Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things.

Kathy Cano-Murillo, also known as Crafty Chica at her product booth at Maker Faire.
It’s been two weeks since Maker Faire and I’m still going through all of my goodies and information that I picked up. [...]

It’s the end of the month and that means we’ll soon be welcoming new film festival guest bloggers. In November, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas will pick things up. I’m looking forward to their posts.
It’s also time to say thank you to AFI Dallas, for blogging with us in October.
If you like movies, [...]

If you are looking for events to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos (or Day of the Dead for the gringos out there), there are is a slew of them out there on Saturday.
Among the highlights:
Learn how to make sugar skull sculptures at the Bath House Cultural Center. Be sure and stop back by for [...]

Publications are hardly immune to the economic forces that have been hurting the arts.
The Christian Science Monitor has shut down its weekly print edition after a century of continuous publication. So has Canada’s National Post (in two provinces, anyway). The Dallas Morning News recently laid off newsroom (and production and Al Dia ) staff. And [...]

Did we mention Dave Isay of StoryCorps is coming to town Monday? Ok, we did. But I’m going to do it again. Because it gives me a chance to share one of my favorite StoryCorps pieces, in which Betty Jenkins, 94, recalls creating a bit of an international incident when she crossed continents [...]

Detail from Matthew Bourbon’s His Nature
Do video games possess any artistic merit?
Kyle Kondas and John Pomara have assembled an exhibition on the UT-Dallas campus that attempts to prove (or at least explore) that possibility.
ON_game is really two shows in one. At last Friday night’s opening reception for ON_game and Tony Vincenti’s between, Kondas told [...]

The AFI Dallas International Film Festival announced Wednesday night that Steven and Anne Stodghill will serve as co-chairs of the 2009 festival. Mr. Stodghill is a Dallas attorney with Fish & Richardson P.C. and an avid moviegoer (as you might have guessed).
And lest you think that he’s just some local power player (which he certainly [...]

… art museums.
… art auctions.
… classical music organizations, opera companies, orchestras.
… social-shindig fundraisers for arts groups.
But not cable TV.
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Guest blogger James Faust is the Director of Programming for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival.
As the Director of Programming for the AFI DALLAS International Film Festival, my job is to curate an international film program … which means watching lots of movies. I love this. I love movies. This November is going to be [...]

Guest blogger Sarah Jane Semrad is Executive Director of La Reunion TX.
Collaboration. It’s not just a way to generate ideas and maximize resources… For La Reunion TX, it’s a way to create focus group! Please join us Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Creative Connections as we present [...]