IN Series and 4EYE Film Center join Theater Alliance as primary partners in SW DC arts hub

DC Theater Arts: IN Series and 4EYE Film Center are joining Theater Alliance as the primary partners at a new multidisciplinary arts hub opening in early Fall 2026 in Southwest DC, the leadership of the three organizations have announced. While the hub will serve as the permanent home of the three organizations, it will also be a space for the broader arts and nonprofit community to showcase their work and thrive.

The Guardian view on the class crisis in the arts: the UK’s culture must not become the preserve of the elite

Editorial | The Guardian: In his McTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival in 2024, the playwright James Graham called class “everyone’s least favourite diversity and representation category”. A socioeconomic duty on public bodies was included in 2010’s Equality Act, but has never been enacted.

Trump appoints James McCrery and others to U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

www.archpaper.com: Members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) appointed by the Biden administration were terminated by the Trump administration in October 2025. Every CFA seat was vacant until this month, when the Trump administration began appointing members to the government agency tasked with reviewing design plans.

Engaging with art is good for your health, new analysis reveals.

Artsy: We all might think that art is good for us, but now scientists are adding to research that’s making it official. Daisy Fancourt, a professor of epidemiology at University College London, is about to make a case for the arts that is anything but subjective.

The Government Took Over Their University. Here's How These Students Fought Back.

HowlRound Theatre Commons: From a four-mile-long human chain to a torchlight ceremony in the rain to the appearance of Blind Justice at the Halls of Justice—the playful, passionate demonstrations and symbols that arose from Hungary's Freeszfe movement inspired artists around the world. Todd London, a leading figure in nonprofit theatre in the United States, comes together with László Upor, former vice rector/acting rector of the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) in Budapest and a founding member of Freeszfe Society.

Trust Announces Arts Landing Lineup of Public Artworks by Thaddeus Mosley, vanessa german and More

onStage Pittsburgh: The creation of Arts Landing is progressing on time and on budget, reports the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, which has revealed “a bold and distinctively-Pittsburgh lineup of public artworks,” to debut when the Downtown civic space opens in April of 2026.

Liverpool's unsung COVID heroes: how the city's arts scene became a life support network

theconversation.com: You are never far away from culture in Liverpool. The forthcoming host of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on Ukraine’s behalf has long pioneered the idea of “arts as life support” – via initiatives such as The Life Rooms, which uses a library and theatre (among other sites) to engage people in cultural activities as part of its social health model.

Artist Crafts Incredible Dragon from Tatami Mats

mymodernmet.com: Tatami mats have been a part of Japanese homes for centuries. Once reserved for nobility, they became a standard part of traditional homes in the 17th century. While today tatami mats aren't quite as common, one man is taking tradition and transforming it into art. Kenze Yamada is a tatami artist who creates incredible images with his mats. Working out of a specialty store in Gifu prefecture, he's been commissioned by hotels and temples across Japan to bring his signature look to their floors.

The Future of Theater in the US

Bitter Gertrude: At major cultural inflection points, the role of the arts becomes critically important. The arts are where we, as a culture, determine who we are, what we want to be, what we hope for, what we fear, what we’re willing to fight for. The stories of a culture reflect that culture and shape it. The storyteller shapes the narrative; the narrative shapes opinion and belief; opinion and belief shape the culture.

What Does a Social Justice Curator Do? The Bronx Museum's Jasmine Wahi on Why Every Museum Should Have One

news.artnet.com: I discovered the work of curator Jasmine Wahi on Instagram, where she posts powerful meditations on politics, art, and the intersections between the two as @browngirlcurator. Since February, Wahi has served as the social justice curator at the Bronx Museum, which I found particularly intriguing at a time when questions about the role of social justice in museums have been amplified in the wake of recent Black Lives Matter protests.

Tested From Home: Kayte Sabicer's Projects!

Tested: Our resident modelmaker and fabricator Kayte Sabicer checks in from home to update us on the projects that's been keeping her busy the past month, including painting a watercolor postcard every day, making small laser-cut goodies, repurposing cardboard, and working on repairs. There's no project too small to keep your hands busy and creativity at work!

Arts Nonprofits: Fiscal Responsibility Is Not a Mission

www.clydefitchreport.com: What does fiscal responsibility have to do with your mission?

