2016 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

SUPPORTING ART. ADVANCING CULTURE. LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR AND PRESIDENT

In 2016 the Greater Columbus Arts Council made substantial progress toward building 84,031 a more sustainable arts sector in Columbus. An unprecedented year for the bed tax in 2016 resulted in more support to artists and ARTIST PROFILE arts organizations than ever before. Twenty-seven Operating Support grants were awarded totaling $3.1 million and 57 grants totaling $561,842 in Project Support.

VIDEO VIEWS The Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign generated nearly 400 online, print and broadcast stories, $9.1 million in publicity and 350 million earned media impressions featuring the arts and artists in Columbus. We held our first annual ColumbusMakesArt.com Columbus Open Studio & Stage October 8-9, a self-guided art tour featuring 26 artist studios, seven stages and seven community partners throughout Columbus, providing more than 1,400 direct engagements with artists in their creative spaces.

We hosted another outstanding Columbus Arts Festival on the downtown riverfront 142% and Columbus’ beautiful Scioto Greenways. We estimated that more than 450,000 people enjoyed fine artists from across the country, and amazing music, dance, INCREASE theater, and local cuisine at the city’s free welcome-to-summer event. As always we are grateful to the Mayor, Columbus in website traffic City Council and the Arts Council for our funding and all the individuals, corporations and community aided by Google partners who support our work in the arts. AD GRANT PROGRAM

Tom Katzenmeyer David Clifton President & CEO Board Chair arts>sports that of Columbus Nonprofit arts attendance home game sports Additional support from: The Crane Group and The Sol Morton and Dorothy Isaac, in Columbus is attendance Rebecca J. Wickersham and Lewis K. Osborne funds at The Columbus Foundation. Attendance from 2015, the most recently completed 1.6season for arts and sports. Sports attendance of 3,288,739 from publicly available home game attendance for the following teams: Columbus Jackets, , SC, and men’s and women’s football, , , and soccer and women’s field Griset Damas-Roche is a featured artist in the hockey at The . Arts attendance of 5,212,745 compiled from physical attendance at 91 central Ohio Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign. arts and cultural organizations as submitted to American’s for the Arts for the Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 study to be released in June 2017. 2016 GRANTS AND AWARDS TABLE OF CONTENTS Spotlight...... 2-3 84 ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTED* 203 ARTIST GRANTS Lynette Shy 27 57 174 ADVOCACY...... 4-5 Spotlight ...... 6-7 OPERATING SUPPORT PROJECT SUPPORT ARTIST Shanelle Marie GRANTS GRANTS GRANTS $3,123,623 $561,842 $125,738 EXPERTISE...... 8-9 Spotlight...... 10-11 Includes: Keo Khim Performing Artist Travel, Professional Development 13 12 and Supply Grants. Spotlight...... 12-13 BOOST GRANTS power2give Searius Addishin $75,974 $64,581 COLLABORATION...... 14-15 29 Spotlight ...... 16-17 ARTIST EXCHANGE Alexandra Fresch 6 1 AND FELLOWSHIPS Spotlight...... 18 ARTrips COMMUNITY IMPACT $51,800 Lucy Aveni $5,760 $22,400 Fellowships awarded in Spotlight ...... 19 dance, literature, media arts, Elena Osterwalder *Unique organizations, some organizations received more than one grant playwriting, and visual arts. ARTS FUNDING...... 20 GRANTS AND AWARDS Organizations...... 21-22 Individuals...... 23-25 FINANCIALS...... 26-27 SUPPORTERS...... 28-29 Arts Council Board...... 29 Arts Council Staff...... 30

BalletMet in Serenade © The George Balanchine Trust, photo by Jennifer Zmuda. 1 Painting a mural at the New Albany Classic. LYNETTE SHY Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales for BalletMet Q A What do you get when you put together An amazing piece of art. cornstarch and pointe shoes?

One of BalletMet’s biggest projects in My with Becoming Violet, was to I’m very proud of what BalletMet, and SO much bigger than marketing it’s 2016 was a video titled Becoming Violet. engage a new social audience and the marketing team and the Arts Council about being authentic, connecting We really wanted to create an art piece show the world what amazing and are doing for the arts here at home and humans to each other and to that was made for online audiences. athletic dancers we have at BalletMet. literally around the world. We strive to experiences that will move them. So, we did something extremely risky, We strive to always create marketing tell our story and the addition of the Art we teamed up with an amazing director content we’re proud of, tell stories our Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art I love my job. and gave him absolutely no direction. audience finds interesting, and always campaign where our dancers’ personal —Lynette Shy We did this so we could see what would remain authentic and honest, especially stories are being told has allowed us to happen if we didn’t box him in and he when it comes to our art. We feel that even further expand our reach. Screen captures: was free to go anywhere he liked with video’s such as Becoming Violet and Becoming Violet is an exploration into the his artistic vision. He came up with everything we do should always reflect I’m a marketer, yes, it’s true, but it’s not transformative and uniting power of creativity, the cornstarch. Colored organic cornstarch, that belief. a dirty word, I believe it’s a form of art persistent internal desire to create beauty out of itself. I absolutely love my job, it’s chaos. Directed by Steven Weinzierl of the Lair and the result was absolutely stunning. Collective. Published on YouTube Aug 8, 2016.

2 LAST YEAR AT BALLETMET

RANKED AMONG THE 20 largest BALLET COMPANIES IN THE nation BECOMING VIOLET 300,000+ VIEWS 1,700 STUDENTS SERVED AT BALLETMET ADADEMY EACH WEEK

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PROMOTING ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

FIRST ANNUAL COLUMBUS OPEN STUDIO & STAGE

The inaugural Art Makes Columbus/ Maggie Smith’s Columbus Makes Art event was a two- day self guided tour of Columbus art poem Good Bones studios and major performance venues. goes viral.

“It’s impossible to know how many people have read the poem, though one estimate in August put the at nearly a million. The poem has been interpreted into a dance by a troupe in India, turned into a musical score for the voice and harp and been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Korean, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Closer to home, Smith says that she has gotten many requests for the work to appear in church bulletins and for her to read it aloud. “It’s my ‘Freebird,’ ” she jokes.” COSS participating artists included (left to right): , Roger Williams, Lisa Horkin, , and Michael McEwan. Excerpt from The Washington Post, Maggie Smith and the poem that captured the Right: Maggie Smith by Meghan Ralston mood of a tumultuous year. Maggie Smith is an Art Makes Columbus featured artist.

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featured 269,505 Art Makes Columbus street impressions teams engaged the public at artists TAKING IT TO the Arts Festival, PromoWest 40 Fest and Independents’ Day.

