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The Beacon Journal Page D4, Sunday, February 16, 1992 Art Notes Drawing teacher named director of A galleries hptwppn 3 and 7 D.m. Saturday at be from noon to 6 p.m. May 16 Rod Bengston is artist and former assistant curator at Akron Art Museum and holds master's from KSU and 17. Each day will focus on a different region. Artists will exhibit their work, demonstrate techniques and equipment, and show slides.

A registration fee of $25 ($15 for NOVA members, students or senior artists) is charged. Call 431-7500. Apply now for Arts Fest Entries are being accepted through March 31 for the Seventh Annual Clifton Arts Fest June 13 on Clifton Boulevard from West 115th to West 117th streets in Cleveland. Call 228-4383. Enter nature show now Entries in the Emerald Necklace Art Show must be delivered of Columbus Monthly.

The exhibit will be on view March 1 through 29 at the association. Call 774-7158. Changes in Cleveland Michael Sherwin, president and director of Mid-West Forge Cleveland, has been elected president of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Sherwin succeeds Alton W. White-house, president since 1986.

Whitehouse will continue as a trustee. In other changes, Paul J. Vig-nos Jr. and Quentin Alexander have stepped down as active board members, but will remain honorary trustees and members of the accessions committee. New trustees are Michael J.

Horvitz, Jon A. Lindseth, Ellen Stim Ma-vec and William R. Robertson. Tour deadline is March 16 The deadline to register for Artists Open Studio Days, the sixth annual tour of Northeast Ohio artists' studios sponsored by the New Organization for the Visual Arts, Cleveland, is March 16. The seven-county (Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit) event will "DELICIOUSLY FUNNY, ROMANTIC, WONDERFULLY FRESH AND BEAUTIFULLY ACTED." Frier Stark.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "SURELY ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR. 'Fried Green Tomatoes' makes you feel good about life. It will warm your heart." Jeffrey Lynu. SNEAK PREVIEWS KATHY BATES JESSICA TANDY MARY STUART MASTERSON MARY-LOUISE PARKER fried Green Tomatoes PG-13 COS1. NATIONAL MONTROSE MOVIES MAAKII OU.l till liTJ 6669373 NOW SHOWING liin I hlllfcHlimilllV ilir 4 "SIM" I7PTTL ill" imaiwuMi ly-' through Sept.

15. Call 434-5207 or 657-2909. Society meeting is Feb. 25 The KentAkron Society of the Archaeological Institute of America will present a talk on the Origins and Early History of Glass by Janet Jones, professor of classics, Bucknell University, at 8:15 p.m. Feb.

25 at Leigh Hall, Room 207 at the University of Akron. Call 972-7875. Learn watercolor The Canton Art Institute will hold a beginning watercolor class from 7 to 9 p.m. for six Thursdays beginning Feb. 27.

Registration ends Thursday. The class costs $30 ($27 for institute members). Call 453-7666. Photo deadline Tuesday Tuesday is the deadline for entering Six-State Photography '92, sponsored by the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, 80 S. Main Oberlin.

Artists may enter up to four works each in any photographic process. Entry fee is $15 ($12 for association members). Juror will be Jeffrey Ry-cus, former photography director tism and would like to see a Still-Life of Fruit by Severin Roesen, similar to the one recently given to the Akron Art Museum by Mrs. William Curtis Hall Jr. of Akron, there's one in this show, complete with the customary companion painting (Roesen painted them in pairs), Still-Life of Flowers, both on loan from Nationwide Insurance Columbus.

Impressionists evident American impressionism is strongly represented in this show. Among the most gifted of the American impressionists was Childe Hassam, who made several trips to Europe, traveling to The Netherlands and Italy and studying at the Academie Julian in Paris. His knowledge of works by French impressionists is evident in Rainy Day, Boston (1885), which clearly echoes Gustave Caillebotte's Rue de Paris: Temps de pluie (Paris Street: A Rainy Day) (1877). This is already an extremely popular show, for it contains not only great masterworks, but a generous supply of popular standbys, including Window Homer's Snap the Whip (1872) and Archibald Willard's The Spirit of 76 (1916). Willard was from Wellington, and the painting is on loan from the Herrick Memorial Library in Wellington.

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Entry fee is $15 per person per category. Accepted artists will be notified by telephone on Feb. 26. Artists may pick up declined work between 3 and 7 p.m. Feb.

29. The exhibit will be March 1 through 20. The show then will move to the Atrium Gallery in the National City Tower, East Ninth and Euclid streets, Cleveland, March 30 through May 1. Call 871-6543. Dorothy Shinn is the Beacon Journal art critic.

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23 by Holliday T. Day, curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and organizer of the exhibit Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991, which is on view at the Akron Art Museum through March 22. This exhibit, writes Day in her catalog essay The Nature of Power, "examines the ways in which American art, over the past 30 years, has mirrored power relationships in American society." Call 376-9185. 2 workshops on tap The Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society, Peninsula, will host two photographic workshops in 1992: Galen Rowell, June 12-14, and John Shaw, Oct. 16-18.

Applications will be accepted on a first-come basis. Class size is limited to 18 participants for Rowell and 22 for Shaw. Preference is given to society members. Applications to the Rowell workshop will be accepted through March 27; for the Shaw workshop, contemporary collections. collects early 19th-century artwork having to do with Cincinnati.

