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Arts & Culture
12:04 pm
Sat May 18, 2013

The East Lansing Art Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend

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The East Lansing Art Festival marks its 50th anniversary this weekend
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What started as a small street show for local artists in the mid-1960's has grown to more than 170 artists this year
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The East Lansing Art Festival features a broad array of artists
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Up to 70 thousand people are expected to attend this weekend’s East Lansing Art Festival.

The festival marks its 50th anniversary this year.    The festival started back in the mid-1960’s, when a group of local artists simply wanted to hold a small show along Grand River Avenue.    It’s grown a lot since then. 

Corinn Van Wyck is the festival’s director.   She says organizers try to focus on the quality of art, not just quantity.

“(The festival) is set up to make the arts accessible,” says Van Wyck, “It’s not set up to cram in every square inch with things.”

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Arts & Culture
3:37 pm
Fri March 29, 2013

ArtPod is supersized for Spring

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You know Spring is here when Detroiters rally for 300 years of Marche du Nain Rouge.
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This week, ArtPod is inspired by the massive chocolate Easter bunnies we’ve been inhaling for days now.

So to welcome Spring (hey, it’s 50 degrees!) we’re doing a bigger edition of ArtPod, squeezing in two very different  Michigan’s artists and culture-makers.

First, we start off with a full-cast radio performance of the play “RUST.”

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Arts & Culture
2:17 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

Art, music, and gym teachers get the ax in Lansing

Preschool-age boy practicing writing his name at a table in a Head Start classroom.
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Elementary school teachers are being cut.
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Update 2:17 p.m.

“The Superintendent is receiving calls from arts groups all over the state saying, ‘Why are you cutting the arts?’” says district spokesman Bob Kolt. “But it’s just not true…we’re contracting out those services to community artists.”

Kolt says the district will bring in about 10-20 “contractors” to help elementary classroom teachers with art, music and gym instruction.

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