Should Arts groups worry?
What do you do ? indeed, what can you do ? when you're running an arts group and every day the economy around you seems to be imploding? Is it a matter of keep on keeping on and hunkering down? Should you retrench and pull back, or perhaps invest in your enterprise?

Toledo area arts groups have a full schedule of holiday productions
Santa Claus may be comin? to town, but the most extravagant and meaningful gifts being offered this holiday season are homemade ? conjured right here and presented with special dash by local performing arts groups. After all, what?s Christmas without Handel?s Messiah? Tchaikovsky?s Nutcracker? Carols and motets created for the season by the world?s greatest composers? Who can get through a ...

Art for the holidays at Mystic Arts Center
"SBoat" an oil painting by Carol Connor of Noank is one of the 350 fine art pieces that will be on display and for sale at the Mystic Arts Center's holiday salon.

Arts groups face big competitor
Some fear Performing Arts Center may be 800-lb. gorilla on local scene.

Wanted: More arts venues
GREENSBORO - The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra seeks a better concert hall. The Community Theatre of Greensboro wants a performance space of its own. Some touring artists and Broadway shows bypass the city for better places in bigger markets. Their problems could be solved, arts advocates say, with an amenity sorely needed: more suitable venues. Some are too small or too big. Or too ...

Take holiday from hurrying, celebrate Rochester arts
This year, take a breather from the holiday rush with a breath of fresh air ? the arts scene in Rochester is brimming with so many vibrant choices, you can't go wrong. Here are some of the upcoming performances you might want to pencil in.

Profiles of Success: Arts career 'wonderful' to director
["I have been blessed with a wonderful career in arts administration. I am able to run the company effectively and efficiently from setting budgets and raising monies to promoting and overseeing the company."

Nonprofit looks to improve parks, boost arts scene
A new nonprofit aims to improve the township's parks and give residents more opportunities to enjoy - and participate in - the local arts scene.

The great 8: Phoenix Awards honor visionaries in Lawrence arts scene
The great 8: Phoenix Awards honor visionaries in Lawrence arts scene

Arts calendar
Provident Bank's Lobby for the Arts, Elaine Isaacson, thru 1/9 , 21 Daniel St., artist's reception, 12/5, 5:30-7 p.m., 334-1255. Art by Pam Cilley of Durham , Blue Moon, 8 Clifford St., Exeter, thru 1/31, artist's reception 12/7 , 3-5 p.m.

Support the arts
All that glitters will definitely be gold during Support the Arts in Style when The Republic Group, a Dallas-based insurance provider, will host a benefit luncheon for Chamberlain Performing Arts and Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra.

The guide to local arts and crafts
ARTS AND CRAFTS | Valparaiso Holidaze Sell-a-bration art's and craft fair is Nov. 22 and 23 at the Porter County Expo Center, 215 Division St. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 22 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 23. Admission is $1.

Plano: Chamberlain Arts to present the ?Nutcracker?
More than 220 dancers are dressed in costumes with vibrant shades of sapphire, scarlet, jade and snow white with their hair set in spiraling curls. They are ready to perform when the curtain goes up on another Chamberlain Performing Arts production of the ?Nutcracker? at the Eisemann Center.

Fine dining and auctions featured at Bite of the Arts
GRAY - Fine food and wine along with an auction that offered more food and wine as prizes marked Friday's 12th annual Bite of the Arts gala.It is the main fundraising event for the John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University.

Arts medals
President George W. Bush honored nine recipients of the 2008 National Medal of the Arts, managed by the National Endowment for the Arts, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Monday.

Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival
Fossil digs, crafts and petting zoos were all part of the wild festivities at the Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival in Thomasville Georgia Saturday afternoon.

Dayton arts events
Dayton Visual Arts Center: ARTtoBUY Gift Gallery will open during First Friday, 5 to 10 p.m., Nov. 7, 118 N. Jefferson. Continues through

Madison to be the site of third annual Holiday Arts Festival on Nov. 28
MADISON -- The Madison Arts and Cultural Alliance (MACA) will hold the third annual Holiday Arts Festival from noon to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28. The festival provides mostly free performances throughout the afternoon and evening in various Madison...

High hopes for arts-friendly president
It was "a historic election for the arts," said Robert Lynch, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C., advocacy group Americans for the Arts. In President-elect Barack Obama, the country has "a visionary arts leader" with a substantive platform in support...

Good Shopping at Creative Arts Festival
Large crowds turned out today for first of two days of the 33rd annual Creative Arts Festival sponsored by the Westport Young Woman?s League.