The Merced College Art Gallery was filled to capacity last Friday as local photographers Jay Sousa and Roger Wyan opened the doors to their exhibit “One River - Two Perspectives.” The show featured the works of Sousa and Wyan, together for the first time, with both offering unique perspectives on the Merced River as it makes its way through…

Alyse Neubert, 29, was introduced as the new artistic director of Playhouse Merced during a social party held at the theater in Merced on Feb. 27. During…

The exhibition ‘Women in Arts Education: Past and Present’ is currently on show at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center through April 6. An artists’…

By ROCCO BOWMAN The Merced County Courthouse Museum’s newest exhibit, “The Originals of Yosemite,” will provide a look back in time to some of the many original inhabitants, visitors, business owners, rangers, artists, managers, and everyone in between. Also original are the hotels, resorts, rituals, and, of course, the primordial granite…

Top dancers trained by local dance studios performed brilliantly at the annual Dance Kaleidoscope presented last Saturday at Merced College Theater. The…

UC Merced is displaying photos from the early 1960s by photographer Ernest Lowe, who wanted to capture the migrants who looked to escape the Jim Crow south,…

Everyone’s favorite “Practically Perfect” nanny is flying around the Merced Theatre this weekend, March 1-2, as part of the musical “Mary Poppins Jr.” by the young students of the acclaimed Weaver Performing Arts program. Weaver Performing Arts has been performing musicals with 4th through 8th grade students since 2003. Last year Weaver’s…

“Passage to the Dreamtime,” an exciting, new one-act play by Anya Martin will be performed at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 28, and…

The Carnegie Arts Center will present an artist talk from travel photographer Michael J. Costa, on Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m., at the Carnegie Arts Center,…