ACE Invitational Members Exhibition

ACE Gallery was an exciting, creative co-op gallery that sprung up in those early heady days that marked the beginning of the Short North arts district. The gallery showcased artworks by Black artists, who also took turns gallery watching. Friends, photographer Kojo Kamau and art dealer Riccardo Davenport were among the early leaders, and many more showed their work there. Now sprawling and bustling, the area had been populated with mom and pop stores and other small businesses of all sorts. I remember fondly many fun openings in those late 80s and early 90s.

January 21 - February 18, 2007

Opening Reception January 28, 2007, 2 - 4 pm

Columbus Cultural Arts Center
139 W. main Street

Conversations & Coffee: February 8, noon - 1 pm

Info? Cultural Arts Center: 614 645 7047
www.culturalartscenteronline.org

"Jazz & Eggs" 2007 Reunion Jam, BOMA, Feb. 10

Listen For The Jazz presents:
Jazz and Eggs
2007 Reunion Jam
Saturday, February 10. 11am - 3pm
at
BOMA, the Bar Of Modern Art
583 East Broad Street
(old First Baptist Church)

Gene Walker leads the "House Band"

A Great Columbus Tradition!

The jam is a tradition that started at the onset and invention of jazz and has been an integral part of it ever since. Jazz purists will tell you that the jam never died and continues always. We believe that is the case and are proud to invite all to jam at Jazz & Eggz, a traditional Saturday brunch and live jazz jam, that flourished for several years in the 90's and earlier parts of this century, and keeps on going!

Regulars, miss the easy, comfortable, friendly and fun filled Saturday jazz brunch tradition. They remember many "Must-hear-this" fine tunes, and "Must-be-heard" solos performed at the the old Marble Gang bar on Mt. Vernon avenue. The scene had a marvelous, magical feeling to it. Everyone loved it!

Unfortunately, it became unavailable and Jazz and Eggs looked for a new home. There have been several attempts at reviving the jam since then. Most were well attended _our last jam at the downtown Hyatt brought over 300 people, not including musicians! They weren't ready for such a crowd. Yet, we somehow we never again found a permanent home that worked as well as that old bar.


Well… maybe our woes are over! Jazz and Eggs has been booked at one of the newest and coolest venues to have recently opened in Columbus. BOMA is an elegant, worldly, sophisticated nightclub/restaurant/ art venue in an award winning architectural renovation of the Old familiar, grand church.



Cover charge: $10 at the door
Full bar and gourmet breakfast; available at additional cost.
Valet Parking: $5
Self Parking: $3 in lot. Meters available on nearby streets.
(BOMA is is within walking distance of Downtown and Near East neighborhoods)



The house band is led by Gene Walker, Listen for the Jazz artistic director, and features Linda and Kerry Dactyl, Tom Carroll, and more to be announced.


Join the Jam! Bring your axe and register at the door. We''ll let Gene know you're in the house. If he calls you up, breakfast is on us! (Listen For The Jazz)



For related info, check out:
hottimesfestival.com

artsfoundationofoldetowne.org

Jerry Bowling Photography - Retrospective

Jerry Bowling Photography Retrospective

Through March 4
Q Bar & Nightclub
205 N. Fifth St., Columbus, OH 43215; Front Room
artist reception Thu, February 1, 7-9pm; open to the public

The Slender Nude

Marcel Marceau as Bip

The Painter's Hands

Black Madona

Blinded by Justice

Jerry Bowling is an old friend and a fabulous photographer. I own a copy of the Marcel Marceau image and I wish him well.
charlie

"Two of perhaps Bowling’s most successful examples of fortuitous celebrity encounters are featured at Q- Bar, both captured in Columbus. One is a profoundly engaging close-up of a 16-year-old Beverly D’Angelo, shot at an after-party on North High St. The other is a head shot of Marcel Marceau, donning a hooded fur coat and obscuring half his face with a promotional image of Bip, his theatrical alter-ego. Additional figurative works are on display, justifying Bowling’s early successes in fashion photography. Showcasing his range of interests, still-life, abstract, architecture and other genre are represented, all in all revealing over thirty years of personal experiences."
Chad Tooker - curator

Harry Wozniak Opening at Mac Worthington Studio

My friend and neighbor, Harry Wozniak, is currently exhibiting paintings at

Mac Worthington Galerie, 749 N. High Street, in the Short North.

An opening reception is scheduled for
Saturday, January 20, 6-9pm.

