Gallery 842, located at 842 4th Ave. in downtown Huntington, will host the 2010 West Virginia Waterc

The Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Downtown Live Committee will host its 3rd Annual Children’s Art Festival Extravaganza (CAFÉ)

When: Saturday, June 12 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Ninth Street Plaza between Third & Fourth Avenues
The 3rd annual CAFÉ event will have activities for children 12 years old and younger. Some of the arts featured are the following: book making, stamp art, tie-dye art, sculptures, a children’s community mural and others.
The event is free for everyone.
Other activities will include performances by the Cabell County Public Library Puppets, Jeslyn Performing Arts Center …

“Herding Cats,” an exhibition of work by Marshall University College of Fine Arts students Mark Earnhart and Jason Kiley, will open Friday, April 30 in Gallery 842 and run through May 27. The exhibit and its opening reception, which will take place Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., are free and open to the public.
Earnhart’s and Kiley’s show consists primarily of sculpture, including installations and freestanding forms. Most are new works, but some are collaborative pieces. According to the artists, the work engages the viewer beyond the visual and uses …

Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms will read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in the auditorium of the Huntington Museum of Art.
Bottoms is the author of seven collections of poems, including the Walt Whitman Award-winning Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, praised by Robert Penn Warren as having “a vision [in which] the actual world is not transformed, but illuminated.” Recent books include his selected poems, Armored Hearts, and Waltzing Through the Endtime.
He has earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for …

Join the Marshall Artists Series, HIMG and St. Mary’s Medical Center for an informal opera chat on Tuesday March 2, at 7:00pm, in St. Mary’s Center for Education Rahall Conference Room, located at the corner of 5th Ave. and 29th St. (use 5th Avenue Entrance). Our guest speaker will be MU’s Professor of music, Dr. Larry Stickler. Dr. Stickler is an opera aficionado and has hosted opera chats in the past to great acclaim. His knowledge and passion for opera is infectious.
The Marshall Artists Series opera chat …

A Marshall University faculty recital by flutist Dr. Wendell Dobbs and guitarist Julio Alves Thursday, Jan. 21, will feature new instruments the players acquired during the holiday break.
Dobbs will perform on a flute created by Chris Abell of Ashville, N. C., while Alves will perform on his new guitar made by John H. Dick of West Branch, Ia. Dobbs’ new flute is a modern Boehm system flute but is distinctive in that it is made of African blackwood like the other flutes he plays and has a dark, rich fullness …

Marshall University’s Department of Art and Design is showcasing new and adjunct faculty in an exhibit that opened today. The exhibit, titled 2009 Faculty Exhibition: Showcasing the Artworks of New and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Art and Design, will be on display in the Birke Art Gallery through Nov. 5.
“We have a diverse and talented faculty in our department,” Byron Clercx, chair of the Department of Art and Design, said. “In this exhibition we chose to feature our new and adjunct faculty. We wanted to announce the arrival …