Reopened theater stages comeback for New Orleans arts
Closed for more than three years, the 2,100-seat Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is scheduled to reopen Thursday in what city leaders call a symbolic step forward in the city's recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

GM slashes support of arts
Metro Detroit's hard-pressed arts organizations are reeling from a new blow. The GM Foundation has asked high-profile presenters like the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Michigan Opera Theatre to exclude the foundation from budget planning effective immediately.

Davis may fund $2 million of center for arts
The South Davis Cultural Arts Center may get a boost from Davis County after all, but its name may change.

Arts and culture stayed the course and helped Northeast Ohio weather the economic storm in 2008
Artists in Northeast Ohio may look back at 2008 and ahead to 2009 like the two-faced Greek god of gates for whom this month is named: Janus ... peering through the twin masks of comedy and tragedy. The region last year lost some of its greatest artists and a few of its arts organizations. Looking ahead, big plans are in the works. But even bigger financial hurdles are in the way. WKSU's Vivian ...

Lake Erie Fiber Arts Guild members want to be seen as artists, to be taken seriously. Points taken.
"The Lake Erie Fiber Arts Guild is a group of artists from New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio who focus on original fiber artwork. ... Apart from fiber, which includes paper as well as woven, knitted, beaded, and dyed fabrics, the common thread for guild members is art.

Downturn cuts arts groups' endowments, attendance
INDIANAPOLIS - Arts groups in the city are cutting their budgets or delaying projects in response to falling donations, ticket sales and the stock market woes' squeeze on their endowments.

Plans stall for arts center on Acoma
Englewood Cultural Arts Center Association let the city community development department know that the organization no longer will pursue plans to build an arts and education center on the land in the 3400 block of South Acoma Street.

Chinese Immigrant: ?The Divine Performing Arts should perform in China?
As the curtain closed for the Divine Performing Arts? third show in Brooklyn ...

ARTS: 6:15 p.m. ? Creative Hands on exhibit at the Isla Center
6:15 p.m. Jan. 8 ? Creative Hands: Pacific, a jurored exhibit featuring 35 works of art produced by 17 artists from the Micronesian region, will be held through Jan. 30 at the Isla Center for the Arts, 15 Dean?s Circle, University of Guam.

Former Chinese Official Comments on Divine Performing Arts Show
?Such a wonderful performance simply cannot be found inside China,? exclaimed a former member of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after attending the final Los Angeles performance of the Divine Performing Arts 2009 World Tour, held at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Jan. 4. He came to the U.S. from China a year ago.

Divine Performing Arts Returns to Enthrall Canadian Theatregoers
Divine Performing Arts stirred audiences after beginning the Canadian leg of its 2009 World Tour this week.

Divine Performing Arts 2009 World Tour
More than 100 performers will take the stage at the Eisemann Center in Richardson in a collaboration of dancers, musicians and choreographers from around the world for the performances of the Divine Performing Arts on Feb. 2-4.

Middletown arts center kicks off 2009 with Daryl Urig
The Middletown Arts Center kicks off 2009 with an exhibit by nationally recognized Ohio artist Daryl Urig.

New Zealand Films on The Arts Channel
The Arts Channel is proud to premier two New Zealand films ? A Small Life? and ? Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows? in January.

School of Arts: Open to 'desirables'
Tenterfield Shire Council has back-flipped on a resolution less than a month old at its December ordinary meeting when it decided it would allow wedding receptions at the School of Arts, but only for 'desirable' people.

New Arts Marketing Consulting Firm Boosts Audiences With Technology
GroupOfMinds.com, a new Silicon Valley arts marketing consulting firm with offices in Sunnyvale, CA, aims to help struggling cultural organizations boost audiences though next-generation technologies. Using a new software program designed by GroupOfMinds.com, consultants compare arts groups to their peer organizations to expose missed opportunities in ticket sales and audience attendance. ...

IN THE ARTS
Sometimes, forgotten stories are finally told through art. And some of those stories are now being told through art created by U.S. veterans in an exhibit that fills the lobby and halls of the Vietnam Era Educational Center at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial at the PNC Arts Center.

Beaux Arts Festival takes place Saturday
The 58th annual Holtz Children's Hospital Beaux Arts Festival of Art will take place Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the grounds of the University of Miami campus.

Jersey City artist puts the 'pro' in Pro Arts
Conner Jay/ Jersey JournalRebecca Feranec, of Pro Arts Jersey City Jersey City artist, Rebecca Feranec, has been promoted to Executive Director of Pro Arts Jersey City. Feranec, worked as a studio tour coordinator starting in 2006 and was advanced to...

Arts Briefs
The Capital Regional District needs individuals to serve on its Arts Advisory Council. The council is a volunteer committee that adjudicates CRD funding programs and provides advice and policy recommendations on issues relating to the arts in the Capital Region.