Arts Section :: Page 128

• New space first step in arts plan

  By Lauren HeatonApril 24, 2008

  The Yellow Springs Arts Council found its first home this spring in a one-room perch over Design Sleep at 108 Dayton Street, a space provided by funds from the Yellow Springs Center for the Arts Steering Committee.

• WYSO fate sparks concerns

  By Diane Chiddister

  In recent weeks concerns have heightened among supporters of WYSO Public Radio that Antioch University intends to sell the radio station, and a statement by university leaders that they plan to keep the station has not been convincing, according to several radio activists.

• Banners fly high once again

  By Susan GartnerApril 17, 2008

  

  Just when you think you’ve reached your limit of gray skies and brown grass, a bright spot of color appears in the shape of…a five-foot tall blue bug? a purple horse? a majestic macaw?

• A Brazilian beat for dancing feet

  By Susan GartnerApril 10, 2008

  

  Click on to the Web site of New York City-based accordionist and composer Rob Curto at http://www.robcurto.com and when the music starts, just try to keep your body motionless. Concentrate on keeping your shoulders completely still…

• Early music renaissance in village

  By Lauren HeatonApril 3, 2008

  

  Pat Olds first started the Early Music Center in Yellow Springs in 1979 shortly after learning she had multiple sclerosis. A professional cellist, she was devastated that she could no longer perform for an audience. But she soon found that she could still play the viola da gamba,…

• Neat knots and knick-knacks: the Knit Knot Tree finds fame

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 20, 2008

  

  You can call it a tree in a sweater, a community crazy quilt, or one more quirky idea from Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu. Whatever you call it, the knitted art project on the pear tree outside the Emporium seems to have taken the world by storm.