Arts & Culture

Several years ago ACGT analyzed the distribution of public art by city council districts, and District 5 did not have any public works, according to Art in Public Spaces Coordinator Nathan Mattimoe. “On a basic level, public art is for everyone in the city,” he said. “We’re interested in expanding not only into neighborhoods surrounding downtown that have problems economically, but also into other neighborhoods in the city that don’t have a lot of public space available.”

Get a good laugh in with stand-up performances by Darin Casler, Ian Davis, Silas Green, Elliott Kreim, Charles Wetzel Jr. and host, Michael DeSanto...

Toledo poet Melvin Douglas Johnson has been writing poems his entire life. Now, in his late 70s, Johnson shows no signs of slowing down....

How is an artist represented by their work? Meditate on the meaning of collaboration and individual force with the River House Arts group exhibit,...

Spend a minute in the 1200 block of Broadway to get a sense of the community’s creativity. With colorful, large murals, vibrant buildings and...

Whether her subject is African wildlife or cityscapes in Nairobi, photographer Chris Gordon finds herself inspired and invigorated by the people, culture and environment...

The field of paleontology has a long track-record of being a boys’ club that, like many professions, did not allow much of a place for women. Most pictures likely to be found in science textbooks are of a bearded “white man with a pick ax,” according to Lexi Jamieson Marsh, director of The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science.

Join independent author Michael Timmins at his book release for Party for Prelude to the Shards on Friday, August 3. This fiction novel includes...

Local authors, A.S. Coomer and Matt Betts, will get together to discuss their work and inspiration together at Gathering Volumes Bookstore. Both writers have...

Audiences love the spectacle of the circus, but sometimes the most sensational story happens outside of the tent. Find yourself mesmerized by P.T. Barnum,...

Humor is best tested at a moment’s notice. Want to master the art of off the cuff jokes? Nick Morgan, Erin Kanary and Diana...

Playwright JaJuan Turner knows the struggle. A courier by day for Mercy Medical Center, Turner goes home and writes four hours daily in a...

Bozarts Gallery was filled top to bottom with original works from regional visual artists. “Bozarts was open and producing almost monthly exhibitions for nearly six years and a series of weekly exhibitions called ‘A Series of One Night Stands.’ I never had a contract with a single one of my artists. Everything was done with a handshake,” explains Gray. The list of veteran Bozart artists is a stunning reminder of Toledo’s talent. “We tried to be true to the artist’s ideals…”

Nick Muska is a poet and a storyteller, but it ain't that simple. Muska tells stories in print, publishing three collections of poems  (ELM:...

Toledo Aerial Media (TAM) has created a second exhibit of drone photography at Secor Metropark’s National Center for Nature Photography. A follow up to last year’s Art at Altitude, the most attended exhibit in the Center’s history, this year’s exhibit is titled Art at Alti2ude.

Join Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio for the inaugural meeting of a monthly intersectional book club to read works by different activists and political...