Arts Section :: Page 23

• Site design unveiled— Gaunt sculpture park eyed

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2021

  

  After three years, the Wheeling Gaunt sculpture is nearing completion. Anticipating a September unveiling, Village Council heard about plans for the sculpture’s placement in a downtown park at its June 21 regular meeting.

• ‘This Time This Place’— Chappelle documentary debuts

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 1, 2021

  

  As New York City audiences went back inside theaters last weekend, the first show on the docket was the premiere of a new documentary set in Yellow Springs.

• 10-Minute Play Festival is back

  By Reilly DixonJune 24, 2021

  

  Performances are slated for Friday and Saturday, June 25 and 26, at 7 p.m. on the south lawn of Yellow Springs High School. The event is free and open to the public, but $10 donations to the company are encouraged.

• Latest Kieth’s Alley mural complete— Unpacking the ‘Tarot of America’

  By Megan BachmanJune 15, 2021

  

  Located on the rear of the building that houses Current Cuisine/Dark Star Comics/Pangaea, which has been a “free wall” since 1988, the “Tarot of America” features a panoply of social justice themes.

• Review | Queer poems as Midwest field guide

  By Reilly DixonJune 3, 2021

  

  Sometimes pastoral, sometimes confessional, “evening primroses” roots out what it means to move through a changing landscape as a changing self.

• Community Supported Art— ‘Shares’ connect artists, patrons

  By Reilly DixonMay 10, 2021

  

  Developed last year and launching for its inaugural season this summer, the Yellow Springs-based community supported art program will provide art lovers with a new way to support independent makers and artists.

• New directions for ‘Excursions’

  By Reilly DixonApril 9, 2021

  

  Evan Miller, a lifetime neighbor to the Yellow Springs area from Enon, took over as full-time host of the three-hour weekday program “Excursions” at the beginning of February.

• ‘What’s Done in the Dark’ — Play eyes racism, police violence

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 31, 2021

  

  “What’s Done in the Dark” will be performed Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3, beginning at 7:30 p.m., in the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center at Central State University. The performance will be streamed live at the same time at facebook.com/CentralState87 and youtube.com/CentralState87. Admission to the in-person performance is by donation; the play may be streamed for free.

• ‘Fight hate with love’

  By YS News StaffMarch 12, 2021

  

  Last weekend, local artist Pierre Nagley pasted a drawing of Emmitt Till on top of a Kieth’s Alley mural he painted last year of George Floyd that had been vandalized with white paint earlier in the week.

• For the 11th straight year— News wins top prize again

  By YS News StaffMarch 11, 2021

  

  The Yellow Springs News has once again been recognized by its peers for excellence in journalism, advertising and design. The News was awarded the top prize — Newspaper of the Year — in the 2021 Ohio News Media Association weekly newspaper contest.