Names in the News

  Kay Koeninger has been hired as executive director of the Dayton Visual Arts Center.

Nelly Bly Cogan, exhibition director for the Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, received the Distinguished Museum Professional Award presented by the Ohio Museum Association.

Opportunities in the Arts

  The Ohio Arts Council is seeking consultants who deal with organizational, educational and artistic issues for a new screened consultant list. Interested candidates must follow directions found on the OAC website http://www.oac.ohio.gov/upcome/main.htm or contact Melissa Donovan at the Ohio Arts Council, 727 East Main Street, Columbus, OH 43205- 1796; 614/ 466-2613 to receive a copy of the instructions. Requests for instructions must be received before May 30. Deadline for submission of materials is June 30, 1998.

Calendar

  AIts not too early to save September 9-10 for the Ohio Arts Council's 1998 Conference in Akron. Batting 2000: Facing the Fastball of Change will look at the issues arts organizations will face in the coming years and ways to succeed as the game becomes more challenging. For more information call Lucy Spurgeon, 614/ 466-2613.

The OAC Literature Panel will consider grant requests from organizations May 6 at 9:30 a.m. For information call Bob Fox, 614/ 466-2613.

The Association of American Cultures will present Open Dialogue VIII, hosted by the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs in Dallas, Texas, June 3-7. Demographer Harold Hodgkinson will set the tone of the conference, which has been designed to address the ways organizations and artists of color can prepare for the new millennium. Keynote speaker is August Wilson, one of America's most distinguished and prolific African American playwrights. For information contact the TAAC office at 214/ 855-5992.

 

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