Community Calendar

The Yellow Springs 4 Season Farmers Market offers year round local grown and produced items. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for weekly offerings.

The 42nd annual Art on the Lawn is a juried fine arts festival including artists from Ohio and surrounding states .

The 42nd annual Art on the Lawn is a juried fine arts festival including artists from Ohio and surrounding states .

Threads of History: Quilts by Carolyn Mazloomi is a landmark solo exhibition by award-winning artist, historian, and curator Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. Now an octogenarian, Mazloomi remains one of the most visionary leaders in contemporary quilting, widely recognized for her lifelong efforts to elevate African American quilt traditions. Her striking black-and-white quilts memorialize the lives and legacies of African American freedom fighters, capturing resilience, resistance, and remembrance through bold imagery and layered narrative.

Originally trained as an aerospace engineer, Mazloomi shifted her focus in the 1980s to advocate for African American quilt artists whose contributions had long been marginalized. Through her scholarship, mentorship, and the founding of the Women of Color Quilters Network, she has transformed the cultural landscape, bringing international recognition to quilting as both fine art and historical record. Her extraordinary impact has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and an American Craft Council Honorary Fellowship. Her work is held in major collections, including the Smithsonian Institution and the American Folk Art Museum.

Opening Reception: June 12, 6-8 pm; Remarks at 6:30 pm

WHAT:
Ohio’s Hospice is holding a Celebrating Life’s Stories® 2026 Butterfly Release as a way to remember and honor special people who have touched our lives and live on in our memories. After a brief program including music, participants will release butterflies in memory of loved ones. If you are unable to attend the event, butterflies requested will be released on your behalf.

WHEN:
Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026
Registration: 10 am
Program Begins: 11 am

WHERE:
Ohio’s Hospice
324 Wilmington Ave.
Dayton, OH, 45420

COST:
Butterflies are $20 each.

Sponsorship opportunities are available. Net proceeds benefit Ohio’s Hospice patient care and services.

HOW:
To register online, click the button below. Registration is required. For more event information, please contact Candis Conley at CConley@OhiosHospice.org or call 937.477.4027. For sponsorship information, contact Sydney Munch at SMunch@OhiosHospice.org or call 937.604.0495. Deadline for ordering butterflies and to have your name listed in the program is Friday, July 24.

In its 8th year, Into the Springs is a jam-packed weekend for writers on whatever level of experience. Two featured guest instructors, Tim Waggoner, author of horror, dark fantasy, movie/media tie-ins, and Julie L Moore, poet and essayist, provide close, interaction with attendees along with sessions and one-on-one critiques for an extra fee. Open mic reading night, book sales, writing time, lunch and more are part of the workshop. All in the spacious Banquet Hall of the Mills Park Hotel with free and convenient parking. Everything you need to join us is on the website.

Tori will support the album with an extensive 35-date U.S. summer tour, announced today, making stops in NYC, LA, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Austin, Philadelphia, as well as Cincinnati, OH for a performance at Taft Theatre on Saturday, August 8. The live shows will see Tori joined once again by longtime collaborators Jon Evans (MD and bass) and Ash Soan (drums) plus the addition of three backing singers - Liv Gibson, Deni Hlavinka and Hadley Kennary to will perform songs from In Times of Dragons alongside highlights from across her illustrious 35-year career, which has seen eight Grammy nominations and over 12 million global album sales. This will be preceded by her largest European tour for a decade, spanning 17 countries.

Revered for building a multifaceted and unifying career of work defined by fearless activism and otherworldly musicianship, the new collection continues this storytelling tradition through a dynamic cast of characters. It is a powerful journey of resilience and awakening where the pursuit of freedom meets forces that seek to control and silence. Tori shares, "In Times of Dragons is a metaphorical story about the fight for Democracy over Tyranny, reflecting the current abhorrent non accidental burning down of democracy in real time by the ‘Dictator believing Lizard Demons’ in their usurpation of America.”

The captivating In Times of Dragons album cover artwork is also revealed today, intricately created using a unique vintage process. Photographer Kasia Wozniak worked with direct paper positives using the RA-4 process, shooting everything on a large-format camera. Says Wosniak of the full Artwork "Each photograph was slowly composed, photographed, and processed. It felt magical to weave Tori’s work and vision with my own. We moved from photograph to photograph with an intuitive rhythm, aligned in every shot. The process became a kind of ritual". Speaking on the process of creating the album artwork Tori continues, "To work with Kasia and Stylist Karen Binns to bring the story and characters to life was a truly moving experience. Seeing our collaborations come to life, with them and the whole team will live with me forever".

With In Times of Dragons, Tori once again brings together the political and the personal in a work which resonates with the urgency of modern times.

Threads of History: Quilts by Carolyn Mazloomi is a landmark solo exhibition by award-winning artist, historian, and curator Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. Now an octogenarian, Mazloomi remains one of the most visionary leaders in contemporary quilting, widely recognized for her lifelong efforts to elevate African American quilt traditions. Her striking black-and-white quilts memorialize the lives and legacies of African American freedom fighters, capturing resilience, resistance, and remembrance through bold imagery and layered narrative.

Originally trained as an aerospace engineer, Mazloomi shifted her focus in the 1980s to advocate for African American quilt artists whose contributions had long been marginalized. Through her scholarship, mentorship, and the founding of the Women of Color Quilters Network, she has transformed the cultural landscape, bringing international recognition to quilting as both fine art and historical record. Her extraordinary impact has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and an American Craft Council Honorary Fellowship. Her work is held in major collections, including the Smithsonian Institution and the American Folk Art Museum.

Opening Reception: June 12, 6-8 pm; Remarks at 6:30 pm

Starting and ending with Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry. An opportunity for sharing and dialogue of various poetry and its content.

In its 8th year, Into the Springs is a jam-packed weekend for writers on whatever level of experience. Two featured guest instructors, Tim Waggoner, author of horror, dark fantasy, movie/media tie-ins, and Julie L Moore, poet and essayist, provide close, interaction with attendees along with sessions and one-on-one critiques for an extra fee. Open mic reading night, book sales, writing time, lunch and more are part of the workshop. All in the spacious Banquet Hall of the Mills Park Hotel with free and convenient parking. Everything you need to join us is on the website.