In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...
With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent.
Live Arts Theater presents the Virginia premiere of "Marys Seacole," Jackie Sibblies Drury’s time-travelling chronicle.
The Des Plaines Public Library is hosting an exhibition of artist Mary Olson’s work. Olson, a Des Plaines Art Guild member, paints using watercolors and acrylics. Her pieces are on display on the ...