Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery are coming to Finney Chapel in Oberlin for an unforgettable night of music! This GRAMMY-winning percussion quartet has forged a unique path with their virtuosic, energetic performances.

They are joined by GRAMMY-winning composer and acclaimed violinist Jessie Montgomery in a program of works by Lou Harrison, Tigran Hamasyan, Jlin, and Philip Glass, along with a new piece written for the ensemble by Montgomery. The performance is Wed 4/30 at 7:30PM in Finney Chapel as part of the Oberlin Artist Recital Series. Read more.

Anastasia Pantsios (now editor of CoolCleveland.com) came to Cleveland to earn her master’s degree in theater, planning to become a lighting designer. But her career path went in a different direction when she started taking her camera to rock concerts in the ’70s just as the Cleveland music scene was exploding, and a must-stop for every artist at every level of their career. She parlayed that access and her arts background into a career as the premiere Cleveland-based music photographer, whose images were distributed worldwide.

Now some of those images will be on view at BAYarts in a show titled Moments in the Spotlight, covering the superstars of the ’70s and ’80s, such as Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, David Bowie, Prince and Pat Benatar, as well as some of the women musicians in the Cleveland music scene today. It will also include photos she’s chosen by three photographers shooting music in Cleveland today — Joe Kleon, Denyce Renee and Judie Vegh. It opens with a free public reception Sat 4/19 @ 6-9pm. Read more.

The Maltz Museum’s special exhibit Degenerate! Hitler’s War on Modern Art looks at a past era that has many similarities to the attacks on arts and culture happening in the U.S. today. That’s why it’s worth rushing over to the museum to catch the show before it closes Sunday April 20 and reflect on where such attacks can lead when people don’t stand up to them.

Maybe art isn’t being destroyed in the U.S. (yet) as it was when the Nazis took power and spirited away thousands of works of art, many of them destroyed or vanished forever. Hitler decided that art had to reflect a “German” purity and that the innovative art movements of the early 20th century reflected a “Jewish” spirit showcased in a degenerate art exhibit his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called “a house of horrors.” Work by some of those artists—Picasso, Kandinsky, Chagall, Albers—is in museums all over the world today. Read more.

Nicole McGee is widely known as the founder of Upcycle Parts, a nonprofit she’s built over the last decade into a thriving shop on St. Clair where people can donate and purchase recycled art making materials and even hang out to work on projects. Now she’s left the organization in other capable hands as she moves on to the Cleveland Public Library where she’ll be fundraising manager and work on bringing new audiences to the library and selling merch from local makers and nonprofits to support it — and them. Read more.