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 a more sustainable arts sector in Columbus.
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An unprecedented year for the bed tax in 2016 resulted in more support to artists and 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.
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
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.
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We hosted another outstanding Columbus Arts Festival on the downtown riverfront and Columbus’ beautiful Scioto Greenways. We estimated that more than 450,000
people enjoyed fine artists from across the country, and amazing music, dance,
theater, and local cuisine at the city’s free welcome-to-summer event.
142%
INCREASE
As always we are grateful to the Mayor, Columbus City Council and the Ohio Arts Council for our funding and all the individuals, corporations and community partners who support our work in the arts.
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Tom Katzenmeyer President & CEO
David Clifton Board Chair
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that of Columbus home game sports attendance
Nonprofit arts attendance
Additional support from: The Crane Group and The Sol Morton and Dorothy Isaac, Rebecca J. Wickersham and Lewis K. Osborne funds at The Columbus Foundation.
in Columbus is
1.6
Attendance from 2015, the most recently completed season for arts and sports. Sports attendance of 3,288,739 from publicly available home game attendance for the following teams: Columbus Blue Jackets, Columbus Clippers, Columbus Crew SC, Ohio Machine and men’s and women’s football, basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer and women’s field hockey at The Ohio State University. Arts attendance of 5,212,745 compiled from physical attendance at 91 central Ohio 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.
Griset Damas-Roche is a featured artist in the
Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2016 GRANTS AND AWARDS
Spotlight.............................. 2-3 Lynette Shy
- 84 ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTED*
- 203 ARTIST GRANTS
ADVOCACY.......................... 4-5
- 27
- 57
- 174
GRANTS
Spotlight ............................. 6-7 Shanelle Marie
OPERATING SUPPORT
GRANTS
PROJECT SUPPORT
GRANTS
ARTIST
EXPERTISE..........................8-9
- $3,123,623 $561,842
- $125,738
Performing Artist Travel, Professional Development and Supply Grants.
Spotlight..........................10-11 Keo Khim
Includes:
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- 12
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Spotlight..........................12-13 Searius Addishin
BOOST GRANTS
COLLABORATION........14-15
$75,974 $64,581
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Spotlight .........................16-17 Alexandra Fresch
ARTIST EXCHANGE AND FELLOWSHIPS
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Spotlight................................ 18 Lucy Aveni
- ARTrips
- COMMUNITY IMPACT
$51,800
- $5,760
- $22,400
Spotlight ............................... 19 Elena Osterwalder
Fellowships awarded in dance, literature, media arts, playwriting, and visual arts.
*Unique organizations, some organizations received more than one grant
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.
- Painting a mural at the New Albany Classic.
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LYNETTE SHY
Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales for BalletMet
- Q
- A
What do you get when you put together cornstarch and pointe shoes?
An amazing piece of art.
One of BalletMet’s biggest projects in
2016 was a video titled Becoming Violet.
We really wanted to create an art piece that was made for online audiences. So, we did something extremely risky, we teamed up with an amazing director and gave him absolutely no direction.
My goal with Becoming Violet, was to
engage a new social audience and show the world what amazing and athletic dancers we have at BalletMet. We strive to always create marketing content we’re proud of, tell stories our
audience finds interesting, and always
I’m very proud of what BalletMet, and the marketing team and the Arts Council about being authentic, connecting
SO much bigger than marketing it’s are doing for the arts here at home and literally around the world. We strive to tell our story and the addition of the Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign where our dancers’ personal stories are being told has allowed us to even further expand our reach. humans to each other and to experiences that will move them.
I love my job.
—Lynette Shy
We did this so we could see what would remain authentic and honest, especially happen if we didn’t box him in and he was free to go anywhere he liked with his artistic vision. He came up with cornstarch. Colored organic cornstarch, and the result was absolutely stunning. when it comes to our art. We feel that
video’s such as Becoming Violet and
everything we do should always reflect
that belief.
Screen captures:
Becoming Violet is an exploration into the transformative and uniting power of creativity, the persistent internal desire to create beauty out of chaos. Directed by Steven Weinzierl of the Lair Collective. Published on YouTube Aug 8, 2016.
I’m a marketer, yes, it’s true, but it’s not a dirty word, I believe it’s a form of art itself. I absolutely love my job, it’s
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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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ADVOCACY
PROMOTING ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY
FIRST ANNUAL COLUMBUS OPEN STUDIO & STAGE
The inaugural Art Makes Columbus/ Columbus Makes Art event was a twoday self guided tour of Columbus art studios and major performance venues.
Maggie Smith’s
poem Good Bones
goes viral.
“It’s impossible to know how many people have read the poem, though one estimate in August put the number 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): April Sunami, Roger Williams, Lisa Horkin, Queen Brooks, and Michael McEwan.
Excerpt from The Washington Post, Maggie Smith and the poem that captured the mood of a tumultuous year. Maggie Smith is an Art Makes Columbus featured artist.
Right: Maggie Smith by Meghan Ralston
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video views
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Art Makes Columbus street teams engaged the public at the Arts Festival, PromoWest Fest and Independents’ Day.
featured
twitter impressions
artists
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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS
Street chalk drawing at Independents’ Day
243,858
347 stories
web page views
The Harmony Project and Art Makes Columbus featured artist
David Brown on CBS This Morning.
