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| July 2009 |
Published by the Ohio Arts
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| NEW NARRATIVES: PAINTINGS BY OHIO
ARTISTS ON VIEW UNTIL JULY
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| The Ohio Arts
Council’s Riffe Gallery presents New
Narratives: Paintings by Ohio Artists from
May 7 – July 12, 2009. Curated by Dominique H.
Vasseur, Columbus Museum of Art, this exhibition
explores the various themes and styles of
narrative painting by 12 Ohio artists ranging
from traditional figurative compositions to
others using signs and symbols.
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 | OHIO
ARTS COUNCIL’S RIFFE GALLERY PRESENTS HERE AND BEYOND: OHIO
ART LEAGUE’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION FROM JULY 30 –
OCTOBER 25, 2009
The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will
present HERE and Beyond: Ohio Art League’s 100th
Anniversary Exhibition from July 30 – October 25,
2009. Curated by Margo A. Crutchfield, senior curator,
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, this exhibition employs
an array of media including painting, sculpture, printmaking,
drawing, fabric and quilt works, installation and
photography. The 16 artists in this exhibition deal with
the concept of HERE, not only the notion of locale and
origination, but that sense of immediacy of place and time
fused with reaching for the beyond.
Join the Riffe Gallery for the opening of
HERE and Beyond: Ohio Art League’s 100th Anniversary
Exhibition on July 30 from 5 – 8 p.m. Curator Margo
A. Crutchfield will lead a tour of the exhibition on July 31
from noon – 1 p.m. Artists in the show include: Sandra
Aska, Columbus; Carol Boram-Hays, Columbus; Denise Buckley,
Richmond Heights; Mary Fahy, Columbus; Sarah E. Fairchild,
Columbus; Matthew Friday, Athens; Curtis W.M. Goldstein,
Columbus; Nicholas Hill, Granville; Morris Jackson, Columbus;
Ardine Nelson, Columbus; Brent Payne, Oxford; Stephanie Sypsa,
Columbus; Alicia Jean Vanderelli, Columbus; Barbara Vogel,
Columbus; Melissa Vogley-Woods, Columbus; Tom Ward,
Columbus.
The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery is
located in the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts,
77 S. High St., Columbus, OH. Admission is free. Gallery hours
are Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Wednesday 10 – 5:30 p.m.,
Thursday 10 – 8 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Saturday
and Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Closed Mondays, Friday, July 3 and
Saturday, July 4, 2009. Visit www.riffegallery.org or phone
614/644-9624 for more information.
Image Information: Sarah E. Fairchild, Field
Corn, 2008, fluorescent, metallic acrylic paint, 45" x
60"
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| REDUCED NUMBER OF DISCIPLINES
AVAILABLE FOR 2010 INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE
AWARDS |
| The Ohio Arts Council
(OAC) will limit the number of disciplines funded in the
Individual Excellence (IE) Awards program each year.
Only applications in choreography, criticism,
fiction/non-fiction, music composition, poetry and
playwriting/screenplays will be accepted at the
September 1, 2009 deadline.
Due to the dire economic situation in
the state and nation, there have been continued
reductions to the OAC’s budget. As a result the
Individual Artist Grant Programs and Services office
needed to find ways to stretch limited state funding,
maintain services for artists and manage program
activities after a 22 percent reduction in OAC staffing.
The best solution was determined to be to limit the
number of disciplines funded each year.
Beginning this fiscal year the agency
will review the IE Awards program’s 13 disciplines over
a two-year period with alternating deadlines for two
sets of disciplines This year at the September 1
deadline, applications for the following disciplines
will be accepted: choreography, criticism, fiction/non
fiction, music composition, poetry and
playwriting/screen plays. In 2010 at the September 1
deadline, applications will be accepted for: crafts,
design, interdisciplinary/performance art, media,
photography, visual arts 2D and visual arts 3D.
Unfortunately this change could not be
made quickly enough to be implemented in the OAC OnLine
Grants Administration (OLGA) system. The IE Award
application on OLGA will not reflect the reduced number
of disciplines available at the September 1, 2009
deadline. Only applications in choreography, music
composition, criticism, fiction/non fiction, poetry and
playwriting/screenplays will be accepted for the
September 1, 2009 deadline.
To access the new Individual Excellence
Award Guidelines please use the following link:
www.oac.state.oh.us/grantsprogs/IndividualCreativity.asp
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SAVE THE DATE: 2010 GOVERNOR’S AWARDS FOR THE ARTS
IN OHIO TO BE HELD APRIL 21, 2010
The 2010 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in
Ohio and Arts Day Luncheon will be held Wednesday,
April 21, 2010. Starting August 12, 2009,
anyone can submit nominations and support letters online at
www.oac.state.oh.us. Winners will receive an original work of art by Ohio
photographer Larry Kasperek. The luncheon ceremony will begin
at noon at the Columbus Athenaeum in downtown Columbus.
