Category: Arts & Culture
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Bellwater Unveils Its Largest Public Art Installation Yet Along the Kestrel River
Nine new murals now line nearly a mile of the Kestrel River Greenway, the city’s largest public-art project yet, though the funding vote behind it remains a point of contention on the city council.
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Sold-Out Season, Empty Budget: Foundry Stage Warns of a Funding Gap
The Foundry Stage Company says it faces a projected $175,000 shortfall after losing a multi-year regional arts grant, even as its all-local season and the sold-out run of “Last Shift” have drawn some of the strongest attendance in its history.
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Priced Out of Foundry Row, a Community of Artists Regroups in Cedar Hollow
Rising commercial rents have priced the 24-member Anvil Street Studios collective out of its longtime Foundry Row warehouse, sending most of the artists to a cheaper former factory space in Cedar Hollow while others scatter on their own.
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New Foundry Row Residents Want Loom Hall Turned Down. The Venue Says It Was There First.
New residents of the Foundry District Lofts have filed fourteen noise complaints against Loom Hall in two months, more than the venue logged in the previous three years, setting up a dispute over who bears responsibility for Foundry Row’s changing soundscape.
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A Vacant Vale Avenue Storefront Becomes a Classroom for Kincaid’s Arts Journalists
Eighteen Kincaid University arts journalism students spent the semester profiling local artists and curating a pop-up exhibit inside a previously vacant Vale Avenue storefront, testing whether student journalism can help fill downtown’s empty windows.
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Riverlight Festival Adds a Second Stage as Lineup Grows Again
The Riverlight Festival will expand to three nights and add a second stage along the Kestrel River Greenway this year, organizers announced, with a lineup leaning more heavily on local acts even as some Riverside Heights residents press for better crowd management.
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Council Narrowly Approves $410,000 for Riverside Heights Murals
The city council voted 4-3 to approve $410,000 for a second phase of Kestrel River Greenway murals extending into Riverside Heights, with dissenting members again arguing the money should go toward treatment and neighborhood reinvestment instead.
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BMA Adds Three Bellwater Artists to Its Permanent Collection
The Bellwater Museum of Art has acquired works from three local artists, including muralist Ines Carrizo, for its permanent collection, part of what museum leaders describe as a deliberate shift toward collecting Bellwater-based art.
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Ten Years In, Loom Hall Has Outlasted the Neighborhood It Opened Into
Loom Hall marked ten years as Foundry Row’s anchor music venue with a sold-out anniversary weekend, even as owner Sal Renner says rising rents and new residential neighbors are reshaping the room that gentrification helped build.
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Museum Curator Pitches Council on Extending Greenway Murals Into Riverside Heights
Bellwater Museum of Art curator Priscilla Adeyemi has proposed a $410,000 second phase of the Kestrel River Greenway mural project extending into Riverside Heights, reviving a funding debate that nearly sank the first phase two years ago.