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Thursday, July 31, 2008 • "RICHARD SWANSON: SCULPTURAL RHYTHMS": Yellowstone Art Museum, 401 N. 27th St. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Large-scale sculpture created for YAM's Northwest Projects gallery. $5, adults; $4, senior citizens; $3, ages 6-18; free, ages 5, younger and YAM members. Through Oct. 26. 256-6804. Billings Gazette
ROBERTA JASINA: Great stuff for families
Music, Art and Family Fun: The 2008 Sterlingfest Art and Jazz Fair combines a juried art show, music, carnival rides, crafts and games for kids. Other highlights include a laser light show Friday night and a performance by REO Speedwagon at 8 p.m. Saturday. 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sterling Heights City Center, 40555 Utica Road, Sterling Heights. 586-446-2489. ... Detroit Free Press
Three Rivers Storytelling Festival set at Northland Public Library
If walls could talk, Northland Public Library would speak volumes, making it the perfect setting for the Three Rivers Storytelling Festival on Aug. 8 and 9. read more » Pine Creek Journal
Arts&Culture Art to ponder Three Bay Area artists bring their different styles together at 1078 Gallery.
Lora Groves’ life is immersed in art. An abstract painter who makes her home—and adjacent spacious studio—in the idyllic South Bay hamlet of Pescadero,... Chico News & Review
Community extra calendar
Sign-ups for the Edmonds Sand Sculpting Contest begin at 10 a.m. with judging at noon at Marina Beach, Edmonds. 425-771-0268. Edmonds Community Drum Circle at ZuKafe, 515 Main St., Edmonds. 425-778-5215. Everett Herald
Newport music festivals available on NPR webcast
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Music fans unable to attend the Newport folk and jazz festivals will be able to listen to some concerts online. ... The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Columns Letters Letters for July 31st, 2008 Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
Art sensibility in eye of beholderRe: “Public art should hold public appeal” (Guest Comment, by Richard Ek, CN&R, July 24): Responding to the fine... Chico News & Review
Columns In My Eyes Abstract impressions of public art Value is in the eye of the appraiser, but one thing is ...
Funny how life takes synchronistic routes. I didn’t have Jason Cassidy’s cover story in mind when I put Richard Ek’s commentary in the last issue,... Chico News & Review
Visual arts
NOTE. Because of space considerations, we must limit our art listings to galleries that feature a main exhibit of an artist's or a group of artists' works. Art listings must include a closing date for the exhibit. For a list of other galleries with artworks of interest, please visit www.GoErie.com. Erie Times-News
Exhibition wings its way to Winchester
A COLOURFUL exhibition of butterfly-inspired art opened at Winchester Discovery Centre on Saturday (July 26). The display, entitled "Butterfly Summer", is a collection of watercolours, oil paintings, prints and jewellery of butterflies and their environments. Hampshire Chronicle
Smaller flicks for this Onam
The month of September, 2008, will be a special one, which will have a rare coincidence of coming together of fasting days of Ramzan with the best known festival season of the state, Onam. IndiaGlitz
Cemetery sponsors photo contest, show
It seems like an odd place for a photography exhibit. But Skyline Memorial Gardens, a cemetery and funeral home, is seeking entries for a photo contest that captures a sunrise or sunset from its property high in the West Hills. The Oregonian
A haiku contest to go with the flow
and green; a tagger's delight? A water tower. Portland has 64 water tanks of various kinds, including 15 elevated water towers painted green to cover graffiti. And today is your last chance to honor the towers by entering the Water Bureau's Second Annual Haiku Contest. The Oregonian
Second Life
Consider it a small-town crisis averted, or an eco-arts revival. However you slice it, the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History’s comeback is all the more dramatic considering the 125-year-old landmark was on life support a year ago. Monterey County Weekly
The hands of an artist
If you read John DeAngelo's artist's statement when you visit his Kada Gallery exhibit "Art of the Carousel," you learn a bit about the man. Erie Times-News
Area organizations need volunteers
Erie City Mission needs volunteers at several locations to work in a variety of positions. Call RoseMarie Lackey at 452-4421 Ext. 22. Erie Heritage Festival needs volunteers Sept. 6 at Liberty Park. Call Melanie at 454-1813, Ext. 32 or Barb at 452-2744, Ext. 202. Erie Times-News
Happy warrior
When I returned to Erie in the late 1970s, pretty much the only live jazz to be heard was the annual headline concert of the Erie Summer Festival of the Arts, and it was invariably a big band (I remember Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and, I think, Buddy Rich). Erie Times-News
Oh, the places you'll go!
It's not a Dr. Seuss soiree but, oh, the places you'll go at this weekend's 16th annual Erie Art Museum Blues and Jazz festival at Frontier Park. Erie Times-News
Festival schedule
Following is the schedule for the 16th annual Erie Art Museum's Blues and Jazz Festival, scheduled Saturday and Sunday at Frontier Park. Erie Times-News
Country duo's album takes listeners on an 'emotional journey'
When a critic says Sugarland's current single off their new album "Love on the Inside" "marks a new frontier for bad country songs," the singer laughed and said, "Never has any piece of artwork or sculpture or a memoriam been erected in honor of a critic." Ventura County Star
Time to rave at Kazantip!
City clubbers and just about anyone who can’t imagine their life without beach rave parties, should start packing their suitcases right now. The traditional dancing marathon, known for its crazy and amazing techno, trance and house music, KaZantip festival, started last Saturday. KYIV Post
Heartland squad named on Sunday
The Wairarapa-Bush squad to contest the 2008 Heartland rugby championship will be named on Sunday. Wairarapa Times-Age
Puerto Rican artist to show work at downtown gallery
Meet Puerto Rican painter Tere Sanz during a free reception 5 p.m. Friday Aug. 1. at the Museum of Visual Materials, 500 N. Main Ave. Sanz, the first international artist to exhibit at the museum, is on hand for the opening of her new show, "Equilbrium." She's showing 19 of her abstract expressionism paintings through Sept. 30. A regular blogger on www.argusleader.com, Sanz recently wrote ... The Argus Leader
Four new venues join First Friday roster
A variety of fine art shows and four new First Friday venues -- The Discovery Center (60 Morgan Road), L'aveggio Roasteria (101 Court St.), Holiday Inn Arena (2-8 Hawley St.) and Ya Gotta Have Hart (61 Prospect Ave., third floor) -- highlight the August First Friday Art Walk in downtown Binghamton, presented by the Gorgeous Washington Street Association. Press & Sun-Bulletin
Susquehanna is muse for artists in Roberson exhibit
"Visions of the Susquehanna: 250 Years of Paintings by American Masters," on display until Aug. 30 at the Roberson Museum and Science Center, is far from a cohesive collection. Each work varies greatly, although connected by a single subject -- the Susquehanna River. Press & Sun-Bulletin