Beard is a little-known artist today, but he was one of our first important genre painters. turned this out as a print so people could buy it and be reminded of their soap company. This painting became very well-known for a time because of that." Ohio connections Wherever possible, artworks were chosen that have an Ohio connection. Schroon Mountain, Adi-rondacks (1838) by Thomas Cole, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is an example of this intentional bias. Cole, whose vivid, expressive responses to the native American landscape were among the first to reveal its vast and rugged beauty, was English by birth, but raised in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

On the other hand, Skipper Mick (1924) by Robert Henri owes its Ohio connection to the fact that it is owned by John J. McDonough, a Youngstown physician. This fresh and captivating portrait of a young boy goes to the heart of Henri's conviction that art should be directly involved with life. "Henri was one of the world's great art teachers," says Maciejunes, her enthusiasm for this sec-, tion of the exhibit (her specialty) bubbling over. Henri was responsible for founding The Ten (later The Eight), a group of American painters whose aim during the first decade of the 20th century was to challenge genteel conservatism.

The core of Henri's followers, ridiculed as the Ashcan School, was drawn from the ranks of Philadelphia newspaper artist-reporters: William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn and John Sloan. Their challenge permanently undermined the authority of the National Academy of Design and marked the beginning of modern American painting. But if you like that conserva will promote the daylights out of it. If Malrite believes in anything, it's relentless, promotion. That was a cornerstone in the WMMS success story.

At Channel 19, the promotions department boasts seven people fully 13 percent of the station's small work force. So don't be surprised when WOIO finally takes a deep breath, coughs up the $2.5 million to $3 million it takes to launch a newscast these days, and pastes its new anchors on every billboard in Northeast Ohio. "It takes a lot of money, a lot of people," Thatcher notes. But, he says, perhaps referring to the former men's clothing department, "we do have the space for it." 01' Franklin Simon would be proud. Have tapes, will travel Swoboda Update, Chapter 13: The region's most famous job-hunter is at it again.

Only five days before giving birth to her first child, former WJW (Channel 8) anchor Robin Swoboda was in the studios of Channel 43 making a test tape. Channel Yep. But it's not what it seems. She was making the tape for a station in Baltimore. WMAR, the NBC entry there, paid for the production time and flew in its male co-anchor to see how the two would interact.

Swoboda also is being courted by a station in Kansas City. Staff writer Bob Dyer covers local television and radio. The University of Akron School of Art has named Rod Bengston director of university galleries. Bengston, of Akron, who has taught drawing at the school since 1989, was a curatorial assistant at the Akron Art Museum from 1985 to 1988 and curated several museum exhibits, including Daniel Rohn: Photographs and Computer Art. Bengston, a practicing artist, has a master of fine arts degree in studio art from Kent State University and received an honorable mention at the Canton Art Institute's 1990 exhibit.

Ohio Bengston's appointment ends a vacancy created by the resignation of Michael Jones in November. Gallery talk is Feb. 23 The Akron Art Museum will Review Painter of 'Spirit of 76' did several to make money Continued from Page Dl exhausting tour, however, we owe it to ourselves to see just what riches are housed within Ohio collections. For, as Maciejunes explains, "there are very few states that exceed the quality and breadth of the state of Ohio in terms of its art collections." Moreover, she says, Ohio has "one of the strongest networks of museums of any state in the union." "Many states have only one or two outstanding museums, but when you think of the Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin and the new Wexner Center here in Columbus those are four outstanding contemporary collections right there, not to mention the great historical collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the more specialized collections at places like the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, the Canton Art Institute, the Dayton Art Institute and the Taft Museum in Cincinnati. "There are 38 lenders to this show, 15 from museum collections.

Not one museum that was asked to participate declined, and each of the institutions loaned at least one masterpiece. That's pretty good for one state." Private collectors contributed as well. One of the first paintings encountered in the show is James Beard's North Carolina Immigrants (1845), owned by Procter Gamble. has a very unusual corporate collection," the curator notes. "Most corporations have W0I0 Broadcast hopefuls are rushing in resumes Continued from Page Dl ers refuse to buy time on Channel 19 because they don't think viewers consider it a "real" TV station.

Channel 19 is truly an odd bird half-independent, half-affiliate. Fox offers three nights a week of prime-time programming; the rest of the time, Channel 19 competes for movies and syndicated series with Cleveland's full-fledged independent, WUAB (Channel 43). While admitting that his station is essentially a "video jukebox," Thatcher says Channel 19 nonetheless has managed to create its own personality. Hooking up with hip, youth-oriented Fox Broadcasting five years ago worked wonders in that regard. So did the contract to broadcast Cleveland Cavalier basketball games.

Those partnerships played directly into Channel 19's original target audience: viewers under the age of 35. "We're a station that has a point of view," Thatcher says. The key thing is to create a newscast that's a complement to the personality and attitude we exude. I think there's a certain sarcasm, a certain kind of pro-fun attitude (that could be conveyed). I think the people will buy it.

I really do." When the time comes for news, one thing is certain: Channel 19 Dorothy Shinn tr All it. So Willard, being full of good old Yankee ingenuity, painted several versions of it. He made a living at it. This is the 1916 version that he painted for his best friend in Wellington. There are two in Washington, D.C.; one in the Ohio Historical Society; and the Western Reserve Historical Society has one.

That's American entrepreneur-ship." Admission is $4.50 for adults, $2 for students and seniors and free for museum members. The Columbus Museum of Art is at 480 E. Broad St. Call (614) 221-6801. Tickets now available at the Front Row box office, aU TIcketMastert or by phone, 216241-5555.

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