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

Arnett Remembers the Godfather of Soul

Arnett Howard sent us this personal memory of the legendary James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, who died on this past Christmas day. Included in the photograph are the late Hank Marr and Bill Moss who I also knew and admired.
charlie

"My People,

Happy holiday and we celebrate the life of Mister Dynamite, James Brown (JB). As a teen, growing up in music in the early 1960s, he was everything to me.

My Plain City neighborhood kids and I were blessed because we had an uncle, Bill Chapman aka Happy Chappy, who was a radio announcer on WVKO-AM & FM. When James came to Columbus, and he came often, Chappy would be one of the promoters rubbing shoulders with James and after keeping us waiting for ever, Chappy would bring his boys into the dressing room for a peek and handshake with the star.

Without a doubt, my greatest memory of JB was from the summer of 1967 when he performed at the Ohio State Fair Grandstand, doing four shows in two marathon days. My Dad and I watched the first show together and he left me in the grandstand that evening because he trusted me to take care of myself. I witnessed the late show, found my way to my cousin Pinky's apartment and went back the next afternoon for two more shows.

My entry in to professional music was that summer also, with the Vadicans Band of London, Ohio. I played my way on stage at the Arena Lounge on East Main Street to Cold Sweat, JB's hit during that summer.

I greeted James and his wife at Port Columbus Airport in 1983 and in 1986, I was on the way to the Newport Music Hall when I spotted JB's motorcoach in the alley behind the theater. It was the tour season that was promoting Living In America. I walked up the rear steps and asked the first person I saw if Maceo Parker, JB's great alto saxophonist, was on the tour. Within seconds I was pointed up stairs that led into the band's dressing room.

That evening I had a front row seat at the Newport courtesy of the James Brown Band.

JB has become an ancestor and one who has left us tears of joy. He was Black, proud and he said it LOUD. Long live the King.

With love,

A"

Photo caption: Hank Marr, James Brown, Bill Moss, unknown, Columbus, Ohio. 1966.

Paul Henri Bourgignon Anniversary Exhibit at The Ohio State University Faculty Club

Sometime in the mid 80's, I spent a memorable afternoon with Paul and Erika Bourgignon, when I was writing art stories for Columbus Alive! (or maybe even it's predecessor Downtown Alive!) We looked at paintings, then sat down for wonderful conversation. Both had international reputations, he as a well-known artist; she made major contributions as an archeologist and was later a professor in that field at The Ohio State University for 40 years. Paul had experienced the turmoil of war in Belgium and both had traveled extensively all over the world. He talked about his passion for art and told of many adventures and situations he'd experienced. He painted every day of his adult life. It was the only time I ever saw him and he died shortly thereafter.
charlie

PAUL-HENRI BOURGUIGNON: A CENTENNIAL VISIT

January 5 through February 23, 2007

The late artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon (1906-1988) has gained a great following. His paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited and praised. Now as the centennial of his birth approaches, Dr. Erika Bourguignon, wife of the artist, will present the works of her late husband at the Ohio State University Faculty Club in an exhibit entitled “Paul-Henri Bourguignon: A Centennial Visit.” Dr. Erika Bourguignon has personally selected the artwork for this exhibition, creating a rare opportunity to view work never before exhibited or not shown in 20 years. An Opening Reception in honor of this important exhibition will be held at The Ohio State University Faculty Club, 181 South Oval Drive, in Columbus, on Friday, January 12, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Interested persons are asked to call the club at 614-292-2262.

Paul-Henri Bourguignon was an artist, a novelist, a journalist, an art collector and an avid observer of the human condition. Born in Belgium in 1906, Paul Bourguignon traveled widely in the countries of the Mediterranean and lived in both Haiti and Peru. The strong impact of his restless drive to search the world for experiences and human understanding can be found in his work as an artist and in his novel, The Greener Grass. His painting styles during his lifetime included impressionist, modernist and abstract. Viewers have described his work as “timeless, passionate and visionary.” Jacqueline Hall, Art Critic for The Columbus Dispatch, reviewed his paintings in 1989 stating: “When Bourguignon concentrates on faces, the pathos of the human condition stands out.” In 2001 she further wrote: “His paintings keep charming the viewer, even after they have been seen several times.” Gallery V represented Paul Bourguignon’s work for more than ten years. For more information about the artist, visit www.PaulBourguignon.com.

Professor Emerita Erika Bourguignon was a member of the faculty at The Ohio State University for more than forty years. An internationally recognized scholar in the field of anthropology, she is known for her fieldwork with the Chippewa Indians and in Haiti. Prof. Bourguignon served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology at The Ohio State University from 1971 to 1976. Among her publications are Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature, Cross-Cultural Study of Dissociational States (funded by The National Institute of Mental Health 1963-68) and Possession. Professor Bourguignon’s many honors include The Ohio State University Distinguished Research Scholar of 1986 and an honorary doctorate from Queens College, New York in 2000. Erika Bourguignon retired from the university in 1990.

Erika Bourguignon created and sponsored the “The Erika and Paul Bourguignon Lectures in Art and Anthropology” at the university, a series of lectures presenting speakers selected for their knowledge of the relationship between art and anthropology. “Cave Art: Consciousness and the Origins of Art” was the most recent . In the 1950s the Bourguignons also created a series on WOSU radio called “Man and His Music.” The format was developed to examine ancient and primitive music, looking for its influences as Western music developed. In further support of the university, Prof. Bourguignon has made extensive donations to the library of The Ohio State University from the couples’ collection of photographs and books.

Mechanicsville Covered Bridge photos by Mark Berger

Check out these new images of the Mechanicsville covered bridge. Mark Berger has photographed all known covered bridges in Ohio. If you should know of one he has missed, please notify us and we'll see that Mark adds it to his collection.

To see more Images of Ohio covered bridges, please visit: Ohio's Covered Bridges in the current issue of InnerArts.

To learn more about Berger and see other images, or to contact him for prints (or commissions), please visit his website: focusfoto.com

Chi Kung Workshops at Monkeys Retreat

MONKEYS RETREAT & THE COLUMBUS MUSIC HALL in
conjunction with THREE TREASURES HEALTH CENTER
presents a series of Qigong (Chi Kung) Workshops with
Frances Lea Gander.

Qigong (Chi Kung) is the science of cultivating the body's internal energy. It is a meditational movement. By itself, or in conjunction with Tai Chi, it can help develope energy, promote health and aid in self-defense. It can be used to prevent illness and achieve mental and spiritual peace. The classes will all include introductory information on Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as teaching a Qigong form.

The Instructor is Frances Lea Gander, L.Ac., M.F.A., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM). She is Director and Head Instructor of Three Treasures Health Center in Athens, Ohio (http:/home.frognet.net~threetreasures).

Three Treasures Health Center offers the Chinese medicine based services of acupuncture, herbalism, taiji (tai chi). and qigong. Frances Gander is registered to practice acupuncture in Ohio and Maryland, and is nationally board certified. She comes with 12 years of experience in acupuncture and herbalism and nearly 30 years of experience in the Chinese internal arts (taiji and qigong).

This will be her first time teaching in Columbus.

The workshops will be held on two different dates in two different locations. On Saturday November 11th & 25th, there will be workshops from 10AM - Noon at Monkeys Retreat 1202 N.High St., Columbus, Ohio 43201 (614-262-9511) and from 2PM - 4PM at The Columbus Music Hall 734 Oak St., 1 block SE of Broad & I-71 (614-464-0044).

On each of the dates, the cost of the workshop is $15 for each session or $25 for 2 classes.

Saturday November 11th 10AM - Noon at Monkeys Retreat 1202 N.High St. (614-262-9511) 2PM - 4PM at The Columbus Music Hall 734 Oak St., 1 block SE of Broad & I-71 (614-464-0044).

Saturday November 25th 10AM - Noon at Monkeys Retreat 1202 N.High St. (614-262-9511) 2PM - 4PM at The Columbus Music Hall 734 Oak St., 1 block SE of Broad & I-71 (614-464-0044).

Columbus Women's Chorus in concert

Babette Gorman (left in photo) sent this:

Hi Charlie:

The Columbus Women's Chorus concert is coming right up. We'll be singing a mix of folk, classical, and satirical songs, and I have a couple of fun "bits" this time. Afterwards, we'll have a reception and a silent auction featuring goods and services donated by chorus members and other generous individuals. The proceeds will benefit the chorus, helping us to pay for, among other things, sheet music and salaries for our artistic director and accompanist, because ticket sales alone cannot support the work we do.

3:00 PM, Sunday, November 19, 2006 (the day after the Michigan game), at the Unitarian Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Road in Clintonville. There is plenty of free parking.

You can buy your tickets at the door or online:

www.cwchorus.org

Hope to see you there!