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Auto museum executive honored
Gran Roberts, marketing director for the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, was recently selected from a group of over 260 nominations as one of this year's "Future 40 Under 40" award recipients by Upstate Indiana magazine. The award is bestowed each year to northeast Indiana’s most dynamic leaders in business, medicine, government & community organizations under the age of 40.
The thirty-year-old Roberts has been employed at the museum for over two years and is responsible for the museum’s marketing efforts and sales of the museum’s popular banquet and conference center. “It is an honor to be selected for this award,” said Roberts. “I take great pride in promoting the museum, its galleries, and services. I love this job. To be recognized by a group of my peers on how I represent the museum and do my job is beyond words to me.”
Each nomination was reviewed by a group of seven business leaders in northeast Indiana for Upstate Indiana magazine. “The class of 2008 was by far the largest class of candidates we have had the opportunity to judge from,” said Richard Cummins, editor-in-chief of Upstate Indiana. “What does it take to be a Future 40 honoree? We look for leaders who make a significant difference in the places they work, their prospective industries and communities in which they reside.” Roberts received five different nominations from his peers.
College artists' works
in major Ohio museum
On exhibit through Sunday, July 27 in the Dayton Art Institute's Regional Artist Gallery is artwork by four college students selected for the Yeck College Artist Fellowship, one of three programs made possible by the Dorothy and Bill Yeck Educational Endowment. Students selected for this year's fellowship are: Nicholaus Arnold, Wright State University; Ren Cummings, Wright State University; Emily French, University of Dayton; and Sarah Rocheleau, Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Photography major Cummings is not interested in photographing an imaginary world; instead, she prefers to photograph the unnoticed spaces of the everyday world. Looking behind the main streets, she actively seeks out spaces generally perceived as dark and possibly dangerous. She chooses not to alter or change the appearance of the photograph, but challenges the viewer to look at the subject matter in a new and beautiful light.
PILLAR I: VISIONS OF NIGHT
Ren Cummings
2008 Inkjet prints, plywood, Sentra, Plexiglas
French uses the flowers in her artwork as symbols of beauty and femininity, as well as life and hope. These abstracted floral paintings speak of her own personal dilemmas as an artist, a woman, and a person. The flowers symbolically suggest to the viewer that even when beauty and order exist, something more chaotic can be found within.
of the cicada and grasshopper.
The small scale invites the viewer to move in closely to examine the artwork and to consider the larger narrative of the microscopic world around them.
The 2009 Yeck College Artist Fellows applications are accepted through June 30. Call 937-223-5277, ext. 335 or e-mail: mwhitley@daytonartinstitute.org. for more information.
Printmaker Arnold's prints reflect an anthropological study of self-imposed destruction. He uses the abstract assembly of anatomical forms to illustrate the de-formation and de-construction of the human body. Arnold reinterprets and reconstructs the form with black and white graphic images created by the woodcut printing process.
Rocheleau creates three-dimensional collages from personal watercolor paintings, clippings from art magazines, and old scientific equipment. Her collages are presented in the format of scientific specimens illustrating the life cycle
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Emily French
2008 Acrylic and pastel on panel
Totem w/Brain
Nicholaus Arnold
DISSECTION OF THE FALL OF AN APPLE SEED
Sarah Rocheleau
2008 Watercolor, found images and objects
