Arts Section :: Page 127

• Old seedhouse, new vision for artists, gallery space

  By Susan GartnerOctober 9, 2008

  According to sculptor, performer, and video artist Michael Casselli, his New York apartment would fit several times over in the new space he has leased in the Millworks Business Center on North Walnut Street.

• Little town, big chamber music series

  By Susan GartnerSeptember 25, 2008

  

  In the world of chamber music, Chamber Music Yellow Springs can play with the big boys. “When I go to the Chamber Music America Conference [the national association of chamber music presenters and performers]….”

• New book profiles Walter Anderson

  By Susan GartnerSeptember 4, 2008

  

  Writers employ a wide variety of techniques to help them stay on task, such as scheduling a set time each day for writing or writing about writer’s block. For first-time author Joan Horn, the pressure to work on her book came from a technique not typically found in a writer’s guide.

• Fall colors bring in the blues

  By Virgil HerveyAugust 28, 2008

  Around town folks still call it the “blues fest,” even though the popular annual event is now officially known as the Blues, Jazz and Cultural Fest. And, although there has been concern that without facilities traditionally provided by Antioch College the show might not go on…

• Three authors write of love, youth and spirits

  By Susan GartnerAugust 14, 2008

  

  Three authors, three books, three very different journeys on the road to getting published. Chuck Colbert, Jaime Adoff, and Joanne Caputo talked about their recently published works and what they hope to bring to their readers.

• Sculptor’s legacy set in stone, bronze, iron, etc.

  By YS News StaffAugust 7, 2008

  

  An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere — the angelic face of a sleeping child, a vibrant color from a neighbor’s garden, or perhaps the unique perspective of a somersaulting motorcyclist after connecting head-on with an oncoming car.

• WEB concert reprise at Oten

  By Virgil Hervey

  In a reprise of a popular music scene that suddenly went poof about a year-and-a-half ago, one of the original organizers of the WEB Coffeehouse will be staging a series of three performances at the Oten Gallery, across Xenia Avenue from its long-time home, the First Presbyterian Church.

• A worldview of life through the lens

  By Susan GartnerJuly 31, 2008

  

  “I was doing a wedding once,” explained photographer Mary Kay Clark, as she prepared for an upcoming exhibit, “and I noticed in the chrome around the headlamp of a vintage Triumph car was the reflection of the church where the couple just got married.

• Grown up kids give back at YSKP

  By Susan GartnerJuly 17, 2008

  

  The room is filled with shouts and “ooofs!” and the sound of punches making contact. One young girl tries to strangle a boy twice her size while a boy who has just been kicked in the stomach, groans and rolls over onto his side. A girl two feet away aims a powerful punch at another boy’s jaw.

• YSKP to bring life to ‘Frankenstein’

  By Susan GartnerJune 19, 2008

  

  Fans of Mary Shelley’s original work, Frankenstein, written in 1818, must have been horrified to watch Hollywood hook its profit-seeking electrodes up to her carefully constructed philosophical essay, then zap 42 celluloid creations into life.