THE STREETS Street chalk drawing at Independents’ Day 347 stories 243,858 web page views The Harmony Project and Art THE HARMONY Makes Columbus featured artist 350,000,000 NEW DESIGN PROJECT David Brown on CBS This Morning. earned media for now bi-monthly impressions ColumbusMakesArt e-newsletter $9.1 million in publicity value Emmy Award winning campaign Harmony Project with director David Brown $77,555 earned in google THE CAPITAL ad grants OF COMICS Broad & High received its third consecutive Emmy in August 2016 for outstanding magazine program and the first for its production work on the Art Makes Columbus Campaign. Awards presented Art Makes Columbus featured artist Jeff Smith, creator of the internationally $449,810 by from the National Academy of Arts & acclaimed graphic novel series Bone, brings his passion for comics and Science — Ohio Valley Chapter. Left to collaborative spirit to Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. The event celebrated its’ right: Ryan Schlagbaum, cinematographer; second year and garnered national media attention. in media in-kind Chuck Oney, studio camera; Kate Quickel, host; Jackie Shafer, producer & editor; added value Shawn Likley, cinematographer Photo by Chris Casella 5 SHANELLE MARIE Actor, Available Light Theatre

Available Light Theatre set out to celebrate its 10th anniversary by creating a broadly inclusive theatrical portrait of Columbus, Ohio. In one year we interviewed more than 150 Palestinian family living in Grove City; individuals, surveyed more than 200 from retired, lifelong residents to newly people online, and visited more than transplanted, school-age children; from a dozen neighborhoods across the city, entrepreneurs to educators to artists to creating a profound cultural exchange. police officers. The Columbus From these conversations we built an Voices Workshop was an open house, interactive performance that we took a collective space, and an environment all over town in the fall. The goal for for cultivating connections. each event was simple: to empower Top: Feels Like everyone in the room to meet and (the body project. The Columbus Voices Workshop know their neighbors, to strengthen reinforced for me that being an actor Bottom: Shanelle Marie the bonds of community, and to is a gift. Contributing to the project at the Columbus Voices create new connections. provided a safe space for me to develop Workshop. into a more well-rounded artist and Shanelle Marie photo by Breathing life into these stories from encouraged me to bring my own David Wallingford. our community came with a great unique perspective and experiences responsibility to ensure that many Opposite: The Columbus to the project. Voices Workshop. different voices were heard. We worked hard to talk to people from many —Shanelle Marie backgrounds: from Latino immigrants living on the North Side to a large

6 LAST YEAR AT AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE

CELEBRATED THEIR 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF “PAY WHAT YOU WANT,” A PROGRAM THAT HAS UNDERWRITTEN OVER 12,000 TICKETS SINCE 2008 RAISED $45,000 FROM 175 BACKERS IN A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN FOR COLUMBUS VOICES WORKSHOP

COLUMBUS VOICES WORKSHOP INCLUDED 17 performances Neighborhoods: 40 actors Northland; Worthington; Bexley; Downtown; 16 venues ; South End; 15 communities Clintonville; King/Lincoln; ; East 400 Columbus Side; Upper Arlington; residents’ stories OSU/; and ideas Franklinton; ; and .

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SHARING BEST PRACTICES, INVESTING IN RESEARCH, LEVERAGING RESOURCES

CATS, Columbus Children’s Theatre.

Edwaard Liang’s Bolero, photo by Jennifer Zmuda. EDWAARD LIANG Artistic Director, BalletMet “One of the reasons I wanted to be back in Columbus was because I saw opportunity, possibility and a community of people to inspire me.”

Edwaard Liang by Zaire Kacz Photography

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Cultural experiences create memories and people connect these memories to the good times in their lives.

Columbus has a broad-range of cultural experiences for all ages.

PUBLIC FORUM AMERICANS RAYMOND J. People believe that FOR THE ARTS HANLEY AWARD Columbus has a Columbus College of Art & Design vibrant and growing hosted the 2016 Arts Council Public arts scene. Forum where more than 350 people Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 In September, Columbus musician research was completed with more Tom Battenberg was presented turned out to hear about the public Studies show that students who opinion research about arts funding than 600 audience intercept surveys with the annual Raymond J. Hanley have access to arts and cultural in central Ohio that was completed gathered and attendance and Award, a cash prize of $12,500 learning experiences demonstrate in 2016. budget data from 95 organizations presented to an artist who has made improved math and reading skills, in central Ohio. Updated economic outstanding contributions to the perform higher on standardized • 76% of Franklin County impact numbers are expected to be arts in central Ohio. Battenberg was tests, stay longer in school and registered voters support released in June 2017. a professor of music at The Ohio graduate at higher rates. public funding for the arts State University, has performed with • 82% believe funding should ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Citizens are proud of our world- be county wide in 2016 celebrated 50 years playing class cultural institutions and for the Columbus Symphony artists and see that they contribute to Columbus’ reputation nationally Orchestra. and internationally as a great place PARTNERSHIP to live, work and visit. WITH TRG ARTS Residents, visitors, and businesses are attracted to a city with fun and The Arts Council is helping to diverse offerings in the arts. support a mailing list service specifically for nonprofit arts and Art experiences make cultural organizations. The service memories that last a lifetime enables the 10 participating and positively impact learning. Columbus cultural organizations to Top left: ARTrepreneur Workshop at ARTfluencial/ make more informed and targeted Creative Control Fest; Top right: Columbus Museum decisions for their marketing, of Art; Right: Nina West performs at the Columbus Arts Partnership Awards; Above: Columbus development and outreach efforts. Symphony during Twisted 2, photo by Jennifer Zmuda; Right: Tom Battenberg.

9 Sometimes as educators/mentors we may never get a chance to see our impact come full circle.

I’ve been an artist, a graphic designer and an arts educator for nearly 15 years now. My start began with a Youth Arts program called CAPACITY, where Jackie Calderone, also an arts educator and mentor took an interest in developing my leadership and encouraging me to teach my art. This program underwent transitions and became TRANSIT ARTS, and around the same timeline I would join a new program called Art in the House where I would teach art to students K-sixth grades.

During my first year teaching with Art in the House, I had a very quiet and shy student by the KEO KHIM name of Amairee. She was about eight or nine Arts educator with years old, the eldest of a family of four girls, but TRANSIT ARTS and uncommonly nonassertive. She was a young artist Art in the House who was gentle and kind in not only her response Keo Khim Live painting at Open Mic Night but in her artwork. Because of site closures and also because Amairee grew out of our K-sixth grade program, we lost touch. Mr. Keo’s Last Day

I know that as an arts educator, not everyone will end up being a professional artist or using anything we teach them beyond the time we have with them. However in 2015, Amairee applied for an opening with Ohio Alliance for Arts Education program Art in the House, to work as an apprentice artist. Needless to say, we hired her as my apprentice and gave her a chance to lead and teach other young artists in the same program she first encountered eight years ago. Through the past year we’ve been able to discuss her growth and her new confidence in life and being able to use this role to propel her .

