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Dayton scores state arts honors
Two male-female duos from the Dayton area have been chosen winners of Ohio’s 2010 Governor’s Awards for the Arts.
Human Race Theatre Company leaders Kevin Moore and Marsha Hanna of Dayton were named in the arts administrator category. Jim and Enid Goubeaux of Greenville were chosen as arts patrons.
The honors will be presented April, 21, 2010, in Columbus.
Hanna, who is artistic director of The Human Race, said the award “came as a total surprise” for her and Moore, the company’s executive director. “Kevin has been nominated several times before, so I think we just figured someone else would win. It’s an even bigger honor for me personally to be named with Kevin.”
The Goubeauxs are longtime supporters and contributors to Dayton arts organizations, primarily The Human Race and WDPR-FM.
“They are sweet and wonderful people with no agenda other than supporting the arts,” Hanna said.
Moore, who has a national reputation for developing new musicals, has gotten out from behind his desk to star as Don Quixote in The Human Race’s current production of the musical “Man of La Mancha” at The Loft Theatre.
Ohio Arts Council board member and awards panelist Sharon Howard of Dayton said it’s the second year in a row the Miami Valley has captured multiple arts awards.
Other 2010 winners, chosen from among 79 nominees across the state, are: Sylvia Easley of Cleveland Heights for arts education, American Electric Power for business support of the arts, Donna Sue Groves of Manchester for community development and participation, and Columbus poet Andrew Hudgins as individual artist.
There were 20 other nominees from the region.
Dayton: Mike Elsass , arts patron; Michael Ervin, community development and participation; Freund, Freeze and Arnold, business support; Michael K. Lippert, arts education; Ohio Art Education Association, arts education; Rhythm in Shoes co-directors Sharon Leahy and Rick Good, individual artists; Benjamin Schuster, arts patron; Stivers School for the Arts, arts education, and the University of Dayton, community development and participation.
Fairborn: Morris Home Furnishings, business support.
Greenville: Nancy Fourman, arts education.
Kettering: Michael Bashaw, individual artist.
Piqua: Piqua Arts Council, arts education.
Springfield: Eric A. Bess, arts education; Clark State Performing Arts Center, community development and participation, and D. Scot Davidge, arts education.
Hamilton: City of Hamilton, “Ohio City of Sculpture,” community development and participation; and Harry T. Wilks, arts patron.
Oxford: James D. McWilliams, arts education.
More information is available at www.oac.state.oh,us/events/govawards.
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By Puzzled
November 14, 2009 6:11 PM | Link to this
Why does’nt anyone ever comment on the positive things that go on in Dayton? I guess the negative attention is what sells! Few and far between they may be, they still deserve to be recognized!