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Amy Carruthers/Ohio HumanitiesState humanities councils were established by Congress about 50 years ago to make sure National Endowment for Humanities funds made it to smaller communities and organizations. -
National Aviation Heritage Area/FacebookRepublican Gov. Mike DeWine signed its new state designation into law Wednesday. The plane, designated an historic landmark, can be seen now at Dayton's Carillion Historical Park.
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Classical 101For more than three decades, the Columbus Guitar Society has been the dedicated guitar home for central Ohio. -
For the past 20 years, local artists in Dayton have been painting, drawing and sculpting the city’s skyscrapers — not towering buildings, but high-achieving Black community members. -
Classical 101Photographer Eleanor Jane’s Superstar Guitars is the ultimate guitar aficionado’s coffee table book, packed with hundreds of intimately detailed photos of some of the guitars that helped make music what it is today. -
Classical 101It’s never too late – or too early – to learn how to pay the guitar. In celebration of National Guitar Day (Feb. 11), here’s a list of children’s picture books about some guitarists and guitar makers who have helped shape the course of history. -
The Columbus native helped the city to define itself and continues to influence artists worldwide posthumously. -
Classical 101The emotional grit and cutting-edge choreography, music and video art of Columbus Dance Theatre's Experiment 2: An Immersive Art Experience returns to the stage Feb. 7 and 8. -
The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio received a $10,000 "Challenge America" award from the National Endowment for the Arts to help support their upcoming production of "Fat Ham." -
The Ohio History Connection has one of the largest collections of Native American human remains. The nonprofit is working with tribal leaders to comply with the federal law NAGPRA and repatriate them. -
Greater Columbus Arts Council President and CEO Tom Katzenmeyer is retiring this year after 12 years with the organization. -
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Ohio Northern University in 1968. One woman remembers the impact the prominent civil rights leader’s words had at the rural northwest Ohio school.
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From the Ohio Players to Lakeside, Slave and Zapp, some of the top funk bands in the country came from Dayton. -
Harmony Project creative director David Brown says the goal is to create a network of artists who believe in the power of music to bring people together. -
Not only is Ohio birthplace to dozens of famous actors -- from Lillian Gish, known as the First Lady of the Screen, to Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Halle Barry, Rob Lowe and Janelle Monae — but it's also home to celebrated director Steven Spielberg, Oscar-winning composer Henry Mancini and the Warner brothers. -
The performance includes traditional and spiritual songs, secular favorites and some lesser-known surprises like “It’s Lit” by Friend of a Friend. -
The sync placement is the first such deal with DC Comics and HBO to be landed by musicians and Columbus natives Taylor Nixon and London Elixir. -
Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville will be filled with toe-tapping tunes Friday night, as musicians gather to compete in the Ohio State Old Time Fiddlers Contest. -
Dayton-native and Academy Award-winner David Berry pioneered special effects for hit films of the late 1970s and 1980s, such as Star Wars, Star Trek and Indiana Jones. -
Columbus City Council will spend up to $15,000 to pay for the movies so people can stay cool during the heat wave. -
Darius Golds and Magnus Juliano got engaged in 2019 at the 50th anniversary of New York City's Stonewall Uprisings. -
Don MacRostie has been hand crafting mandolins in southeast Ohio for nearly 50 years.