This is the impact that few get to see; our teaching legacy, the power of encouragement, and how our own lifelong passion for the arts is carried beyond the classrooms.

—Keo Khim

10 LAST YEAR AT TRANSIT ARTS 946 YOUTH PARTICIPANTS 40,000+ AUDIENCE MEMBERS 36 YOUTH PLACED IN JOBS/INTERNSHIPS

Top: Johathan “Flip” 90+ Goodman performs with TRANSIT ARTS. COMMUNITY PARTNERS Bottom: TRANSIT ARTS was a participant in The Arts Council provides funds Columbus Open Studio raised from the Community Arts Partnership and Stage. Awards to the Ohio Alliance for Arts Right: Chris Layton at the Education for the TRANSIT ARTS Columbus Arts Festival. and Art in the House programs. No city funds are used for these programs.

11 During the end of 2014 I was already an SEARIUS ADDISHIN “accomplished” performance poet with sights on writing books. Inasmuch, I felt something Poet and founder of was missing? As both an artist and creative CIVILIZATION: Youth Open Mic director for The Nine-Tenths Group I have at Wild Goose Creative been privy to countless open mics across the nation. At that moment, it hit me: we decided to create a YOUTH open mic!

Our first hurdle was finding a reputable venue — insert Wild Goose Creative. Wild Goose Creative merges the potential contention points of visual arts and performance arts in both an effortless and professional manner. We were able to begin our partnership with them October 2014 and it has been a union that totally surpassed any expectations!

We have had youth as young as four years old and adults as old as “don’t-ask-me-my-age” perform at our night with equal satisfaction. The consistency and staying power of being functional for more than two years has tremendously assisted our brand in a positive way. We have been able to link with patrons that we did not know before the event and CIVILIZATION: Youth Open Mic, establish awesome bonds via providing their Searius Addishin photo by Andrew Bruening youth with a safe and fun stage to present who they are. The respect and admiration that I have for CIVILIZATION: Youth Open Mic This photo and lower right: Wild Goose Creative, is parallel to the respect and admiration I Cupcake Celebration, have for Wild Goose because they gave our photo by Andrew Bruening existence a chance and as a result we have been able to positively affect others.

I look forward to growing and evolving together in the upcoming years!

—Searius Addishin

12 LAST YEAR AT WILD GOOSE CREATIVE 2006-2016 ANNIVERSARY 10th CELEBRATED MEMBERSHIPS doubled

CIVILIZATION: Youth Open Mic, photo by Andrew Bruening

Wild Goose Creative, Art on Tap, photo by Andrew Bruening 300 EVENTS HOSTED #WildArtColumbus 1ST Chamber Brews 12 WAKE & SHAKE BREAKFAST RAVES SECOND YEAR BUSINESS OF ART WORKSHOP SERIES

13 450,000 COLLABORATION

PEOPLE CONVENING, SHARING COMMUNICATING COLUMBUS ARTS AND EMPOWERING, PROVIDING FESTIVAL FIRSTS! RESOURCES TO SUSTAIN ART AND ARTISTS

ProMusica and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra teamed up for a joint concert 300 on Friday night on the ABC6 Main Stage. The concert was supported by Safelite AutoGlass. ARTISTS

Shadowbox Live’s Gallery of Echoes accompanied by original visual art, music, dance and spoken words. 7 STAGES Live Performances “’s relationship with the Arts Council feels like a 1,100 partnership, very much because PERFORMERS of the tone you set. The entire arts community benefits from this approach.” — Laurie Lathan, 3,000 Thurber House Excecutive Director Top: ProMusica and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra performing at the open of the Arts Festival; Bottom: HANDS ON Shadowbox Live performs Gallery of Echoes; Right: Hands On Art at the Columbus Arts Festival; Far Scavenger Hunts Katherine Matthews is a featured artist in the Right: Katherine Matthews by Meghan Ralston Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign.

14 COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP 175 AWARDS PERFORMANCES Sold-out house of 650 at COSI on October 13 to celebrate the achievements and STREET contributions of Catherine Willis, Alexis Perrone and Patrick Losinksi and three area businesses—Big Lots, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and PERFORMER DesignGroup. Columbus Makes Art Excellence Awards of $10,000 each were presented to the for the Margaret M. Walter Wing and PROGRAM Past Productions and Stage for the August M. Wilson Festival. Seven community partnerships provide matching funds to pay artists to perform around Columbus to add vibrancy to the city’s outdoor markets 261 and public spaces. Capital Crossroads’ UNIQUE ARTISTS Pearl Market, Short North Arts District Gallery Hop, , Gay Street Moonlight and Sunlight Markets, Greater Columbus Convention Center, 488 hours John Glenn International Airport OF PERFORMANCE $37,235 Top and Bottom Left: COMO/Dana Cox street performers at Gallery Hop. Center: Street PAID TO ARTISTS performer at Columbus Arts Partnership Awards. Top right: Barbara Fant performs at Columbus Arts Partnership Awards. Above: Fences from the August M. Wilson Festival. Right: First Anniversary celebration of the Margaret M. Walter Wing at the Columbus Museum of Art.

15 ALEXANDRA FRESCH Full-time artist, instructor and social media coordinator for Glass Axis

In 2016 Glass Axis created a unique community art education partnership called Through The Eyes of a Child. Six Glass Axis artists, including myself, worked with students from three area schools, Canal Winchester Trail Elementary, Columbus Preparatory Academy and Starling Middle School, to transform their 2D drawings into 3D art. We wondered what would happen when you mixed the creative imagination of a child with the skills of a talented glass artist? We received 80 entries from the students and selected 10 of those drawings to turn into glass sculptures. The results were masterpieces that reminded us that our imaginations are the only limit when it comes to glass art. We loved working on this project because as glass artists it gave us a chance to really make something out of our comfort zones. It was so fun to sculpt these creative creatures to look as they were drawn by the students. However, normally when I make glass, I try to make it look as realistic as possible, so it was actually challenging to put five legs or three eyes onto the creatures, but that’s what made it fun and inspiring for me —I had to let go and be childlike in my application of the glass. This experience was really rewarding for me—seeing the excitement on the children’s faces when their designs came to life! They can’t do this kind of art in their classroom. They are at first captivated by the fire but then get to learn a lot about the science involved in glass, its history, not just throughout humanity, but its role in Ohio’s history. This “cool” art form can help spark their interest in science and history as well as show them how studying those subjects in the classroom can translate into daily life. Adrianna Strawser and Alexandra Fresch co-created Egg Man. —Alexandra Fresch 16 LAST YEAR AT GLASS AXIS ART SALES UP 38% NEW INSTRUCTORS 4 added

FACILITY RENTALS UP 82% CLASS PARTICIPATION 3,593

All photos courtesy Glass Axis. Top: Through the Eyes of a Child Demonstration. Left: Avery Arnold’s The Snail and a Bag. Artists: Rose Succi and Alex Fresch Right: Glass Axis artist Rose Succi.

