Public Art Section :: Page 2

• A Tour of Yellow Springs Murals

  By Gary McBrideDecember 7, 2018

  

  The VIDA award presented Dec 12, 2018, recognizes the collective efforts of muralists working in Yellow Springs over the past two decades. Note that while individual artists may be credited here as creators, often the work of painting the murals is a collaborative effort among multiple artists. Here is a photo tour of some of the prominent works currently around the village.

• VIDA awarded to muralists of YS

  By Gary McBride

  

  The murals that brighten many walls in the business district of the village are receiving formal recognition — the Village Inspiration and Design Award, or VIDA. The public is invited to a ceremony at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the site, with a reception following at the Emporium, including free coffee and Greene Canteen pretzels.

• Women’s Park to receive VIDA

  By YS News StaffJuly 23, 2018

  

  The Yellow Springs Arts and Culture Commission has selected The Women’s Park to receive the Village Inspiration and Design Award, or VIDA, for summer 2018.

• Celebrate YS banner festival, YSAC permanent collection

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 25, 2018

  

  This weekend villagers are invited to celebrate two events beloved to the local arts community — the Yellow Springs Banner Festival, and the return of the Yellow Springs Arts Council, or YSAC, permanent collection to the John Bryan Community Center.

• Celebrate YS banner festival, YSAC permanent collection

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 25, 2018

  

  This weekend villagers are invited to celebrate two events beloved to the local arts community — the Yellow Springs Banner Festival, an annual event for more than two decades that ended in 2012, and the return of the Yellow Springs Arts Council, or YSAC, permanent collection to the John Bryan Community Center.

• A gutsy, pioneering sculptor

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 20, 2017

  

  Thirty-three works by New York-based sculptor and Antioch alumna Renata Manasse Schwebel will go on display Thursday, July 13, in a new one-person exhibition at the Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

• Friends use art to confront illness

  By Carol SimmonsApril 13, 2017

  

  “Corrine deals with everything through art,” said Nancy Mellon, speaking recently of her dear friend and frequent art-making collaborator Corrine Bayraktaroglu. The “everything” in this case is breast cancer.

• What KIND of village?

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanFebruary 2, 2017

  

  For the next three weeks, a new set of signs will serve as a semiotic gesture intended to transmit the underlying sentiment of the village to travelers through and residents of Yellow Springs alike.

• Downtown murals: overhead and out back

  By YS News StaffOctober 13, 2016

  

  Two murals went up last week above and behind the shops of Dark Star Books, Pangaea and Current Cuisine.

• New mural goes up downtown

  By Audrey HackettOctober 8, 2016

  

  Look up! Downtown Yellow Springs has a new mural above Dark Star Books. Pangaea and Current Cuisine. Painted by local artist Mandy Sue, it features scenes from the Glen, local flora and fauna and everybody’s favorite fat cat, Mr. Eko.