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| September 2009 |
Published by the Ohio Arts
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| SURVIVAL
STRATEGIES |
| Many arts and
cultural organizations are reeling from the
effects of the economic downturn. Navigating in
this uncertain climate is difficult to say the
least, but the OAC believes you should not have
to weather this storm alone. We know that
communication is crucial to maintaining the
vitality of the arts industry in Ohio. We have
pulled together some resources to help you
assess your arts organization as well as take
steps to help you maintain the presence the arts
have in retaining jobs, supporting education
programs and driving tourism in Ohio.
To take advantage of these
resources visit our Web site.
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 | OHIO
ARTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES ARTS JOBS WEB SITE
 The Ohio Arts Council (OAC) has launched
a free, searchable database of employment opportunities in the
arts and cultural sector in Ohio — Art$Work. Art$Work
is dedicated to helping Ohio arts and cultural employers
connect with passionate, dedicated job-seekers. Employers can
list jobs, internships and board positions and connect with a
talented and professional workforce, and job seekers can
search for full-and part-time creative sector jobs.
Created and maintained by the OAC, Art$Work
provides job seekers the ability to search by job category,
job type, county or specific organization to find full- or
part-time professional job opportunities as well as listings
for internships, volunteer positions or board
memberships. Searching is free and open to the
public.
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| OAC ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR
2010 GOVERNOR’S AWARDS FOR THE ARTS IN
OHIO! |
 The Ohio Arts Council is accepting
nominations for the 2010 Governor’s Awards for the Arts
in Ohio. The annual awards are given to Ohio
individuals and organizations in recognition of
outstanding contributions to the arts statewide,
regionally and nationally. Awards are given for
Arts Administration, Arts Education, Arts Patron,
Business Support of the Arts, Community Development and
Participation and Individual Artist. The deadline
for nominations is Wednesday, September 23, 2009
at 5 p.m. and the deadline for support letters
is for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 5 p.m.
For more information visit the
Governor’s Awards Web page.
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AT THE RIFFE GALLERY: HERE AND BEYOND: OHIO ART
LEAGUE’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY
 The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery
presents HERE and Beyond: Ohio Art League’s 100th
Anniversary Exhibition until 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.
For more information visit the Riffe Gallery
Web site.
Image Information: Sarah E.
Fairchild, Field Corn, 2008, fluorescent, metallic
acrylic paint on paper, 45" x 60"
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| OAC BOARD MEMBER SHARON HOWARD
INDUCTED INTO THE OHIO WOMEN’S HALL OF
FAME |
| Ohio Arts Council
Board member Sharon D. Howard was inducted into the Ohio
Women’s Hall of Fame on August 26. She joins 12
other women in the 2009 induction class.
Sharon D. Howard is the executive
director of community and public relations for WDTN-TV
in Dayton. In 2006, she founded the Crown Jewels
of Dayton calendar initiative to benefit the Kettering
Medical Center Foundations’ Women’s Wellness Fund.
She has been recognized for her journalistic work with
the Regional Communicator of the Year Award by the
International Communications Training Institute, as well
as multiple National Communicator and Telly Awards.
Also inducted to the Ohio Women's Hall
of Fame this year was former OAC Board member Helen Moss
who served on the OAC Board from 1983-1990.
The Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame was established in 1978
to publicly recognize the many outstanding contributions
that Ohio women have made to their state and
nation. To date, nearly 400 women have been
inducted in the Hall of Fame.
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| NEWS
SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION GRANTS
AVAILABLE FOR OHIO STATEHOUSE VISITS
The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board
and Capitol Square Foundation today announced the creation of
a school bus transportation grant program. The program
has been created through generous gifts from Honda of America
Mfg., Inc. and Wal-Mart Foundation. The program is designed to
help schools defray bus transportation expenses to the Ohio
Statehouse Museum. The grants are based on one-way mileage
from the visiting school to Columbus.
A total of $72,000 has been made available for
the inaugural year of the program. A total of 240 grants
will be made available with 80 grants awarded in each of three
mileage categories.
