New Pop-Up Art Exhibit Coming to WesBanco Arena

The Wheeling Arts and Cultural Commission has partnered with WesBanco Arena to display temporary murals that were created by several talented artists earlier this year. The exhibit, which is comprised of 10 4x8...

Wheeling Arts Roundup – August Edition

Wheeling is known for its rich industrial history as a blue-collar Ohio River town, but it also boasts a vibrant arts scene. Whether you’re browsing the galleries in Centre Market, catching a play at Towngate, ...

Local Students to Create Downtown Public Art

The Wheeling Arts & Cultural Commission received a $1,500 matching grant from the State Department of Arts, Culture and History to support student-created art in downtown Wheeling. The purpose of the pro...

Show Buildings Some Love with Volunteer Wheeling

If you take a walk through Downtown Wheeling - what places stick out most in your mind? Is it the Capitol Theatre that hosts several Broadways shows and is home to the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra? Perhaps it’s ...

The James Wodarcyk Podcast: Hannah Mull

James and special Co-Host Trevor Lindgren sit down with our favorite mutual friend Hannah Mull elaborate on the new project Black Bear Magazine which she spoke of briefly on the Arts Fest episode. From getting ...

Wheeling Arts and Culture Fest This Weekend

The Wheeling Arts and Culture Commission in partnership with the Wheeling YWCA are excited to announce the 2017 Arts and Cultural Festival. Mark your calendars for Friday, June 16th and Saturday, June 17th from...

Why Wharton Came Home to Wheeling

He grew up here. Most of his family has always lived here. And, now, after three decades, he lives here again. Thomas Wharton, brother of long-time Ohio County Commissioner Randy Wharton, returned to Wheelin...

Come One, Come All! It’s an Extravaganza

The longest running variety show of its kind in the Ohio Valley, The Linsly Extravaganza has become an annual tradition for generations of Linsly alumni, many of whom have children or grandchildren who will per...

Spring 2017 Artist’s Studio Tour Announced

The Wheeling Arts and Culture Commission is excited to announce its inaugural Greater Wheeling Artists Studio Tour. The project aims to serve the community with art and cultural programming while supporting are...

Meet the Clay Ninja

“I remember watching him create a few clay pieces on the wheel. He made it look so easy, so effortless, and within minutes he would turn this clump of clay into a mug, a bowl, or a teapot. It was as if he was a...

Stages Owners Ready for Retirement

It’s been a costumed life in downtown Wheeling for Gael and Dan Fincham ever since the couple purchased the inventory once available at Wickham’s on National Road in the Woodsdale neighborhood. That was 1990...

W.Va.’s Poet Laureate A Student Of Life

This Poet Laureate’s pace when he’s publicly reading his work is sometimes somewhat swift and steamed, but when Marc Harshman is embracing a conversation, the author chooses his words most carefully. He is arti...

WSO: May the Force Be With You This October

In anticipation of the exciting October 20 Wheeling Symphony concert spotlighting The Music of John Williams: Star Wars & More, the WSO is hosting community events to explore the power of music and its impa...

Local Film To Debut At Marquee Cinemas

Brains or muscle? Accountants or killers? Need? Or greed? All the above are involved in this 35-minute street drama, and it was filmed here in Wheeling, where one of the actors witnessed it, and anothe...

Bedway Molding His Career In Wheeling

He’s always known he needs to work with his hands to create something because that’s what he’s always done since an early age while growing up in Bridgeport, Ohio. Adam Bedway began with leveling and coverin...

Wheeling Arts Fest Gets New Location

A new partnership with the Wheeling YWCA will move the Wheeling Arts Fest to a new location in June. Erika Donaghy, chair of the Wheeling Arts and Cultural Commission and lead organizer of the annual event, ...

Bennett McKinley: The Road to the Alley

By Steve Novotney Weelunk.com It all started with a dog taking a leak in an alley. It was Lane 9, in fact. The alley is a throughway located between a law firm and the First Presbyterian Church along C...