9:00 pm.…
Show shines with winning works
(NWPR-OH) – Since 2006 when a tiny group of artists met to discuss the creation of the named, Riverside Art Center, it has become that place to “inspire creativity…
Works now all about color and form
(AAPNW-NY) – The hallucinogenic effects of certain therapeutic drugs was initially labeled “psychedelic” in 1956 by British psychiatrist Dr. Timothy Leary, but it wasn’t until the mid-1960s that the…
A ‘spook’ classic begins series
(NWPR-OH) – Café seating, popcorn and soda pop is all part of the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center’s film series that is now in its fifth year. “Lets Go to the…
Creativity to flow through the Allegany
(AAPNW-MD) – On Saturday, October 2 from 5:00-8:00 pm, “Frostburg Arts Walk” ends its season with self-guided walking tours, featuring opening receptions and exhibitions in the Cumberland, Maryland downtown art…
Centers to honor ‘differing abilities’
(AAPNW-NY) – Every third week in October it begins, the annual celebration of “Disability History Week” by organizations in Western New York, are dedicated to honoring the history and…
Sondheim ‘killer’ sensation heads to stage
(NWPR-IN) – Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, “Assassins” is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John…
Miami Valley photo show opens soon
(NWPR-OH) – “Through Our Eyes: Life in Miami Valley” opens on Sunday, October 12 at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio. This annual photography exhibit becomes number eight…
‘Wood doctor’ to tell how treat ‘old folks’
(NWPR-OH) – At the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio, on Thursday, October 7 at 7:30 pm, Chris Bayman will talk on the restoration and the care of 18th…
Funnyman is sure to humor the goers
    (AAPNW) – Coming to the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia on Friday, October 8 at 8:00 pm, David Sedaris, author of “Barrel Feverâ€, “Holidays on Iceâ€, and a…
They ‘pour’ and ‘juggle’ works of art
(AAPNW) – Opening Tuesday, October 5 with an artist reception from 6:00-8:00 pm, “A Common Center: Benjamin Knepper & Kenneth Morgan” is a two-person exhibition of computer-generated digital monoprints…
Rocco is comin’ to town
(NWPR) – Once the Fine Arts Fund, it now becomes “ArtsWave,” an organization dedicated to connecting people through the arts, advancing the vibrancy of our community with the arts,…
Tales of two-wheeler icons talk in artworks
(NWPR) – “Rosson Crow: Myth of the American Motorcycle” opens Saturday, November 6 at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, is an exhibition pairing all new work from…
Canadian group to impact their spell in Ohio
(NWPR) – In partnership with the Ohio Arts Council, St. Marys Community Public Library, and Wapakoneta Schools, both in Ohio, Arts Place will present French Canadian musical group, Mauvais…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…