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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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Each year, the Tiny Desk Contest receives entries from all 50 states, thanks to help from NPR Member stations across the country. Here are some of the 2020 entries that Member stations love. -
Every year, NPR holds a national Tiny Desk Contest, asking unsigned musicians to submit videos performing original songs behind a desk. One winner will be… -
The Memorial Golf Tournament shop door is wide open, with a chalk sign outside advertising 50% off merchandise. There are no customers inside, just two… -
Of the 819 artists and executives invited to join this year, the Academy says 45 percent are women and 36 percent are from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities. -
Nearly a thousand arts organizations across the country are receiving funds from the CARES Act. But the National Endowment for the Arts says the $44 million in grants it announced today is not enough. -
As restaurants, museums and movie theaters reopen, the majority of U.S. adults do not yet feel comfortable patronizing them, according to a new national survey. -
WOSU's Letters from Home collects stories about day-to-day lives during the coronavirus pandemic. This week, we heard from Ohioans answering the question:… -
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is reopening to the public on Monday after closing due to the coronavirus.Fans will now be asked to maintain social… -
Former Ohio Department of Health director Dr. Amy Acton is facing a lawsuit from the organizers of two summer music festivals, who argue their events… -
A newly released survey of nearly 2,000 music venue owners and promoters say that they anticipate closing within the next few months unless they can secure some governmental assistance.
