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| March/April 2007 |
Published by the Ohio Arts
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| Don’t Miss the 2007 Poetry Out Loud
National Recitation
Contest! |
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The National Endowment for the Arts and
the Poetry Foundation have partnered with the
Ohio Arts Council and other state arts agencies
to bring Poetry Out Loud to high
schools across America. The OAC and our state
partners, the Thurber House and the Ohioana
Library, are excited to be a part of this poetry
performance program.
One winner from each participating school
will be selected to compete in Ohio’s State
Finals. In addition to cash prizes for
contestants and their schools, the winner of
Ohio’s competition will be awarded an
all-expenses-paid trip to the 2007 Poetry
Out Loud National Recitation Contest in
Washington, D.C. The state winner's school will
receive a $500 stipend for the purchase of
poetry books. A runner-up will receive $200,
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. The national
contest winner will be honored with a $20,000
college scholarship.
Participating schools include Amanda -
Clearcreek High School, Amanda; Columbus
Alternative High School and FCI Academy,
Columbus; Westland High School, Galloway;
Granville High School, Granville; Logan Hocking
Schools, Logan.
The Ohio Arts Council is very proud of Ohio’s
own 2006 Poetry Out Loud national
champion, Jackson Hille, who is currently a
freshman at Otterbein College in Westerville.
Click here for more
information about the Poetry Out Loud
National Recitation Contest.
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 | Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio: DEADLINE
APPROACHING!
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The Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio 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.
Reservations will be accepted only online via the
Ohio Arts Council Web site. Tickets are $50
and include lunch and a dessert reception. All proceeds go to
the Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation. Deadline
for registration is Monday, March 12, 2007.
Table Sponsorships are available for the Governor’s Awards
for the Arts in Ohio and Arts Day Luncheon. The cost of a
Table Sponsorship is $1,000 and benefits include: organization
name in program (if reserved by March 5, 2007), the
opportunity to request a specific legislator at your table,
signage on your table, and guaranteed seating for 10 guests at
the same table. A portion of this sponsorship contribution is
tax deductible. For more information about sponsoring a table
at the luncheon please contact Ohio Citizens for the Arts at
614/221-4064.
Governor’s Award categories and recipients include: Arts
Administration, Marsha Dobrzynski (Cleveland); Arts
in Education, Dr. Jacquelyn Quay (Hamilton); Arts
Patron, James F. Dicke II (New Bremen); 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); and
Individual Artist, Bebe Miller, dancer (Columbus).
Winners will receive an original work of art by Ohio
mixed-media artist Brian Joiner.
The 2007 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio and Arts
Day Luncheon are made possible by Duke Energy Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts and Ohio Government
Telecommunications. Media sponsors include Columbus Dispatch,
Dayton Daily News, Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association,
Ohio Magazine, The Plain Dealer and Time Warner Cable.
For more information visit the 2007 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio Web
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| Congratulations to
ORBI! |
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The Actors' Guild of Parkersburg presented the Bayley
Award to The Ohio River Border Initiative (ORBI) on
January 19, 2007. The Guild established the Bayley Award
to recognize long-term supporters "for their invaluable
support."
ORBI is the result of a special partnership between
the Ohio Arts Council and the West Virginia Commission
on the Arts to support the arts community in the Ohio
River valley. ORBI serves artists, arts organizations
and community arts programs in the 21 counties that
touch the Ohio river. Grants are awarded for projects
that actively involve artists, audiences and communities
on both sides of the Ohio river.
The Initiative has one staff person, Bill Howley, the
project director. Howley accepted the award, giving
credit to the state arts agencies for creating an
innovative program such as ORBI. For more information,
visit http://www.orbi.org/.
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| LEGISLATIVE
SPOTLIGHT |
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House Speaker
Jon
Husted (R)
District
37
Years in Office: Seven
Hometown: Kettering
Education: B.S., M.A.
University of Dayton
Standing Committees:
Chair, Rules & Reference Committee;
Chair, Joint Legislative Ethics Committee
Memberships/Affiliations:
2005-2006 Ohio Arts Council Board
Personal: 39, married to
Tina,
son Alex, daughter Katie due April 3
Favorite Arts Pastime:
Listening to my wife play the piano
Last Good Book Read:
"Wisdom of our Fathers: Lessons and Letters
from Daughters and Sons" It’s not a typical
“book,” but was a good reminder of what I know
but often forget.
Most Memorable Arts
Experience: My son’s Christmas pageant
at school – watching the pride and
expressiveness of the child performers reminds
me of the need for arts education in schools. I
hope the arts council will continue to support
the creativity of the children of Ohio.
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Janet Wildman
Twisted
Juniper 2003
31 x 40"
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OAC’s
RIFFE GALLERY PRESENTS
Give and Take: Education and the
Quiltmaker
May 3 – July 8, 2007
Curated by Linda Fowler and Tracy Rieger, co-directors of
Quilt Surface Design Symposium (QSDS), Give and Take
features art quilts by 35 artists working in the U.S. and
abroad. This exhibition celebrates the importance of the
teacher-student relationship among artists and the
contribution of the annual QSDS, which brings together the
very best instructors in the art quilt medium with students
from around the world for two weeks of workshops and lectures.
