For the love of art
In a little room at 2500 Place in North Newton, there?s art all over the walls. The nondescript, plain wooden door leading to the…
Arts
Music to the Newton Medical Center
Ronnie Lee Nelson had a heart attack in early October. His attack was atypical. He felt weak, and there was no pain. Paramedics had…
Holiday Family Affair
On a wall at the Newton Performing Arts Center is a painted ?Dance is the only art where we are the paintbrushes.? With that…
Fox Theatre: A phoenix rising from the celluloid ashes
Newton native Barb Burns has fond memories of the Fox Theatre in downtown Newton from when she was growing up ? recollections of cinematic…
Rhythm and Blues
Just by looking at April May Webb as she?s running groceries through the scanner at North Dillons in Newton, patrons can tell she?s happy…
Creating the familiar and unfamiliar
It would be an understatement?to say rural?Newton artist Phil Epp?likes to paint clouds.?Examples of his artwork are?featured on signs throughout?Newton and on the?water tower…
Art therapy spoken at prairie view
The room in which Ian Gingrich-Gaylord conducts art?therapy at Prairie View could be a metaphor for how it?helps people in a time of personal…
Shredding Metal
Jared Pohl, a member of American Muscle, a garage band out of Newton, has a?sticker attached to one of his drums that says, ?I…
A celebration of life and music
Not many people voluntarily would?allow a high school band to march?through their home, let alone instruct?a band to do so. North Newton resident?John Banman…