More info? Call 614 294 7790 or visit macworthington.com


See more work by Harry at his website:www.wozniakart.com

Innerart CharlieBits: Cordi Blows her Horn

Innerart CharlieBits: Cordi Blows her Horn

Cordi Blows her Horn

It's a slide show, about 2:25 min. long of recent picd I took while hanging out with my only granddaughter (so far), age 2. I get to kvell occasionally.

Enjoy, charlie




You can view it on youtube.com or click:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wstS19PDFTY

Entries for 07 Columbus Literary Awards

Thurber House accepting entries for 2007 Columbus Literary Awards

Columbus, Ohio – Thurber House is accepting entries for the 2007 Columbus Literary Awards, the biennial awards given to the most outstanding literary works produced by Franklin County writers.

Guidelines for the awards are available by calling 614-464-1032 or by visiting Thurber Houses’s Web site: www.thurberhouse.org. All applications must be received at Thurber House, 77 Jefferson Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43215, by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 30. Postmark date will not be considered.

One award of $5,000 is given in each of three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Winners of theColumbus Literary Awards will be announced in September and will be honored at a reception and reading inOctober.

The Columbus Literary Awards are sponsored by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, a not-for-profit organization that encourages and supports cultural development in the Columbus area. Thurber House assumed responsibility for the awards in 1997.

A panel of three distinguished judges will select the winners through an anonymous process:

- Erin McGraw is the author of four books of fiction, most recently The Good Life. Her critically acclaimed stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Kenyon Review, and many other journals and magazines. She teaches at the Ohio State University.

- Luke Feck recently completed A Century of Firsts, a centennial history of American Electric Power where he served as senior vice president of corporate communications. He has been editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Feck was recently inducted into the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame and is a board member emeritus of Thurber House.

- Daniel Anderson’s books of poetry include Drunk in Sunlight and January Rain. He is the editor of The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov, a New York Times Notable Book, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. Anderson’s work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry among others. He is currently on the faculty at Kenyon College.

Info? Call Missie Kendall 614 464 1032 x.11 or send email mkendall@thurberhouse.org

Music by Victims of the Holocaust at OSU

"Thwarted Voices" – Music by Victims of the Holocaust

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 7:30 p.m.OSU's Weigel Hall Auditorium, 1866 College Road

Co-sponsored by OSU's Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the School of Music

FREE ADMISSION

Parking available at the Arps "B" garage (enter from either High St. or College Road) just north of 17th Avenue.

Solo and collaborative artist Phillip Silver combines Paul Ben-Haim's Piano Sonata, Viktor Ullman's Piano Sonata No. 4 , and George Tinter's Prelude for Piano in a program that reclaims compositions of Jewish artists who were victims of the Holocaust.

For more information go to www.meltoncenter.osu.edu or call 614-292-0967.

Lori Fireman, Program Coordinator
Melton Center for Jewish Studies
The Ohio State University
306 Dulles Hall
230 W. 17th Avenue
Columbus , Ohio 43210-1311
(614) 292-0700 phone
(614) 292-8838 fax
Fireman.2@osu.edu

Steve Abbott Reads Poetry, January 11

Steve Abbott
will read his poems
this coming Thursday,
January 11, 2007
7 p.m.
at
The Rattlebox
@
Liberty Books & News
The Shops on Lane Avenue
1649 West Lane Avenue, Columbus

Copies of his Pudding House chapbook "Greatest Hits, 1984-2003"
will be available.

Come early and browse!

Roadtrip to Phoenecia

Last November Lynn, Stan and I took a weekend trip to visit our friends, the Fliegels, in the Catskill mountains of New York. They own Babytoes Gallery and operate it from The Art Upstairs Gallery, in Phoenicia. We helped them mount the opening of the monthly art show. Any and all artists are invited to submit work unjuried for exhibit and sale. The gallery takes a small cut of the sale. This concept works very well. About 200 people attended the opening!

We also toured around and looked at galleries and such in nearby Woodstock and Kingston where we had a delightful time roaming the streets and hanging out with Studio Stu, whose music is heard as background for the slide show below.

Studio Stu has been featured in Innerart before. He is the sole virtuoso of jazz on the Studivarious washtub bass. Hear for yourself two tunes from his CD album Fools in Love.
More info? Order this CD? Visit his website: www.studiostu.biz

Short North Launches "Gallery Talks"

For Immediate Release - January 5, 2007
Contact: John Angelo snbacols@aol.com

Columbus, OH—The art dealers of the Short North Business Association are pleased to announce the launch of Short North Gallery Talks. The first series of six talks features a variety of topics designed to give insights to art collecting and introduce audiences to the stories behind the art and the artist. Each talk will be hosted by a Short North Gallery. The series will kick off January 13 and run through March 24.