Each artist featured in Give and Take has been an instructor,
a student or both at QSDS. Join us for an opening reception
Thursday, May 3, from 5-7 p.m.
On view now through April 15 is Far, Near, Here:
Selections from the Collection of the Columbus Museum of
Art curated by Michael Jones & Karen Shirley, Shirley
׀ Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs. Far, Near, Here
showcases pieces in a wide range of media, including drawing,
painting, prints, photographs, glass, ceramics, fiber and
small-scale sculpture in bronze and stone that have not been
exhibited in the Columbus Museum of Art in more than five
years.
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 about this
exhibition, visit http://www.riffegallery.org/. | |
| Preserving Our
Legacy |
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Save America’s Treasures (SAT) preserves the most
significant of our nation’s cultural and heritage
resources, whose intrinsic value to our national story
and to America’s memory is irreplaceable. Using criteria
based on the proven benchmarks set by the National
Historic Landmarks program, SAT addresses imminent
threats to the integrity of these resources.
SAT began in 1998 as a public-private partnership
between the White House Millennium Council and the
National Trust for Historic Preservation in response to
a call to restore America’s historic and cultural
heritage. Since 1999, Ohio has received $9,997,512 in
competitive and earmark funding from SAT and nationally
SAT has awarded $217 million matched 1:1 by funds from
states, localities, corporations, foundations and
individuals. A complete list of all past SAT federal
awardees through the competitive program, including
those from Ohio, can be found at http://www.saveamericastreasures.org/.
The Save America's Treasures federal grant program is
administered by the National Park Service (NPS) in
partnership with the President's Committee on the Arts
and the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the
Institute of Museum and Library Services.
For additional information, please visit the National
Park Service's SAT program at www.cr.nps.gov/hps/treasures/.
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| Public Art Project Positively Affects
Community
All of the Community Quilt sponsors
received
a panel in the quilt to recognize
their
involvement. |
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Youth from 12 Cincinnati Recreation Commission
Community Centers participated in a public art project that
continues to resonate in Cincinnati communities. Beginning in
April 2006, staff from participating community centers met to
receive directions for the Great Cincinnati Public Art
Scavenger Hunt for Creativity. Over five weeks, each
group visited the seven public art sites in the downtown
Cincinnati area, examining, photographing and taking notes
about each site. They selected their favorite artwork after
comparing the sites and discussing what they appreciated about
each. The groups then began to design their own artwork to
express their reaction to the scavenger hunt.
In the second phase, groups met at the Clifton Center to
share with the other groups and discuss their public art
experiences. Each team was given a bed sheet and guidelines
for designing and expressing their own community’s identity to
contribute to the Community Quilt. Once the bed sheets became
finished works of art, volunteers assembled the Community
Quilt in September.
The project culminated in mid-October, with a gathering in
the Duke Energy Center lobby to see the finished quilt
installed. Project Coordinator Kip Eagen described the moment
that the children from the community centers arrived to see
the work of art: “Everyone experienced an ‘Aha! moment’ as we
witnessed the faces on the children as they entered the lobby
to find their artwork incorporated into a quilt that measured
24 feet tall and 38 feet wide!”
After installation, the staff at the Duke Energy Center
approached the Cincinnati Recreation Commission Foundation
about extending the original two month exhibition to a
permanent loan. This was a revelation of the power of public
art to inspire people and organizations, and open doors to
future public art projects.
The Community Quilt Project was made possible through an
Ohio Arts Council Arts Partnership grant to the Cincinnati
Recreation Center Foundation that utilized National Endowment
for the Arts Challenge America funds. For more information
about the Cincinnati Recreation Center Foundation, visit http://www.cincyrec.org/.
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Discover
ArtofOhio.com |
| The Ohio Arts Council partnered
with the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks
(ACEnet) in the development and implementation of ArtofOhio.com. ArtofOhio captures the
regional flavor of the unforgettable art, unique home
furnishings & decor, and rich foods created by the
diverse artists, craftsmen, and chefs. Their producers
are handpicked for their high quality products and their
focus on the customer. Shop online to find handmade,
high quality artwork, furniture and accessories for the
home garden and office. Apparel and jewelry as well as
gift sets also are available. For more information visit
ArtofOhio.com.
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| Visited ArtJob Online
Lately? |
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ArtJob
Online, a service of the Western States Arts
Federation, is a premiere listing of jobs in the arts.
It has operated as a service to the arts community for
more than 30 years. Use the site to target arts
professionals for jobs in arts administration, museums,
academia, design, internships and fellowships. Post your
resume on http://www.artjob.org/, or view arts
professionals resumes to find the person that fits your
organization’s opportunity. For more information, call
888/562-7232 or e-mail artjob@westaf.org.
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