From my list of 15 Fraught, Flinch-Worthy Phrases from the Nonprofit Arts World comes #5: “Fiscal responsibility.” Especially as it relates to the mission statement of your organization. Let’s first be clear: all companies should be fiscally responsible to the level of their capacity. Arts organizations are no different from Amazon in that regard. Neither are they different about having bathrooms that work, air to breathe and staff members that receive paychecks. Fiscal responsibility is no different than breathing in this sense: it’s what a thing does to live, not what it does to make an impact on society.

30 Under 30: Hailey Featherstone, Lighting Tech/FOH Tech

www.livedesignonline.com: Surrounded by light all her life, Hailey Featherstone was practically raised backstage, eyeballing the lighting cues of her father, John Featherstone, principal at Lightswitch. Since then, she has gone from strength to strength and transitioned from a successful college design path at Arizona State University under the tutelage of Jake Pinholster, to a successful career, working with artists as diverse as Paul McCartney and Beyoncé, and corporate projects for McDonalds and Mercedes Benz. With a talent belying her years, Featherstone will be one to watch in the years ahead.

The Rise of Artistic Censorship on College Campuses Should Worry the American Public

Artsy: Artistic freedom protects high and low art alike; notions of “good taste” and artistic worthiness are the realm of the artist or curator, not the bureaucrat. But at a number of American universities, controversy has been acting as the curator, leading to the degradation of both freedom of speech and students’ ability to interact with challenging artwork.

Opinion | Dave Eggers: A Cultural Vacuum in Trump’s White House

The New York Times: This White House has been, and is likely to remain, home to the first presidency in American history that is almost completely devoid of culture. In the 17 months that Donald Trump has been in office, he has hosted only a few artists of any kind. One was the gun fetishist Ted Nugent. Another was Kid Rock. They went together (and with Sarah Palin). Neither performed.

National Endowment for the Arts Selects Jen Hughes as Director of Design and Creative Placemaking

NEA: Jen Hughes has been selected as the National Endowment for the Arts director of Design and Creative Placemaking. Hughes has served as acting director of Design since June 2017, and will continue to oversee grant portfolios that support the design and creative placemaking fields at the National Endowment for the Arts. Hughes will also manage leadership initiatives that include the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design.

A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain

The Atlantic: The Great American Novel enters the public domain on January 1, 2019—quite literally. Not the concept, but the book by William Carlos Williams. It will be joined by hundreds of thousands of other books, musical scores, and films first published in the United States during 1923. It’s the first time since 1998 for a mass shift to the public domain of material protected under copyright. It’s also the beginning of a new annual tradition: For several decades from 2019 onward, each New Year’s Day will unleash a full year’s worth of works published 95 years earlier.

Kaleidoscope XX Showcase Celebrates 20 Years of Creative Student Work

www.cmu.edu/news: Students from Carnegie Mellon University's BXA Intercollege Degree Programs will showcase a variety of creative work and performances at their annual Kaleidoscope exhibition from 4-7 p.m., April 27 in room 214 of the College of Fine Arts.

The work featured in the show, titled "Kaleidoscope XX," represents BXA's three integrated degrees — Bachelor of Computer Science and Arts (BCSA), Bachelor of Humanities and Arts (BHA) and Bachelor of Science and Arts (BSA) — and celebrates 20 years of displaying interdisciplinary projects to the public.

Washing Ashore in Nashville’s Open-Arms Artistic Community

HowlRound Theatre Commons: This month, I celebrate my one-year anniversary in Nashville, a city with charming roots and a promising future that has darn well stolen my heart. As a relatively new citizen of Music City and native Tennessean, I’ve been swept off my feet by the unexpected, vibrant energy infecting the town, and through this week’s series I hope to share some of that energy with you. The attentive reader may wonder, Why are you curating a series about the artistic community of a city you’ve called home for such a short amount of time? But in many ways, the very reason this series exists is to look at why Nashville has recently become such a popular home for droves of young artists like me.

Building Accessibility with New Tools

AMT Lab @ CMU: This previous article established the many different kinds of learning disabilities that impact how patrons interact with art organizations. An arts organization needs to consider dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, auditory processing disorder, visual processing disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism when creating accessible experiences. The first step is to find people from these different communities to serve as consultants in developing the technology. The next step is to build methodically by researching the disability and then building and iterating the experience. An organization doesn’t need to have a solution for every community at once, so make a plan for every exhibition or art event. Once arts organizations start to use technologies to accommodate learning disabilities, the arts will become more welcoming and accessible to a variety of audiences.