By DARLA McCAMMON Lakeland Art Association We discuss art on a regular basis in this column but do you realize how many different ways it can be defined? Our column focuses primarily on the visual arts and thus we talk about the creation of objects within several disciplines such as painting, 3-D sculpture, printmaking, and …read more.

Two Beans Productions’ musical based on the classic book by Judith Viorst will be performed at Warsaw Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Friday, March 27. Have you ever had a really rotten day? Alexander has… He wakes up with gum in his hair, he trips on a skateboard, and then he accidentally dries his …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association Abstract art was not popular when the Great Depression hit this country. Many abstract expressionists found a great opportunity when the government offered jobs and projects between 1935 and 1942. One of those artists went on to become world famous. Jackson Pollock, youngest of five boys, was born in …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association We have been discussing starving artist during the Great Depression. The Federal Art Project had the goal of creating jobs between 1935 and June of 1943, when the stimulus of jobs created by World War II had significantly reduced the need. The FAP used out-of-work artists to provide art …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association Do you remember this past summer the American Gothic sculpture across the street from the Warsaw City Hall and the Kosciusko County Courthouse? The one of the somber farmer, his daughter and the famous pitchfork? The inspiration for that sculpture was taken from a painting by artist Grant Wood …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association Exceptional photography is often included in “the arts.” During the WPA days, a job was offered to one such extraordinary photographer named Berenice Abbott. Abbott, born in 1898 in Springfield Ohio became, much like Ansel Adams, famous for her black and white photography. Adams was known for landscapes and …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association The New Deal was President Roosevelt’s attempt to solve a myriad of problems by offering work to the unemployed from the government through the WPA, and the Federal Art Project. One of the multiple artists hired was Augusta Savage. Born Augusta Christine Fells, this African American Sculptor was from …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association Last week we discussed the Works Progress Administration and how hundreds of artists were hired to create art work. One of the artists employed by the WPA during The Great Depression was Arshile Gorky. The Newark, New Jersey airport was the recipient of a large mural titled Aviation that …read more.

By DARLA MCCAMMON Lakeland Art Association The Great Depression in this country ran from 1929 to 1943, and was largely helped by the advent of World War II when it put thousands to work providing our great military their many needs. Before the war, however, was a tragic story, with many begging for work, living …read more.

“There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.” Everybody should be familiar with these iconic lines from The Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy clicks her ruby red slippers together to return to Kansas from a mythical land of whimsy. Based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel of the same name, The Wizard of …read more.