“Thresholds,” is described by the school as “an impressive example of public sculpture that extends an invitation to the community while enriching the visual legacy of the Stivers campus.” The intersection of blue, orange and grey painted steel planes provides the piece’s structure, and the work plays on the use of straight and curved edges. This sculpture invites the public to interact with it. Situated near the corner of Keowee and Fifth Streets, visitors can walk around and through the two main components of the structure.
The orchards that were part of the Fifth Street landscape in 1834 were covered with green trees dotted with red apples.
There used to be a very strong vinegar odor from those orchards just east of Keowee Street. The new “Vinegar Hill” sculpture, about 160 pounds of steel, serves to remind visitors to the St. Anne’s Historic District of that fact.
Nationally known sculptor Hamilton Dixon created the eye-catching marker with the help of 19-year-old Bakumba “BK” Elias and K12 Gallery for Young People students Tom Brotherton, Edward Finnicum and Cleveland Sumerlin.The article also mentioned "The 1600 Group" project at the former American Saloon....
“We bought the building at the end of October last year and hired a painting crew. We are looking for more investors to finish the inside,” said 1600 Group member Joe Dierkers, who is restoring an 1853 house the next street over. “We’re hoping someone will start a restaurant or a tavern for a neighborhood gathering place.”
In April 2009, Strickland moved to Dayton and opened his own shop on East Fifth Street. Skilled at building, repairing and restoring all types of fretted instruments, he specializes in repairing broken head stocks, neck resets, bridge re-glues, cosmetic repairs and full restorations and has an outstanding national reputation for the quality of his repair work.
Strickland has been designated a Fender “Gold Level” repair technician for both acoustic and electric guitars and is certified by several other major guitar manufacturers to do warranty work on their instruments.
You are cordially invited to the opening reception for our exhibition Social Engagement Exile, Poster Art by Marlena Buczek Smith and Dialogue with Cuba: photographs by Ernesto Pichardo, capturing the essence of society and the beauty surrounding us.
When: May 6th (First Friday)
Where: 234 S. Dutoit St Dayton OH 45402
Time: 5 to 9 PM
Earlier this year, eight local artists bonded with a group of scientists and researchers from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The unlikely pairing was brought about to better understand each other’s world and methodologies.
The meeting, which may be a catalyst for future breakthroughs in military technology, was part of a new initiative known as Tech-Arts.
The initiative is the brainchild of Joe Sciabica, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patt, and Peter Benkendorf, founder of Involvement Advocacy. It came out of talks the two had while serving on an innovation council for the Dayton Development Coalition.
DCDC Community Matinee
In the spirit of a festival, the Community Matinee is a special concert featuring DCDC's world- Renowned dancers in a perfomance that is ideal for the entire family, from toddlers to seniors. Tickets are subsidized through the community sponsors, making them up to 50% cheaper than tickets to other DCDC concerts.
The Community Matinee has pre- concert games and other fun activities for the youth who attend. This unique performance is more than just a come-and-see event. At one point during the concert audiance members are invited to come onstage and dance with the dancers!
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Stivers School for the Arts
1313 East 5th Street
Dayton, Ohio 45402
Phone: (937) 228-3232
Website: www.dcdc.org
E-Mail: qmcclellan@dcdc.org
Tickets-
Adult $8.00
Senior $6.00
Student $6.00
DAYTON — The Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors is showing off its new members. Twenty-one of them are presenting their works at the High Street Gallery. There are 44 works total, divided between the rooms on the first floor.... New members also showing photographs in the show are: Amanda Baker, Frances Schanberger and Sally Struthers....
“The wide variety of expression speaks to the healthy art community in the Dayton region, and to the expansive talents of the new membership of the Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors,” [Bridgette] Bogle said.
Where: The High Street Gallery, 48 High St.
When: Continues through March 27
Hours: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
Dear Friends,
Please join us this Friday, March 4th, from 5-9pm for the opening of two very unique, exciting peace art exhibitions at the Missing Peace Art Space. Refreshments and snacks will be served. Global Art Project for Peace Founder/Director Katherine Josten will be at the Missing Peace Art Space. Artwork for our "Strokes of Hope" exhibition will be shown at the Missing Peace Art Space and at our space at the Cannery Art and Design Center, 434 East 3rd Street. The Cannery will be open until 10pm for First Friday.