Saturday, January 13 at 2 PM • Rebecca Ibel Gallery • 1055 N. High Street
High and Low Art: The Influence of Street Art on Contemporary Art
A Conversation with artist Daina Higgins and Joe Houston

The Rebecca Ibel Gallery launches the Short North Gallery Talks with a conversation between Columbus native Daina Higgins and Columbus Museum of Art contemporary art curator Joe Houston on the influence of graffiti and street culture in contemporary art. Higgins is currently exhibiting paintings in the Miranova Gallery and is featured in the inaugural alumnae show at Fort Hayes. Her highly detailed realistic urban scenes, made exclusively with spray paint, have caught the attention of New York Times critic Roberta Smith who praised her work for how “(it) creates a poetic awareness of the passage of light, moving through the world, bouncing off things and making visual experience fleetingly possible.”


Upcoming Gallery Talks...

Thursday, February 8 at 5 PM • Wexner Center for the Arts • 1871 N. High Street
Sadie Benning: A Conversation With the Artist and Eileen Myles
Based in Chicago, Sadie Benning is one of the country’s most respected and influential video artists. This exhibition marks the first time her paintings and works on paper will be exhibited publicly, and will also feature the artist’s first foray into gallery-based video installation.

Saturday, February 10 at 2 PM • Kathryn Gallery • 642 N. High Street
Informed Art Purchasing: An Appraiser's Perspective (a.k.a. Why Not to Buy Art on a Cruise)
with guest speaker James Corcoran, AAA, ASA, FRICS, CFE accredited senior appraiser

Sunday February 18 at 2 PM • Sherrie Gallerie • 694 N. High Street
The Joy of Collecting
A panel discussion mediated by Springfield Art Museum Director Mark Chepp

Saturday, March 10 at 2 PM • Marcia Evans Gallery • 8 E. Lincoln Street
Corporate and Residential Art Consulting
Why does art enhance the environment? Why does it represent who you are as a company? or as a person?
Artwork can speak volumes about who you are and what image you are trying to convey.

Saturday, March 24 at 2 PM • Lindsay Gallery • 986 N. High Street
Folk and Self-Taught Art in Context
Melissa Wolfe, Associate Curator of American Art at the Columbus Museum of Art, looks at how folk and self-taught art fits into the larger context of American art in collections and exhibitions.

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John Angelo, Executive Director
Short North Business Association
614-228-8050
120 W. Goodale Street • Columbus • Ohio 43215
www.shortnorth.org

Studio Stu performs in upstate NY

Yo, my friends, so it's the first Friday of the year and you don't know what to do? Look no further...I will be solo at my favorite Sake Bar, Neko Sushi & Sake in Wappingers Falls. (a bit far, but, who cares, right?)

Yes, this Friday I will be kicking back the tunes (and the sake) and eating the best sushi, hibachi, teriake, sashimi, and other Japanese delights, including, did I mention, 30 kinds of premium sake....makes you wanna swoon. (makes me wanna croon)

So, will I see you Friday, hmmm? I hope so...the first gig of the year, and I'm dyin' to belt out some tunes...bring your lover or meet a new one...sake, jazz and sushi, what a combo...can't wait to see ya,

All ways, sTuDIo.
www.studiostu.biz

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 6:30-9:30
STUDIO STU EVOCATIVE JAZZ, EXOTIC LOUNGE
NEKO SUSHI & SAKE BAR
1817 RTE 9 WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY
845.298.9869

Milo Renewal and Survival?

Note: This message arrived today, 1/2/07. I have read in the last few weeks about the demise of Milo art center, a grand experiment that involved turning an old elementary school into a viable artist's center, providing work and residence space, at an affordable price. The idea was, and still is, great, but support was lacking and it never took off. It did provide some pretty good art experiences. I saw theatre and dance perfomances there, and knew and admired a number of visual artists working out of Milo.

It seems that lots of others think it is worth saving the dream. Current and former residents and art patrons are mouting a monumental effort to save Milo. (see below). If you agree that it should be saved and reborn, come to the event and help out!

charlie

Milo Renewal
Rebirth and Progress for the Milo Dream
January 3, 2007
6P-12A

An Exhibition of Arts and Music by Milo Residents and Associates past and present.
The Milo Arts Building
617 East Third Avenue
Columbus 43201
for more information, call 614.294.0450