March 2000, ArtsOhio Page 2

State Representative Chuck Calvert (R)

Office
Ohio House of Representatives, 81st District

Legislative Committees
Children and Family Services, Education, Insurance, Economic Development and Small Business

Years In Office 1

Personal
Hometown, Medina; BA in accounting and finance, Baldwin Wallace College; post graduate work in business; married, 3 children

Arts Support
Theater

Favorite Artist
Sean Connery

Last Good Book Read
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge

Proudest Creative Achievement
My family

The Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment is offering grants to artists who work in the United States, outdoors and address environmental problems and education. For more information send a SASE to Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment, 5128 Manning Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20814.

Unique American Vision: The Paintings of Gregory Gillespie is on view at The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. The retrospective exhibition features work from the last four decades by realist painter Gregory Gillespie. Unique American Vision, which includes portraits, interiors and allegorical subjects, will run through March 19. For more information call 330/743-1711.

Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection is on view at the Dayton Art institute through March 26. The exhibition features more than 70 pieces by the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin, including casts, studies and drawings from his most noted works such as The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, Burghers of Calais, The Kiss and The Age of Bronze. For more information call 800/296-4426.

The Dayton Contemporary Dance Company board has appointed Kevin Ward as artistic director and Debbie Blunden-Diggs as associate artistic director and director of education. Ward succeeds DCDC founder and artistic director Jeraldyne Blunden who died in November 1999 at the age of 58.

Paavo Jarvi has been appointed music director for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, effective September 2001. Jarvi, a 37-year-old American born in Estonia, has served as principal guest conductor with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He will succeed Jeszs Lspez-Cobos to become the 12th music director of the 105-year-old orchestra.