The Arts

BrickStreet Arts Association's mission is to facilitate the design and installation of public art in older urban neighborhoods. By helping neighbors plan and place public art, BrickStreet Arts enhances a sense of community in diverse inner city neighborhoods.
We provide the working nexus between an urban community's desire for public art, the artists desiring to create public art, and the funding agencies willing to help pay for public art.

In the 4 years since its founding, BrickStreet Arts Association has facilitated the creation and building of two completed public art installations, and the near completion of a third.

Broadway Across America is a premiere promoter and producer of live theatrical events in the United States and Canada with twenty-five years of experience in the entertainment industry. Together with our many local partners we present first-rate touring Broadway shows, family productions, and other live attractions in acclaimed venues in over 40 North American cities. We’re nationally connected through our one-of-a-kind network and locally committed to our audiences, offering our patrons unique benefits and exclusive opportunities to interact with Broadway Across America.

By Hand is a fine art and craft organization cooperating with national arists and craftsmen in order to promote unique shopping experiences and support contemporary American working artists. The festivals, promoted by former Winterfair director Jay Snyder, are a great opportunity to buy truly one-of-a-kind paintings, sculpture, wearable art, jewelry and more – directly from the artist who made it.

CAPA brings the world to our stages, enriches lives and creates community through its mission to present and produce artistic programming of the highest quality to serve and educate diverse audiences and feature renowned artists of all cultures, operate and maintain world-class performance venues, strengthen our arts communities by providing facilities for resident companies and through partnership and collaboration.

On September 20th 1997, The Columbus Chamber Music Society opened its fiftieth consecutive season of concerts. The organization was founded in 1948 under the name Prestige Concerts. Its founder, organizer, and first director was James N. Cain. Its major objective was and continues to be "the furtherance of chamber music." In the following year it was incorporated under the laws of Ohio as a non-profit corporation. At the time of its founding Cain was seventeen years old, a graduate of West High School in Columbus, who was preparing to enter The Ohio State University.

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CAPA brings the world to our stages, enriches lives and creates community through its mission to:
В· Present and produce artistic programming of the highest quality to serve and educate diverse audiences and feature renowned artists of all cultures
В· Operate and maintain world-class performance venues
В· Strengthen our arts communities by providing facilities for resident companies and through partnership and collaboration, support those organizations
В· Bolster the economies of the downtown communities we serve.




Founded in 1969, CAPA has achieved international recognition for the diversity of its performing arts and entertainment programming, its dramatic restoration of historic theatres, its excellence in facility management, and its contributions to quality of life and vibrant downtowns.

CAPA's restoration of the Ohio Theatre (Columbus), the 1928 movie house which it saved from the wrecking ball in 1969, is celebrated as a vanguard achievement in the field of theatre rehabilitation and downtown redevelopment. In addition to the Ohio Theatre (now a National Historic Landmark and the "Official Theatre for the State of Ohio"), CAPA owns and operates the Palace Theatre (1926) and Southern Theatre (1896), which reopened in 1998 following its dramatic, $10 million CAPA-led restoration and modernization.

In 1994, CAPA entered into an agreement with the State of Ohio to manage the contemporary Riffe Center Theatres in the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts. CAPA's consolidated management of these downtown Columbus facilities has resulted in a performing arts complex that provides spaces for the best arts and entertainment events at reasonable rates. CAPA theatres provide a downtown home to nearly all Columbus performing arts groups.

From 1998 to 2003, CAPA managed and programmed the Chicago Theatre, first under agreements with Chicago Alameda Theatre Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company (from 1998-2000), and then through a lease with Chicago Theatre Restoration Associates. In July 2001, the City of New Haven entered into an agreement with CAPA to manage the Shubert Theater.

CAPA programming includes jazz, world music, folk, country, classical music, comedy, dance, classic films, theater, and family entertainment. Outside of its own venues, CAPA also produced the "Rhythm 'n' Zoo" concert series at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and has presented entertainment offerings in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo.

