ARTS
Maplewood Barn Community Theatre's new home
Rising from the ashes, the Maplewood Barn Community Theatre returns with a new home just in time to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
May 17, 2012
PS: Gallery presents Blue Highways Revisited exhibit
Show compares 38 states from the '70s to the present through photography
(Web Exclusive) Frenchman, Nev., once a town of four residents, was one of many stops along a 14,000-mile journey that author and photographer William Least Heat-Moon took in 1978. A collection of photographs and stories from this trip around the U.S. was published in Blue Highways.
Maplewood Barn Community Theatre's new home
A new barn opens Maplewood's next chapter
Rising from the ashes, the Maplewood Barn Community Theatre returns with a new home just in time to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
May 10, 2012
Alice in Wonderland Jr. at Columbia College
TRYPS Children's Theater presents Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr.
Alice in Wonderland is about surprises. From Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole to the defeat of the Red Queen, the story is nothing if not a twisting turn of events.
Arrow Rock Spring Garden Show showcases May flowers
Garden show features artists from across Mid-Missouri
(Web Exclusive) Missouri's state flower, the White Hawthorn Blossom, isn’t the only local flower opening its petals to drink in the Missouri spring sunshine. Hundreds of plants from Mid-Missouri will be available for purchase or just to offer their sweet springtime scents at the annual Arrow Rock Spring Garden Show on Saturday.
May 03, 2012
Putting together The Secret Garden
Auditions were Monday; Saturday's the show. This is one fast theater group.
The task of putting on The Secret Garden is intense; 51 children, ranging in age from 5 years old to 18 years old, must learn, practice and perform a play that they started learning on Monday.
Local pair embark on artistic voyage
Creators of T/F popcorn pyramid, Gabe Meyer and Brian Doss, incorporate art in their everyday lives
Crazy experiences in the pursuit of art define the lifestyles of Meyer and Doss. The duo transformed the 2012 True/False Film Fest box office into an artistic paradise.
Plate to Pixel photography creates edible art
Food gets a moment in the spotlight with new photography trend
Columbia Area Career Center is offering a new Plate to Pixel food photography class to teach newbie food photographers the insider tips and techniques to make photos look good enough to eat.
April 26, 2012
Four friends start Grindstone Lithography
Four friends take their shared passion for lithography to a new level by opening a studio on April 20
The workspace at Grindstone Lithography Studio/Workshop is made up of a few workbenches, a heavy press, some stones, carving tools, various chemicals and a place four men call their own. Beige paper with black markings that have a slightly faded look to them are displayed around the studio. These are lithographs, made by drawing with grease crayons on limestone and then transferring the image onto paper.
Independent Actors Theatre is bringing an off-Broadway show to Columbia
Talley’s Folly is a romantic comedy about two lovers trying to make their romance work against the woman’s parents’ wishes.
April 22, 2012
Stephens students change the fashion forecast at Evolve fashion show
(Web Exclusive) In 68th Annual Student Designer Fashion Show, Stephens students create wearable art out of fair-trade fabrics and entire runway collections.
April 21, 2012
Recap: Artrageous Friday at Grindstone Studio
Orr Street Studios hosts a grand opening during Artrageous Friday
Take a look inside Columbia's newest lithography studio.
April 20, 2012
MU's Hamlet is a fresh take on an old classic
This production takes the classic and transports it into the future but retains pitch-perfect Shakespearean dialogue. The actors stand out for their maturity and dialect.
April 19, 2012
Behind the scenes with the people who are pushing a Shakespearean classic into a dystopian future
The director, designers, student assistants and actors must plan and execute every tiny detail of the tragedy of Hamlet, from the gory sword fights and Shakespearean language to, um, the clowns. Set in a decaying society 400 years in the future, rather than medieval Denmark, details are particularly important to the creation of this fictional world.
April 15, 2012
Exhibit Review: PS: Gallery's Spring Exhibit
Different aesthetics fill the walls of the gallery for spring show
Cartoonish canvases, ghoulish portraits, insect-like works and bunny pastels filled the Perlow-Stevens Gallery during its spring 2012 exhibit opening.
April 12, 2012
Morli Wilcox’s artistic and personal lives intertwine. As the stay-at-home mom of Elliott, 5, she paints while she cooks gluten-free blueberry lavender lime cookies in her kitchen studio, which is full of light. She leaves her art to dry in her music room where she composes songs. Wilcox is currently working on paintings that will be on display at Make Scents beginning April 20. She will have approximately 20 pieces in the show.
Missouri Contemporary Ballet combines live dance with live music inspired by ocean life
Whale Sharks, considered the gentle giants of the sea, can be found along the coastal regions of Mexico in Yucatán. Gracefully swimming in short bursts of strong, powerful movement, these sharks swim with the heartbeat of the sea. This beautiful, fluid motion is what inspired composer Tom Andes to write “Swimming with Sharks” for the Missouri Contemporary Ballet, while he was on a boat.
The Bruin Girls of Rock Bridge high
Students put dancing first for a position on the high school's competitive dance team
Kylee Tarbox spins around her kitchen island while her four dogs run after her. Her older sister, Leia, looks up from the kitchen table where she is doing homework and smiles. On April 9, 27 girls, including Leia and Kylee, began a three-day clinic to polish their technique. Today, they will perform a pom routine and a jazz routine in front of a panel of judges.
April 05, 2012
Jon Stokes creates art through tattoos and paintings
Jon Stokes started designing t-shirts in seventh grade, got a bachelors in fine art, was an art teacher and now is a tattoo artist.
Curtis and Jessica Langley turn sheets of metal into art
When Curtis and Jessica Langley aren’t busy with their two kids and three energetic puppies, they are in their workshop beside their home turning sheets of metal into art.
March 29, 2012
Photographer works with farmers' hands
Dan Hemmelgarn focuses on the bond with the earth
Dan Hemmelgarn takes photos of farmer's hands in hopes to convey the love that farmers have for what they do as well as teach consumers about the effects of their dietary choices.
