The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in Akron that can create transformational and sustainable change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please contact Akron Program Director Jennifer Thomas.
The play, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” is a weird kind of “whodunit,” since it’s not clear in the performing of it that a crime – like a murder – has actually been committed. But Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, takes its audience by hand through this baffling play and brings it to neat [...]
The Cuyahoga Valley Frackers, an Akron-based acoustic quartet that plays area clubs regularly, are taking their show on the road. They are heading northward through the Valley and will appear this Saturday night, October 6 at The Barking Spider Tavern. If you are a fan, here’s the chance to see the group in a different [...]
Actors’ Summit, a Knight Arts grantee, got good news. It will be part of the National New Play Network’s 33rd Rolling World Premiere — an event that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays. What’s even cooler is that the work, “Manning Up” by Sean Christopher Lewis, will be developed by the [...]
By Sharon Gillberg, Downtown Akron Partnership What better way to welcome autumn than with an evening of strolling entertainers, musical performances and tours of artist studios, galleries and shops? Experience all of this and more at Downtown Akron Artwalk on Saturday, Oct. 6, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Downtown Akron [...]
By Elizabeth Miller, Knight Foundation Visitors to the Akron Art Museum have less than week left to check out Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui before the exhibit shown for the first time in the United States is packed for a national tour. On view through Oct. 7. 2012, the exhibit features the work of globally-renowned contemporary [...]
Verb Ballets has strong Akron connections, which will be even more robust when the contemporary ballet group puts on choreographer Richard Dickinson’s “Carmen: Story of Passion” at the Akron Civic Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee. The list is long for local involvement. Out of the nine-person company four are from Akron (Ryan De Alexandro, Ashley Cohen, Stepanie [...]
Take in photographer Deborah Pinter’s flower series exhibit, called “Luminous Florals,” and combine a nice fall outing with a satisfying art experience. Pinter’s flower studies are on view at the Hines Hill campus (the administration building) in the John F. Seiberling Gallery near the Boston Store in Peninsula district. What looks to be an old [...]
DANCECleveland, a Knight Arts grantee, and The University of Akron have got a good thing going for the dance world. For five years now, the two groups have collaborated to bring outstanding dance companies to the Akron area for performances and to hold special master classes for university students. This year brings a big dance [...]
Who knew that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church had a sizable and nicely laid out art gallery? Apparently lots of local artists and groups, for church receptionist and gallery helper Julie McFarland says that the spaces are steadily booked. “Shows change every two months,” McFarland noted. “They are all local artists on display,” she said, adding [...]
Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, begins its 78th season by taking a dramatic leap with Tracy Letts’ ”August: Osage County.” The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-award winning play is a taut, gruff, polished comic tragedy — that is, a play where you laugh yourself right up to the uneasy, unsettling final moments where bleakness prevails. [...]