Tickets to the event will be $50 which includes lunch and a
dessert reception.
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| CREATIVE COLUMBUS: A PICTURE OF
THE CREATIVE ECONOMY OF CENTRAL OHIO RECENTLY
RELEASED! |
Creative Columbus,
developed for the Columbus College of Art & Design
(CCAD) by Community Research Partners, takes an in-depth
look at central Ohio’s creative services sector to
determine its size, characteristics, magnitude, and
direct economic value.
Central Ohio’s creative
sector—arts, design, performance, media, and marketing
fields—generates annually more than $3 billion in total
business receipts, $932 million in employee wages, and
$67 million in state and local tax revenues. More than
18,000 employees in 1,368 firms and 6,930 sole
proprietors work in the creative sector, for a total of
nearly 25,000 people. Several thousand more have
creative occupations working for employers outside of
the creative sector. These figures are just the tip of
the iceberg of findings in this report.
For more information about this report
visit CCAD’s Web site.
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| NEWS
CPAC ANNOUNCES FIRST CREATIVE WORKFORCE
FELLOWS
The Community Partnership for the Arts and
Culture (CPAC) has announced 20 outstanding Cuyahoga
County design, craft, media, mixed-media and visual artists to
receive the first-ever Creative Workforce Fellowships
(CWF).
The CWF program is designed to sustain
Cuyahoga County’s rich history of arts and culture by
supporting its creative workforce and providing an environment
that nurtures creativity and innovation. The one-year
fellowships honor each artist with a $20,000 award to conduct
research and development work and receive business-support
services. According to Americans for the Arts, Greater
Cleveland is home to 779 arts related businesses with a
workforce that tops 7,000. These businesses and individuals
contribute to the County through the sale of exported goods
and services, which yields new state and local tax revenue,
and by revitalizing neighborhoods and enriching the lives of
residents.
The winning artists are: (painting) Amy Casey,
Donald E. Harvey, Michelle Anne Muldrow, Seth Rosenberg;
(drawing) Lawrence Channing, Andrea Joki; (sculpture)
Charmaine Spencer, Olga Ziemska; (photography) Bruce
Checefsky, Lori Kella, Douglas Lucak, Julius Lyles, Nancy M.
McEntee; (mixed media) Angela Oster; (wood) James Jubal
Harris; (glass) Michael Mikula, Mark Sudduth; (fiber) Nina
Vivian Huryn; (fashion design) Valerie Mayen; and (film) Laura
Paglin.
FROM RUST BELT TO ARTIST BELT II
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
(CPAC) has announced the dates and location of the next From
Rust Belt to Artist Belt conference. The two-day conference is
scheduled for Thursday and Friday, September 17 and 18, and
will take place in various locations throughout Cleveland's
Detroit Shoreway neighborhood including Cleveland Public
Theatre, 78th Street Studios, and the newly renovated Capitol
Theatre. Registration will open in July.
The conference is a component of CPAC's Creative Compass
Initiative, which is set out to connect two strong sectors in
the region, arts and culture and community development.
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| 2009 ADA ANNIVERSARY TOOL KIT
AVAILABLE ONLINE |
| July 26, 2009 marks
the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA). The DBTAC – Network of ADA Centers has
announced the release of the 2009 Americans with
Disabilities (ADA) Anniversary Tool Kit. Together
with its Affiliate Networks and Partners, the DBTAC –
Network of ADA Centers has accomplished significant
results toward voluntary ADA compliance. The Tool
Kit captures our collective achievements and offers
informative materials designed to help you plan and
publicize your ADA activities during the ADA Anniversary
and throughout the year.
The 2009 ADA Anniversary Tool Kit can be
downloaded at http://adaanniversary.org/.
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| LEGISLATIVE SPOTLIGHT
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Name: Rep. Jim Zehringer,
(R) 77th District, Fort Recovery 
Hometown: Fort
Recovery
Years in Office:
Two
Committees: Financial
Institutions, Real Estate and Securities;
Transportation; Agriculture and Natural Resources
Education: 1970
Graduate Fort Recovery High School
Recent Honors:
Fort Recovery Citizen of the Year and Hall of Fame,
Environmental Stewardship Awards both state and
national
Age, Marital Status:
56, married 35 years to Sharon, three children
Arts Organizations
Supported: Co-founded Fort Recovery Friends of
the Arts
Favorite arts or cultural
pastime: Sunday night concerts at Van Trees
Park in Fort Recovery
Favorite Artist:
Brother Dan Zehringer, professional trumpet player and
conductor of Wright State University Trumpet
Ensemble
Last Good Book Read:
“Sometimes the Dragon Wins” by Robert V. Van
Trees
Most Memorable Arts
Experience: Watching the Mississinawa Valley
Middle School Taiko drummers on the statehouse
lawn
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