Actors from Theatre Longview perform at the Arts!Longview Honors ceremony Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Longview Community Center. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)

From staff reports

A local arts community icon was honored Saturday night with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Artistic Excellence by Arts!Longview.

Barbara McClellan, who has been involved in Longview theater productions since the 1970s and helped establish Theatre Longview in 2012, was recognized during the third annual Arts!Longview Honors celebration at the Longview Community Center. McClellan also is a longtime Longview News-Journal food columnist and her column is also published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

Arts!Longview Honors is the signature fundraiser for Arts!Longview, a nonprofit organization that manages the state-designated Cultural District.

Saturday’s Honors celebration featured a Broadway style program with performances by by ArtsView Children’s Theatre, East Texas Symphonic Band, Theatre Longview and a variety of special guest performances.

Past honorees are Pat George Mitchell, founder of Longview Ballet Theatre, and James Snowden, founder of Longview Symphony Orchestra and East Texas Symphonic Band.

To learn more about Arts!Longview, visit visitlongviewtexas.com/211/ArtsLongview . To learn more about Theatre Longview, visit theatrelongview.com.