Arts Access

5 days ago | keranews.org | Elizabeth Myong |Arts Access

The numbers in this story reflect funding loss as of May 8, 2025 and are likely to change. Plans to transform a former KKK auditorium into a community center. Sensory-friendly dance performances. A play focused on Harriet Tubman. These are a few of the local projects that lost support from the National Endowment for the Arts over the past week. Local arts organizations are facing a deficit of more than $280,000 after the NEA abruptly pulled funding nationwide last Friday.

1 week ago | keranews.org | Elizabeth Myong |Arts Access

This is part of an Arts Access series called “Home is where the art is,” which gives an inside look into the art that North Texans treasure in their homes. In the backyard of Paul Longoria’s Oak Cliff home, sparkling lowriders glide past a barber shop and taco joint before hopping along a parking lot. There’s even a gas station, police cars and palm trees with the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in the distance. How is this possible?

1 week ago | keranews.org | Elizabeth Myong |Arts Access

This is part of an Arts Access series called “Home is where the art is,” which gives an inside look into the art that North Texans treasure in their homes. Inside Voke Onoriose’s home studio for personal styling, an ornate vintage mirror sits on a corner table. “Me vs. Me.”Onoriose wrote that phrase on her mirror in black marker. It’s a reminder to focus on her own journey as a personal stylist. “It's just a reminder to not look at outwardly things. You know, just look within yourself.

1 week ago | keranews.org | Elizabeth Myong |Arts Access

Art isn’t just in museums, galleries or concert halls. Art is all around us – especially in our homes. Whether you’re in your bedroom, cooking in your kitchen or working in the garage, the items that fill our homes tell stories about who we are and what we care about.

1 week ago | keranews.org | Elizabeth Myong |Arts Access

This is part of an Arts Access series called “Home is where the art is,” which gives an inside look into the art that North Texans treasure in their homes. Justin Myers has collected vinyl records for about a decade. It’s become an obsession after his wife gave him a record player. “Since then, I've just been collecting like crazy all the time. Daily records are coming in or I'm going shopping. It’s a sickness,” he said.