At the end of this month, more than 30 Columbus artists will open their studios to the public for an exciting weekend of tours and demonstrations. We’re all familiar with the final product of art — a painting, a book, a concert, a festival, a performance — but we don’t…
Last night the Greater Columbus Arts Council hosted its annual Public Forum. The forum gives the Arts Council an opportunity to connect with the community and discuss timely and important topics that relate to our city and the arts. More importantly, this forum gives us a chance to listen to…
As Thanksgiving approaches I do what many do, I pause and think about what I’m grateful for. Of course the first thing that comes to mind is my family and all that we have celebrated this year—including a beautiful new granddaughter. I am also grateful to live in a city…
Volunteering is a symbiotic endeavor in that in impacts the volunteer as much as it impacts the organization, individual and/or community receiving the volunteer’s time and dedication. Every time I see a business provide a paid day for its employees to go volunteer or a professional group ban together to…
The February issue of GCAC’s monthly arts newsletter Front Row Center features Columbus native DonCee Coulter, a multi-media artist influenced by family, hip-hop culture and a man dedicated to using art to help the youth in his community.
For Mariah French, to dance is to feel at home. Since she was a child, dance has been a way to connect with the world around her. Mariah has fond memories of gathering all the neighborhood kids in their backyard to choreograph elaborate dances to perform for the neighborhood. But…
You can hear it in his voice, his laugh, the way he travels throughout a conversation. Sterling Carter loves the arts. And most of all, he loves being an artist.
Let’s address the biggest fake news out there right now. “Voting doesn’t matter.” Not what you expected right? But this is one piece of fake news I hear far too often these days and we need to put a stop to it right now. Voting DOES matter. When we show…
We recently announced the 2022 Artists Elevated awards with investments of $20,000 in unrestricted funds going to Filmmaker Sterling Carter and Choreographer Mariah Layne French. Our hope, when we developed the Artists Elevated awards, was that this money would provide artists the financial boost they need to expand their career…
After two years of having to announce the cancelation of the live, in-person Columbus Arts Festival, I am excited to be able to invite everyone back to the riverfront for my favorite event: the Columbus Arts Festival. AND we are celebrating its 60th Anniversary! To officially open the festival, we…
As a baby, Quianna, would lay on her back and click her feet to the beat of the music floating through the room. She was already connected to movement at a young age. But her mom was uncertain if she would ever dance. Quianna was born bow-legged. Without reconstructive surgery,…
It is time for the Greater Columbus Arts Council to deepen its private funding pool and build a robust, diverse revenue stream, and it is time for us to raise our level of investment in individual artists. Tom Katzenmeyer, CEO, president of the Arts Council I have…
