Cheryl Durgans

Jan 3, 2025 | ysnews.com | Cheryl Durgans

Arts 2024 In Review | The Arts Published: January 3, 2025 January• YS Schools students created and released a short film, “OTIS” — described as a meta meditation on the unpredictable nature of art, among other themes — on the “MLQ Productions” YouTube channel. April• Yellow Springs Film Festival, which debuted in fall 2023, presented a Mini-Fest at the Little Art Theatre. The event was a prelude to the main festival held in October.

Dec 5, 2024 | ysnews.com | Cheryl Durgans

This is our fork in the roadLove’s last episodeThere’s nowhere to go, oh noYou made your choiceNow it’s up to meTo bow out gracefully …On election night, Tuesday, Nov. 5, most voting Americans, particularly Protestant and Catholic white Christians, chose a vision of fascism and fear in the name of Jesus. Dietrich Bonhoeffer must be weeping in his grave. Many of us, particularly Black women, may well remember a moment in the early morning hours of Nov.

Nov 7, 2024 | ysnews.com | Cheryl Durgans

What the state of Israel — a country that upholds an apartheid system of unequal treatment toward some of its citizenry is doing to the Palestinian people in the name of Zionism— is doing is genocide. There is no equivocation on this. It is wrong, and it is evil.

Sep 1, 2024 | ysnews.com | Cheryl Durgans

On opening the newly published children’s biography, “Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton,” the reader will come to a page holding the image of a young girl reading a book. She sits cross legged on a magic carpet, floating in the air.

Jun 21, 2024 | ysnews.com | Cheryl Durgans

“In nature, everything is connected, the great circle of life and death. Similarly, in creating art, ideas I begin with go full circle with the final strokes eventually joining the first strokes. With practice, memory becomes a powerful source of inspiration.” — Excerpted from Chris Glaser’s artist statementCommunity, nature, connection, heart, people, memory, energy, healing — all words that may come to mind when viewing local artist Chris Glaser’s art.