Arts Section :: Page 85

• Boxing day, every day

  By Matt MindeApril 1, 2013

  

  For an arts village that prides itself on thinking outside the box, a recent newcomer is living the dream thinking entirely within the box. The packaging box, that is.

• Community dance concert this weekend

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 29, 2013

  

  The community dance concert is at Antioch this weekend.

• Allen McCullough— Village a musical wellspring

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 28, 2013

  

  From the level at which Allen McCullough listens, the average ear is way behind the times. In fact, he said, the lag time for modern music listeners isn’t a matter of a few years, but more like a century or two. And while Beethoven and Brahms created some of the most beautiful music in the world, McCullough believes it’s time for people to get a new sound. And by that he doesn’t mean Pink and Flo Rida.

• Yellow Springs Experience: Bronze Symposium— Casting for artistic collaboration

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 21, 2013

  As with many Yellow Springs initiatives, the upcoming Yellow Springs Experience: National Bronze Sculpture Symposium, to take place in October 2013, grew from a series of local conversations, of villagers talking to each other.

• Our big appetite for consumption

  By Lauren Heaton

  We humans hunger for many things, from food to knowledge to comfort. As Americans, by virtue of economics, we have been feeding those hungers since the post-war era. What effect that sustained and frenzied consumption has had on cultures across the globe is the subject of the new art exhibit, Appetite: An American Pastime, going up at Herndon Gallery this week.

• Mills Lawn School’s Project Peace— Kids learn to make art, not war

  By Anisa Kline

  At the beginning of the school year, Mills Lawn principal Matt Housh and school counselor John Gudgel got together to discuss their school-wide goals for the year. Number one on Gudgel’s list was addressing the issue of bullying, which he defines as “ongoing, intentional behavior to cause physical or emotional harm.”

• JBCP studio time and workshop— Hungarian potters travel to village

  By Diane Chiddister

  In much of Hungary, handmade pottery is at the heart of daily life, objects both beautiful and useful. In villages, earthenware jugs for water remain unglazed so that the water inside can evaporate on the walls of the jug, keeping the water cool.

• Bronze Symposium coming to town

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 14, 2013

  

  The Yellow Springs Experience: Bronze Sculpture Symposium will take place on the Antioch College campus for two weeks in October, featuring sculptors creating original abstract works that will be cast in bronze and later be given to the Village.

• Center Stage play opens Friday— ‘The Crucible’ across eras

  By Anisa Kline

  In the upcoming weeks, the Center Stage community theater group will put on its fourth theater production since its revival in 2011.

• Artwork explores the American ‘Appetite’

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 13, 2013

  

  Antioch College opens a new art exhibit at the Herndon Gallery this weekend.