ARTSPerspective, Spring 1998

PRESERVING APPALACHIAN CULTURE
Ohio's Hill Country Area Ohio's Hill Country Heritage Area has many coal towns that are using thir past as a tool for development.
Two Ohio Arts Council programs are making a serious impact in a region of the state that is sometimes skeptical about assistance from "outsiders," says John Winnenberg, a community organizer in southern Perry County. The OAC's Ohio Hill Country Heritage Area Program and the Ohio Appalachian Arts Initiative are successfully celebrating and preserving Appalachian arts and culture in Ohio. "There is a steadily growing optimism that this is a serious effort," says Winnenberg, organizer of a group promoting tourism and preserving local history in several former mining towns. (con't on page 3)

STRATEGIC PLAN YIELDS RESULTS


The Ohio Arts Council is welcoming spring with tangible fruits of last year's strategic planning process. Many improvements in procedures and services are taking place so the agency can better invest tax dollars in programs and projects that build Ohio economically, educationally and culturally.

With input from citizens, administrators, artists, art educators and community leaders, the Arts Council is acting on each of six goals that reinterpret the broad public purposes served by the arts and specific ways the arts can meet the needs of the state and nation. Those goals are to provide support for (con't)

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