Teresa Reynolds didn't set out to be a singer. She set out to be an actor. She grew up in Indianapolis, fell in love with performing in junior high, trained through a theatre intensive at Broad Ripple High School, and earned an acting degree from Ball State. Singing was always there. Inspired by her father’s love of music, she had been writing music with her brother, producer T.J. Reynolds, since they were kids. However, she compartmentalized that early love of music. Theatre was the career...

Brandon Meeks is bringing jazz home — one Sunday at a time. Brandon Meeks will tell you he's not a household name, although many jazz aficionados would likely disagree with that. "I've had a pretty successful career as a jazz artist," he says, "but I'm not like a celebrity jazz musician or anything." Household name or not, Meeks is something rarer — a full-time working artist who has spent more than 20 years building something real — performing and collaborating in Indianapolis and...

Eleven artists. One resilient vision. An open invitation to create. There's a plant called the thistle that blooms under extraordinary conditions. It grows where it isn't expected to. It thrives in environments that weren't designed for it. And yet … it flowers. That's the spirit behind THSSL: A Juneteenth Jubilee Art Exhibition of Creative Resiliency, and it's the lens through which Arts for Lawrence artist-in-residence Andre Parnell sees the Black artists who create and exhibit here in...