Front Row Center Newsletter from the Greater Columbus Arts Counsil
Small Arts Organizations Thrive in This Big City
Sally Sugar

Entrepreneurs find fertile ground in Columbus, and nowhere is that more evident than the arts community. This capital city is home to numerous grassroots and small arts organizations that have a wide variety of missions and inspiring visions, but share a common bond—the ability to grow and prosper with limited resources.

The Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus (CGMC), Ohio Art League (OAL), Available Light Theatre (AVLT), Creative Arts of Women (CAW) and ROY G BIV Gallery are just five examples of organizations that have managed to leverage their resources to become dynamic players in the city’s arts scene.

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Big Bugs at the Franklin Park Conservatory
ColumbusArts.com Artist Profile
Brian Williams Headshot fine artist, graphic designer, and educator
Brian Williams

For this issue, Lacey Luce, our marketing, communications and events strategist, interviewed  Brian Williams, a fine artist, graphic designer and educator, to discuss his latest series of portraits, his partnership with German poet Mikael Vogel, and selfies with Tesla.

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Sneak Peek

The Arts Initiative Presents Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne

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ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Presents Summer Music Series

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ReelAbilities Columbus Talks the Talk and Walks the Walk

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This Month's Events

This is Spinal Tap & A Mighty Wind
Presented by CAPA Summer Movie Series
Aug. 7

A Poem is a Naked Person
Presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts
Aug. 7-8

Festival Latino
Presented at Bicentennial Park
Aug. 8-9

Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
Presented in the Cox Fine Arts Center
Through Aug. 9

Summer Literary Picnic: Brad Ricca
Presented by Thurber House
Aug. 12

Film Festival of Columbus
Presented by Film Columbus
Aug. 13-20

Grease
Presented by Columbus Children's Theatre
Through Aug. 16

Charles Kleibacker Film Festival
Presented by the Columbus Museum of Art
Aug. 20-22

The Vaccines
Presented by CD102.5
Aug 26 & 27

TREEmendous Tree Houses
Presented by Columbus Recreation & Parks Department
Through Sept. 20

Arts in the News

AT THE ARTS COUNCIL

Greater Columbus Arts Council’s 2015 Community Arts Partnership Awards Nominations Now Open

The Greater Columbus Arts Council and The Columbus Museum Of Art Announce 2015 Visual Arts Fellowship Awards

GCAC Now Accepting 2015 Media Arts Fellowship Applications

LOCAL AND REGIONAL

Mini-galleries showcase tiles that bind city

Riffe Gallery’s survival is good news

New 934 Gallery is a strong addition

Mini Cine: C. Jacqueline Wood’s temporary microcinema looks for permanent impact

Art collectors Fred and Laura Bidwell buy Van Roy Building to plant their flag in Cleveland

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

A Construction Wall in Harlem Becomes a Guerrilla Street Art Gallery

World’s most inaccessible art found in the heart of the Colombian jungle

A New Project Seeks to Erect Statues of Historic Women in Central Park

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