Mott said the foundation hoped to attract 50,000 people a year by 2027. The new arts precinct is part of a growing tourism economy in regional Victoria based on the creative arts.

They come to soak up art in surprising contexts — a screaming pink abstract deer blind hoisted above a corn field, for instance, or a plucky dragon concealing a 250-foot-long irrigation system.

Art Johnson’s farm has been in the family for nearly a century. What was once a tobacco farm in Kernersville, NC, is now a thriving agritourism business that attracts up to 1,000 people each day ...

An art competition, hosted by the nonprofit Creation4Cessation, will be held Friday, May 23, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Mary Stuart Rogers Center at Modesto Junior College. Sabrina Toor ...