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Artist Katie Kikta reconnects to drawing and the divine beauty of life
Lindsay Gallery hosts the local art educator s first solo show, with an open house on Saturday, May 8
Columbus Alive
Toward the beginning of the pandemic last year, Katie Kikta went through a destabilizing breakup. She moved out and began living on her own, trying to determine what the next stage of her life would look like.
“I went through a lot of therapy, figuring out ways to reconnect to myself. And I hadn t been making art,” Kikta said recently by phone.
During this journey of self-discovery, Kikta listened to music and read books by self-help author Brené Brown. “I was really hard on myself with what had happened in my past relationship, the mistakes that I had made. And [Brown] talks about owning your truth and your stories and reconnecting to creativity,” she said.
A recent meeting of the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission saw the approval of three projects in Berlin Township.Preliminary plans for the Berlin
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Indian Springs Elementary is one of the buildings in the Olentangy Local School District that closed Monday because not enough substitutes were available to cover for teachers who were out after being vaccinated.
Nearly all Ohio schools are returning to in-person or hybrid learning after pledging to do so to get vaccines for employees. Now at least one Central Ohio district has closed several of its buildings Monday because there were not enough substitute teachers to fill in for teachers experiencing symptoms from recent COVID vaccines.
The Olentangy Local School district had to close two of its high schools, one middle school, and six elementary buildings because of a substitute teacher shortage. Many of the school district’s staff who received their second COVID vaccine over the weekend are suffering with side effects. A spokeswoman for Olentangy says the district had substitutes ready to come in but didn t have enough to cover the shortage.
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