4 Ohio Arts Organizations Receive COVID-19 Relief Grants Totaling $205K Thirty Midwestern arts and culture organizations, including Ohio-based organizations Cleveland Public Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Karamu House, and Stuart’s Opera House, have received COVID-19 relief grants from Arts Midwest through the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund. September 3, 2020 For Organizations, For the Public, News, Organizations, Public Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arts Midwest, Cleveland Public Theatre, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, funding, grants, Karamu House, Ohio Arts Council, relief fund, Stuart's Opera House, U.S. Regional Arts Resilience Fund Read More »
Athens Musician, Composer, and Professor Paschal Yao Younge Awarded 2020 Ohio Heritage Fellowship Dr. Paschal Yao Younge, a master artist specializing in African Traditional Musical Arts, has been awarded the 2020 Ohio Heritage Fellowship Award for Performing Arts from the Ohio Arts Council. August 12, 2020 Art, artists, For Artists, For the Public, News, Public African Traditional Musical Arts, Athens, Athens County, dance, Dr. Paschal Yao Younge, drum, music, Ohio, Ohio Heritage Fellowship, percusssion, Performing Arts, research Read More »
Paper Routes Celebrates Women Artists in Ohio "Walking through the Riffe Gallery’s newest exhibition, Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020 - Ohio, I’m reminded (and forgive the pun) of the expression, 'you can’t see the forest for the trees.' I’ll admit I have been paper-blind, but these artists have gifted me with new eyes." In this blog post, OAC Riffe Gallery Marketing and Exhibitions Fellow Aimee Wissman reflects on the current exhibition. August 6, 2020 Art, Public, Riffe Gallery ¡Katie B Funk!, Adrienne Slane, Alice Pixley Young, Breanne Trammel, Carmen Romine, Charlotte McGraw, Emily Moores, Kristine Elizabeth Donnelly, Natalie Lanese, NMWA, Ohio Advisory Group, Paper Routes, Sa'dia Rehman, Sarah Kabot, Susan Li O'Connor, Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Women to Watch Read More »
Ohio Arts Council Board Approves More Than $12.5M in Arts Grants The Ohio Arts Council board approved $12,500,446 in grants to support Ohio artists, arts and cultural organizations, students, educators, and public arts programming when it met virtually on July 22 for its summer board meeting. August 4, 2020 Art, For Artists, For Educators, For Organizations, For the Public, Invest, News, Organizations, Public Artist programs, Arts Access, arts learning, Arts Midwest, Arts Partnership, ArtsNEXT, ArtSTART, coronavirus, COVID-19, funding, FY 2021, grants, individual artists, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Ohio artists, Ohio Arts Council, Operating support, Project support, SASO, Sustainability, TeachArtsOhio, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Read More »
Governor DeWine Names Kari Gunter-Seymour Ohio Poet Laureate Governor Mike DeWine has named Kari Gunter-Seymour of Albany, Ohio, the state’s poet laureate. Gunter-Seymour, whose term began June 10, 2020, succeeds the state’s second poet laureate, Dave Lucas. A third-generation Athens Countian, Gunter-Seymour was named poet laureate for Athens, Ohio, in 2018-2020, and the Ohio Poet of the Year in 2020. She is the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and a recently retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. June 11, 2020 For the Public, News, Public Albany, Athens County, Dave Lucas, Governor Mike DeWine, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio, Ohio University, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Women of Appalachia Project Read More »
A Creative Collaboration Unfolds on Stage: Music and Live Artmaking Combine at the Fitton Center What color would you make a major chord if you were to hang it on a gallery wall? How would you transpose an artist’s sketch onto a music staff? These are possibilities the Butler Philharmonic Orchestra and visual artist Billy Simms aimed to explore during a collaborative performance at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts on Feb. 1. April 6, 2020 Art, For Artists, For Organizations, For the Public, Organizations, Public ArtSTART, Billy Simms, Butler County, Butler Philharmonic Orchestra, Composition, Fitton Center, Grant, Hamilton, Music, Orchestra, Paul John Stanbery, Printmaking, Sustainabillity, Visual Art, With Ears that See, With Eyes that Hear Read More »