17 LAST YEAR AT COSI 670,041 onsite attendance LUCY AVENI Participant in Tech Studio 295,155 and volunteer at COSI, age 14 outreach program Lucy Aveni is a true “COSI kid.” She’s and I was planning to fill it out as soon been coming to COSI since she was a as I turned 12. I was just so excited. baby and now COSI is helping her shape Volunteering at COSI is fun—I really like her future career goals and her art. She helping people and it kind of helped me volunteers in little kidspace and she is come out of my shell. Mentoring others a mentor and user in Tech Studio. She’s in Tech Studio is really fun because 6,000 very into music creation and drawing you still get to mess around with the and enjoys using Logic, Garage Band technology but you’re helping other tech studio visits and designing for the 3D printers. people too. —Lucy Aveni I’ve been coming to COSI since I was an FREDERIC BERTLEY infant so I’d say it’s had a big influence on me. Through visiting Tech Studio, I’ve NEW PRESIDENT & CEO gotten more into drawing and making music. It’s really helped me a lot to have that kind of connection to technology because a lot of it, like 3D printers, are not accessible. A year ago I wanted to be an astronaut, but now I want to go into digital art and it’s mostly because of the Tech Studio. When I was 10 I had in a purple folder a paper application to volunteer at COSI

COSI photos courtesy Robb McCormick Photography

18 LAST YEAR AT COSS 26 ARTIST STUDIOS 7 stages 7 community partners ELENA OSTERWALDER 1,400 artist Participant in 2016 Columbus Open Studio & Stage, interactions an Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art event $25,000 Last year when I heard about The visitors were very engaged and Columbus Open Studio & Stage (COSS) I had so many great conversations, worth of art I was intrigued. I knew other cities did within the intimacy of my studio, which these kinds of self-guided tours but I nurtured their appreciation of my art. sold going wondered how Columbus would receive And their favorable reaction gave me the idea. greater confidence in my work. directly to artists I submitted my application and was so I am so grateful to the Arts Council and pleased to be chosen to participate. It the coordinators for taking the lead in was a chance for me to spend time with starting this event, and I look forward COSS 2017 friends and family—friends helped as to participating in 2017 as an artist or a assistants and my granddaughter was volunteer. WILL BE HELD the best salesperson an artist could —Elena Osterwalder ever hope for. All COSS photos courtesy the Arts Council. OCTOBER 7-8 19 COLUMBUS’ RETURN ON INVESTMENT GROWTH IN COMMUNITY FUNDING IN THE ARTS* Every $1 invested by the city of Columbus was matched by $31.34 in total dollars. 77.39% Growth in Community Funding since 2010!

YEAR EXPENSES increase from $16.30 in contributed revenue prior year $13.98 in earned revenue 2009 $2,481,004 $ 1.07 in other government dollars 2010 $2,819,433 13.6% *Data from 79 unique organizations funded through Arts Council Operating and Project support grants. In-kind contributions and permanently restricted revenues have been removed. 2011 $3,145,102 11.6% SUPPORTED A WORKFORCE OF AND ENGAGED A COMMUNITY OF 2012 $3,732,968 18.7% 5,169 Jobs 7,405 Volunteers 2013 $3,916,579 4.9% 2,825 Artists 508,556 School Children 2014 $4,306,509 10.0% 4.4 MILLION ARTS EXPERIENCES 2015 $4,788,383 11.2% for Columbus residents and visitors 2016 $5,001,424 4.4% Data provided by arts and cultural organizations in their 2015 Final Reports and on the DataArts platform. (2015 is the most recently completed fiscal year. Figure includes physical and virtual attendance.) Columbus ranked “Highest in Visitor Satisfaction in the Midwest” by J.D. Power on the 2016 Destination Experience Satisfaction StudySM Actual General & Administrative 2016 $1,551,467

Grants Designated & Services Project Support $935,461 $4,035,155

Columbus Other Program Arts Festival Columbus, OH received the highest numerical score among 8 cities in the Midwest in the Expenses J.D. Power 2016 Destination Experience Satisfaction Study, based on 26,124 total responses, $171,262 $913,581 measuring the experiences and perceptions of travelers who visited a top 50 U.S. destination, surveyed February-July 2016. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.

