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Arts Section :: Page 57

  • In harmony

    By Audrey HackettDecember 8, 2016

    From left, Lori Askeland, Amy Magnus and Jennifer Gilchrist, performing as Fire Horse Trio, harmonized to a packed house at WinterSong Encore at First Presbyterian last Saturday. Emceed by “Elder Felder” Jim Felder, who also thrilled audiences with several songs, the event featured more than 20 local musicians and singers, and included a stirring version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” sung by David Walker, with Brian Walker on keyboard and Jeanna GunderKline on backup vocals. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    WinterSong Encore played to full house at First Presbyterian last Saturday, Dec. 3.

  • ‘Living In Divided States’ to open at Herndon

    By Web AdminDecember 7, 2016

    The Herndon Gallery at Antioch College will premiere its exhibition, “Living In Divided States,” on Thursday, Dec. 8, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

  • WinterSong Encore at First Presbyterian

    By Audrey HackettDecember 1, 2016

    Enjoy the high-volume, high-spirits musical talent of more than 20 local singers and musicians at WinterSong Encore, this Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m.

  • Art gleams anew at Holiday Jumble

    By Carol Simmons

    The Holiday Art Jumble returns to Yellow Springs for its fifth year. A fundraiser for the Yellow Springs Arts Council, the “grand reshuffling” of art and artifacts is being held in the council’s Corry Street gallery during regular gallery hours, 1–4 p.m. Wednesdays–Sundays, now through Dec. 31. It is closed Nov. 24 and Dec. 25. Items will continue to be accepted through Dec. 20. (Submitted photo by Corrine Bayraktaroglu)

    The YS Arts Council’s 2016 Holiday Jumble opened to the public on Saturday, Nov. 19, and will run through Dec. 31.

  • ‘Nagasaki’ author to speak at AUM

    By Diane ChiddisterNovember 24, 2016

    Susan Southard, author of “Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War,” will speak in the multipurpose room of Antioch University Midwest on Saturday, Nov. 19, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (Submitted photo by Susan Santi)

    Susan Southard, who will be awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize this week for her nonfiction book on the survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, will speak in Yellow Springs this Saturday.

  • 34 artists to participate in 2016 Art & Soul

    By Carol Simmons

    Zazu Metcalf (top) creates cards (such as the bottom image), while her mother, Colette Palamar, creates sun and winter hats for babies, kids and adults (one is pictured here on Zazu). The mother-daughter duo are among 34 artists from Ohio and Indiana exhibiting at the fifth annual Art & Soul fair, held this Saturday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mills Lawn School gymnasium. (Submitted Photos)

    A wide range of original arts and crafts creations—both decorative and functional—will be featured this weekend in the fifth annual Art & Soul fair, in the Mills Lawn School gymnasium.

  • Building an historic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

    By Carol SimmonsNovember 17, 2016

    Smithsonian Institution. Tuliza Fleming, a YS High School graduate, is the curator of art for the Smithsonian’s recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Named to the position in 2007, she was tasked with creating the then yet-to-be-built museum’s permanent art collection. She’s shown here in 2014. (Submitted photo by Michael R. Barnes)

    The opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in September followed more than a century of efforts to recognize formally in our nation’s Capital the contributions of black Americans in the making, building, growth and life of this country.

  • Annual YSAC Holiday Art Jumble to open

    By Lauren ShowsNovember 16, 2016

    The YS Arts Council’s annual Holiday Art Jumble sale will open for the season this Saturday, Nov. 19, 1–4 p.m.

  • All for one … heck of a YSHS play

    By Audrey HackettNovember 10, 2016

    From left, YSHS actors Jonah Trillana (Aramis), Windom Mesure (Athos), Allison Bothwell (Sabine), Grant Crawford (D’Artagnan) and Duard Headley (Porthos) at a recent rehearsal of “The Three Musketeers,” the high school’s fall play. Alexandre Dumas’s classic swashbuckling comedy, updated with a feminist twist, will be performed this weekend and next. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Fighting, honor, loyalty, love, camaraderie. More fighting. This fall’s Yellow Springs High School production of Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” is not for the faint of heart, but it’s equally full of comedic turns.

  • Artist Bing Davis to speak at 365 Project annual meeting

    By YS News StaffNovember 7, 2016

    Renowned artist Willis "Bing" Davis will speak at the 365 Project's annual meeting on Nov. 17.

    The 365 Project is proud to announce that nationally-renowned artist Bing Davis will be the guest speaker at the organization’s annual meeting.

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