Where should you go for a little winter time fun with your sweetie? Mark and Sandy Auburn have the answer! Photo credit: Michael Chirtton A guest blog post written by art patrons, Drs. Mark and Sandy Auburn. Live performances still gets us out at night. Having met as ac[...]

Guest blog by Heather Roszczyk, Akron Entrepreneurship Fellow at Fund for Our Economic Future As always, holiday shopping has snuck up on me this year. It’s like my own little tradition: at the end of every December I vow to pick up little gifts throughout themonthsâ[...]

Join me for lunch at Our Akron Art Museum, #GivingBackTuesday   This week, the Akron Art Museum announced that it will reopen its doors to the public on Tuesdays from 11am to 5pm for the first time since 2009.   This is wonderful news for our community because expa[...]

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&[...]