Other program expenses consist of community arts programs, power2give Daytime at Red, White, and Boom at COSI, photo Courtesy Kevin Michael Seymour Photography. and fiscally sponsored organization expenses. 20 Anatomical Scenario (FA: Ohio Dance) Anna and The Annadroids: Faux(pas)bia $ 5,319 2016 2016 Artfluential ARTprepreneur Workshop Series (Year 2) $ 4,734 Arts Initiative “The Plough and the Stars” by Abbey Theatre $ 22,500 Operating Support Project Asian Festival Corp Twenty-two years of Asian Festival 2016 $ 25,500 Available Light Theatre The Columbus Voices Workshop $ 13,325 Support Camille Catherine, Inc. Creative Strings Workshop 2016 $ 9,750 Capriccio Vocal Ensemble Karl Jenkins’ Requiem $ 1,980 27 CATCO Henry Ford & Son $ 15,000 Columbus Civic Theater 2016 Season $ 19,125 ORGANIZATIONS AWARDED Columbus College of Art and Design CCAD Public Programs 2016 $ 25,500 57 Columbus Dance Theatre China Preview $12,597 ORGANIZATIONS Columbus Metropolitan Library IFLA 2016 World Library Congress Opening Session $ 22,500 Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble Made in Ohio 2016 $ 1,300 AWARDED Columbus Songwriters Assoc./Cols Music Fdtn Songwriter Showcases 2016 $ 4,400 Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services New American Festival 2016 $ 3,825 $3,123,623 Evolution Theatre 2016 Season $ 17,000 First Night Columbus First Night Columbus 2016 $ 22,500 for/word company Patience Worth $ 7,746 Friends of the Cultural Arts Center Poetic Voices to Address Social Concerns $ 1,140 Actors’ Theatre $ 21,094 $561,842 Gallery Players Second half of 68th Season $ 5,625 Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. $ 275,000 Global Gallery Community Outreach Programs 2016 $ 14,174 Gotham/Bebe Miller Dance, Inc The Making Room $ 3,750 CAPA $ 257,500 Green Lawn Abbey Preservation Assn Drawing on the Past $ 1,125 CATCO $ 113,426 Hollie Klem Another Year, Another Christmas $ 4,613 Chamber Music Columbus $ 31,597 Imagine Productions of Columbus 2016-2017 Season $ 6,500 Independents’ Day, Inc Ninth Annual Independents’ Day Festival $ 10,200 CityMusic, Inc. $ 10,809 Jefferson Academy of Music Jefferson’s Signature Series ’16-’17 Season $ 7,849 Columbus Children’s Theatre $ 84,237 MadLab 2016-2017 Season $ 19,077 Columbus Dance Theatre $ 56,835 Ohio Art League Come Along With Me $ 1,947 Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus $ 46,624 Ohio Historical Society Forced to Migrate by the Thunder Mountain King $ 12,065 Ohio Performance Academy/NPAC South Pacific $ 13,688 Foundation $ 20,622 Ohioana Library Association 2016 Ohioana Book Festival $26,600 Columbus Museum of Art $ 267,500 OhioDance 2017 OhioDance Festival and Conference $ 14,345 Columbus Symphony Orchestra $ 250,000 Opera Project Columbus 2016-2017 Season $ 22,500 Paisha Thomas Art Cover Me 2016 $ 532 COSI $ 265,000 2016 Exhibitions $28,500 Franklin Park Conservatory $ 257,500 Post Comedy Theatre Post from the Road Series & Public Event $ 6,975 Friends of Early Music $ 13,401 ProMusica Chamber Orchestra “Naked Classics” $ 23,489 Red Herring Productions 2016 Season: Sustain, Deepen, and Build $ 12,600 Glass Axis $ 69,553 Scott Spears/Framelines Framelines Season 3 $ 2,100 Jazz Arts Group $ 151,193 Scott Woods/The Kate Schulte Foundation Holler: 30 Days of Columbus Black Art $ 5,200 King Arts Complex $ 116,449 Short North Alliance Public Art Project: The Messenger Wall $ 5,216 SID Public Association Transforming Pearl Alley into a Public Space $ 4,875 Ohio Art League $ 12,823 Six String Concert, Inc 2016-2017 season $ 6,650 Ohio Designer Craftsmen $ 85,688 Small Steps Are Giant Leaps Small Steps Are Giant Leaps $ 5,090 Opera Columbus $ 116,816 SRO Theatre Company 2016-2017 season $ 6,662 State of the Art Productions 2016-2017 season $ 2,700 ProMusica $ 112,094 Stella Kessie Asare/Talking Drum The Talking Drums Project $ 99 ROY G BIV Gallery $ 6,444 Summer Jam Westgate Summer Jam & The Fantastic Food Garden $ 6,675 Shadowbox Live $ 83,333 The Columbus Experiment The Columbus Experiment 2016 $ 375 Short North Stage $ 74,135 The Fuse Factory Electronic and Digital Arts Lab Frequency Fridays 2016-2017 $ 2,363 The Kate Schulte Foundation 2016 Hot Times Kate Schulte Tribute $ 3,388 Thurber House $ 61,450 Thomas Wells/Mivos Quartet Mivos Quartet - Columbus Componsers $ 1,724 Wexner Center for the Arts $ 262,500 Vivo Chamber Music Festival Vivo Music Festival 2016 $ 6,386 VSA Ohio Two Days of Culutural Accessibility $ 6,938 Wild Goose Creative, Inc Annual Programming Suite $ 10,441 21 Xclaim Dance Fanciful Danciful - Season 9 $ 13,065 2016 Columbus Songwriters Association Professional development for committee & board $ 1,000 BOOST Fuse Factory Electronic and Digital Arts Lab Adding administrative support $ 10,000 Glass Axis Security equipment purchase $ 2,917 Independents’ Day Technology and sound upgrades $ 3,000 13 Jazz Arts Group Jazz Academy touring equipment $ 3,000 Momentum Equipment, website upgrade and professional development $ 10,000 ORGANIZATIONS Ohio Art League Staff development and Board governance retreat $ 4,300 AWARDED OhioDance Create virtual dance collection program $ 9,239 Red, White and Boom! Website upgrade $ 10,000 Striving to Achieve Real Success Conference $ 5,000 $75,974 Thurber House Strategic plan implementation $ 5,000 TL United Music for Hope Performance equipment and recording workshop $ 3,057 VSA Ohio Accessing the future $ 9,461

2016 CATCO $ 555 2016 Red Herring Productions $22,400 COSI $ 875 Community ARTrip ProMusica $ 390 Glass Axis $ 491 Impact Wexner Center for the Arts $ 2,000 COSI $ 1,750 $5,760 $22,400

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$64,581 dispersed to 12 organizations

Top: A demonstration of “Whack a Score” by Columbus artist Amery Kessler. Part of Noves Històries, Ohio Art League’s 2016 spring juried exhibition at OSU’s Urban Arts Space. Center: VSA Ohio, photo by Ian Thompson. Bottom: Herve Tullet at CMA. Photo by Meghan Ralston. Above: Courtesy Jefferson Center

22 2016 The GCAC Individual Artist Fellowship Program recognizes 2016 Purpose: to offset the costs of professional development opportunities. outstanding local artists in Franklin County by awarding Examples of eligible activities would be master technique classes, enhancing Individual fellowships each year in Dance, Music, Literary Arts, Professional business skills or attending professional conferences where development Playwrighting, and Visual Arts. Artist Development opportunities exist. Chris Bournea Music $ 500 Brooke Albrecht $ 1,000 Joanna Manousis $ 920 Fellowship Derek Brown Music $ 500 Grants Carolyn Baginski $ 1,000 Mathew Marrash $ 1,000 Program Erika Dennis Music $ 500 Ben Beckett $ 1,000 Amber Mason $ 1,000 Tylon Fuller Music $ 500 Larissa Boiwka $ 1,000 Patrick McGregor II $ 1,000 Daniel Goins Music $ 500 50 Caudelice Brazelton $ 1,000 Peter Morgan $ 1,000 Shelbi Harris Music $ 500 GRANTS Christopher Burk $ 1,000 Kris Morris $ 375 27 Janeen Holmes Music $ 500 Marco Castro $ 1,000 Kevin Oakden $ 1,000 GRANTS Sufiy James Music $ 500 AWARDED Sukaya Chand $ 865 Ellice Park $ 1,000 AWARDED Jesse Leonard Music $ 500 Harold Chichester $ 1,000 Hild Peersen $ 1,000 Jariatu Mansaray Music $ 500 Rebecca Cooper $ 1,000 Troy Petty $ 1,000 LaTonya McGaughy Music $ 500 Ian Davis $ 1,000 Sommer Renaldo $ 1,000 Sheri Janiece Neale Music $ 500 $48,235 Jacci Delaney $ 1,000 Claudia Retter $ 1,000 $43,500 Mushandi Pillow Music $ 500 Kenneth Eaddy $ 1,000 Nate Ricciuto $ 1,000 Cheryl Simmons Music $ 500 Madeleine Etter $ 1,000 Paul Ricketts $ 995 Darchelle Williams Music $ 500 Jennifer Gard $ 1,000 Alex Schrock $ 1,000 Quatric Williams Music $ 500 Forrest Gard $ 1,000 Chris Shaw $ 1,000 Cynthia Wingo Music $ 500 Mark Gunderson $ 765 Aaron Sheldon $ 1,000 Attila Bongar Dance $ 2,000 John Hardin-Leeth $ 400 Alexa Sison $ 1,000 Christian Broomhall Dance $ 2,000 Tara Helfer $ 1,000 Sonda Staley $ 950 Sofie Ann Clemmensen Dance $ 2,000 Anne Holman $ 1,000 Erik Sterberger $ 965 Jaime Kotrba Dance $ 2,000 Gabe Kenney $ 1,000 Jayne Struble $ 1,000 Aminata Mane Dance $ 2,000 Hollie Klem $ 1,000 Jen Townsend $ 1,000 Jim Azelvandre Playwright $ 5,000 Stacy Leeman $ 1,000 Hans Utter $ 1,000 Susan Cavanaugh Visual Art $ 5,000 Aubrey Liston $ 1,000 Brittany Vacca $ 1,000 Paige Fruechtnicht Visual Art $ 5,000 Heidi Madsen $ 1,000 Zac Weinberg $ 1,000 Dani Leventhal Visual Art $ 5,000 Melissa Vogley Woods Visual Art $ 5,000

