Arielle Gray

1 week ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason |Andrea Shea |Arielle Gray |Cristela Guerra

'Frederick Douglass'Friday, June 20Odyssey Opera, in collaboration with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, brings “Frederick Douglass” to the stage. The opera, which was composer Ulysses Kay’s final opera, first premiered in 1991. It was considered Kay’s magnum opus and looks at the abolitionist’s final years following the Civil War.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Arielle Gray

Cydney Garrido barely remembers a time when her brother Rob Stull wasn't creating something.  Yes, he was her (sometimes annoying) little brother. But from a young age, Garrido and the family knew he was talented. " Even when he was teeny tiny," she says. "We have a family photograph of him where he had cut pieces of a brown terrycloth bathrobe or towel and stuck pieces to his upper lip and his eyebrows, like one of the Marx brothers or something. He was always doing stuff like that.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Arielle Gray

Editor's Note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Amidst the news of arts institutions and organizations losing funding, there was some positive news out of Lowell last week. Grammy-winning country artist Zach Bryan purchased a 20,439-square-foot building that will become the Jack Kerouac Center, a creative hub and performance space.

2 months ago | wbur.org | Arielle Gray

My grandfather, Wayne Lucas, is a proud native Bostonian. He grew up predominantly in foster homes in Roxbury and Dorchester and spent a good chunk of his youth in a house on Pasadena Road, right off of Blue Hill Avenue. As a teenager, he was a regular participant in Freedom House's programs for youth — the longtime Roxbury/ Dorchester organization that focuses on community uplift and the development of Black and brown children.

2 months ago | wbur.org | Arielle Gray

CommentaryEditor's Note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s not every day that you get to see a “lost” artwork saved from a condemned house. I had this experience last October. Our team received an email from arts specialist Christine Berland at Eldred’s auction house, who was attempting to save a unique Norman Lewis artwork painted on the chimney of a home in South Dennis.