Grant applications recommended for funding during Spring panel meetings will be reviewed by the Ohio Arts Council Board on June 16. Council meetings are open to the public. Contact the OAC Public Information Office at 614/ 466-2613. John Bryant, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation Hope in Los Angeles, will describe his banking organization's commitment to the social and economic revitalization of inner cities and the under-served as part of Growing Inward: Rebuilding the Center City series co-sponsored by the OAC. On Wednesday, June 10, at noon, Bryant will speak at the Columbus Athletic Club, 136 East Broad Street, Columbus. For reservations call the Columbus Metropolitan Club reservation line, 614/ 841-8742. One hundred fine examples of antique Egyptian porcelain will be exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art through July 5. For information about Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience call 216/ 421-7340. Ohio Designer Craftsmen presents The Best of 1998, a juried statewide exhibition of contemporary crafts, at the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, 614/ 486-4402, through June 28. It will be at The Springfield Museum of Art, 937/ 325-4673, from August 29 through October 11. .

The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, is initiating an annual awards program to reward exemplary community arts and humanities programs for children and young people, especially those who live in high risk circumstances. Nominations for the Coming Up Taller Awards are due June 15. Obtain guidelines and forms by calling the NEA at 202/ 682-5400 or visiting the Internet at www.arts.endow.gov/Guide/Taller/Text.html. The Ohio Historical Society is asking jazz enthusiasts and memorabilia collectors for help in gathering information and artifacts about the history of jazz in Ohio. The society is organizing an exhibition called Listen for the Jazz in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution's Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940, a traveling exhibition that will be at the Ohio Historical Center in early 1999. Contact Doug White at 614/ 297-2665 or e-mail dwhite@ohiohistory.org.

Do you teach writing, but don't consider yourself a writer? Attend The Experience of Writing, June 21-26 at Wright State University in Dayton. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council. You will work closely with nationally known writers who teach, concentrating on poetry, fiction or personal narratives and learn to explore creative strategies for teaching writing. Scholarships are available first-come, first-served. For application materials contact Bob Fox at 614/ 466-2613..