Ever heard of Lady Barton? She’s a Flint native, born in 1927 and still performing her heart out for crowds of fans to this day. The Lady Barton Theatre Organ was the showcase of Pipe-a-Palooza II, the Flint Theatre Organ Club’s most popular presentation of their treasured lady, on the evenings of July 19 and

Jared and Alisyn Hurd are nothing short of a manifestation of art. It is difficult not be taken in by their style of dress, rhetoric, humility and inclusive nature. They are unique but not eccentric, palatable and alluring. Indeed, if this can be said of their very being, then the question one might ask is,

What started four years ago as a celebration for the Dale Chihuly glass display, which hangs aloft in the main lobby of Flint Institute of Arts has become an annual theme party for the arts in Flint. On June 1, FIA held 2013’s The Party, an event with a Brazilian Carnival theme featuring Brazilian samba

For decades, local jazz musician Sherman “Sherm” Mitchell embodied Flint jazz. A graduate of Central High School, the “self-taught” Jazz musician played multiple instruments and went on to compose and perform music around the world with recent concerts in Switzerland, Holland and Finland. His compositions have been used by ABC and PBS, and he performed

Artists and admirers alike celebrated 46 years in operation at the annual Flint Art Fair, hosted by the Friends of Modern Art on June 8 and 9. Situated once again on the grounds of the Flint Institute of Arts, spanning from the Flint Youth Theatre and Longway Planetarium to the Flint Public Library, over 100

It takes a creative mind to look out over the empty lots on which several General Motors plants once stood and think, “I could see an art festival being held there one day.” This thought did enter someone’s mind, giving birth to the Free City art festival that took place the first weekend in May