CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio – In a fusion of visual art and poetry, Valley Art Center presents its prestigious Annual Juried Art Exhibition featuring the work of 58 area visual artists. On view through Dec. 13, the show opening is 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 at 155 Bell Street. Adding a splash of literary arts, 6-8…

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Sometime in the 1940s in Philadelphia, the artist Dox Thrash met a boy who was blind named David McIntosh. Despite being 32 years apart, the two became lifelong friends. Thrash was a celebrated…

PlayStation support studio Visual Arts has been hit with another round of layoffs, with several former employees sharing on social media last week that they have been let go. “Unfortunately, following a wave of layoffs, last week was my last at PlayStation,” former senior level designer at Visual Arts Daniel Bellemare wrote on LinkedIn. Senior…

#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Since she was a child growing up in Union Mills, Jessi Hardesty had an interest in the macabre and death. “I’ve been interested in Halloween and spooky things since I was very little. I don’t know what it was…

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. This figure may look as if it’s signaling a touchdown at the Superdome, but its purpose is both humorous and instructive. Created by an artist or initiate of the Bwami…

Art About Agriculture’s annual exhibition of agriculture and natural resource-themed artwork by Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a touring show that will be on display from Nov. 17 to Dec. 31 in Portland. The juried show in the Antoinette Hatfield Hall Rotunda at Portland’s Centers for the…

Rose Johnson can go just about anywhere and run into someone she’s met as part of her job. Johnson has worked in the band office at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for 45 years and sees current and former band students even walking down the street in other towns. Over the years, she’s watched how the collaborative…

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. Marie Luther finds beauty in her surroundings. As an accounting clerk in the College of Visual Performing Arts’ Office of Budget and Operations, she’s inspired by the little things that go unnoticed around campus, like the specific architecture of the…

Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• I suggest the Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team take its home games “on the road” within the friendly confines of the Gopher State, now that the squad has been kicked out of U.S. Bank…

Here’s what happened when a Houston eye doctor decided in the early 2000s that he would dabble in real estate and develop an office tower that would rise 10 floors and feature medical tenants, museum-style artwork and picture-perfect views of downtown Houston. That 153,000-square-foot building ultimately came to fruition in the form of the Museo…