[NEohioPAL] Calling All Photographers! Communities Collaborate for FOCUS 2009 Art Competition

[Fran Storch]

NEWS RELEASE

  


CONTACT:                    Missy S. Toms, 216.521.2540 x22 or 
mtoms at beckcenter.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:    February 13, 2009

 

 

Calling All Photographers!

Communities Collaborate for Focus 2009 Art Competition

 

 

Lakewood, OH - Beck Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Solon
Center for the Arts, is proud to announce Focus 2009, a photography
competition bringing communities together through art. 

 

Amateur photographers (adults and students) are eligible to submit their
competition entries no later than February 27, 2009. The competition is
juried with cash awards in all categories-people/portraits,
architecture/cityscape, nature/landscape, animals, botanicals, macro,
and "Best in Show."  Applications are available on the Beck Center
website at www.beckcenter.org. 

 

An opening ceremony, which is open to the public, will be held 6:00 to
8:00 p.m. on Friday, March 13 at the Solon Community Center at 35000
Portz Parkway. The FOCUS 2009 photography exhibition will be on display
March 20 through April 17, 2009, at the Beck Center for the Arts, 17801
Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. For exhibition hours, call the Beck Center
at 216-521-2540 ext. 10.

 

"We are so pleased to host this exciting competition and exhibition with
our colleagues in Solon," says Beck Center associate director of Visual
Arts Susan Gallagher. "The collaboration between these two exceptional
arts organizations is key to the success of Focus 2009. We hope to make
this partnership an annual celebration of artistic talent in Northeast
Ohio." 

 

Focus 2009 is presented by KeyBank with additional support from the
Parks & Recreation departments of the cities of Aurora, Twinsburg and
Streetsboro. Programming at the Beck Center is provided by the generous
support of Cox Communications and the Ohio Arts Council. Beck Center
also gratefully acknowledges the citizens of Cuyahoga County for their
support through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. 

 

Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that
offers professional theater productions on two stages, arts education
programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and
creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits
featuring local and regional artists.

 

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Posted by:

Fran Storch

Beck Center for the Arts

Publications Manager

17801 Detroit Avenue

Lakewood, OH  44107

(216) 521-2540 x20

 

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