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In Conversation with Bo Bartlett: “Parents”

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Tom Ingram

This second part of our interview series with acclaimed artist Bo Bartlett comes from an interview we conducted while he showed us around the Bo Bartlett Center, 921 Front Avenue, in May of this year. Our first installment found Bo discussing how the Center came to be and some of his feelings on art, particularly the way art can unite communities. In this part of the interview, we visit a specific painting currently hanging in…

Local Authors Spark Summer Reading

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Tom Ingram

It seems like the Chattahoochee Valley barely got to have a spring, and now the summer is here, bringing with it the excitement of summer reading challenges at area schools and libraries. As a mother of a four-year-old, I am always looking for books my daughter will be excited to pick up, watch intently, and eventually memorize so she can act out the story. I try to find activities with a balance between preparing my…

In Conversation with Bo Bartlett: The Bo Bartlett Center’s past, present and future, and finding common ground through art

Posted on June 14, 2018June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

On an overcast day, as the sun broke through a light rain long enough for me to walk from my car to the Corn Center for the Visual Arts, which houses the Bo Bartlett Center, I waited for Columbus-born artist of international renown, Bo Barltett, in the lobby area. I had visited The Center many times since the opening reception on Jan. 19, and I had always been struck by the contrast in these experiences—the…

Art and Museums, May 2018

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Orphic: CSU Senior Art Exhibition Featuring artists John Styron, Jose Rosario, Jessica Kennedy and J. Allen Vanderford, Jr.. Work will be on display in the Ilges Gallery. May 5, 6 p.m., Corn Center for the Visual Arts, 921 Front Avenue, Columbus American Women in History Please join the National Infantry Museum Kids program to explore the role women have played through the history of the United States. $10 per youth student. May 5, 10 a.m….

Julianne David: one artist’s journey from Instagram to Columbus’ newest fine art gallery

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Julianne David works out of her dining room. The space is intended to be a dining room, anyway, but is given over entirely to canvas and paint. Not that David has much time to work. “I squeeze in [art] during nap times, after bed, before they wake,” she says of finding time for art while raising three sons. “They like to help me paint.” Painting was not her first path, or even her second. She…

Sia Etemadi: Collaboration and communication, with a little artistic vision, can transform neighborhoods

Posted on April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Uptown Columbus in the early 1980s was, in many ways, not an attractive neighborhood. Blighted, dilapidated and almost hopeless, it is easy, 30 years later, to take for granted the area’s transformation into a show-piece historic district full of colorful homes and businesses. But real people, guided by their individual visions and willingness to collaborate, made the remarkable transformation possible. One of those people is Sia Etemadi. After two years at Columbus College, Etemadi moved…

Artbeat: collaboration is the key to lifting up art in the community

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Begun in 2012, Artbeat brings together artists and art organizations from all over the community for three weeks of events designed to “engage, energize, educate and evoke reaction.” Now in its seventh year, Artbeat is bigger than ever, with more than 50 affiliated events, which highlight the best Columbus has to offer in art, music, theatre and fun. Three weeks of events also make a significant economic impact. Peter Bowden, CEO of VisitColumbus, estimates roughly…

Ralph Frank’s life, liberty and pursuit of happiness

Posted on February 22, 2018June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

In a way, Ralph Frank, Jr. was born to do it. Featured image courtesy of Garry Pound by Frank Etheridge “I grew up on the south side,” the Columbus native recalls, pointing out that he was born in 1951 at what’s called “the old hospital” that predated Martin Army Hospital, where his two younger siblings where born. “My dad stuck a lettering brush in my hand more than a few times, but I wanted…

Walk the Walk Growing the impact and importance of African-American historical sites in Columbus

Posted on February 12, 2018June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

By Frank Etheridge Perhaps the most jarring example in Columbus of how history is told—by whom and for whom— and changes with time lies in the shadow of the Government Center. On that beleaguered tower of bureaucracy’s frontward-facing 10th Street side, a series of three historical markers (erected from 1955-57, during Jim Crow’s last gasp) celebrates the site as connected to: Confederate Hospitals (eight buildings, including the original city court house demolished to make way…

Art and Museums, February 2018

Posted on February 3, 2018February 2, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Mini Makers: Chalk Art Bring your preschoolers to build their sensory skills and foster creativity and self expression. To learn more, call the children’s department at (706) 243-2679. Feb. 6, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Columbus Public Library, 3000 Macon Road Still-Life Drawing Hour for Adults Enjoy an hour to focus on creating a still-life drawing in a non-judgmental environment. Limited sketching material will be provided, so feel free to bring your own drawing/sketching supplies. All…

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