A Parade of EVENTS Coming Your Way
HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS!
There is a myriad of holiday events coming down the block ... and at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, get ready for the Main Street Bank Fantasy in Lights Parade, literally coming down the bl...
Wheeling Area EVENTS Get You in Gear
GET CRANKING TO GIVE BACK
Get together with friends and family and give back during the Thanksgiving season! Hosted by Bike Wheeling and Brew Keepers, Cranksgiving 2019 is part bike ride, part food drive and p...
Holiday Art Show and Sale Showcases Local Talent
Oglebay Institute’s annual Holiday Art Show and Sale not only benefits shoppers looking for unique gifts it also supports local artists.
The exclusive five-week show provides an outstanding opportunity for s...
EVENTS Begin to Ring in the Holidays
TREES, WREATHS & GARLANDS!
Stifel Fine Arts Center is decorated in red and green glory, filled with a variety of trees, wreaths and garlands for the Festival of Trees. Cast a bid for the fully decorated tr...
Festival of Trees Returns to Wheeling’s Stifel Center
Oglebay Insitute's Festival of Trees will transform the Stifel Center into a Christmas wonderland of trees, wreaths and garlands from Nov. 8-22, decorated by creative and skilled volunteers.
All items are fo...
Artists Bring Vision to ‘Celebrate Wheeling Invitational’
Will we see Suspension Bridges? Park landscapes? Businesses that are no more? The Ohio River or Wheeling Creek? Sculptures of historic mile markers? That remains to be seen when visions of Wheeling will dance r...
Eat and Drink Your Way Through Area EVENTS
CELEBRATE OKTOBER
Oktoberfest fills Centre Market from noon to 11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, with live music, food vendors, and domestic and craft beer. Proceeds benefit the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valle...
Theater, Music, Tours — EVENTS Are Blossoming
PLANT YOURSELF AT TOWNGATE
Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre opens its 51st season of community theater with Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigol...
EVENTS Are Rollin’ on the River
Rollin’… rollin’ … rollin’ on the river … The Sternwheel Festival kicks off at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12. Along with the boats docked at Wheeling Heritage Port, food vendors and crafters, entertainment will...
Celebrate History, Art and Music at Area EVENTS
HERE COMES A PARADE!
Celebrate Wheeling’s milestone with the Wheeling 250 Parade, starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7. The parade begins at 20th and Market streets, then travels up Market to 10th Street, tu...
Stifel to Open Season With ‘Collective Works’ of Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators
Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center will opens its 2019-20 season of changing art exhibits with “The Collective Works” of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators.
“The Collective Works” exhibit featur...
Crosscurrents Exhibit Showcases Regional Artistic Talent
A staple of Oglebay Institute’s art exhibition season, Crosscurrents is now open at OI’s Stifel Fine Arts Center. Now in its 40th year, this annual exhibition attracts some of the finest artwork from the tri-st...
Eat Your Way Through Upcoming EVENTS
BOOGIE ON DOWN
Boogie on down to Friday Night Fever — Wheeling Health Right’s 26th annual Chef’s Auction — at 6 p.m. Friday, May 3, at WesBanco Arena, 14th St., Wheeling. Guests will dine on delicacies from ...
Artists Studio Tour to Showcase Local Artists at Work
If you’re not an artist, the world of art seems like another dimension. When we walk the halls of a gallery, buy a piece of jewelry or admire a hand-crafted dining room table, we only see the finished product. ...
Oglebay Institute Honors Student Artists
The 30th annual Regional Student Art Exhibition opened earlier this month with a public reception and awards ceremony at OI’s Stifel Fine Arts Center. Several students received cash prizes for their work, and o...
EVENTS: Happy New Year!
SPARKLING WINE TASTING
Good Mansion Wines will serve up a bounty of sparklings and other reds and whites to usher in the New Year! At 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, taste and compare Prosecco, Cava, Champagne, Cre...
EVENTS: And After Dinner’s Digested …
Looking for something to do to keep your visitors entertained? There’s shopping, an art film, a wine tasting and, of course, a variety of holiday events such as the Festival of Lights, Festival of Trees and the...
Recipe for a ‘Capitol’ Holiday
Take six parts theatrical spectacle, add a dash of distinctive cuisine, fold in a trip to one of many unhidden gems — and what do you have? All the ingredients for a delectable visit to Wheeling.
Treat this ...
Freaks Night Out! Costume Party and Sideshow Extravaganza at Shadows Ball
Oglebay Institute is hosting the most wicked Halloween party in Wheeling. The third annual Shadows Ball brings a night of thrills, chills, sideshow, costumes and live music by Ohio Valley favorite Hit Play.
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Art and Technology Converge at Stifel
A crumpled water heater. Footage of a train that looks like it’s been put through a shredder and reassembled. Halting images being projected onto a disc of celluloid film. Metal formed into an image of the fact...
EVENTS: Paint the Town at First Friday
FIRST FRIDAY
The Gallery Hop at Artworks Around Town on Friday, Sept. 7, will usher in a two-month celebration of the art of plein air painting. As a preliminary to “Paint Historic Wheeling” set for later ...
‘Crosscurrents’ Showcases Regional Artistic Talent
A staple of Oglebay Institute’s art exhibition season, Crosscurrents is now open at OI’s Stifel Fine Arts Center. For more than 30 years, this annual exhibition has attracted some of the finest artwork from the...
‘Tin is the New Black’: Oh, the Stories Discarded Objects Can Tell
“Tin is the New Black,” an exhibition featuring professional artists working in repurposed printed lithographed metal, is on display at Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling through June 22.
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