Links to
arts calendars in the
Ohio Valley:
Arts events in the Mid-Ohio Valley from artsbridgeonline.org
Calendar
of Events from Oglebay Institute in Wheeling, WV
Schedule
of the Marshall Artists Series in Huntington, WV
Calendar
of Events from The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center in Athens, OH
The Ohio Arts Council
site has
information about grant programs, technical assistance, and e-mail
connections to people you need to know in the Ohio state arts
agency. OAC's site has recently been redesigned.
The West Virginia
Commission on the Arts site has information about grant programs,
technical assistance and connections to people you need to know in the
West Virginia state arts agency. The WV Commission's site
includes a email listing open to the entire West Virginia arts
community.
The National
Endowment for the Arts site has grant funding information, news
about federal arts programs and links to arts programs around the US
and the world.
The Oglebay
Institute in Wheeling, WV now has a site that describes the full
range of arts activities from theater to film to the fine arts.
artsbridge
online is a guide to the ARTSBRIDGE arts education program, the
Catalog of Artists and Performers, and arts events in the Mid-Ohio
Valley.
The Juried
Online Arts Festival is a commercial site in Lincoln County, WV
with
artists' offering their work for sale on the Web.
Shining
Reflections Vocational Training Program provides vocational and
other services to people with mental and physical disabilities in the
East Liverpool and Columbiana County, Ohio area. Shining
Reflections also has a very active arts program.
The Cultural Center of Fine Arts in
Parkersburg, WV has a new Web site. The site includes information
about the Center's exhibits, annual Realism competition and classes.
The Ohio Arts &
Crafts Guild, started in 1963, is a not-for-profit service and
informational organization representing practicing artists and
craftspeople at all levels of achievement: amateurs,
professionals, and students. Our membership represents people of
all ages and walks of life who appreciate and support the arts and
crafts.
jaymar.com is a Web site with twenty-two choral publications that are now available for download from the JaymarDotCom Web Site. View/Download/Print the complete publication - Enjoy! All publications have been copyright protected.
The National Endowment for the Arts has a NEA Art Forms: A Copyright Primer for Artists which is a very
user-friendly guide for artists. The site also has links to the federal copyright office and resources for legal advice.
Appalshop
is a media arts and cultural center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in
the heart of the Central Appalachian Coalfields. Appalshop produces and
presents work that celebrates the culture and voices the concerns of
people living in the Appalachian region.
The Augusta Heritage Center of
Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia,has been associated
with the finest in traditional music, crafts, dance and folklife for 27
years. The Center's activities fall into three categories:
folklife programs, public events, and the program weeks known as the
Augusta Heritage Workshops. For seven weeks of the year the Davis &
Elkins College. Since 1972, Augusta's Heritage Arts Workshops
have brought together master artists, students, musicians, dancers, and
enthusiasts of all ages, to explore a variety of folk cultures.
The Athens
Center for Film and Video was created in 1979 as an organizational
outgrowth of the Athens International Film Festival, started in 1973 in
Athens, Ohio. The Athens Video Festival, now incorporated with the Film
Festival, started in 1979. Over the past twenty-five years, the Athens
Film and Video Festival has highlighted the works of a wide variety of
film, video, and media artists.
The Art Deadlines List is a
monthly newsletter providing information about juried exhibitions and
competitions, call for entries, poetry & other writing contests,
jobs, internships, scholarships, residencies, fellowships, casting
calls, auditions, tryouts, grants, festivals, funding, financial aid,
and other opportunities for artists, art educators, and art students of
all ages. The List has a free list and a subscription only list.
The Blues,
Jazz & Folk Music Society is a non-profit music society
promoting blues, jazz & folk music in the Mid-Ohio
Valley. They are an all volunteer organization that
for twelve years has provided cultural information, dance
& music workshops and benefit concerts as well as nationally
recognized blues, jazz & folk acts in the Marietta area.
Henry Robert Burke
is one of the foremost historians in the ORBI region concerning the
underground railroad, the Civil War and African-American cultural life
in southeastern Ohio. His web site has a wealth of information
about these topics.
Huntington
Outdoor Theatre in Huntington, WV, has a new site on the Web.
This site is under construction, but has interesting links to other
theater sites and has a brief description of HOT. HOT will be
adding to its site on a regular basis in the coming months.
The Oil & Gas Museum
in Parkersburg, WV has a Web site devoted to the history of the oil and
gas industry in the Ohio Valley region.
The
Hur Herald from SUNNY CALHOUN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA will take you
back to a kinder and gentler time. The Herald is a cheap,
often unedited, sometimes misspelled epistle with shaky financial
backing and poorly defined goals. It is respectfully printed for
the information and amusement of my neighbors and curious other
folks. It is generally written with a kind heart and with a
notion that we should laugh at ourselves, and that stories and memories
are among the greatest gifts we share, and besides, we'd just like to
know what the heck is going on.
The Foothills School of
American Crafts of Nelsonville, Ohio provides quality education in
the crafts, as conceived, designed and made by individuals or teams who
take responsibility for the integrity of the work. Major goals of the
Foothills School are to promote professionalism, ethical standards,
high quality work and to embrace aesthetic learning as an on-going life
process. The Foothills curriculum is directed toward achieving
self-sufficiency by incorporating practical knowledge in terms of craft
processes, aesthetic sensibilities, marketing skills and business
acumen.
If you like old time music and dance, you
might want to check out the Web sites of Morgantown (WV)
Footmad and Kanawha Valley
Footmad.
to see links to artists' Web sites.
