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Nominate an individual or an organization for the 2000 Governor's Awards for the Arts in Ohio, a statewide program that celebrates and showcases the arts in Ohio.

Winners are selected in arts administration, arts in education, arts outreach, arts patron, business support of the arts, individual artist and partnerships in the arts. The program is presented by the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation. The 2000 Awards Luncheon will be held March 22 at The Columbus Athenaeum. Nominations are due October 13. Contact Katie Popoff at 614/466-2613 for more information.

As part of an exchange between the Ohio Arts Council and the city of Dresden, Germany, two Ohio artists will be at the Dresden Graphic Workshop from November 12 through December 17. The Ohio Arts Council and The Huntington National Bank are sponsoring the exchange.

Ohio artists participating in the exchange are:

Claudia Esslinger, a professor of art at Kenyon College in Gambier who teaches printmaking, drawing, video, digital and mixed media. She has received several Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships.

Kelly Novak, associate director of Zygote Press in Cleveland and a staff member of SPACES gallery. Novak's work was included in the 1999 Ohio Print Biannual at the Beck Center in Lakewood. She works in aquatint, etching, monotype and intaglio.

The Dresden Graphic Workshop was founded in 1958 to preserve original printing techniques and encourage experimentation in printmaking. Artists and typographers work hand-in-hand at the facility to to make original prints of graphic art.

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client, was asked to try painting a tile. Mitchell didn't know that Ed could read, let alone write. What Ed wound up painting on the tile was a poem for Mitchell: "For who I am writing there is a strength between our hearts."

Mitchell sees to it that her clients' abilities are honored and celebrated in the Athens community. In spite of the artists disabilities, the work they create stands on its own. Work by her students has been exhibited at the Kennedy Museum of American Art at Ohio University and at the Roy G. Biv Gallery in Columbus alongside pieces created by other self-taught artists. ATCO has been commissioned to hand-paint 175 wedding invitations. The Purple Chopstix, a restaurant in Athens, has incorporated the artwork in its decor, and the owner says his business has increased as a result. The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center in Athens hired David Dewey, an ATCO artist, to create life-size decorations for its Children's Holiday Fair. The artists constructed large metal flower props for a production of The Wizard of Oz performed by elementary students. Passion Works Studio will hold an art sale October 23 at 371 ½ Richland Avenue in Athens.

Mitchell's work is funded by an artist in residence grant from the Ohio Arts Council, with support from the Athens County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, which operates the ATCO sheltered workshop. For more information contact Patty Mitchell at 740/592-6659.

Governor Bob Taft has appointed Joe Hale, president of Cinergy Foundation in Cincinnati, to the Ohio Arts Council Board. Georgia Welles of Bowling Green and Alex Machaskee, president and publisher of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, have been reappointed to the board. Barbara Robinson of Cleveland has been reappointed as chair.