None Too Fragile is building a fan and audience base, as was clearly seen at a recent showing of its current production – Joe Roland’s “On the Line” – where the seats were filling up fast, and heard by way of comments before and after the play and on social media. That’s awesome news for […]

“Real/Surreal,” the latest display mounted by the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, goes all out to answer the question about the transition in art history from fastidiousness with realism as a technique to the exploration of the surreal. What’s the difference, you ask? Good question. Technically, realism gives us a credible depiction of […]

“Plein air” or “open air” painting has been around for some time now, but it’s getting a nationwide revival, and along with it, a penchant for using the genre for competition among artists. The form usually or traditionally involves an artist setting up his or her easel, pulling out the paints, and quickly capturing the […]

“The Comedy of Errors” is one of the Bard’s earliest (and shortest) plays and – judging from Ohio Shakespeare Festival’s take on it – one of his funniest. The humor in the story comes from some excruciating puns and other bantering wordplay, but seriously gets its light side from broad slapstick revolving around mistaken identities. The […]

Karen Hinkle, “Not Quite Contained.” Photo by Clint Beeler Maybe you’re like a lot of people. When someone puts a word like “new” in all uppercase in the title of their art exhibit, as the current “Converging Visions: NEW Works in Fiber” at the galleries in Summit Artspace, a Knight Arts grantee, you kind of […]