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…
PaletteBoards Section
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Timeless film on theater’s play list
(NWPR-IN) – Based on the beloved film and featuring seventeen of Irving Berlin songs, “White Christmas” is a heartwarming musical adaptation where World War II Veterans Bob Wallace and…
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…
Dayton artist’s works next showing
(NWPR-OH) – “As an artist of portraiture through my drawings, I continue to strive to bring out the beauty, mood and character of each individual I draw and to…
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”…
Legends to pay forward with endless love
(PNAN-NM) – “Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms,” was said by Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880) who went by the pen name of…
Stage to rock and roll
(NWPR-IN) – Coming to the Hall-Mosier Theatre in the Arts Place Portland Center on Saturday, November 13 at 7:30 pm, Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem will bring as the…
Portland ‘idol’ concert on the billboard
(NWPR-IN) – When she was five years old, Kinsey Michal Fenning was proclaiming her adulthood aspirations, assumingly to her parents and all those close-knit associations who were amazed with…
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…
Community ‘Messiahs’ sought for choir
(NWPR-IN) – On Sunday, December 5 at 7:30 pm, the St. Mary’s Catholic Church bells will be proclaiming one of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) most famous works, “Messiah.” Presented…
Symphony to haunt goers’ ears and eyes
(NWPR-OH) – On Saturday, October 30 at 3:00 pm in the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, the area’s largest musical Halloween celebration, “PhilharMonster” returns as the Dayton…
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…
‘Tis the season is in the air
(NWPR-IN-OH) – The season of family gatherings where birds and bellies are stuffed, yuletide traditions of stockings hung, smooches under the mistletoe and goodwill to all are coming to…
Leader to declare war on United States
(NWPR-OH) – Gloriana, age 22 and beautiful is the Duchess of a tiny country in the Alps founded centuries ago by a roving band of English bowmen. Her domain…
‘Sultan’ to toot soulful jazz sounds
(PNAN-NY) – Classically trained musician, Gus Mancini, who is also a master of improvisational Jazz and known as “The Sultan of Sonic Soul,” will perform at the Arts Society…
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…
Barnes & Noble steps up for Ohioana
Innovating sublimes unite musical visions
(PNAN-CA) – When artistic director and violinist David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet first heard Black Angels on the radio, he thought it was “something wild, something scary” and…
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…
Blend of talents set to perform
(PNAN-NY) Friday evening at the Arts Society of Kingston on October 22 takes on a fall cabaret with a blend of genres, music, theater and spoken word, from a…
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.…
Max and the Malton to meet
(NWPR-OH) – He and his works will come to the Malton Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio with previews beginning on Saturday, November 13. In addition, two receptions are set for…
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…
Mozart lives again in the Schuster house
(NWPR-OH) – Sharing is a good thing and most of us learn this in our youth. Although we might not have known we were practicing philanthropy, we came to…
Timeless musicians keep Shaw swinging
(NWPR-OH) – Those were the days and the legacy continues on Saturday, October 16 at 7:30 pm in the Central Auditorium in Findlay, Ohio. The Artie Shaw Orchestra will…
Jamaican dancehall garb topic of view
(PNAN-CA) On view at the See Line Gallery in Los Angeles through Thursday, November 11, a solo exhibition, “Fashion Ova’ Style” with artworks by Ebony Patterson includes mixed media…
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…