Arts council oversees jazz bids
The Arts Council of Wales is overseeing plans to rescue Brecon jazz festival, it emerges.

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.

A new frontier for Pa. Academy of Fine Arts
A lofty goal moved within reach of aspiring South Jersey artists yesterday as the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts agreed to accept Camden County College credits - the first transfer agreement in academy's 204-year history.

Jazz News: Bailing out the Arts
With investment banks, auto manufacturers, and various other industries getting multi-billion dollar bailouts from the federal government, and Congress debating a major economic stimulus package that could include everything from major infrastructure spending to more tax cuts, is now also a good time to invest more federal money in the arts?

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.

Downturn slams Indy arts budgets
Arts groups in the city are cutting their budgets or delaying projects in response to declining donations and ticket sales, and the stock market's squeeze on their endowments.

GM Foundation cuts aid to Detroit arts groups
(AP:DETROIT) The charitable foundation of struggling General Motors Corp. has told the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Symphony and other cultural groups not to expect annual support in 2009.

Girls roundup: Legg's double-double sparks Aquinas victory over School of the Arts
Junior forward Kelly Legg scored 25 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead visiting Aquinas over School of the Arts in basketball.

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.

Vassar cited as one of the 10 best private liberal arts college values by Kiplinger's
POUGHKEEPSIE ? Vassar College has been named among the 10 best private liberal arts college values in the United States by Kiplinger?s Personal Finance.

Off to Arts Presenters
I'm on my way to New York today to attend the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference -- some 4000 venue managers, agents, artists, and supporting organizations booking their seasons and connecting with their peers. If you're wandering around the Hilton New York, give me a wave.

Terra announces winter arts and crafts, hobbies schedule
Balloon sculpture, ceramics and cake decorating highlight the winter arts and crafts and hobbies schedules offered by the Kern Center for Community and Industrial Development at Terra Community College.

Theater opens performing arts school on Jan. 5
MORRISTOWN ? Registration for musical theater and acting classes for The Community Theatre?s winter-spring Performing Arts School session will begin Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.

MILLVILLE: Arts District update due today
MILLVILLE ? The Millville Development Corp.?s board will hear annual reports about the Glasstown Arts District at its meeting this morning.

Art workshops and classes startin January for kids and teens at Watchung Arts Center
WATCHUNG ? Registration has begun at the Watchung Arts Center on the Watchung Circle for art workshops classes that start in January for children and teens.

Works by a dozen artists will show an eclectic array at Watchung Arts Center
WATCHUNG ? The art show, ?New Year = New Yearnings,? featuring original artworks by 12 New Jersey fiber artists from Essex, Middlesex, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset and Union counties, will be held throughout Januaryat the Watchung Arts Center, on the Watchung Circle.

Martial arts all-star
There's no question that Layne Fujioka, 10, is mad about martial arts. The Ma'ema'e Elementary School fifth-grader trains in judo and escrima, and also recently earned a black belt in karate.

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 ...

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.

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.