Culture Couch

This weekend is the last chance to see the Springfield Museum of Art’s 75th Annual Members' Exhibition.

There is a lot of local art on display at the Downtown Dayton Metro Library. And it’s all connected to the “Undesign the Redline” exhibit, which shows how the process of “redlining” segregated Dayton.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi is widely considered to be the last master of traditional Japanese wood carving. His colorful prints were made in the 19th century, but his imagery is everywhere today. You’ll find it in books and on calendars. Posters hang in sushi shops and college dorm rooms. But when Dayton Art Institute reopens on July 10th, they’ll have 100 rare, original Yoshitoshi prints on display.

By now many of us have worked from home on Zoom. So what does that mean if you are a dancer in the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company? When Ohio shut down in March, DCDC choreographers and dancers created dance together through Zoom in their separate apartments-- as best they could. David Seitz joined them online to learn about the process.

Honeybees are remarkable creatures - industrious pollinators necessary for producing most of our food crops like all of those apples, cucumbers,…

Social distancing is here the foreseeable future. But for people who are blind, contact with others can be essential for many daily life tasks. Community…

If you’re staying at home and looking for something fun to do, Miami Valley museums may have you covered. They’ve been beefing up their virtual products…

The City of Dayton is asking for help designing a new flag to fly over the Gem City.The flag redesign project started long before the Coronavirus outbreak…

The Xenia Area Community Theater (X*ACT) is currently producing an Ohio premiere, The Face of Emmett Till. In 1955, Mamie Till put her only son, 14-year-old Emmett on a train from Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. He was kidnapped and was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Decades later, Mamie Till Mobley co-wrote a play about her struggle.

Someone just hit their target at Wild Axe, an axe throwing bar in Beavercreek. Wild Axe opened this summer, and is one of the newest in a spate of such…

Ohio artist James Mellick makes highly detailed, life-size, wooden sculptures of dogs. He’s been doing it for forty years now.He uses walnut for Chocolate…

Stories mark this season, and that brings us to a Yellow Springs December story that many of us know.Yellow Springs patron Wheeling Gaunt was born in 1812…