INTERACTION IS THE ART

Yesterday I read in the Dayton Daily News about the newest special exhibition at the Dayton Art Institute. The show is titled “Into the Ether: Contemporary Light Artists” and is the first of five exhibitions, each one focusing on one of the elements (air, earth, fire,...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY WORKS FOR ARTISTS!

One of my favorite art collectors approached me a couple of weeks ago and asked me: “Do you know that Montgomery County’s Office of Community and Economic Development has a special section for artists?  He showed me on his phone and by gosh, there it was! Montgomery...

Artists get lots of attention in Dayton!

Opened the arts section of the Sunday Dayton Daily News to see lots of my artist friends featured. This is great! Painter Carol Stoops has a feature article; photographer Doug McLarty also; Andy Snow, another of Dayton’s talented photographers is on the cover...

Some New Year’s Thoughts 2011

Art is life-giving. It’s an intangible. How can you explain to someone who has never experienced the power of an original piece of work, something that has sprung from the thought of one human being, brought into existence due to that person’s trials and errors,...