The online application and detailed
information is available at www.ohiostatehouse.org or
www.capitolsquarefoundation.org. Only online applications will be accepted.
Applications will be accepted through September 30, 2009 for
the 2009-2010 academic year.
NEW PREVENTATIVE CONSERVATION GRANT
PROGRAM
The Division of Preservation and Access at the
National Endowment for the Humanities announces a new
preventive conservation grant program, Sustaining Cultural
Heritage Collections, with a deadline of December 8, 2009. The
program offers U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, and
archives, as well as state and local governmental agencies and
tribal governments with humanities collections two kinds of
awards; Planning and evaluation grants, with awards up to
$40,000 and Implementation grants, with awards up to $400,000.
For more information visit the NEH’s Web site.
USARTISTS INTERNATIONAL GRANT
APPLICATION DEADLINE NEARS
The USArtists International Grant Application
Deadline is Tuesday, September 8, 2009. USArtists
International includes support for American dance, music, and
theater ensembles and solo artists invited to perform at
significant international festivals anywhere in the world
outside the United States and its territories.
The application deadline for the first grant
round of the 2010 program will be Tuesday, September 8, 2009
for projects taking place between November 1, 2009 and October
31, 2010. For more information visit USArtists’ Web site.
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| NAMES IN THE
NEWS |
| BRIAN JOINER
SELECTED 2009 ROBERT S. DUNCANSON ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Cincinnati artist Brian Joiner was
selected as the 2009 Robert S. Duncanson
Artist-in-Residence. The program honors the
achievements of contemporary artists of African descent
working in a variety of disciplines and media. The
program also honors the relationship between African
American painter Robert S. Duncanson and his patron,
Nicholas Longworth, who commissioned Duncanson to paint
landscape murals in the foyer of his home, now the Taft
Museum of Art.
Brian Joiner has received an Individual
Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and was also
the 2007 Governor’s Awards for the Arts artist.
NEW LEADER AT THE NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Rocco Landesman is the new National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) chair. The former
Broadway producer follows Dana Gioia who left the
chairmanship in January. Landsman began his tenure
as chairman of the NEA August 11.
OHIO ARTIST NAMED NEW FINE ARTS
AND HUMANITIES DEAN
Former Ohio Arts Council Dresden
exchange artist Todd DeVries has been named dean of the
College of Fine Arts and Humanities at St. Cloud State
University in Minnesota.
DeVriese was an associate professor of
art at Ohio State University and in 2001 he was the
interim dean for the Arts and Sciences and a department
chair at Zayed University in the United Arab
Emirates. Most recently he was director of the
School of Art and an art professor at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, Texas.
TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART DIRECTOR
LEAVING IN OCTOBER
Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) director Don
Bacigalupi announced he will resign his position in
October. He has accepted the directorship at the
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville,
Arkansas.
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| LEGISLATIVE
SPOTLIGHT |
 Name: Sen. John
Carey, (R) 17th District, Wellston
Hometown:
Wellston
Years in Office:
Seven
Committees:
Agriculture; Education; Finance and Financial
Institutions (Chair); Rules; State and Local
Government; Veterans' Affairs
Education: B.A. in
political science, Ohio University with honors
Recent Honors:
Distinguished Graduate of State Government, Ohio
University; Area on Aging Advocacy Award; Ohio Economic
Development Association Legislative Award
Marital Status,
Children: Married, two children
Arts Organizations
Supported: Southern Hills Arts Council, Jackson
County; French Art Colony, Gallia County
Favorite arts or cultural pastime:
reading, theater, movies
Favorite Artist: Rogers
and Hammerstein
Last Good Book Read: “A
Time to Kill” by John Grisham
Most Memorable Arts
Experience: Watching my sons perform in
“Oklahoma!” and “Annie Get Your Gun” at Wellston High
School
Other Comments: I
believe that arts are a very important part of our
culture and should be encouraged in our schools and the
broader community.
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