Each week, arts writer Meredith Moss highlights the people and the events making arts news in our region.
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Film Dayton has a new executive director. Shelly Hulce, who most recently served as legislative aide to Dayton Mayor Gary D. Leitzell, has a background in areas ranging from video production and IT to allied health.
She is a directing board member of Southwestern Ohio Public Radio, hosts a weekly radio show on WSWO and is a contributing writer for DaytonMostMetro.com. As a radio producer, Hulce began her training at WYSO and before that was an independent video producer involved in the Cincinnati 48HourFilm contest and the Ohio Film + Music Fest.
Known to locals as “Gladgirl,” she created community building arts events such as Poster-Tastic, StorySlamm Dayton, promoted and represented many local rock artists and has written, produced and directed two successful local rock operas. She also served as a directing member of the former Dayton Dirt Collective arts and music venue and was a long time employee of Hospice of Dayton.
FilmDayton plans to continue its established programming and support services of the local film community, and heighten the focus on economic development.
Stivers will host Chicago artist’s work
Fifth Street Gallery at Stivers School for the Arts is hosting an exhibit of photographs by Chicago artist Sandro Miller.
Miller. who has been photographing people for the past 30 years, is known for photos that “stare deep into the life and souls of his subjects.”
The “Indomitable Spirit” exhibit is funded in part by Fotofocus, a Cincinnati based non-profit dedicated to promoting lens-based art.
The exhibition opened this weekend and will run through Oct. 24. An artist reception and lecture will take place from 6-9 p.m. Friday evening, Oct. 3, with Miller speaking at 7:30 p.m.
The 5th Street Gallery inside Stivers School for the Arts is located at 1313 E. Fifth St. in Dayton. It is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
UD rare book exhibit opens this week
DAYTON — A collection of rare books is on display at the University of Dayton. Books are from authors like Austen, Chaucer, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
“Imprints and Impressions: Milestones in Human Progress” features first editions, manuscripts, galley proofs, papyri and illustrations spanning the scholarly spectrum from philosophy to physics. The free exhibit runs Sept. 29 through Nov. 9 in the Roesch Library first-floor gallery on the University of Dayton campus.
The books and manuscripts are on loan from the collection of Stuart Rose, a Dayton-area businessman, said rare book expert Nicholas Basbanes, author of several books, including “A Gentle Madness,” about book lovers and the lengths collectors go to find their treasures.
Basbanes will kick off the exhibit with a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, in the Kennedy Union ballroom, followed by the public opening of the exhibit in Roesch Library at 8 p.m. His lecture, “Common Bond: Thoughts on a World Awash in Paper, and the Fellowship of Books” is co-sponsored by the University of Dayton Speaker Series.
His address is one of more than 18 events around the exhibit expanding on co-curricular learning through talks, workshops and performances, with many open to the public.
Rose began collecting in 1992 with a first-edition Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, followed shortly by books from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens and a Shakespeare First Folio. He now has more than 2,000 books.
Earlier this year, he ccepted an invitation to loan a portion of his collection to the University of Dayton.
Some highlights:
• Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet: “She had to go before a committee to prove that she actually wrote it.”
• Huckleberry Finn: “With a double signature of Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain.”
• “Look at what he has from women:” Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Anne Frank, Marie Curie, Jane Austen, Wheatley and Maria Montessori.
• Chaucer. A Shakespeare Folio. Galileo: “Just one of two known copies of the first edition.”
• Copernicus, first edition: “One of the rarest books in the world, and worth visiting the exhibit for that alone.”
For more information on the exhibit, visit http://go.udayton.edu/rarebooks.
Mermaids come to Newport Aquarium
A real-life mermaid, clad in a colorful fish-tailed costume, will be swimming underwater from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day at Newport Aquarium Oct. 10-19.
The mermaids will dive in the aquarium’s 60,000-gallon Coral Reef exhibit that features nearly 200 aquatic animals and more than 50 species of fish. Guests also will be able to meet and talk with a mermaid and have their pictures taken in the aquarium’s Shark Ray Bay Theater from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. each day.
Additional mermaid encounters will include an Overnight Adventure and Breakfast with a Mermaid. Tickets are limited and details on how to purchase tickets are available on the Newport Aquarium website, NewportAquarium.com.
The mermaids are traveling from Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, a freshwater spring north of Tampa, Fla., home of underwater mermaid appearances and performances since 1947.
Rosewood presents comic creator expo
Rosewood Arts Centre in Kettering is presenting a upcoming event that will interest comic book artists and fans — “SuburbiCon: A Comic Creator Expo.”
The program will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 and will feature a variety of comic book writers and artists. Panel discussions and live artist demos will offer a behind-the-scenes look at comic creation. There will also be art-making activities, a Super Hero photo booth, cape and mask making, a Super Hero scramble and the Mega-Big Comic Page.
Participating professional comic book artists include: Justin Wasson, Chad Lambert, Nate Lovett, Scott Bachmann, Scott Simmons, Allison Dickson, Eric Adams, Heidi Black, Enrica Jang, Kevin Adkins/Twighlight Star Studios, Matthew Metzger, Nate Christopher, Lee Christopher, Gem City Comics, Splash Page Magazine and more. Detailed artist bios can be found at
The Center is located at 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering.
Hamilton’s Pyramid Hill hosts Art Fair today
More than 50 artists from across the region will be displaying and selling their art work at the 12th annual Pyramid Hill Art Fair today.
Artwork on display will range from steel, ceramics and jewelry to paint and other medias.. There will also be music, kids’ activities and food vendors.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park is a 335-acre museum that features outdoor sculpture in natural settings as well as an indoor ancient sculpture museum.
The park is located at 1763 Hamilton-Cleves Road, Hamilton. Today’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 per vehicle. More information is available at www.pyramidhill.org or by calling 513-868-1234.
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