Shaika Café on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal was a hopping place on Wednesday night, with an art vernissage and live music. The event was hosted by renowned artist Susan Shulman, with the help of her musical friends from the Montreal music community.

TOPEKA — Artist Sarah Fizell doesn’t need convincing that public art affects neighborhood pride, community perceptions and even residents’ physical health. But sometimes the real impact is conveyed in simple words from a little boy, who stopped by as she painted a mural on a Topeka bridge near Ripley Park. “There was a kid who […]

SHREVEPORT, La. -  Long before his paintings hung inside Shreveport Regional Airport or earned him an invitation to one of the world's most prestigious artist fellowships in France, Ron Smith was just a little boy in Belcher drawing cotton pickers, tractors and crop dusters from his classroom desk.

Bozeman, Mont. — A Juneteenth celebration at Tinworks in Bozeman brought the community together for the opening of the nonprofit art space’s new summer exhibit.The holiday marks the freeing of the last enslaved people two years after the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery. Â