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Cincinnati
Arts Patron Nominated To National Council On The Arts
Katharine
Cramer DeWitt, of Cincinnati, has been nominated by President Bush to
serve on the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National
Endowment for the Arts. The National Council on the Arts advises the chairman
of the NEA on policies, programs and procedures for carrying out the agency¹s
responsibilities.
Council
members are chosen for their knowledge of the arts, their expertise or
profound interest in the arts and their established record of distinguished
service or achievement in the arts. United States Senator Mike DeWine
also will serve on the Council in an ex-officio capacity.
DeWitt
is an arts patron and community activist who, for more than two decades,
has served as a docent for the Cincinnati Art Museum. She has chaired
the Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund for Individual Gifts and served on the Fund¹s
Allocation Committee.
DeWitt
is a trustee of Cincinnati Children¹s Hospital Medical Center and
the Beechwood Home, as well as Stratford Hall Plantation in Stratford,
Virginia. She is a graduate of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart
where she majored in art history. In 2001, DeWitt was the co-chairman
of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
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Taft Museum of Art docents teach preschool children about
the Henry F. Farny painting The Song of the Talking Wire. (Dick
Swaim photo)
Taft
Museum of Art Brings Art to Classrooms During Renovation
Through an innovative
outreach program, Taft Museum of Art docents are bringing fine art to
classrooms while the museum is closed for renovation and expansion. Since
January, 68 sessions of Galleries on the Go have been scheduled in schools
from northern Kentucky to Dayton. Galleries on the Go acquaints children
with the collections of the Taft through engaging discussion, viewing
reproductions, and interactive hands-on experiences.
Before school visits,
teachers are provided with guides to prepare their students, including
a full slide presentation on the Taft collections. The programs can be
integrated into lesson plans, enabling the teachers to reinforce concepts
in other subject areas through art. Nearly 18,000 students visit the Taft
each year. The museum's education staff felt it was important to continue
to offer learning experiences during the renovation. For more information
call Deena Pinales at 513/241-0343.
Connections: Ohio
Artists Abroad is on display at the Ohio Arts Council¹s Riffe
Gallery through July 7. It is the final exhibition in a series of four
at the Riffe Gallery celebrating the YEAR OF THE ARTIST, July 2001-July
2002. Curated by Susan Channing, director of SPACES in Cleveland, Connections
is about the transformation that artists undergo when they interact with
a different culture, making art that reflects experiences unique to their
location.
With support
from the OAC's International Program, the artists in Connections
spent five to eight weeks in countries where the Ohio Arts Council organizes
cultural exchanges Prague, Czech Republic; Dresden, Germany; Herzliya,
Israel and on international projects supported by the OAC in the
Netherlands, Italy and India. The OAC¹s International Program is
committed to bringing together individuals from diverse cultures to encourage
greater cross-cultural understanding through the arts.
Connections
will travel to SPACES, in Cleveland, September 13October 25 and to
the Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, in Cincinnati, November
22January 18, 2003. A full-color catalog of the exhibition is available
for $10. For more information call 614/644-9624.
Malcolm Cochran,
Dutch Journal, detail, 1997, handbound journal, ed. 1000, 6" x 9"
x 3/8"
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