Keeping Their Dream Aloft
Decorated Air Force veterans give back with a new art school Don and Phoebe Blackwell met in the Alaska Air National Guard and served…
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A Delicate Business
Silk painter conveys how emotions change the act of seeing Seyna Fredrickson’s early artistic efforts included sculpting animals from soap and painting a portrait…
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A Joke Up His Batwing Sleeve
Forget scary Dracula and sexy Dracula — consider funny Dracula Vampires tend to operate on a trend cycle. From their folkloric beginnings to the…
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Don’t Scrub the Brush
Silk painter adheres to precise Japanese techniques In swirls and streams of color, Columbus artist Barbara Thomas’ silk paintings bring together the spontaneity of…
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The Wood Spirit You Know
Carver’s work represents inaugural festival Chris Carroll looks at a just-fallen tree and sees a second chance. Maybe there’s a wood spirit in there,…
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Tightening What’s Frightening
Flat Rock Playhouse makes a gothic classic even scarier It’s not a Halloween story, but Flat Rock Playhouse is presenting the psychological thriller The Turn…
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Folklore to the Front
Exhibit features the most storied members of the animal kingdom Long before there were sword wielding, shapeshifting heroes and warrior turtles on our movie…
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The Right Moves
Dirty Dancing is best enjoyed as a communal celebration Do you remember seeing Dirty Dancing for the first time? I do. I saw it…
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Where There’s Smoke
Writer’s haunted Etowah farmstead informs her bestselling YA books Megan Shepherd didn’t plan to buy a haunted house. When The New York Times bestselling…
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That Other Place
Pen-and-ink artist imbues common yearnings with transcendence If looking at art is a portal to other worlds, Kate Sea Barrett stands just inside that…
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