Arts Section :: Page 111

• Documentary, new series at WYSO this week

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 24, 2011

  

  A new radio documentary on President Obama’s Irish forebears, some of whom moved to the Miami Valley, will be aired on WYSO on Sunday, May 29 at 6 p.m. A new series on changes at Wright Patterson Air Force Base will be aired the week of May 30 on Morning Edition.

• Graffiti in the school yard, with praise

  By Lauren HeatonMay 23, 2011

  

  In an creatively anti-vandalizing way, a group of Mills Lawn students took their spray cans and paint brushes to the school yard this month to repurpose the soccer wall into a work of graffiti art.

• VIDEO: Wheels performs “Sit Down” from their debut album

  By Megan BachmanMay 21, 2011

  

  Local band Wheels performs the song “Sit Down” from their debut album Fields on Fire.

• John Sims exhibit to open at Antioch College

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 20, 2011

  

  The work of Antioch alum John Sims and other New York City artists will be featured at “Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection,” an exhibit created by Sims that opens with a reception this Saturday, May 21, 6–9 p.m. at the Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

• A magical ‘Aladdin’ at the Antioch School

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 18, 2011

  

  At the Antioch School, things get done a bit differently, and that includes the school musical. As befits a school that advocates a holistic approach to learning, the children are involved in all phases of the production, from choosing the play to picking their character, from designing their costume to decorating the set.

• Arts Council reflects on Lessons learned as arts town

  By Megan BachmanMay 12, 2011

  While this year’s Arts Council events didn’t generate a profit, they did help to forge partnerships among local groups, promote local artists and wellness practitioners and create a brand in the Chautauqua-like Yellow Springs Experience, board members said.

• YSHS kids ready to rock ‘Chicago’

  By Megan BachmanMay 5, 2011

  

  If any high school could perform the edgy, somewhat risqué musical Chicago, it’s Yellow Springs. The show’s vaudevillian song and dance numbers are difficult, its despicable characters challenging — but for the talented group of young actors, it’s simply fun.

• French filmmakers take a stab at nuclear waste

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  What: Déchets, le cauchemar du nucléaire (Waste: the Nuclear Nightmare) When: Saturday, May 7 Where: Antioch University Midwest auditorium Who: Sponsored by Midwest’s Sustainability Initiative   In spite of rare accidents such as the one in Fukushima last month, there is still large support for nuclear power around the world. Currently 442 nuclear power plants […]

• GALLERY: Wood-fired kiln opened

  By Megan BachmanMay 1, 2011

  

  After days of stoking the fires, the new wood-fired “manabigama,” or beautiful-teaching, kiln at John Bryan Community Pottery was opened to reveal its pottery treasures within. Watch a video and see more photos after the jump.

• ‘Antioch Review’ keeps surprising

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 28, 2011

  

  Each edition of The Antioch Review begins the same way. Editor Bob Fogarty sits in the rust-colored chair in his office, picks up a submitted essay, and begins reading.