Category: Arts and Culture

  • Indigenous Australian art exhibit ‘Connection’ opens in The Lume 

    Indigenous Australian art exhibit ‘Connection’ opens in The Lume 

    “Connection: Land, Water, Sky – Art & Music from Indigenous Australians” is now open in The Lume at Newfields.  The multi-sensory digital exhibition opened to the public on May 10 and celebrates the music, art and storytelling of indigenous Australians — the world’s oldest continuous civilization, according to Indianapolis Museum of Art Director Belinda Tate.…

  • Culture Works loses NEA Grants for Arts Project funding

    Culture Works loses NEA Grants for Arts Project funding

    Culture Works, the Dayton region’s arts and culture service agency, lost its federal grant for its Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts. In a statement, Culture Works says it received the email from the NEA notifying them of the grant’s termination on May 2. The agency…

  • Culture Works loses NEA Grants for Arts Project funding

    Culture Works loses NEA Grants for Arts Project funding

    Culture Works, the Dayton region’s arts and culture service agency, lost its federal grant for its Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts. In a statement, Culture Works says it received the email from the NEA notifying them of the grant’s termination on May 2. The agency…

  • Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure (SSIR)

    Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure (SSIR)

    Weavers participate in a 2024 neighborhood festival at Springboard for the Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Thai Phan-Quang) Exit polls from the 2024 US election showed that three-quarters of voters nationwide felt negatively about the way things were going in the country, and many Americans continue to feel a profound sense of unease…

  • Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds

    Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds

    A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations…

  • Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds

    Fort Worth youth theater program joins list of Tarrant arts groups to lose federal funds

    A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations…

  • New public art project honors Pocasset, ‘Falling River’: How to see it, learn local history

    New public art project honors Pocasset, ‘Falling River’: How to see it, learn local history

    FALL RIVER — A new public art project is illuminating the hidden history and the lost landscapes of the city. The Fall River Arts and Culture Coalition, in partnership with the Pocasset Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation, presents “Echoes of the Pocasset & the Falling River,” a multi-location cultural and recreational project that follows the…

  • New public art project honors Pocasset, ‘Falling River’: How to see it, learn local history

    New public art project honors Pocasset, ‘Falling River’: How to see it, learn local history

    FALL RIVER — A new public art project is illuminating the hidden history and the lost landscapes of the city. The Fall River Arts and Culture Coalition, in partnership with the Pocasset Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation, presents “Echoes of the Pocasset & the Falling River,” a multi-location cultural and recreational project that follows the…

  • Peterborough and Cambridgeshire groups work with British Museum

    Peterborough and Cambridgeshire groups work with British Museum

    A community arts centre and an organisation tackling inequalities in education have been selected for a national culture programme run by the British Museum. Metal Peterborough, an arts centre, and The Kite Trust, which supports the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire, will take part in the initiative called “Where we are..”. The programme…

  • The Curtis Center’s “The Wizard of Oz” a unique opportunity for performers

    Brynn Carnesecca | Lehi Free Press This week, the Curtis Center for Arts and Education produced “The Wizard of Oz.” This special engagement had a cast made up of individuals with different disabilities. The performance gave each student the chance to participate in theater and the arts like never before.  The Curtis Center, based in…