2016 Jill Raymundo $4,500 Artist Janis Wunderlich $3,800 Exchange

Right: OhioDance Festival Master Class “Ballroom Bash” taught $8,300 by Adam Maynard, Director of Inspiration to Movement, Columbus

23 2016 Purpose: to offset the cost of supplies for individual artists to create new works. Supply For example: filmmakers can use this grant to purchase film stock; visual artists can purchase paint or canvas; Grants dancers can purchase music or specialty shoes, etc. Brooke Albrecht $450 Adam Hernandez $450 Seth Radley $500 107 Ammon Anderson $500 Jacob Holler $500 Jill Raymundo $500 GRANTS Eva Ball $500 Tom Hubbard $500 Claudia Retter $500 AWARDED Ginny Baughman $496 Rebecca Jadway $500 Nate Ricciuto $500 Allandar: The Epic of Sundiata, courtesy Alejandro Bellizzi $234 Tala Kanai $500 Carlos Roa $500 Thiossane Institute. Jennifer Bender $500 Kim Keffer $500 Judith Rush $500 $50,165 Erin Bessler $324 Ellen Knolls $382 Nikos Fydor Rutkowski $500 Columbus Dance Theatre, photo by Wes Kroninger. Laura Bidwa $244 Caroline Koebel $500 Victoria Sankey $500 Utpola Borah $250 Benjamin Lamb $500 Aaron Sheldon $500 Nick Boso $500 Denise Lancaster $500 Lisa Shepherd $500 Caudelice Brazelton $500 Stacy Leeman $500 Alexa Sison $500 Christopher Burk $433 Amy Leibrand $495 Joshua Smith $500 Hakim Callwood $490 Ryan Little James $500 Uko Smith $500 John Carins $353 Jesse Luketic $300 Miranda Stansbury $500 Alice Carpenter $500 Joanna Manousis $500 Erik Sternberger $500 John Chakeres $500 Fredrick Marsh $500 Luke Stettner $500 Tiffany Christopher $310 Amber Mason $500 Lexie Stoia $500 Amanda Cook $450 Kellie McDermott $500 Nicolette Swift $281 Rebecca Cooper $440 Mary McNitt $500 Matthew Swift $500 Nick D’Andrea $500 Maija Miettinen-Harris $500 Stephen Takacs $500 Andrea Emmerich $500 Marquitta Minniefield $300 Christopher Tennant $300 Donna Estep $469 Wesley Mitchell $500 Joseph M. Thompson $500 Madeleine Etter $480 Tyisha Nedd $500 Theresa Touma $492 Shawn Everette $500 Tatum Neff $470 Aina Turiaga $460 Michael Fields $300 Ardine Nelson $500 Mackenzie Turner $500 Danielle Forbes $500 Denise Neyland $500 Hans Utter $500 Paige Fruechtnicht $400 Mike Olenick $500 Zach Van Horn $490 Jennifer Hansen Gard $500 Bryan Ott $500 Barbara Vogel $500 Forrest Sincoff Gard $500 Tona Pearson $490 Melissa Vogley Woods $500 John Gibson $400 Jasimine Pennywell $499 Zac Weinberg $500 Bev Goldie $500 Tomiqua Perry $500 Emily Westenhouser $500 Nathan Gorgen $500 Nathan Photos $500 Maria Wheeler $500 John W. Hardin-Leeth $500 Danielle Poling $500 Marshaie Williams $500 Dana Harper Lynn $490 Michael Polk $500 Carmen Winant $450 Cody Heichel $492 Greg Ponchak $500 Mackenzie Worrall $300 Tara Helfer $500 Sharone Putter $500

24 The Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Memorial Fund Performing Artist Travel Grants For Research and Development

4 Purpose: to offset the cost of traveling for research and development, 7 Purpose: to offset travel costs for paid performance opportunities can be conceptual or technical research Examples of eligible expenses would be airfare, car rental/fuel, GRANTS Examples of eligible expenses would be airfare, car rental/fuel, GRANTS lodging, meals, etc. AWARDED lodging, meals, etc. AWARDED James Allison $1,500 Jennifer Gard $1,000 Harold Chichester $1,500 Forrest Gard $1,000 Joey Hendrickson $1,288 $4,000 Joey Hendrickson $1,000 $9,645 Hollie Klem $1,318 Mackenzie Turner $1,000 Susan Schwarz $1,500 Gabrielle Stefura $1,500 Rachel Wiley $1,039

Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens presented the monumental sculpture exhibition, Origami in the Garden, which told the story of the Japanese art of paper folding through large-scale Film Finishing Funds sculpture created by American artist Kevin Box. The exhibition included Box’s own compositions as well as collaborative works with his wife Jennifer and origami masters Robert J. Lang, Te Jui Fu, Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander. Purpose: to offset the cost of post production or completion of 6 expenses for artists with film projects GRANTS Examples include editing, sound, or any other expense for the AWARDED completion of a film project.

Douglas Aumiller $2,500 Jennifer Gard $2,500 $13,693 Joey Hendrickson $1,500 Eric Homan $2,500 Michael Polk $2,500 Quatric Williams $2,193

The Rocky Horror Show, Imagine Productions full cast doing the Time Warp, photo by Jeri Shafer.

