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2009 Arts Alive! awards to be presented Sunday at Portage Country Club
By Dorothy Shinn
Beacon Journal art and architecture critic
Published on Friday, Nov 13, 2009
Celebrating the talented people who help bring artistic understanding, culture and excitement to our lives, the Akron Area Arts Alliance recognizes the 2009 Arts Alive! Award winners at the 5th Gala Community Arts Award Celebration starting at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Portage Country Club, 240 N. Portage Path, Akron.
From 6 to 7 the Out-of-the-Box Auction is held, along with cocktail hour and a cash bar.
At 6:30 p.m. the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Marcianne Herr, retired Akron Art Museum curator of education. At 7 p.m. Arts Alliance Director Jessie Raynor will present the other 2009 awards:
• Miller Horns, visual artist.
• Jerry Wong, music.
• Amy Miller, dance.
• Jim Volkert, theater.
• Christopher James Lees, rising young star/artist.
• Andrea Wlaszyn, rising young star/leadership.
• Jim Urban, volunteer.
• Cynthia Knight, patron.
• Children's Concert Society, outreach.
• DCI Printing, business support.
• Ronald C. Allan, civic leadership.
• George Pope, arts educator.
• Fuze! Series with the Akron Art Museum and the Tuesday Musical Association, collaborative project.
Tickets are $85. Call 330-376-8480.
Museum buys Neel oil
The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Jackie Curtis and Rita Red (1970), an oil on canvas by Alice Neel formerly in the collection of the late Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers of Akron.
The museum bought the painting from the late couple's private collection at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday.
The Myers art collection has long been known for its superb examples of Modern and Contemporary art.
Jackie Curtis and Rita Red has been cited as a prime example of Neel's best work during the pinnacle of her career, as well as one of her most intense pieces.
The museum borrowed the painting from the Myers family for the inaugural opening of the East Wing last summer in order to more fully represent the work of Neel and women artists of the 20th century among its contemporary collection.
Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. Her work is distinctly personal, echoing her experiences in New York society and its cultural avant-garde.
Neel was interested in bringing attention to the lives of people whose contributions to society she believed had been ignored. Her influence is seen in the work of later generations of portrait painters, including Chuck Close and Keith Mayerson.
Historical awards
The Barberton Historical Society and the City of Barberton Schools are among the recipients of the 2009 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Awards for their work to engage students in learning about local history and significant historic places.
The award was one of four given to Northeast Ohio cities at ceremonies in October. The awards ''celebrate the best historic preservation efforts in Ohio by individuals, businesses and organizations,'' said State Historic Preservation Officer James D. Strider.
Other awards were given to:
• Cleveland — Preservation Merit Awards to Michael Chesler and the Chesler Group, for 20 years of work in preservation and adaptive use of historic buildings; and the Finch Group, City Architecture, Ted Sande, AIA and Marous Brothers Construction for the rehabilitation of the 1923 Park Lane Villa Hotel.
• Lakewood — Preservation Education and Awareness Award to the city, its Historical Society, the Heritage Advisory Board and Lakewood Alive.
Speaking of historic preservation, this year's National Preservation Awards recognized Cleveland's own Laborers Union Local 860 for the rehabilitation of the Southworth House. National Trust records say this is the first time that a union has received a national preservation award.
Built in 1879 by a prominent banker, the house at 3334 Prospect Ave. was acquired by Local 860 in 2006. The union spent $2.8 million to restore the building with the help of architect Scott Dimit. Cleveland Restoration Society was a co-recipient of the award.
Saturday
Reception — A 6 to 9 p.m. opening reception for Michael Schmidt and Renee Froerer Illustrations will be at Local Girl Gallery, 16106 Detroit Ave., Lakewood. 216-228-1802 or http://www.localgirlgallery.com.
Monday
Opening — The Canton Artists' League presents A League of Its Own at a 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. exhibit opening today at the Student Center Mezzanine, Stark State College of Technology, 6200 Frank Ave. NW, North Canton. On view through Dec. 26. Call 330-575-4452 or 330-494-6170, ext. 4319, or e-mail lgfharbert@yahoo.com or rpriest@starkstate.edu.
Dollhouses — Kim Kenney, curator of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, 800 McKinley Monument Drive NW, Canton, presents Life in Miniature: A History of Dollhouses, at 10 a.m. Tickets are $10 and include breakfast sweets. Prepaid reservations are required. Participants will learn about the history of dollhouses and miniatures, followed by a tour of the Kellery Gallery dollhouse exhibit, including a 1780 colonial house, a Fisher-Price house from the 1970s and several Victorian houses. 330-455-7043.
Tuesday
Interior Design — The Cleveland Restoration Society holds a 7 to 9 p.m. talk on The American Home Interior: Treatment and Transformation, at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, 714 N. Portage Path, Akron. Call 216-426-3114 or e-mail kbroome@clevelandrestoration.org.
Worth Noting
Glass Angel Project — Hand-blown glass angels by artist Russ O'Brien are on sale for $35 at Akron Glass Works, 106 N. Main St., Akron. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Akron Children's Hospital Burn Unit. 330-253-5888 or go to http://www.akronglassworks.com.
CMA gets grant — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given the Cleveland Museum of Art a three-year grant of $450,000 to hire a curator of Japanese and Korean art and a matching grant of $1.5 million to establish an endowment for the appointment of entry- and mid-level curators. The grant allows the museum to reinstate the curator position that was eliminated in 2003. The museum's renowned Asian collection hasn't been on public view since 2005; preparations are under way to reinstall the collection in a new wing to open in 2012-13. The Asian collection is made up of more than 4,000 objects from China and Japan, India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Korea and Tibet.
Dorothy Shinn writes about art and architecture for the Akron Beacon Journal. Send information to her at the Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309-0640 or dtgshinn@neo.rr.com.
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Akron, OH
Posted 12:24 PM, 11/13/2009
$85 = scheisse
Barberton, OH
Posted 02:04 PM, 11/13/2009
What do the proceeds of this go for???
