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Democratic Party to hold poster and essay contest, festival
The Democratic Party of DuPage County is sponsoring a student essay and poster contest.
The Glen Ellyn Sun |
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Weekend chock-full of activities
It's back! That feeling of freedom, summertime fun and street festivals galore.
The Herald News |
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Griffey's 600th up for auction
IN TOMORROW'S PAPER:
Toronto Sun |
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Paint the city red: art festival returns
-- JOLIET -- The downtown Joliet cultural movement gets another big dose of the fine arts this weekend.
The Herald News |
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40th arts festival kicks off today (VIDEO) Organizers say best is yet to come
Dave Stevens paced back and forth across the Liberty Park lawn, his hand running through his hair as he spoke on his cell phone. The days leading up to the 40th Erie Summer Festival of the Arts, which starts today, have been hectic.
Erie Times-News |
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Arts festival has helped paint new image of Reno
RENO, Nev. - An arts and cultural festival that began 13 years ago as an attempt to fill a tourism gap between the Reno Rodeo in June and the Hot August Nights car rally is coming of age as a key component of civic leaders' efforts to revive the city's image and restore its sense of community.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Datebook
A roundup of festivals, auditions, music, stage, comedy and art exhibits in the area.
The Courier News |
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Artist exorcises his demons through print
Richard Cronborg turned to the making of art to vent his creative urges. Many of his paintings were portraits of women, lost souls beaten down by life, whom he had met in smoke-filled bars.
The Glen Ellyn Sun |
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HIT & MIST: A SHOWER OF GREAT ART
THE waterfalls may not be great magic, but they are great public art. To anyone who saw the publicity renderings of Olafur Eliasson's "The New York City Waterfalls," the project looked as though plumes of water magically emerged from midair. But...
New York Post |
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Big cleanup in Big Sur: Pitching in a way of life for may
Four men wrestled early Thursday with a section of water pipe on a steep, ash-covered hillside 200 feet up a redwood-lined canyon from the Coast Gallery.
The Monterey County Herald |
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Exhibit examines costumes of the courageous
At "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," an exhibition showing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art through Sept. 1, spectators can ogle, at less than arm's length, the original outfits of most of the superheroes who have graced the silver screen.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Vibrantly vivid
TRINIDAD -- Beverly Harper's whimsical oil painting, “Trinidad VFD Engine 42,” shows the town's beloved 1960s International fire truck coming up Edwards Street.
Eureka Times-Standard |
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Judges announced for county fair art show
FERNDALE -- Foothill College professor Kent Manske will be the judge for the 2008 Juried Art Show at the Humboldt County Fair, which will run from Aug.
Eureka Times-Standard |
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Summer festivals give Worcester many good reasons to celebrate
Why has Worcester become such a happening hotspot of summertime fun?
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Google doodle adds art to search engine
It all started when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, way back in 1999 when Google was just the little company that could, decided to add a whimsical graphic of the Burning Man Festival to the Google logo on their Internet search engine's home page.
Nanaimo Daily News |
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Great Safety Adventure: fun and a lesson
It's a safe bet that visitors to Lowe's of Central Louisville this weekend will learn a thing or two about safety — particularly if they tour the Great Safety Adventure traveling home-safety exhibit.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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New York unveils 'Waterfalls' artwork Freestanding cascading water at four sites is a $15.5 million project
Four walls of water cascaded into the East River off Manhattan on Thursday in a public art spectacle that Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the "most unexpected" waterfalls between North America and Africa.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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'Art Camp' sessions offer hands-on lessons
EUREKA -- This summer at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, young artists are learning an appreciation of the arts by actively exploring the exhibits on display, followed by hands-on art instruction.
Eureka Times-Standard |
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MOCA Cleveland exhibits photography of Jean Luc Mylayne
A sense of the miraculous pervades the large-scale color photographs of Jean Luc Mylayne. Ostensibly, he's a photographer of birds.
The Plain Dealer |
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Staats to present work on Saturday
Photographer Linda Staats, the artist-in-residence at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, will present a free public program about her photography at 1 p.m. Saturday at the visitor center.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Texas, Mexico convene for education summit
A binational conference on education hosted by Mexico's National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education and UT began Thursday with welcoming ceremonies at the Blanton Museum of Art and will continue today at the Four Seasons Hotel.
The Daily Texan |
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Whitehaven News
WE tend to think that photography is enjoying a heyday at the moment with the digital age, camera phones and websites offering photographers the chance to practise their art to the full.
The Whitehaven News |
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Stroll through historic Wolcott district today
The Casper College Tate Geological Museum's annual fundraiser, the Tate Garden Walk -- "Porches, Gardens, and Trees" happens from 2 to 6 p.m. today and features seven gardens from the South Wolcott historical district of Casper.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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Artist Jason's rugby exhibition
OF ALL the things you think of when you hear the word rugby, art may be the last thing on most people's minds. (27/06/2008 09:21:39)
Leeds Today |
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Casper briefs
Festival temporarily closes Goldeneye The Bureau of Land Management Casper Field office will temporarily close Goldeneye Wildlife and Recreation Area on Friday.
Casper Star-Tribune |
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