Peace & Best Wishes,
Gabriela Pickett
Curator
Missing Peace Art Space
www.MissingPeaceArt.org
Falling Up: Behind the Scenes Fifth Street Gallery
Stivers School for the Arts
The installation is a closer look at the behind the scenes aspects of Djuna Wahlrab’s animated short Falling Up ......a short, animated film about the rituals of childhood. In the Fifth Street Gallery, people will have the opportunity to get an upclose look at the sets, building facades, and concept art; as well as some of the props that were used in the film. Price: Free (Note: Runs until March 25, 2011)
http://www.activedayton.com/
The gallery is managed by one of the many artists who live in St. Anne's Hill....For more than 17 years, the K12 Gallery for Young People has helped kids grow from creating stick figures, to still lifes, to designing large-scale murals. Now the gallery itself is growing. The current 3,000-square-foot gallery on Third Street is expanding; knocking down an 18-inch brick wall has added 2,500 square feet.
We needed $20,000,” said K12 founder and executive director Jerri Stanard.
“I helped Jerri type up the original grant request for K12. She is a great friend, and has managed K12 so well,” Janet Shuff said.
“The gallery has grown from an idea to this big business that serves the community in a unique way.”
As the major contributors, the Shuffs received naming rights for the new space. Thus, TEJAS (Teen Educational and Joint Adult Studio) was born.
“What Jerri’s doing at K12 is a wonderful thing. She manages the artistic and business end of it beautifully,” Shuff said. “She has such a heart for kids.”
Please join us this Friday, Nov. 12th 5-8pm, for the opening reception of Graphic Guts.-
Missing Peace Art Space is pleased to announce "Graphic Guts", an exhibition of internationally renowned artist and designer Luba Lukova. The exhibition will present a comprehensive collection of Lukova's political posters, including an installation with her critically acclaimed Social Justice series, as well as unpublished drawings and sketches. Luba will be here this Friday for the opening of this great exhibition. The 2010 War Resistors League Calendar was edited by Luba and contained several of her posters.
More about the exhibition at our website, http://www.missingpeaceart.org/
Peace & Best Wishes,
Stephen Fryburg
Director
Missing Peace Art Space is a non-profit art gallery providing an artistic forum for exploring issues of peace and conflict in a tolerant, non-commercial environment. A program of the Unitarian Fellowship of World Peace, a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
234 S. Dutoit St
Dayton OH 45402-2215
1(937) 241-4353
Member of the International Network of Museums for Peace
Oct 3-17
Annual Juried DSPS Members Fall Show- coordinated by DSPS board members Joy Oxley and Elizabeth Martin
Oct 12
DSPS Member Meeting (2nd Tues) - 7 pm at 48 High Street Gallery in St. Anne's Hill. Regular members' meeting with presentation by Joanne Von Sossan.
Nov 7 -14
Tri-Art group Fall Show - contact person is DSPS member Phyllis Yarema.Membership is available for only $40 a year. Please feel free to stop by and support our thriving arts community in St. Anne's Hill.
Dayton’s celebration of the U.N. sponsored International Day of Peace will be held at the Missing Peace Art Space on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. City dignitaries will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Grand Opening of the Urban Youth Peace Academy, which will be headquartered at the gallery.
In 1981, the United Nations designated September 21 as International Day of Peace and the day has since been celebrated worldwide. “Dayton: Peace in Perspective” is this year’s local International Day of Peace theme in recognition that most of us are fortunate enough to have a high degree of peace in our lives.
The Urban Youth Peace Academy is a grassroots student organization that grew out of streetpeace, a peace and social justice education program at Ruskin School and East End Community Services. As students completed their 8thgrade year at Ruskin, they wanted to continue their peace studies, sustain the community of learners they had formed, and invite new students from the various high schools they would be attending, into the peace process. In response to this dream, they came together as a core group of student leaders to form the Urban Youth Peace Academy, with a membership representing schools throughout the Dayton Public School district.
Students in the Urban Youth Peace Academy will participate in a full curriculum on Tuesday evenings, including the study of such books as A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah; Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl; and Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozal. They will participate in discussion circles around such movies as Blood Diamond; Life is Beautiful; Schindler’s List; Gran Torino; and The Chamber. Students will have opportunities for instruction and practice in non-violent responses to real life conflict.