25 ALLOCATION OF CITY OF COLUMBUS FUNDS BY CATEGORY

Actual 2016 Actual 2015

Community Funding - Temporarily Restricted $4,833,038 $4,646,987 Film Columbus - Temporarily Restricted 95,000 83,820 Columbus Keepsake - Temporarily Restricted — 10,000 General and Administrative - Unrestricted 1,611,013 1,548,996

TOTAL CITY FUND REVENUES $ 6,539,051 $6,289,803

Operating Support Grants/Training $3,129,383 $2,877,258 Project Grants Awarded 561,842 486,737 Technical Assistance 75,973 102,795 Individual Artists Fellowships/Grants 228,205 247,443 Community Impact Grants 22,400 84,400 Community Arts Programs 20,000 — Blast 2016 at COSI, photo courtesy Robb McCormick Photography. Promotion City of Columbus 613,579 679,691

Pizzuti Collection, Family Day Series, Cuban Forever Revisited International Program 32,358 26,557 Artistic Excellence 20,000 20,000 Matching Funds Allocated to power2give 2,615 10,000

TOTAL CITY FUNDS ALLOCATED TO $ 4,706,355 $4,534,881 COMMUNITY FUNDING EXPENSES

SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) OF TEMPORARILY $221,683 $205,926 RESTRICTED CITY FUNDS

2016 Total Temporarily Restricted revenue from the City of Columbus is $4,928,038. Grant expenses exclude awards rescinded in the same year as awarded. 2015 Total Temporarily Restricted revenue from the City of Columbus is $4,740,807.

In 2016 and 2015 some of the Community Funding expense categories received additional funding from non-city sources. Those amounts are not represented in this chart.

26 STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES | Years ended December 31

Budget 2017 Actual 2016 Actual 2015 Budget 2017 Actual 2016 Actual 2015

REVENUE EXPENDITURE City of Columbus Contract $6,393,260 $6,539,051 $6,289,803 Community Funding: Grants & Services 4,311,520 4,035,155 3,808,525 Ohio Arts Council 145,815 156,778 130,317 Designated Projects 898,343 935,452 963,999 Contributions 38,000 109,868 42,431 Total Community Funding $5,209,863 $4,970,607 $4,772,524 Columbus Arts Festival 884,651 965,808 834,171 Programs: Community Arts Programs 108,400 139,078 51,505 Columbus Makes Art Sponsorships 250,000 229,025 200,000 Columbus Arts Festival 884,651 913,581 894,794 Other Grant Income — 46,956 4,895 power2give — 26,058 26,929 power2give — 13,159 4,196 Fiscal Sponsor — 6,135 15,037 Community Arts Partnership 105,600 109,750 101,530 Total Program Funding $993,051 $1,084,852 $988,265 Public Art Contracts — 45,000 — Total Community Funding & Programs $6,202,914 $6,055,459 $5,760,789 Fiscal Sponsor — 275 16,471 Advocacy — 90,450 — In-Kind — 39,000 64,680 Administrative Salaries 884,537 804,172 810,956 Other 4,560 19,540 27,151 Payroll Taxes and Employee Benefits 266,423 222,264 217,087 TOTAL REVENUE $7,821,886 $ 8,274,210 $7,715,645 Office and Equipment Rental 112,762 109,040 106,533 Community Arts Partnership/Special Events 94,300 89,697 97,591 Depreciation and Amortization 63,838 53,985 36,531 Randall L. Schieber, HighBall Halloween 2016 Office Expenses, IT Contract & Insurance 78,089 67,194 56,519 Accounting & Legal 28,900 26,753 25,853 Advertising/Public Information 27,700 23,478 29,754 Memberships, Publications, and Misc. 24,932 37,772 32,993 Utilities 13,641 9,344 9,158 Meetings, Travel, Local Expenses 23,850 17,318 18,673 Total General and Administrative $1,618,972 $1,551,467 $1,441,648 TOTAL EXPENDITURE $7,821,886 $7,606,926 $7,202,437 Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on Investments — 16,614 (28,745) INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS — 683,898 484,463

