Corner of Corry and Dayton Street
image source: Ohio Magazine
Underdog Cafe’s open mic night to showcase writings from childhood
Yellow Springs, OH - October 23, 2009 - The Underdog Cafe hosts a bi-monthly spoken arts revue and open mic night called the Wham Bam.
The next event will take place on Thursday, November 5, 2009, from 6–8 p.m. It will take place at Emporium Wines and the Underdog Cafe on 233 Xenia Ave (Route 68) in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Its theme will be “stuff you wrote when you were a kid.” Anyone who would like to participate is invited to read short stories, poems, diary entries, letters, or anything else from their childhood or adolescence. To sign up to read, show up early or e-mail Vanessa Query at vanessa@emporiumwines.com.
If you do not wish to share, you are still welcome to join us for an entertaining evening of poignancy, honesty, and embarrassing laughter for our inner children and ourselves!
The open mic following this event will be on Thursday, January 7, 2010.
For more information about the Wham Bam or Emporium Wines and the Underdog Cafe, please contact:
Vanessa Query, Events Coordinator
Emporium Wines and the Underdog Cafe
233 Xenia Ave
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
(937) 767-7077
"Flock of Hands"
featuring 2 pages of knit graffiti by the jafagirls on Dayton Street in Yellow Springs and also the Knit Knot Tree.
| Explore Yellow Springs' Public Art | ||||
October 2009
| Yellow Springs Sculpture Competition Winners to Be Unveiled! This year, the Yellow Springs Arts Council, the Yellow Springs Center for the Arts Steering Committee, and the Community Information Project partnered to sponsor a competition to create three sculptures to place on public view in the community. The criteria was simple: each sculpture should celebrate the spirit of creativity of the community of Yellow Springs. The winning sculptures will be unveiled this month, and you are invited to join us to meet the artists and to welcome these works into the creative landscape of Yellow Springs. There is a rich variety of public art in Yellow Springs, from knit graffiti and painted murals to bronze sculpture and tile mosaics. Take a tour of the village's public art: click here for a map of the public art of Yellow Springs. | |||
| The Telephone Booth Project | ||||
| Artist: Migiwa Orimo Migiwa Orimo is a Tokyo-born visual artist who lives in Yellow Springs. Her artwork has been exhibited locally and nationally and she has been awarded twice the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowship grant in the visual art category; last year she was the recipient of the OAC Individual Creativity Excellence Award in the interdisciplinary category. With this installation, the artist asks "Can I create a place/container where many form of art practices can be experimented by many artists, instead of a single art piece created by a single artist, then call it a sculpture?" "Can a sculpture be a collective form of individual artists in this village?" "Can a sculpture be a time-based organic/sustainable living presence?" The Telephone Booth Project provides the community a context in which many creative minds can share their ideas and have dialogues with villagers and visitors. Between the months of Oct. 2009 and Sept. 2010, the artist will invite other artists to do site- specific pieces using the phone booth. There will be 8 to 12 shows/performances/installations, etc. over course of the Telephone Booth's year-long installation on Dayton St. On Friday, Oct. 9, there will be an improvisational dance performance at the booth by Jill Becker, Melissa Heston, and Sandy Mathern immediately following the unveiling at 7:30 pm. | |||
| Flock of Hands | ||||
| Artist: Olga Ziemska Sculptor and installation artist Olga Ziemska, from Cleveland, received her BFA in 2000 from the Columbus College of Art & Design. She also studied at Rhode Island School of Design and exhibited at MOCA Cleveland and the Centre of Polish Sculpture. In 2007, she was selected for the prestigious Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series at MOCA Cleveland. "Flock of Hands" celebrates the spirit of Yellow Springs and reflects the strong sense of community present in this creative town. Inspired by the community-centered atmosphere of Yellow Springs, "Flock of Hands" is a public sculpture intended to directly involve the community in its creation. Envisioned by the artist as a still image of white hand doves in flight, "Flock of Hands" conjures feelings of harmony, peace, freedom, and potential. Within the piece, each cast hand is paired with another hand, creating through their collective gesture an image of a bird in flight. Ziemska visited Yellow Springs in August and spent a day casting the hands of Yellow Springs residents. The hands, each atop a tall, thin branch, reach toward each other and collectively visually, reach towards the sky creating a sense of connection between human and nature, earth and sky, community and environment. | |||
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| Artist: Beth Holyoke Mixed media artist Beth Holyoke, of Yellow Springs, has had numerous local and regional exhibitions of her drawings, fiber, clay and paper work. She has also worked on community-wide art events including parades, community tile projects, and children's arts festivals. Along with Kaethi Seidl, she has created three public art benches out of handmade tiles and has assisted in the creation of a wall-sized, outside mural made by members of the public during a two-year project. This sculpture is a grouping of the letters spelling "springs," all in lowercase. It is tiled with many shades of yellow tile, as well as with many handmade ceramic objects reflecting some aspects of the village -- birds, fruits, rocks and vegetables, all made of ceramic and very durable, are included. | |||
| Yellow Springs Arts Council Become a member today! | Thank you to the many people involved in the sculpture competition and the installation of these works, including Ed Amrhein, Jerome Borchers, Tom Borrup, Anita Brown, Jo Caputo, Dave Conley, Mark Cundiff, Lisa Goldberg, Tom Hawley, Jon Hudson, Kim Kremer, Kim Megginson, Jason Morgan, Ron Schmidt, Bob Swaney, Karen Wintrow, and all of the artists who entered submissions in the 2009 Outdoor Sculpture Competition. | |||
Chamber of Commerce
A Weekend of Art and Spa Options
On Saturday, October 17th and Sunday, October 18th, women are invited to visit Yellow Springs for an art immersion weekend. Once a year, for two days, some of our finest artists open their studios for you to come meet them and see how they work. This year you can combine the Studio Tour with art classes. See art. Make art. Feel like an artist.
Participants can sign up for a class in drawing, collage making, journaling, Nia, belly dancing, hoola hooping, and jewelry making with your choice of crystals; or commune at a “Literary Tea”, get your picture taken in a hilarious hippie costume (it’s soooo Yellow Springs!)
For More information Please Visit Getaways for Women
Yellow Springs Studio Tour Website
photography by c.bayraktaroglu
Beth Holyoke's recent sculpture at the park on Dayton Yellow Springs Road is coming along and beautifully. Beth was one of the winners of the first village public art contest sponsored by the :"The Yellow Springs Arts Council, the Yellow Springs Center for the Arts (YSCA) Steering Committee and the Community Information Project (CIP)".
Dayton Street at the Corner Cone
