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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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The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse is the new home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, starting this fall. After more than a year of virtual events across the country, the Rock Hall is looking to break out of a COVID-19-induced prison and return to a live induction event in Cleveland on October 30. Rock Hall president Greg Harris said it will be the sixth time for a hometown induction. “It was here back in ‘97 in a hotel,” he said. “Then, in 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018, it was held at Cleveland's Public Auditorium.”
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With hints of spring in the air, Gov. Mike DeWine tantalized Ohioans with prospects of the end of pandemic restrictions and a gradual return to life as we… -
For the second year in a row, organizers canceled the Columbus Arts Festival and the Columbus Jazz & Rib Fest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same… -
Cleveland’s musical museum on the lake is looking to take some lessons from the past year into its planning for 2021. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame re-opened its doors over the weekend after a two-month COVID-inspired closure. -
The arts employ nearly five million people in America, but advocates say President Trump's record of support for arts and humanities has been mixed. Will that change under the Biden administration? -
This holiday season, the unrelenting pandemic will strike an economic blow to Columbus’ downtown entertainment sector. The ever-popular “Nutcracker”… -
Music fans in Columbus rejoiced over the weekend when the radio station formerly known as CD102.5 announced it was coming back to the airwaves.The… -
A group of Northeast Ohio independent music venues has spent the past five months planning how to reopen safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now the venues have shifted to just trying to survive these winter months so they can reopen at all. -
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the cultural economy, the businesses and the people that make their living creating music, food and art.But… -
A new bill in the Ohio House would offer $20 million in federal coronavirus stimulus funding to independent music venues.The bill’s co-author, state Rep.…
