Office 46th District, Ohio House of Representatives
Legislative Committees Rules & Reference, Commerce & Labor, Public Utilities; State Government, Housing & Public Lands; Ohio Arts Council; Turnpike Oversight
Years in Office 2
Personal Hometown, Cuyahoga Falls; B.A., M.P.A., Bowling Green State University; married, wife Anne
Arts Support Member of Ohio Arts Council Board, Blossom Music Center Board of Overseers, American Ireland Fund to promote art and culture in Ireland
Favorite Cultural
Pastime “I enjoy musical concerts of almost any kind. I never learned to play an
instrument, so I’m amazed by real talent.”
In an exchange organized by the Ohio Arts Council and the city of Dresden, Germany, two
Ohio artists worked at the Dresden Graphic Workshop last month. The Ohio Arts Council and
The Huntington National Bank sponsored the exchange, one of several projects in a
three-year partnership between the cities of Columbus and Dresden that is supported by the
bank.
Ohioans in the exchange were Todd DeVriese, a visual artist and printmaker from Columbus, and Matthew Krone, a printmaker from Cleveland. DeVriese is a professor of art at The Ohio State University, Mansfield, and director of the Fine Arts Exhibition at the Ohio State Fair. He is working on several print projects combining Macintosh software with lithography, intaglio printing and photography. Krone is a member of Zygote Press. He has been working on a series of images, primarily intaglio, of industrial landscapes in the Cleveland area.
The Dresden Graphic Workshop was founded in 1958 to preserve original printing techniques and encourage experimentation in the printmaking tradition.
Two Dresden artists participated in the exchange at Zygote Press in Cleveland last month. Zygote Press, founded by a group of artists in 1995, has etching, relief and lithography presses, screen printing and letterpress facilities.
The Ohio Arts
Council’s International Program helped finalize the agreement with Dresden to develop
cultural exchanges and residencies in Eastern Europe. Working in concert with national
corporations, philanthropic and arts organizations, the International Program fosters
long-term involvement in international cultural exchanges and encourages Ohio artists and
arts organizations to form partnerships with arts professionals abroad.
A film-in-progress by a Yellow Springs recipient of Ohio Arts Council grants created
strong interest at the recent Independent Feature Film Market in New York City.
Ed Radtke’s The Dream Catcher is the story of two teenage boys who meet traveling cross-country, hopping trains, hitchhiking and stealing cars. It is being produced by Academy Award nominees Julia Reichert and Steven Bogner.
