With major gifts and new matching grants, the historic capital campaign to build the Center for Black Excellence and Culture in the heart of Madison’s South Side has entered the home stretch with the organization announcing on Wednesday that it has just $3 million left to raise to break ground debt-free in spring 2024. “I…

It’s that time of year when everyone likes to cozy up at home and watch scary movies. But you know that horror films are always better with a crowd. “Shocktober” brings an embarrassment of riches for Boston area moviegoers looking for something even more terrifying than trying to park in Salem. The Coolidge Corner Theatre’s…

WDET 101.9 FM recently welcomed Program Director Adam Fox to the station. WDET general manager Mary Zatina said she and her team hired Fox as the new program director May 8.  “We did a national search for several months looking for candidates who wanted to come to a station like ours and who had top…

Editor’s Note: After increased student interest and initiation, The Commentator is excited to announce the introduction of a new “Arts & Culture” subsection, which will span selected content from both the features and opinions sections, and will have its own subsection inside our physical editions. Students interested in writing should reach out to us at…

SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Arts Council (CAC) today released a comprehensive field scan of the California arts and culture funding landscape, called Equity Challenges in California’s Arts Ecosystem. This landmark project was undertaken as part of an external evaluation of CAC’s grantmaking in collaboration with the consulting firms Scansion and WolfBrown and represents a…

Our mission: We nurture and invest in artists, culture, and the arts throughout Santa Cruz County. The job: We’re looking for a dynamic, bilingual leader skilled at building cross-sector relationships grounded in shared values of trust and action. A person passionate about advocacy and developing artists’ leadership capacity will thrive in this role. We seek…

After three years at the helm of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Christina Brungardt will step down as director.  Brungardt is leaving for a new position at a cultural organization in Texas, MMoCA said in a press release.  Under Brungardt’s leadership, the museum transformed its store into an exhibition space called The Shop. Brungardt…

Being able to connect and relate to your community has proven to be a major advantage for small to midsize theater companies. “When you have that community support, that very clear voice, for the people, with the people, they will be with you at all times, versus this is just something that’s entertainment,” Charlique Rolle…

Before I said “Bonjour, monsieur” to my hubby, I had a love affair with Paris. I had been told that you were either a London person or a Paris person and, upon the completion of my initial visit to Paris at the tender age of 16, I declared myself a London person, to be sure.…