Bobblehead collecting is serious business. When I received an email inviting me to the Bobblecon kick-off event, my first thought was, “I’ve got to see this.” So I headed to the Hibernian club in Akron, on Main Street. Bobblecon is the creation of Pedr[...]

I refuse to be intimidated by dance performances anymore! I figured the best way to get over being intimidated by dance was to reach out to some people who were better acquainted with the art form to help me enhance my understanding of it. So I got Christy Bolingbroke o[...]

TFW new friends from the Northern Cheyenne Nation come to visit Akron and lead a parade! That’s exactly what happened Monday, Oct 9. Students from the Northern Cheyenne Nation gathered with students from the Lippman School and Portage Path CLC. Then with the help [...]

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&[...]

Just before Roger and I put out the first episode of “Gimme ArtsNow,” we sat down to consider what we’d do the second episode on. While we were brainstorming, Roger showed me an interview he had done with a local musician named Eriq Troi. Well, it wasn’t so much[...]

As the son of a professional studio photographer, Ted Boyer has early memories of art, cameras, and Mac computers–memories which grew into a passion for visual art. Today, Ted is a University of Akron student working on the last year of his graphic design major. H[...]

Welcome to the second episode of “Gimme ArtsNow,” an arts and culture podcast produced by ArtsNow’s EXL Center intern Logan Lane and Roger Riddle where we talk to artists, art venues, and art patrons find what they’re creating, how they’re engaging their commu[...]