Heard-Craig Center for the Arts

American history has been filled with many surprising turns, and art is no exception. Every piece of artwork created has reflected an...

675AD marked the beginnings of an era with truly enhanced apertures. Evidence of this goes all the way back to the Roman Empire where...

A few years ago, the City of McKinney was voted the best place to live in America by Money Magazine. Today, it remains a bustling center...

In 2020, Musician Tony Stride graced the rooms of the Heard-Craig Center, playing 1920s music to celebrate a simpler, less complex time. ...

Six years ago, before everything in the world turned “virtual”, Paige Dashner Long (an international contrabass flute specialist with the...

My favorite Mother/Daughter Art Duo is comprised of mom, Monika Kröemer and daughter, Astrid Kröemer, of Kiel, Germany...

A Google search of career changes boasts that Actor Harrison Ford was a carpenter (building sets for Director George Lucas) before he had...

If you grew up with Cracker Jack boxes, you’ll remember that, amidst the popcorn and peanuts, there was always a prize at the bottom of...

The Sumerians used crystals in magic formulas. The Chinese used them in medicine. The Egyptians used crystals in jewelry. New Mexico...

I am a big fan of Alberta Hunter, a 1920’s Jazz and Blues singer/pianist who sang well into her 90’s. In 1971 she taped an interview for...

Google defines the term “Renaissance Man” as an intelligent, knowledgeable, artistic person……....a person with many, many talents. Enter...

An artist is inspired by so many different things - - by people, landscapes, environment, culture....the choices are infinite. But when...

1978 was a great year in my life, so I get a big smile on my face when our museum receives a note from Artist Lynne Weinberger because...

The Fairgrounds in Dayton, Ohio provided a 365-day drawing smorgasbord for Artist Helen Bailey (www.helenbaileyart.com). “I lived across...

The Palos Verdes Art Center in California believes “in the power of art to ignite the imagination and be an agent for change.” So it’s no...

Printmaking. We all remember it from elementary school.....being given half of a potato, shown how to draw a design on it, carving it...

Being able to study under nationally-renowned artists like Gerald Brommer, Steven Quiller, Jane Jones, Bob Burredge, Mark Mehaffey, and...

The Six Dowell, The Blueprint, and The Square Round, are three of Artist Don Chesser's favorite custom ornament styles. A wood turner...

A year ago, when the weather was great and we were all outdoors instead of harboring indoors on quarantine, the Heard-Craig Center hosted...

"As a kid, I remember my dad saying that the only way for women to financially make it was to become a secretary," says 30-year-...