Golden Hobby Gift Shop relocating temporarily to Columbus Performing Arts Center
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The Golden Hobby Gift Shop, forced to leave its German Village location, will establish temporary new digs in the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave. in downtown Columbus.
The nonprofit consignment shop for senior citizens crafts, which closed last March, is taking over three office spaces, a dance studio, a hallway and one storage room at the performing-arts center sometime this spring, said Geoffrey Martin, arts administrator for the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, which operates Golden Hobby.
Golden Hobby Gift Shop spent more than four decades at 630 S. Third St. It was forced to relocate when the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department sold its 9,500-square-foot building to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus for a reported $1.23 million.
The sculpture installed Downtown last month at the corner of East Broad Street and Cleveland Avenue offers a message that is much needed right now, says the Rev. Joel King.
The cousin of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attended the unveiling of the “Our Single Garment of Destiny” sculpture on Jan. 18 Martin Luther King Jr. Day shortly before the beginning of Black History Month, which is February.
The sculpture s name comes from words the late civil rights leader wrote in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” published in 1963. The paragraph featuring the sculpture s name reads, in part: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
SUNY New Paltz appoints Anna Conlan as new Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Conlan assumes this new role after serving as The Dorskys curator and exhibitions manager since 2019.
NEW PALTZ, NY
.- SUNY New Paltz announced the appointment of Anna Conlan as Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, effective Feb. 1, 2021. Conlan succeeds Wayne Lempka, who has served as interim director since 2019, and Sara Pasti, who had served as director from 2009-2019.
As Director of The Dorsky Museum, Conlan will oversee all collection, exhibition, education and related artistic programs and activities, in collaboration with the Museums staff, Advisory Board, and many campus and regional partners and stakeholders. She will also serve as administrative head of finances, fundraising, audience development, communications and staff development.
Everson Museum of Art announces new acquisitions
Courtney Leonard, Breach #2, 2016. Ceramic on wood pallet, 36 x 36 x 48 inches. Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, Deaccession Fund, 2020.15.
SYRACUSE, NY
.- The Everson Museum of Art announced today that it has purchased seven new works by contemporary artists for its growing collection of 21st century art.
Spanning a variety of media, the new acquisitions reflect the Eversons commitment to refining and diversifying its collection by adding works by artists of color, women artists, and other under-represented emerging and mid-career artists. The works are by artists who hail from across the country, but also include two artists who have lived and worked in Syracuse for decades: Ellen Blalock and Sharif Bey. Blalock previously exhibited her work at the Everson during 2012s The Other New York and Bey will have a major solo exhibition at the Everson in 2022. Its truly an honor to have my work represented in the permane
A member of the Ohio Arts Council has resigned after an inflammatory Facebook post in which she expressed support for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol