Advocating for art in Columbus

I traveled to Columbus last Wednesday – yes I am just now writing about it – with a group of artists, arts advocates, and arts professionals – folks from Cultureworks, which is Montgomery County’s fundraising arm for the arts, folks from the...

arts advocacy and your thoughts

I will be traveling to Columbus, Ohio on April first – no foolin”! – to call on our state legislators, lobbying them to increase, maintain, continue, build, etc. their support of the arts in our state. April 1 is Arts Advocacy Day and I will be part...

the importance of arts advocacy

I will be participating in Ohio’s Arts Advocacy Day on , as my husband asked me, “no foolin?”, April 1st, in Columbus. Dayton, where I live, has an active arts community, and representatives from all the major arts groups, active community...

A new category and Pablo

I am adding a new category that is composed of columns I wrote a few years ago for a local magazine, in which I imagine artists of different time periods coming together in a coffeehouse on Paris’ Left Bank. I think of it as “out of time”, meaning...

A shout out to my friend Lorie and Tiffany

I just returned from a quick (2-day) trip to Orlando, where on the recommendation of my good friend and former business partner Lorie, I visited the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. Lorie is a talented stained glass artist and she had recommended this...