February 2000, ArtsOhio Page 2

State Representative Edward S. Jerse (D)

Office
Ohio House of Representatives, 14th District

Legislative Committees
Public Utilities; Ranking Minority Leader, Ways and Means; Criminal Justice; Civil and Commercial Law

Years In Office 4

Personal
Hometown, Euclid; BA, Georgetown University; JD Harvard Law School; married; 2 children

Favorite Cultural Pastime
Visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art

Favorite Artists
Edward Hopper, Bruce Springsteen, Robert DeNiro

Last Good Book Read
John McCain: An American Odyssey by Robert Timberg

Proudest Creative Achievement
Shaping my children - including their appreciation for the arts

The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center is accepting entries of artwork inspired by the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War: Art Expressions, Then and Now, a national juried exhibition open to all media, will be on display at the Dairy Barn September 30-November 19, 2000. Work need not visually depict the Vietnam War, but must have been directly or indirectly inspired by it. Deadline is April 21. For an entry form or more information call 740/592-4981 or email info@dairybarn.org.

Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles is on view at the Akron Art Museum through February 20. Japanese textile artists, designers and manufacturers are creating dynamic new materials that are having an extraordinary influence worldwide. This exhibition surveys the ingenious fusion of ancient aesthetics and modern technologies that have made Japan the recognized leader in avant-garde fashion and textile design. For more information call 330/376-9185.

Great Lakes Theater Festival will present Shakespeare's Twelfth Night March 16-April 2 at the Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland. Original score by Adam Wernick. Directed by Daniel Fish. For more information call 216/241-5490 or visit www.greatlakestheater.org.

Katharine Lee Reid is the new director of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Reid, 58, has been director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 1991. She is the daughter of Sherman E. Lee, CMA director 1958-1983. Reid will assume her duties as CMA's sixth director on March 13. Kate Sellers, who has been acting director since the untimely death of Robert P. Bergman last May, will continue in that capacity until March, then resume her duties as CMA's deputy director and director of development and external affairs. Reid has been deputy director of the Art Institute of Chicago, a curator at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago and at The Toledo Museum of Art.

Columbus Association for the Performing Arts President Doug Kridler has been elected president of the International Society for the Performing Arts. ISPA is a professional society whose members are leaders in the performing arts in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Kridler served as treasurer of the society 1994-1996 and president-elect 1997-1999.

The Arts Education Partnership is a private, nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropic and government organizations that promotes arts education as a way to help students succeed in school, life and work. The partnership was formed in 1995 by the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Education Department, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the Council of Chief State School Officers. More than 100 national organizations participate in the partnership. Visit their website at www.aep-arts.org.