Weekend reading: July 30 edition

Around Ohio

• Saturday, you can road trip to the Springfield Museum of Art for the 75th Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition opening... 
• Or you can stick around town for a block printing workshop with Adam Hernandez at All People Arts.
• Sunday afternoon, Wild Goose Creative will have an open house and a talk with exhibiting artists Dana Lynn Harper and Lucie Shearer.
• Thursday night, Travis Hoewischer and Laura Sanders explore their frienenemyship in a comedic face-off at Vanderelli Room.
• Big congrats to the sensational Nina West for securing a place in the touring cast of the musical Hairspray, filling the role originated by Divine.
• Musician Arnett Howard, painter Roman Johnson, and poet Charles “Is” Said will receive stars on the Lincoln Theatre’s Walk of Fame.
• Inaugural Aminah Robinson residency artist Johnathan Payne will have a show in August at CCAD’s Beeler Gallery.
• And Gahanna artist Wendy Kendrick has been selected as the next recipient of the Robinson fellowship.
• Here’s a Q&A with photographer Benjamin Willis, focus of the current show at 934 Gallery’s pop-up space in John Glenn Columbus International Airport.
• Last but not least, Columbus’s Alexis Nikole Nelson, aka the ebullient Black Forager, made the New York Times.

Around the globe

• This week brought Chris Marker’s centenary. You can celebrate virtually with a program from the Cleveland Cinematheque or through the subscription service Ovid.
• Film archivist and past Wex guest Rick Prelinger joined the artist-led protests to cuts in SFMOMA’s programming.
• The Criterion Collection’s Fellini box set and Kino Lorber’s restoration of Jazz on a Summer’s Day are among the winners of Il Cinema Ritrovato’s DVD Awards.
• Here’s a new interview with Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Bill Morrison, who’ll be visiting us in November with his new film, The Village Detective. 
• In other restoration news, the children of filmmakers Melvin Van Peebles and Perry Henzell have found and restored underseen features by their fathers.
• And a long lost film featuring the work of Japanese special effects artist Eiji Tsuburaya—aka the man who brought us Godzilla—has been found after being unseen for over 80 years.
• Garrett Bradley, who made the Oscar-nominated doc Time, has been tapped to adapt Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower.
• Creative Capital updated its list of grant opportunities for artists.
• Denver has a new mural by artist Thyris Odua paying tribute to the late Ma’Khia Bryant.
• Here’s a visit with Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu in her studio.
• Philipp Kaiser has been named president of a new partnership to steward Marian Goodman Gallery.
• The Studio Museum in Harlem and Yale University Arts Center are among the recipients of over $5 million in grants from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to address climate change.
• The biggest news in the theater world this week was the announcement that masks and proof of vaccination will be required for all Broadway shows.
• Dormant since 2008, the writers workshop by Theater Breaking Through Barriers is relaunching to support work by artists with disabilities.
• For your late summer reading consideration, author Philip Lopate shared some of his favorite books.
• Enjoy the inspiring story of how former Dallas Museum of Art director Bonnie Pitman turned a career-ending health issue into a reason to experience new things everyday, leading her into a new career exploring the intersection of art and health.
• At last, we have the story behind how painter Bob Ross became ubiquitous. 
• And America didn’t realize how much it loves actor Bob Odenkirk until we thought we might lose him.