Visual Arts Section

• Jennifer Rosengarten exhibits at DVAC— Paintings blooming with color and life

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 23, 2013

  

  Jennifer Rosengarten can’t remember a time when she didn’t make art. She can’t remember a time when she didn’t love color. And her passion for making art rich with color is currently on display at the Dayton Visual Arts Center.

• YSHS showcases student artwork

  By Lauren HeatonMay 7, 2013

  

  Student art from every grade in the district colored the hallways and common spaces of the high school last week.

• Little Art Theatre goes national

  By YS News StaffMay 1, 2013

  

  The Little Art Theatre’s closing for renovation Tuesday prompted a visit from National Public Radio.

• Digging deep into a garden’s gifts

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 18, 2013

  A longtime former villager who still owns a house in town and plans to retire here, Carol Siyahi Hicks gives Yellow Springs credit for many things. For instance, it was here she found the friends who helped her discover her passion for the natural world, along with providing her company on trips into the wild.

• Yellow Springs Experience: Bronze Symposium— Casting for artistic collaboration

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 21, 2013

  As with many Yellow Springs initiatives, the upcoming Yellow Springs Experience: National Bronze Sculpture Symposium, to take place in October 2013, grew from a series of local conversations, of villagers talking to each other.

• Bahnsen’s photos as art, digitized

  By Jeff SimonsDecember 6, 2012

  It was a small gallery on Glen Street. But inside was a trove of artistic images produced through the lens of one of the pioneers of impressionistic photography. The artist was the late Axel Bahnsen.

• A whimsical rebirth for trash

  By Jeff SimonsNovember 22, 2012

  

  Local artist Sondy Kai will display at the opening of her exhibit, “Reincarnated: The New Forever Life of Plastic.” Her show, which runs through Dec. 9, features an array of colorful and bizarre looking “creatures” composed of post-consumer plastic trash.

• Reincarnated: The New Forever Life of Plastic

  By Jeff SimonsNovember 13, 2012

  

  Local artist Sondi Kai will host an opening reception for her exhibit, “Reincarnated: The New Forever Life of Plastic,” at the Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery (YSAC) on Friday, November 16, from 6 – 9 pm. Ms. Kai will also lead an Artist Talk on December 8 (5-6:30pm) to close her show.

• Coming soon to the movie theater nearest you, hopefully

  By Megan BachmanAugust 31, 2012

  

  Small movie theaters around the country will soon be shuttered if they can’t find the money to upgrade to digital projection equipment. But in Yellow Springs the show will go on.

• Cirque Carnival brings the bizarre to Dayton Street

  By Megan BachmanJuly 22, 2012

  

  Clowns and families alike swarmed Dayton Street for face painting, henna tattoos, food, music, acrobatics, fire dance, hula hooping and more.