Arts & Culture

Donna Barba Higuera recently took home the Newbery Medal. KVPR's Kathleen Schock talks with Higuera about the inspiration she drew from her childhood growing up in Taft.

A new exhibit and programming series that showcases Oaxacan culture is launching next week at Arte Americas in Fresno. KVPR spoke with Oaxacan artist Narsiso Martinez to learn more about the event.

Annual Blossom Trail views are best in the last weekend of February through first week of March

A major exhibition of the works of Andy Warhol opens Feb. 5 at the Fresno Art Museum. Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock spoke with the museum’s executive director, Michele Ellis Pracy, about Warhol’s artistic legacy and how the collection came to Fresno.

In the last 20 years, nearly 700 people from the communities near San Pablo, Oaxaca have moved to Taft, a small city in Kern County. And with them, they’ve brought the celebration of San Pablo the saint, observed each year on January 25th.

During the holiday season, many Latinx families try to get their hands on warm tamales. It takes a while to make this beloved dish and not everyone is up for the challenge. One woman in Fresno is turning her passion for cooking this dish into a small business that’s already reached tens of thousands of people on social media.

A small butterfly farm in Belize has global connections.

Every December, Catholic Latinos across the state honor the Virgen de Guadalupe. The celebration of Las Posadas commemorates the appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to an indigenous man named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531. Honoring that tradition was especially important this year for Firebaugh, a community that’s been hit hard during the pandemic.

Clovis native Chris Colfer found fame as an actor on the hit show Glee, and as a New York Times best-selling author of young adult novels like the "Land…

Fresno poet Mai Der Vang looks back on a dark chapter of history in her new collection “Yellow Rain.” Hmong refugees fleeing Laos at the end of the…