THE HARMONY PROJECT
350,000,000
earned media
impressions
NEW DESIGN
for now bi-monthly
ColumbusMakesArt
e-newsletter
$
9.1 million
Emmy Award
in publicity value
winning campaign
Harmony Project with director David Brown
$
77,555
THE CAPITAL OF COMICS
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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 by from the National Academy of Arts & Science — Ohio Valley Chapter. Left to right: Ryan Schlagbaum, cinematographer; Chuck Oney, studio camera; Kate Quickel, host; Jackie Shafer, producer & editor; Shawn Likley, cinematographer
Art Makes Columbus featured artist Jeff Smith, creator of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel series Bone, brings his passion for comics and collaborative spirit to Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. The event celebrated its’ second year and garnered national media attention.
$
449,810
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Photo by Chris Casella
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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 individuals, surveyed more than 200 people online, and visited more than a dozen neighborhoods across the city, creating a profound cultural exchange. From these conversations we built an interactive performance that we took all over town in the fall. The goal for each event was simple: to empower everyone in the room to meet and know their neighbors, to strengthen the bonds of community, and to create new connections.
Palestinian family living in Grove City; from retired, lifelong residents to newly transplanted, school-age children; from entrepreneurs to educators to artists to
police officers. The Columbus Voices Workshop was an open house,
a collective space, and an environment for cultivating connections.
Top: Feels Like (the body project.
The Columbus Voices Workshop
reinforced for me that being an actor is a gift. Contributing to the project provided a safe space for me to develop into a more well-rounded artist and encouraged me to bring my own unique perspective and experiences to the project.
Bottom: Shanelle Marie
at the Columbus Voices Workshop.
Breathing life into these stories from our community came with a great responsibility to ensure that many
different voices were heard. We worked
hard to talk to people from many backgrounds: from Latino immigrants living on the North Side to a large
Shanelle Marie photo by David Wallingford.
Opposite: The Columbus Voices Workshop.
—Shanelle Marie
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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
Neighborhoods: Northland; Worthington; Bexley; Downtown;
17 performances 40 actors 16 venues
Linden; South End; Clintonville; King/Lincoln; German Village; East Side; Upper Arlington; OSU/Weinland Park; Franklinton; Hilltop; and Driving Park.
15 communities 400 Columbus residents’ stories and ideas
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EXPERTISE
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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DID YOU KNOW?
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
FOR THE ARTS
Arts and Economic Prosperity 5
research was completed with more than 600 audience intercept surveys with the annual Raymond J. Hanley gathered and attendance and budget data from 95 organizations in central Ohio. Updated economic impact numbers are expected to be arts in central Ohio. Battenberg was
RAYMOND J. HANLEY AWARD
In September, Columbus musician Tom Battenberg was presented
People believe that Columbus has a vibrant and growing arts scene.
Columbus College of Art & Design hosted the 2016 Arts Council Public Forum where more than 350 people turned out to hear about the public opinion research about arts funding in central Ohio that was completed in 2016.
Studies show that students who have access to arts and cultural learning experiences demonstrate improved math and reading skills, perform higher on standardized tests, stay longer in school and graduate at higher rates.
Award, a cash prize of $12,500 presented to an artist who has made outstanding contributions to the
• 76% of Franklin County registered voters support public funding for the arts
- released in June 2017.
- a professor of music at The Ohio
State University, has performed with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and in 2016 celebrated 50 years playing for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
Citizens are proud of our world- class cultural institutions and artists and see that they contribute to Columbus’ reputation nationally and internationally as a great place to live, work and visit.
• 82% believe funding should be county wide
PARTNERSHIP WITH TRG ARTS
The Arts Council is helping to support a mailing list trade service
specifically for nonprofit arts and
cultural organizations. The service enables the 10 participating
Residents, visitors, and businesses are attracted to a city with fun and
diverse offerings in the arts.
Art experiences make memories that last a lifetime and positively impact learning.
Columbus cultural organizations to make more informed and targeted decisions for their marketing,
Top left: ARTrepreneur Workshop at ARTfluencial/
Creative Control Fest; Top right: Columbus Museum of Art; Right: Nina West performs at the Columbus Arts Partnership Awards; Above: Columbus Symphony during Twisted 2, photo by Jennifer Zmuda; Right: Tom Battenberg.
development and outreach efforts.
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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 name of Amairee. She was about eight or nine years old, the eldest of a family of four girls, but uncommonly nonassertive. She was a young artist who was gentle and kind in not only her response but in her artwork. Because of site closures and also because Amairee grew out of our K-sixth grade program, we lost touch.
KEO KHIM
Arts educator with TRANSIT ARTS and Art in the House
- Keo Khim
- Live painting at Open Mic Night
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 forward. 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
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LAST YEAR AT
TRANSIT ARTS
946
YOUTH PARTICIPANTS
40,000+
AUDIENCE MEMBERS
36
YOUTH PLACED IN
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
90+
Top: Johathan “Flip” Goodman performs with TRANSIT ARTS.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Bottom: TRANSIT ARTS was a participant in
Columbus Open Studio and Stage.
The Arts Council provides funds raised from the Community Arts Partnership
Awards to the Ohio Alliance for Arts
- Education for the TRANSIT ARTS
- Right: Chris Layton at the
- Columbus Arts Festival.
- and Art in the House programs.
No city funds are used for these programs.
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During the end of 2014 I was already an “accomplished” performance poet with sights on writing books. Inasmuch, I felt something was missing? As both an artist and creative director for The Nine-Tenths Group I have been privy to countless open mics across the nation. At that moment, it hit me: we decided to create a YOUTH open mic!
SEARIUS ADDISHIN
CIVILIZATION: Youth Open Mic at Wild Goose Creative Poet and founder of
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 establish awesome bonds via providing their youth with a safe and fun stage to present who they are. The respect and admiration that I have for CIVILIZATION: Youth Open Mic is parallel to the respect and admiration I have for Wild Goose because they gave our existence a chance and as a result we have