“Snapshot,” a play by local artist Carmen Mitzi Sinnott, will be performed in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse on Marshall University’s Huntington campus at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9.

The play is about Sinnott’s search for her African American father, Lorenzo Batts, a popular and talented Huntington native who left for the Vietnam War before she was born. Her answers to finding her father for the first time were found lying in an album of faded photos. Fusing words, dance, music and film, this story chronicles the quest of a …

Visual artists John Farley, director of art galleries at Marshall University, and Marshall art and design major Lorin Michki will present a joint exhibition of their work at Gallery 842 in Huntington beginning Friday, Aug. 19.
Their exhibition, (re)discovery, opens at 6 p.m. Aug. 19 with a reception, which is free and open to the public.
Farley, of Huntington, is a Marshall University alumnus and was recently named The Herald-Dispatch Arts Citizen of the Year. Michki, also of Huntington, is an award-winning student whose emphasis is in printmaking.
The artists will exhibit recent …

Marshall University College of Fine Arts student G.W. Lanham has been chosen as one of the “Best of West Virginia” in Tamarack’s upcoming juried exhibition of artwork. It’s a show that Tamarack officials say showcases the most talented and creative artists in the state.
Located off I-77/64 at Exit 45, Tamarack specializes in handcrafted products made in West Virginia, and in food court dining, catering and conference center services. The “Best of West Virginia” exhibition will open with a reception at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 19, and run through Saturday, Aug. …

The power of the word is rocking and hopping in downtown Huntington, WV. On Friday nights from 9-12 p.m., enter though Bobby Pruett’s Steakhouse and get about as close as you can to New York City’s famous poetry slams

Marshall University is the site of a few upcoming exciting performances. First on tap is the dynamic duo of Brazilian musicians, guitarist Dr Werner Aguiar and cellist Dr. Hans Twitchell. The two are in town as part of a faculty exchange program for the week of Nov 15-Nov 19. The two will be giving a free public recital at 8pm on Thursday, Nov. 18 in the Smith Recital Hall on Marshall’s Huntington campus.
After an invigorating night of music you can return to the Huntington campus’s Francis-Booth Experimental …

Tickets go on sale today for the Marshall Artists Series annual fundraiser Uncorked!: a food fair and wine festival, Saturday, May 22nd, 1-4 p.m., on Fourth Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets, and inside the Arcade Galleria, in downtown Huntington.
Patrons are invited to shop the street food fair for organic, locally sourced, fresh market and enhance their palates with delectable appetizers, main tastes and desserts, prepared by regional chefs, local restaurants and specialty shops. The street fair and food vendors are cash only please.
Festival goers will have the opportunity …

Poet Mary Ann Samyn and writer Mark Brazaitis, both faculty members at West Virginia University, will read from their work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. Their appearance is sponsored by the Marshall Visiting Writers Series.
A writer and poet, Brazaitis is the author of An American Affair, winner of the 2004 George Garrett Prize for fiction, as well as The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award. …

Dr. Chris Green, associate professor of English at Marshall University, has won a 2009 Weatherford Award for his book The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan).
The Weatherford Award for nonfiction is given annually to a work that “best illuminates the challenges, personalities, and unique qualities of the Appalachian South.”
“The conferring of this annual award has come to be recognized as a major Appalachian event,” notes the award’s Web site.  Past winners include The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys: A Memoir, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Colored People: A …