Visual Arts Section

• 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.

• Herndon Gallery’s ‘Nuclear Fallout’ exhibit to close with talk

  By YS News StaffDecember 1, 2018

  

  According to organizers, “Nuclear Fallout: The Bomb in Three Archives with Kei Ito and Migiwa Orimo” asks viewers to critically consider the way war is curated in our cultural telling — asking who creates the narrative, whose stories are missing and who is no longer alive to tell it.

• YS Open Studios — An inside look at local art and artists

  By Jeff SimonsOctober 25, 2018

  

  Yellow Springs is increasingly becoming renowned for its own vibrant community of artists, and this weekend, art lovers can get a first-hand look at what some of the village’s talented artists are creating.

• New YSAC exhibit — Practicing the art of self-acceptance

  By Guest ContributorSeptember 27, 2018

  

  Curvy, energized, colorful nude women wriggle and writhe joyfully across a black T-shirt that Deborah Dixon designed, and wore, in a recent interview.

• Emporium art exhibit— Prison portraits focus on humanity

  By Guest ContributorAugust 2, 2018

  

  How does a person keep their will to live when their whole future is in the same place?

• Local abstract and surrealist painter to show at Yellow Springs Brewery

  By Megan BachmanJuly 26, 2018

  

  Yellow Springs Brewery will display the artwork local abstract and surrealist painter Buck Truitt, with an opening on Friday, July 27.

• Local artists evoke places near, far and dear

  By Guest Contributor

  

  An opening reception for the exhibition “Places Far, Near and Dear,” featuring paintings by Anna Arbor and Catherine Lehman, will be held Friday, July 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the YSAC Community Gallery.

• Whimsy, mystery on exhibit

  By Carol SimmonsMay 24, 2018

  

  Both the passage and absence of time play significant roles in the art of Carla Steiger.

• Inspired by nature, and the village

  By Guest ContributorMay 10, 2018

  

  A feeling of unmitigated joy suffuses the work of painter Libby Rudolf. While she has painted a range of subjects, including portraits, street scenes and close-ups of flowers, she prefers to paint nature scenes and people in a natural setting.