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| January/February 2007 |
Published by the Ohio Arts
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| POETRY OUT LOUD COMPETITION TO TAKE
PLACE IN MARCH |
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The
National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry
Foundation will again present Poetry Out
Loud: National Recitation Contest, in
partnership with the Ohio Arts Council, the
Thurber House and Ohioana Library Association.
Poetry Out Loud is a program that
encourages high school students to learn about
great poetry through memorization, performance
and competition. Schools in the central Ohio
region have been selected to participate in this
program of classroom and school-wide contests,
advancing to state competitions.
Poetry Out Loud uses a pyramid
structure that begins at the classroom level.
Winners advance to the school-wide competition,
then to the state competition, and ultimately to
the National Finals.
Each winner at the state level will receive
$200 and an all-expenses-paid trip to
Washington, D.C. to compete for the national
championship. The state winner's school will
receive a $500 stipend for the purchase of
poetry books. A runner-up in each state will
receive $100, with $200 for his or her school
library. Additionally, a total of $50,000 in
scholarships and school stipends will be awarded
to the winners at the National Finals. Ohio high
school student, Jackson Hille won the inaugural
National Finals on May 16, 2006.
Ohio’s next state competition is scheduled
for Saturday, March 10, 2007 from 1-3 p.m.
followed by a reception for contestants and
their families and friends at the Southern
Theatre in downtown Columbus. For more
information visit www.oac.state.oh.us/events/PoetryOutLoud/Default.asp. | | |
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OHIO ARTS FESTIVALS & COMPETITIONS DIRECTORY
AVAILABLE
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The Ohio Arts Council’s 2007 Ohio Arts Festivals and
Competitions Directory is available. The directory
contains detailed information about arts and crafts festivals
and competitions throughout 2007, including dates, activities,
number of spaces available for artists to display work, fees
and contact information. It is organized by date and location
and includes alphabetical indexes of festivals by name, city,
region and sponsor. The directory is a useful guide for
artists interested in places to display and sell their
work—from traditional crafts to arts on the cutting edge—and
for anyone seeking to experience the arts in Ohio.
To receive a copy of the Ohio Arts Festivals and
Competitions Directory call 1-800-BUCKEYE, Ohio’s travel
information hotline, and ask to speak to a travel counselor
from the automated menu or send a self-addressed #10 envelope
with $1.17 in postage to the Ohio Arts Council, 727 E. Main
Street, Columbus, OH 43205-1796. An online version is
available on the OAC's Web site.
The directory is published by the Ohio Arts Council and
distributed in partnership with the Ohio Arts and Crafts Guild
and Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Ohio Department of
Transportation, Chambers of Commerce, Convention and Visitors
Bureaus and AAA offices around the state. The listings are
compiled by Lorz Communications of Columbus.
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| OAC BOARD MEMBER APPOINTED TO
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS |
President George W. Bush has
announced his intent to nominate six new members to
serve on the National Council on the Arts, the advisory
body of the National Endowment for the Arts, including
Charlotte Kessler, current Ohio Arts
Council Board member.
Charlotte Power
Kessler is an active arts and library patron and
community volunteer. She has served as the Vice
President of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, on the
executive committee of the Greater Columbus Arts
Council, President of the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Board, President of the Players Theatre, and on the
boards of the Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus Area
Community Mental Health Center, the Columbus Foundation,
Columbus School for Girls, Arthur James Cancer Hospital
Foundation, Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Capital
Square.
Currently, Kessler's board commitments
include Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., Denison University
as a Life Trustee, Wexner Center for the Arts
Foundation, Ohio Dominican University and the James
Madison Council/Library of Congress. She also serves on
the executive committee of the Ohio Arts Council and as
Vice President of the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Foundation Board.
Julie Henahan, Executive
Director of the Ohio Arts Council stated, “I am
delighted that Charlotte has been appointed to the
National Council on the Arts. She has been a dedicated,
long-time supporter and advocate for the arts and will
bring her considerable experience and knowledge to her
work with this body. The arts council staff is very
proud to have one of our Council members on the National
Council.”
The National Council on the Arts
advises the NEA Chairman on programs and policies.
Council members review and make recommendations to the
Chairman on grant applications, funding program
guidelines, and national initiatives. Members are chosen
for their widely recognized knowledge of the arts, their
expertise or profound interest in the arts, and their
established record of distinguished service or
achievement in the arts.
The Council consists of
14 private citizens and six ex officio Members of
Congress. For more information on the Council, please
visit www.arts.gov/about/NCA/About_NCA.html.
