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Long Beach Arts? Exhibit Hits Highlights
Long Beach Arts? latest group show, ?2008 National Open Exhibition,? is both delightful and disappointing at the same time. First of all, this year?s show ? open to artists from across the country ? features the usual media such as paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and mixed media.

Arts Organizations Need Community Support, Patronage
Be afraid. Be very afraid. With all of the economic turmoil in the world today, I?m pretty concerned about the year ahead when it comes to our arts organizations.

NM Official Named Chair Of Indian Arts Board
The director of education at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe has been named chairwoman of the national Indian Arts and Crafts Board.

New York Times, Arts & Leisure Weekend
Museum will participate in the New York Times, Arts & Leisure Weekend

Arts notes --- Dec. 4
Walnut CreekCivic Arts' exhibit runs through Dec. 21Bedford Gallery honors the 45th anniversary of Walnut Creek's Civic Arts Education program by celebrating the rich diversity of its faculty, whose distinct visions shape the program and its students.

Electronic Arts buys Korean online game developer J2MSoft
Electronic Arts Inc. has acquired the Korean online game developer J2MSoft Inc. for an undisclosed sum. (ERTS)

Annual arts festival is Saturday at Montrose
Community members will have a chance to gather for fine arts, festivities and food this Saturday at the sixth annual Bexley Festival of the Arts at Montrose Elementary School.

'Tsunami' of cuts threatens arts groups
Smaller arts groups -- often most vulnerable when the economy sours -- will be hit hard by proposed cuts in arts grants.

City may use tourism funds to bolster arts
Hilliard City Council is exploring the possibility of using idle funds sitting in the Hilliard Visitors & Convention Bureau account to help bolster arts programs in the community.

Electronic Arts buys South Korean game developer
US videogame publisher Electronic Arts on Wednesday announced it had purchased J2MSoft Inc., a South Korean developer of online games for personal computers.

Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show set for Saturday
The Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring its 26th annual Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Hilliard Davidson High School, 5100 Davidson Road.

UWSP Performing Arts Series to feature nontraditional trio
Time for Three, a nontraditional violin and bass trio, will perform in concert on Wednesday, Dec. 10, as part of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Performing Arts Series. Time for Three will bring its eclectic mix of bluegrass, classical, jazz, gypsy, improvisation and country music to Sentry Theater in Stevens Point at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $6 ...

It's pushpin time at the Newport Visual Arts Center
The 18th annual Pushpin Show will be held in the Runyan Gallery of the Newport Visual Arts Center during the month of December.

Ouachita Baptist University School of Fine Arts presents 18th annual Festival of Christmas
Ouachita Baptist University?s School of Fine Arts presents the 18th annual Festival of Christmas in Jones Performing Arts Center Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Annual Native Arts and Crafts Fair
JUNEAU - The annual Native Arts & Crafts Fair will be held at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Dec. 5 from 4:30-8 p.m. and Dec. 6 from 12-4 p.m. . Meet local Alaska Native artists and learn as they demonstrate techniques and sell their wares.

Arts calendar
Visual Arts Toni Pederson: Oil Wildlife Paintings. 10 a.m. Dec. 7-12 and Dec. 14. The Gallery at First Presbyterian Church, 171 Market St. Free. (859) 252-1919. www.fpclex.org. Arts D'Vine. 2 p.m. Dec. 6. Talon Winery . Vineyards, 7086 Tates Creek Rd. Free. (859) 246-6601. www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/artsoncampus. Folk Art Takes New Form. 9 a.m. Dec. 6, noon Dec. 6, 9 a.m. Dec. ...

U of I will get 22 trailers for arts campus
Iowa City, Ia. ? The federal government will buy 22 trailers for University of Iowa music and theater students to use as temporary classrooms and offices following June?s record floods that devastated the U of I arts campus.

Developers eye vacant Newport school for arts center
The Newport couple that is converting Lenthal School on Spring Street into upscale condominiums would like to convert Sheffield School on Broadway into a Newport Center for the Arts.

Fine Arts Center nears completion
Construction is nearing completion on the Van Buren School District's $8 million Fine Arts Center.