BEGINNING NET ASSETS $3,218,993 $2,535,095 $2,050,632

ENDING NET ASSETS $3,218,993 $3,218,993 $2,535,095

27 SUPPORTERS AT Columbus Downtown Development Orange Barrel Media RBX Media Jameson Crane Corporation Origo Branding RSVP Tanny Crane $10,000 AND ABOVE Columbus Metropolitan Club OSA Technology Partners Sheraton Columbus Loann Crane American Electric Power Columbus Metropolitan Library PAST Productions Columbus Vital Companies Paige Crane Cardinal Health Columbus Museum of Art Pizzuti Collection WCBE 90.5 Shannon and Rob Crane Chobani Columbus Symphony Orchestra Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur WOSU Public Media Chris Culley The Columbus Foundation Columbus Zoo and Aquarium ProMusica Chamber Orchestra ZenGenius Jerry and Jill Dannemiller Huntington National Bank Corna Kokosing Construction Puffin Foundation West, Ltd. Terri Davidson Kroger Company Rea & Associates, Inc. INDIVIDUALS Mary Duffey and Tony Logan L Brands Foundation COTA Robert Weiler Company Jeff Edwards Nicholas Akins National Endowment for the Arts CoverMyMeds ShadeTree Cool Living Bill Faust Frederick Aldom Ohio Arts Council Crabbe, Brown & James, LLP Southeast Healthcare Services David Feinberg Laura Alexander Owners.com (EventNet USA) Crane Group Stewart & Bernice Malquist Howard Feingold Giles Allen PNC DesignGroup Foundation Steven Fields Marty Anderson Safelite AutoGlass Dublin Arts Council Svedka Christopher Filby Christie Angel Superior Beverage Group Easton Community Foundation SWACO Brent Foley Randy Arndt and Jeff Baker The Ohio State University Equitas Health thinkCSC Scott Foltz Herb Asher Toyota Experience Columbus Thurber House Christina Gambino Anna Aumiller Whole World Events First Commonwealth Bank True Panda John and Lucy Gambino Lori Barreras and Alex Fischer First Night Columbus Turner Construction Company Judy Garel George Barrett OTHER SUPPORTERS Franklin County Convention Urban Arts Space DeeDee Glimcher Eric Barth Facilities Vector Marketing Corporation Mike and Joy Gonsiorowski ABLE Roofing LLC Milt and Julia Baughman Franklin Park Conservatory (Cutco) Mary Gray Allegiant Air Karen Bell and Ben Maiden Fulcrum Creatives Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease Mary Jo Green Annie’s Fund Michael Bongiorno G & J Pepsi Cola Bottling Company LLP Ann Hailey and Patrick Duggan BalletMet Jenn Bonito Gateway Film Center Weston Foundation Cynthia Haire Beck Foundation Stacie Boord Graeter’s Ice Cream Wild Goose Creative Marilyn Harris Big Lots Lisa Borelli Grange Insurance Window Pro Holdings Chris Hayler Brandt-Roberts Galleries Denvy Bowman Griffin Communications Sue Hazelton Buckeye Concessions Barbara and David Brandt Gutter Helmet Systems Dave and Nappy Hetzler CampOhio.net COMMUNITY Mary Brock Habitat for Humanity-MidOhio Dale and Gloria Heydlauff Columbus Association for the Jim Burnes Hammond Harkins Galleries PARTNERS Joshua and Brandy Hill Performing Arts Richard Cahaan Harmony Project Arshot Investment Corporation Nicholas Hill Court Appointed Special Advocates Sharon Cameron Hinson LTD City Scene Magazine Charles Hillman CASTO David Carr Hollywood Casino Columbus Department of Elisabeth Hire CD102.5 Bobby Carrington Ice Miller LLP Recreation & Parks Mary Jo Hudson and Lynn Wallich Columbus 2020 Don Casto III James Hardie Building Products Columbus Radio Group Elenita Irwin Columbus Arts Marketing Merry Clark Jazz Arts Group COSI Pamela Iverson Association David and Joan Clifton Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Costume Specialists Stephen Ives Columbus Children’s Theatre Janelle Coleman M&L Concessions DBA Strawberry Dispatch Media Group Joe Jadick Blake Compton Fields Lamar Outdoor Advertising Alan Jazak Columbus Clippers Shelagh Conley Nationwide Children’s Hospital Oakland Nursery Brian Kallaher Columbus College of Art and Design Jack Conner Nationwide Ohio Magazine Andrew Katz Columbus Crew Ron and Janice Cook Ohio Alliance for Arts Education Pelotonia Tom and Mary Katzenmeyer Columbus Cultural Leadership Laura Corey Ohio Bath Solutions PromoWest Kari Kauffman Consortium Mark Corna Ologie John Kennedy 28 Marlana Keynes Michael Reese MEMBERS Java and Mark Kitrick Eva Rhode Arts Council 2016-2017 Lulani Kossoff Susannah Sagan Board of Trustees Stacie Boord, Shadowbox Live Doug and Monica Kridler Liz Samuelson Barbara Brandt, Barbara Brandt, Inc. Tom Krouse Manju Sankarappa OFFICERS Shannon Crane, Community Volunteer Christine Kullberg Jeff and Jody Scheiman David Feinberg, American Electric Power Kimberly LaPlace Ken and Sandy Schnacke David Clifton (Chair) Michael Gonsiorowski, PNC David Lambert David Schooler Huntington National Bank David Hetzler, DLZ, Inc. Catherine Lang-Cline Hope Sharett Karen Bell (Immediate Past Chair) Charles Hillman, Columbus Metropolitan Wayne Lawson Kathleen Shaughency The Ohio State University Stacy Leeman Bill Shimp Housing Authority Thomas Szykowny (Chair-Elect) Dustin Leggans Clarence Simmons Pamela Hykes O’Grady, City of Columbus Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP Deborah Liebel Himbert Sinopoli Kari Kauffman, Experience Columbus Christy Liimatta Cherie Skilton Lori Barreras (Vice Chair) Christine Kullberg, Cardinal Health Susan Liu Brent Sobczak Ohio Civil Rights Commission Catherine Lang-Cline, Portfolio Creative Yung-Chen and Katherine Lu Anna Stephenson and Mary Ann Short Randall Arndt (Treasurer) Randy Malloy Kelly Stevelt Charlotte Norman, Columbus College of Art & Ice Miller LLP John Margeson Mark Stewart Design David Maslekoff and family Michael Bongiorno (Secretary) Angela Pace, WBNS-TV DesignGroup Peggy Mativi Lisa Strobel Eileen Paley, Franklin County Municipal Court Don Miller Tom Szykowny Kimber Perfect, City of Columbus Shannon Morgan Lori Takacs Tanisha Robinson, Print Syndicate Mary Nelson David and Maureen Teed Char Norman Richard Terapak Manju Sankarappa, Asian Festival Pam O’Grady and Family Deborah Thompson Clarence Simmons, SIMCO Construction LLC Doris Moore Lonni Thompson Michael Stinziano, Angela Pace Leah Tsamous and John Haight Todd Tuney, YMCA of Central Ohio Eileen Paley Todd Tuney Priscilla Tyson, Columbus City Council Betsy Pandora Warren Tyler Paul Pardi Priscilla Tyson Ronald Cook Jr. (Legal Counsel), Jacqueline Pasternack Madelyn Underwood Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Karen and Paul Patterson Donald Van Atta Phil Pennino Kathleen Vasko Kimber Perfect Craig Wales John Persichette Jack Weaver Kelly Persichette Robert Weiler Top: Gallery of Echoes, Shadowbox Live Bottom: Summer Jam and the Fantastic Food Garden, photo by Alan Jazak. Jennifer Peterson Art and Kristin Weston Floradelle Pfahl Chuck and Bernice White Michael Pirwitz Bob and Carol Wilhelm Ron and Ann Pizzuti Nickey Winkelman Alan Portnoy Linda Woggon Dianne Radigan Denny and Carmen Wojtanowski Mary Raudabaugh William Wymard Eric Rausch Susan Yost Mark Real Alfaye Youngblood Carol Reece Greg Zunkiewicz 29 Meet the Arts Council Staff

EXECUTIVE OFFICE Looking for more ways to Tom Katzenmeyer connect to arts and culture? President and CEO ColumbusArtsFestival.org Sue Jones Executive Assistant ColumbusMakesArt.com Kayla Green #artmakescbus Director of Finance & Administration Emily Toney Development Director Trina Jackson Administrative Assistant To access grant programs and resources for artists and GRANTS & SERVICES organizations visit: Alison Barret Grants & Services Director GCAC.org Keya Crenshaw Grants Coordinator, Artists MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS & EVENTS Jami Goldstein Vice President of Marketing, Communications & Events Lacey Luce 100 East Broad Street, Suite 2250 Marketing, Communications Columbus OH 43215 & Events Strategist 614/224-2606

COLUMBUS ARTS FESTIVAL Cover: Project Support grantee Small Steps Are Giant Leaps, Exploring new worlds/making new Sean Kessler friends. Photoshoot at the Columbus Zoo and Columbus Arts Festival Manager Aquarium for a segment for NBC4’s Morning show. Photographer/Owner: Aaron Sheldon, Kez Hall Astronaut: Harrison Sheldon, June 2016 Festival & Special Events Coordinator Back Cover: Small Steps Are Giant Leaps, Astronaut or Fireman why not both? Photoshoot at Columbus Fire Station 23. Photographer/Owner: Aaron Sheldon, Astronaut: Harrison Sheldon, January 2016.

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