Author: Nicole Mullet

Community Crowdfunding Comes to Akron It’s not easy for organizations doing great community work to find funding to put together the programs and events that they do for our communities. We here at ArtsNow are always looking for options to help those organizations[...]

Hey everybody! This isn’t a full on episode. This is just a fun little bonus for our listeners. I was recently hanging out with Leianne Heppner at the Summit County Historical Society and it happened to be feeding time for the sheep at Mutton Hill. So of course I [...]

We here at ArtsNow have a close connections with the libraries of Summit County. So much of what we do rely on using the libraries on a near daily basis. We see others using them too. There’s never a day where we are by ourselves. With that in mind, we would like [...]

Can you believe we made it to episode 3? In this episode we talk with Linda Conrad of Stan Hywet and Philippe Bergeron of Paintscaping to hear about Stan Hywet’s LightNights 3D mapping and projection show. Then we reach out to Marc Schwartz to learn about Detroit&[...]

FOUNDATION CENTER: Doing Good Better We always like to offer perspectives from our sister non-profits from across Summit County, Northeast Ohio, and beyond. So, we’d like to introduce you to Brian Schultz, who will be our guest blogger for this post. Take it away,[...]

Well, here we are! We have arrived at the very first episode of the “Gimme Arts Now” podcast. Logan Lane, ArtsNow’s EXL Center intern, has been chronicling the development of the series in our blog as he works Roger Riddle to bring you all the cool cultural happe[...]

Hudson’s Drew Louis to showcase his singing and acting at the IMTA Convention in New York Drew Louis, a 17-year-old aspiring stage performer of Hudson, has been entertaining Summit County audiences with his singing and acting since he was belting out tunes from th[...]

“I believe that creativity will be the currency of the 21st century.” — Gerald Gordon, Ph.D., President/CEO, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority Last weekend I had the privilege of attending the 2017 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention.  I loved m[...]

Nikki Bartel, “a lover of all mediums in the art realm,” is a painter and sculptor working out of Barberton, OH. She works with acrylic, clay, oil, ink, watercolor, wood – anything that she can get her hands on, really. Her art, inspired by the abstrac[...]