PORTSMOUTH WORKS WITH ARTIST IN NATIONAL MILLENNIAL PROJECT |
JAVITZ GRANT WILL FUND PROGRAM FOR GIFTED STUDENTS |
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A collaborative project of the Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education and Ohio Department of Education has received a $420,000 grant under the Jacob K. Javitz Gifted and Talented Students Program of the U.S. Department of Education. The three-year project will provide arts instruction and talent development for artistically gifted students. |
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Portsmouth and the Southern Ohio Museum participated in Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium. The national project gives communities across America opportunities to address their concerns by working directly with some of the nation's most innovative communicators and problem solvers - artists. Artists & Communities involves more than 50 artists in residence working collaboratively with organizations in all 50 states and six jurisdictions. Representing Ohio, the Southern Ohio Museum hosted visiting visual artist Natasha Mayers of Whitefield, Maine, who began her three-month stay in Portsmouth in August. Her residency was part of the National Endowment for the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's millennium celebration efforts. The White House Millennium Council has designated the program an official millennium project. |
The Portsmouth site was chosen through a competition conducted by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. Designed to expand and support the roles of the arts in Americans' daily lives, Artists and Communities leverages the power of professional artists to give communities new ways to address local issues through collaborative creation of new works of art. Mayers worked with many groups of local residents to generate dialogue about an issue relevant to the Portsmouth area, producing art that reveals the heritage, cultural history, ethnic identity or social concerns of various neighborhoods in the community. With coordination and planning by the Southern Ohio Museum staff, Mayers worked with senior citizens, families, minorities and teens, designing significant new works of art and providing creative solutions to bridge communication gaps among cross sections of the community. |
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