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| OAC SALUTES NEW MEMBERS OF
LEGISLATURE |
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The Ohio Arts Council
congratulates these newly elected members of the
Ohio General Assembly:
John Adams
(R), 78th House
District
Kevin Bacon
(R), 21st House
District
Matthew Barrett
(D), 58th House
District
Bill Batchelder
(R), 69th House
District
John Boccieri
(D), 33rd Senate
District
Linda Bolon
(D), 1st House
District
Barbara
Boyd (D),
9th House
District
Jennifer
Brady
(D), 16th House
District
Sherrod Brown
(D), U.S. Senate
District
Armond Budish
(D), 8th House
District
Stephen Buehrer
(R), 1st Senate
District
Ted Celeste
(D), 24th House
District
Dan Dodd
(D), 91st House
District
Steve Dyer
(D), 43rd House
District
Bruce Goodwin
(R), 74th House
District
Jay Goyal
(D), 73rd House
District
Robert Hagan
(D), 60th House
District
Tracy
Heard
(D), 26th House
District
Cliff Hite
(R), 76th House
District
Jay Hottinger
(R), 71st House
District
Matt Huffman
(R), 4th House
District
Jim Jordan
(R), 4th
U.S. House
District
Tom Leston
(D), 64th House
District
Clayton Luckie
(D), 39th House
District
Matt Lundy
(D), 57th House
District
Dale Mallory
(D), 32nd House
District
Josh Mandel
(R), 17th House
District
Lance Mason
(D), 25th Senate
District
Eugene Miler
(D), 10th House
District
Sue Morano
(D), 13th Senate
District
Mark Okey
(D), 61st House
District
Steve Reinhard
(R), 82nd House
District
Tim Schaffer
(R), 31st Senate
District
Carol-Ann Schindel
(R), 63rd House
District
Shirley Smith
(D), 21st Senate
District
Zack Space
(D), 18th
U.S. House
District
Gerald Stebelton
(R), 5th House
District
Betty Sutton
(D), 13th
U.S. House
District
Vernon
Sykes
(D), 44th House
District
Matt Szollosi
(D), 49th House
District
Lynn Wachtmann
(R), 75th House
District
Sandra Williams
(D), 11th House
District
Charlie Wilson
(D), 6th
U.S. House
District
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GOVERNOR’S AWARDS FOR THE ARTS IN OHIO
MARCH 21,
2007
The 2007 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio ceremony
and luncheon will be held in conjunction with Arts Day,
Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
Awards will be presented at a luncheon ceremony honoring
winners and members of the Ohio Legislature hosted by the Ohio
Arts Council and Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation at noon
on March 21, 2007 at the Columbus Athenaeum in downtown
Columbus. Winners will receive an original work of art by Ohio
mixed-media artist Brian Joiner.
Seven winners were chosen for the 2007 Governor’s Awards
for the Arts in Ohio. Winners were selected from 63
nominations submitted by individuals and organizations
throughout Ohio. Award categories and recipients include:
Arts Administration
Marsha Dobrzynski,
Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio (Cleveland)
Arts in Education
Jacquelyn Quay,
(Hamilton)
Arts Patron
James Dicke II (Dayton)
Business Support of the Arts
Dayton Power and
Light Company (Dayton)
and
Ohio
Magazine (Cleveland)
Community
Development and Participation
James Levin,
Ingenuity Festival of Arts and Technology
(Cleveland)
Individual Artist
Bebe
Miller, dancer (Columbus)
The 2007 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio and Arts
Day Luncheon are made possible by Duke Energy Foundation and
Ohio Government Telecommunications. More information about the
Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio and Arts Day Luncheon
is available on the Ohio Arts Council Web site at www.oac.state.oh.us/events/GovAwards.
ADVERTISE IN THE
GOVERNOR'S AWARDS PROGRAM
Advertising space is available in the 2007 program for the
Governor's Awards for the Arts in Ohio and Arts Day Luncheon.
Click here to view the advertising order
form.
Don't miss the opportunity to recognize
outstanding contributions to the arts in your community,
advertise an upcoming season, thank your legislators for their
support of the arts or congratulate a winner.
To
assure your ad space in the program book you must send a
check, order form and your ad to the Ohio Arts Council no
later than January 19, 2007. Contact Jodie Engle at stephanie.dawson@oac.state.oh.us
or 614/466-2613 for more information about the Governor’s
Awards for the Arts in Ohio and Arts Day
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| TWO OHIOANS RECEIVE NATIONAL
MEDAL OF ARTS |
President George W. Bush honored
the recipients of the 2006 National Medal of Arts on
November 9, 2006. Ten medals, two of which went to Ohio
artists, were presented by the President and Mrs. Laura
Bush in an Oval Office ceremony at the White House. The
National Endowment for the Arts manages the National
Medal of Arts nomination process and notified the
artists of their selection to receive a medal, the
nation's highest honor for artistic excellence.
The 2006 National Medal of Arts Recipients
included William Bolcom, classical composer, Ann Arbor,
MI; Cyd Charisse, dancer, Los Angeles, CA; Roy R.
