While this shift is giving artists more independence, the big caveat is they first have to prove themselves to the public.

She envisioned an art school. And she bequeathed $3,000 for operating costs. But the house, shown in this week's Then photo, from 1945, did not fit into the museum's plans. Its existing art school ...

An educator/entertainer of kids for SPL for 35 years, Laura Meyer was known for puppet shows and X-ray vision to read facing a book forward... For more than 80 years, the domes of St. Spiridon ...