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…
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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…
Italian artist’s works to debut at museum
Organized by Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee by Executive Director Susan H. Edwards, “Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization” is this Italian artist first North American museum exhibition. Opening on Saturday, February…
Flower bouquets to color region
The North Carolina Museum of Art hosts its fifth annual Art in Bloom from Thursday, March 21 to the 24th. The show features more than 50 floral designers from around…
Hoosier church calling ‘Christ’ artworks
Trinity United Methodist Church in Lafayette, Indiana is seeking local artists to interpret the Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross and exhibit in the church during Lent, Wednesday,…
New group’s show set
On Friday, February 22, 2019, the Lake Area Arts Group exhibit will open at Arts Place Auglaize/Mercer Center in St. Marys, Ohio. An artist’s reception will be held from 6:00…
Watercolor show on tour
Now view through Sunday, February 10, 2019 at the Wassenberg Art Center in Van Wert, Ohio, the Ohio Watercolor Society Exhibit is a dynamic and skilled group of painters from…
Center calling ‘eyes’ to compete
The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio is seeking entries by all photographers of all ages for their Through Our Eyes 2019 photography competition. All submitted work must be…
Quilter works are peaceful
On exhibit, “Leaves: Raw Edge Applique Art Quilts” by Tonna Zieske in the Bruce H. Lien Cultural Cafe at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota through…
Masterworks in a league of their own
On view at the Des Moines Art Center, through February 3, 2019 in the John Brady Print Gallery at are works by the Art Students League of New York. This…
Quilt show open to public
On view at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio, “Still in Stitches” is an exhibition of quilts featuring more than 30 art quilts by Miami Valley Art Quilt Network.…
Exhibit to show the natural difference
Opening Friday, February 1, 2019 at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in Rochester, New York, “Landscapes and The Unbuilt” will be an exhibition that reflects artist interactions with land and…
New ‘guard’ to watch over museum
After an extensive search, Susan Turner is the new Executive Director of Terre Haute, Indiana Children’s Museum on January 1, 2019. “For the past 30-years, the Terre Haute Children’s Museum…
Echoes of spectacular voices
“Opera is not for everybody,” said Blanche Thebom, co-founder of the Opera Arts Training Program in San Francisco, California. “The feeling today is that the average young person doesn’t have…
Abstract works to come ashore
Opening on Saturday, February 23 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and remaining on view through May 19, 2019, “Sean Scully: Landline” exhibition marks the…
Masterworks set for show
The Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee will open Saturday, February 2 with exhibitions from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts consisting of 19th and early 20th century French art…
Exhibition lineup inked
The Newfields: A Place for Nature & the Arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art will showcase a diverse group of art exhibitions in 2019. For more detailed information on…
Photography Exhibit set for 1-4-2019
On Friday, January 4 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. a reception will be held in honor of the artists displaying as part of the “Friends of Grand Lake” exhibit at…
Show works to be natural
On view through Sunday, March 24 at the Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut, California, “Altered States” isan exhibition that highlights the natural cycles of…
Works to shed light color’s heat
“The Warm and Cool of it” is an art exhibition featuring the work of Maplewood artist Karen Caldwell which will remain on view through February 17, 2019 in the Atrium Gallery…
Tsar show flows with history
“The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II” is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens and remains on view through March 17, 2019. This exhibition focuses on the reigns…
Submissions sought for South Dakota show
The Rapid City Arts Council is seeking submissions for the 15th Annual Dahl Mountain Photo Competition + Exhibit, a juried photography exhibition based on mountain culture. All submissions are due…
His works are Irish influenced
On view through Saturday, February 23, 2019 at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, “Bog Cycle” is an exhibit of abstract pen and ink drawings by artist…
Photos capture roots of Arizona
In collaboration with the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation and Arizona Highways magazine, the Scottsdale’s Museum of the West has on exhibit, “Photographs by Barry M. Goldwater: The Arizona Highways…
Half century+of songs still on top
On Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 8:00 pm in the Mead Theatre of the Schuster Center, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra will present the “The Magic of Motown” and the artists…
Legends’ works on view
The first of two presentations of American works on paper is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, “American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper…
Icon show making worldwide impact
Making its worldwide tour 15th stop, the “Roads of Arabia”, a collection of rare historic artifacts from the Arabian Peninsula is on exhibit at the Louvre Abu Dhabin to showcase…
Artistic talents shows kinship roots
On display until March 9, 2019 in the Sen. Stan Adelstein & Lynda K. Clark Gallery at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, “Tatánka Nunpa Owe Okele, a…
Show of taste will be real
Through filmed interviews, art installations, utensils, tools, recipes and food, scheduled for Friday, February 22, 2019, “What Why How We Eat” will be an exhibition about the real food…
First woman to reign over an icon
Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC has named Kaywin Feldman to be its next director who will assume her duties on March 11, 2019.…
Artist Fellows chosen
The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists, Santa Fe, New Mexico has chosen 16 artist fellows for its 2019 Art-Business Accelerator Program. The selected artists will participate in CHF’s innovative…
He is dancing his way up
Albert Einstein said, “Dancers are athletes of God” and I have discovered one recently added to the San Diego Ballet and in my view, a rising star to their company,…
New leader takes over
The California Historical Society has appointed Susan D. Anderson as its new Director of Library, Collections, Exhibitions and Programs. Anderson comes to CHS from the African American Museum & Library…
George 41: His words ‘raise her up’
Head West Young Lass When Horace Greeley (1811-72) advocated the migration to the west, chances are he never had women in mind when he popularized the phrase “Go West, young…
Artistry is deep-rooted
The black soil farming country of Kansas where Cheri Wransoky grew up and the red clay in north Georgia where she lives and raised her children on 30 lush…
Inspiration is always within sight
Sheryl Holstein of Ellijah, Georgia receives her creative inspiration from nature’s artwork: mountains, rivers and flowing landscapes. These natural wonders are woven into her functional pottery. “Becoming a potter…
Works in Smithsonian gallery
Beth Cavener Stichter of Portage, Ohio is one of four artists exhibiting in the 2007 Renrick Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Lloyd E. Herman…
His travels has raised him up
Larry Watson’s artistic skills took on new heights when he became part of a Sister City Art Exchange to Nancy, France. The trip provided him with more knowledge…