DeCarava, photographer, Brooklyn, NY; Wilhelmina
Holladay, arts patron, Washington, DC; Interlochen
Center for the Arts, school of fine arts, Interlochen,
MI; Erich Kunzel, conductor, Cincinnati Pops
Orchestra, Cincinnati, OH; Preservation Hall
Jazz Band, jazz ensemble, New Orleans, LA; Gregory
Rabassa, literary translator, Brooklyn, NY;
Viktor Schreckengost, industrial
designer/sculptor, Cleveland, OH; Dr. Ralph
Stanley, bluegrass musician, Coeburn, VA.
The
National Medal of Arts, established by Congress in 1984,
is awarded by the President to those who have made
extraordinary contributions to the creation, growth, and
support of the arts in the United States. Each year, the
Arts Endowment seeks nominations from individuals and
organizations across the country. The National Council
on the Arts, the Arts Endowment's
Presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed advisory
body, reviews the nominations and provides
recommendations to the President, who selects the
recipients.
For additional information on the
National Medal of Arts, visit the NEA Web site
or contact the National Endowment for the Arts
Communications Office at 202/682-5570.
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| NAMES IN THE NEWS |
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The Taft Museum of Art announced that
Eric McCauley Lee will be the
Museum’s new director. Lee will be the fifth
director in the museum’s 75-year history. Lee
was most recently the director of the Fred Jones
Jr. Museum at the University of Oklahoma.
“We are so pleased that Eric Lee will be
joining the Taft Museum of Art,” said Paul
Chellgren, chairman of the Museum’s board of
directors. “His strong academic and museum
administrative background will be great assets
to the Museum as it celebrates its 75th
anniversary and moves into an important new
phase of its history."
Eric, his wife, Rima, a writer with a
Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale, and
their two young sons will be wonderful additions
to the Cincinnati community.” Lee is a native of
North Carolina. He graduated from Yale
University with a B.A. in art history. He also
received his Ph.D. in art history from Yale.
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| RIFFE
GALLERY PRESENTS: FAR, NEAR, HERE
January 25 – April 15,
2007
Robert Swain, American (1940 -)
Untitled
1975, acrylic on canvas, 84 x
84”
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio,
museum
purchase, Howald Fund |
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Near, Here: Selections from the Collection of the Columbus
Museum of Art comprises 64 works of art that have not
been exhibited in the Columbus Museum of Art in more than five
years. This exhibition showcases pieces in a wide range of
media, including drawing, painting, prints, photographs,
glass, ceramics, fiber and small-scale sculpture in bronze and
stone.
While the objects included hail from diverse
locations and cultures—prehistoric America, China, Japan,
Korea, India, Fiji, New Guinea, and France—the bulk are
American works from the modern and contemporary eras. The
exhibition seeks, among other things, to show how contemporary
art shares affinities with and is often informed by artifacts
from foreign cultures.
“We found the process of
examining items piece by piece fascinating and stimulating. We
decided early on to let the exhibition comprise things that
caught our eye and piqued our own curiosity,” said Jones.
“We further decided to choose artifacts from
non-Western cultures and to place them along side contemporary
art to suggest ways in which artists today may be mining
diverse sources and, as a result, even revising their own
artistic philosophies,” said Shirley.
Join us for a
free opening reception at the Riffe Gallery, Thursday, January
25, starting at 5 p.m. with a guided exhibition tour with the
curators followed by light hors d' oeuvres and a cash bar.
The Riffe Gallery is supported by Ohio Building
Authority. Media sponsors for this exhibition include Alive,
CityScene, Ohio Magazine and Time Warner. For more
information, visit http://www.riffegallery.org/.
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| OAC ANNOUNCES NEW DEPUTY
DIRECTOR |
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Mary Campbell-Zopf, director of the Ohio Arts
Council’s (OAC) Office of Arts Learning, has been
promoted to the position of deputy director. “I am so
pleased to have Mary on board as the OAC’s next deputy
director,” said Julie Henahan, OAC executive director.
“Her experience and knowledge of the arts and this
agency will be vital to our success as the Ohio Arts
Council moves into its fifth decade.”
Campbell-Zopf served as director of the Office of
Arts Learning for 11 years. She joined the OAC staff in
1988 and was instrumental in building the program into
one of the largest arts education programs in the
country. Between 1989 and 2006 Campbell-Zopf authored or
co-authored 29 grant proposals to public and private
funders at state and national levels that resulted in
approximately $4.8 million for state-level arts, arts
education and international programming. She graduated
summa cum laude from Wright State University with a B.S
in education.
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Entering its 20th consecutive year, Arts Advocacy Day
is the only national event designed to bring together a
broad cross section of America’s national cultural and
civic organizations. On March 12 these groups will join
hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country
to underscore the importance of developing strong public
policies and appropriating increased public funding for
the arts.
For more information and to register
for Arts Advocacy Day, visit http://www.americansforthearts.org/events/2007/aad/default.asp.
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