In 1998, on behalf of the central Ohio arts community, CAPA launched the first licensed regional site of High 5 Tickets to the Arts (www.high5columbus.org). Originally created in New York City, this unique $5 ticketing program for students aged 13-18 successfully removes barriers to arts participation by marketing directly to teenagers accessible, affordable, and easy-to-learn-about events.

CAPA is a not-for-profit organization operating on an annual budget of $15.3 million. Since 1984, CAPA earns 90% of its income primarily through ticket sales and rentals, while operating with the smallest administrative staff of any comparable arts organization in North America. In its first 32 years, CAPA has invested $34.8 million in capital improvements to the Ohio, Palace, and Southern Theatres in Columbus, Ohio, and has generated more than $121.8 million in operating revenue.

CAPA has received The Columbus Foundation Award as the City's outstanding philanthropic institution (1999), the Governor's Award for the Arts in Ohio (1995), the Greater Columbus Arts Council Award of Excellence (1994 and 1999), and the Columbus Landmarks Foundation Organization of the Year Award (2000).

Located in a charming, historic carriage house in downtown Columbus, near the main library & Topiary Park. The Center includes a first floor gallery, workshop space (for 30) and European Papers Studio Shop. The shop has a large selection of handmade & decorative papers; collage & bookbinding materials, embellishments and more. Workshops are offered in paper arts, bookbinding, collage, calligraphy, jewelry & altered books.

Dublin Arts Council Mission Statement
Dublin Arts Council engages the community, cultivates creativity and fosters life-long learning through the arts.
Dublin Arts Council History
The council began in 1983 as an ad-hoc committee to bring the Columbus Symphony Orchestra to the dedication of Scioto Park. The success of this activity encouraged the committee to form Dublin Arts Council.

Since 1983, DAC has grown from an ad-hoc committee to a private nonprofit, impacting thousands of individuals each year through a variety of community arts programs, including an award-winning Art in Public Places program, an annual Art + Music Festival, and the Sundays at Scioto concert series. The Dublin Arts Council Gallery features rotating exhibitions by local, national and international artists, and the Dublin Arts Center offers classes for children and adults in the performing, visual and literary arts as well as school tours, summer ARTcamps, and ARTventures, a gallery education program for toddlers and preschool-age children. Dublin Arts Council is securing the future of the arts in Dublin through arts education programs in Dublin City Schools, as well as community arts and education grants.

Dublin Arts Council Contributors
It is only through the invaluable participation of our contributors that we are able to strengthen our community through the arts. Every dollar received, whether it be membership, sponsorship, grants or government support, is vitally important to us and enables us to better serve our mission of enriching the community by striving to provide the highest caliber arts and arts education experiences.

Fresh A.I.R. Gallery located in downtown Columbus, Ohio is currently seeking artists that have a mental illness, those in recovery from a substance abuse disorder, or artists whose work is about these subjects for the 2006 Exhibition season.

Years before the first official funding agreement with GCAC in 1973, the City of Columbus financially supported the community's three major arts institutions-The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (Columbus Museum of Art), the Center of Science & Industry (COSI), and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra-in return for specific public service events. In 1973, City Council recognized that the Columbus arts community extended beyond these three organizations and that the needs of the three institutions extended beyond the small sums allocated.

The house was built in 1846 and occupied by the Hanbys from 1853 to 1870. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The home contains furniture and personal items from the family. There is a walnut desk made by Hanby. The original plates for the first edition of Darling Nellie Gray and a large collection of sheet music and books are at the site. The house is maintained and operated by the Westerville Historical Society under agreement with the Ohio Historical Society

Award winning sculptor & designer
This artist has pushed the envelope into a new league of contemporary, radical abstract art
Compelling & mood evoking sculpture for private, commercial & public collections in the US & abroad

The Riffe Gallery, operated by the Ohio Arts Council, showcases the work of Ohio's artists and curators, exhibitions produced by the Ohio Arts Council's International Program and the collections of the region's museums and galleries. The Riffe Gallery's Education Program seeks to increase public appreciation and understanding of those exhibitions

Purple Dog provides a place for children and adults to express themselves visually and enjoy the process of creating and appreciating art.