Students from 16 Ohio High Schools Chosen to Participate in Arts Day 2005
by Jami Goldstein
In an effort to educate young people about the legislative process, Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation, with the help of the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, invited high schools from around Ohio to participate in Arts Day 2005. Arts Day, co-presented annually by Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, offers opportunities for citizens to express their support of public funding for the arts to their state legislators.
Schools selected to participate in Arts Day 2005 are Admiral King High School, Lorain; Botkins High School, Botkins; Charles F. Brush High School, Lyndhurst; Coshocton High School, Coshocton; Grandview Heights High School, Grandview; Indian Hill High School, Cincinnati; Kettering Fairmont High School, Kettering; Lancaster High School, Lancaster; Lima High School, Lima; Mason High School, Mason; Marysville High School, Marysville; Shawnee High School, Springfield; Southview High School, Lorain; St. Charles Preparatory, Columbus; Thomas Worthington High School, Worthington; and Westerville Central High School, Westerville. More than 60 high schools expressed interest in the event.
Each high school will choose six students to participate in the event based on their ability to be successful student advocates. Advocates must have an interest in the arts and the legislative process, an ability to speak in public with individuals or small groups and willingness to follow through with written assignments.
Prior to Arts Day, each participating school hosted a state legislator who shared information regarding the state government process and received information on the school’s arts and civics programs. On Arts Day, April 6, the student advocates will travel to Columbus to spend the morning speaking with legislators about the impact the arts have had on their lives. In the afternoon, they will attend the 2005 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio ceremony.
For more information about the legislative school visits and Arts Day meetings please contact Donna Collins at Ohio Citizens for the Arts, 614/221-4064.
Arts Day takes place in conjunction with the Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio. Eight winners have been chosen in six categories from 60 nominations.
The Governor’s Awards for the Arts are given annually to Ohio individuals and organizations in recognition of outstanding contributions to the arts statewide, regionally and nationally. This year’s ceremony will be held Wednesday, April 6, 3:30 p.m. in the Capitol Theatre in the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, 77 S. High Street, Downtown Columbus. The awards ceremony is free and open to the public. A free reception in the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will follow the ceremony.
Award categories and recipients are: Arts in Education, Nils Riess (Ada); Community Development and Participation, James R. Tarbell (Cincinnati); Arts Administration, Barbara Nicholson (Columbus); Arts Patron, Ann Amer Brennan (Akron); Individual Artist, Ann Hamilton (Columbus); Business Support of the Arts, The Logan Clay Products Company (Logan); and Special Recognition, Jon Hendricks (Toledo). The Irma Lazarus Award will be given to Stanley Aronoff (Cincinnati).
The awards ceremony, hosted by the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation, honors award recipients and members of the Ohio Legislature for their support of public funding for the arts. Music will be provided by Jon Hendricks, recipient of the Special Recognition award.
The 2005 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Ohio Arts Day are made possible by Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Cinergy Foundation, Ohio Government Telecommunications. Media sponsors include the Akron Beacon Journal, The Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News OCTA, Ohio Magazine, The Plain Dealer and Time Warner Cable.
More information about the Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio, including a full list of winners, past and present, is available on the Ohio Arts Council website at www.oac.state.oh.us.
Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation provides education about the arts in Ohio and educates citizens about ways to participate effectively in their government. The OCA Foundation partners with the Ohio Arts Council in the annual presentation of Arts Day and the Governor Arts Awards for the Arts ceremony.
The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.
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