Arts + Culture

James Douglas Moore III, commonly known as “J.D.”, is a painter, tattoo artist and a photographer. But after our conversation I come to think of him as a warrior, a man on a mission to change the world. His art makes a statement.

Caitlin Savage, a student at Plano East Senior High School was the winner of the 2017 DART student art contest. Perhaps this year the winner will be you, your son or daughter, or someone you know.

A program of Business Council for the Arts (BCA), Leadership Arts Institute (LAI) was founded in 1989 at the request of businessman and philanthropist Ray Nasher, to develop the next generation of business leaders for the arts in North Texas.

Coco B.Moore.

Love is in the air. No one does love (or rich, indulgent cuisine) quite like the French. It’s the perfect season to enjoy one of the greatest marriages of French food and passion: macarons.

The Downtown Plano Portal Project is up! The project serves as a colorful welcome—a portal—to the Historic Downtown Arts District with the seven art installations lighting up 15th Street from US 75 to G Avenue.

For JB Phipps the creative process starts in the woods outside his studio, “staring at logs and waiting for an idea to develop.” The exposed ends of the logs and the shape of the bark give him clues as to what the inside might look like.

Hunter Herdlicka made his stage debut in 2000 with the Plano Children’s Theatre in the musical classic Once Upon a Mattress.

Born in Seoul , South Korea, Yong-Ha Jung came to the United States with his family when he was four years old. Seeking better job opportunities, his mother and father, a computer engineer in South Korea, decided to open a donut shop.

For Gabrielle Castaneda Pruitt of Venezuela, a photograph is much more than a click of the shutter. “I feel as though I am an automobile driving through life. When I see something or recognize a happening, I need to stop.