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CORPORATE SPONSORS, GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL TEAM UP TO HOST 48th ANNUAL COLUMBUS ARTS FESTIVAL JUNE 5, 6 AND 7
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Emily Swartzlander
(614) 221-8492
Columbus, Ohio - Great corporate partners like Time Warner Cable, American Electric Power, Motorists Insurance Group, alive! and more are teaming up with the Greater Columbus Arts Council to support the 48th annual Columbus Arts Festival June 5, 6 and 7 in the Discovery District, ensuring that this event remains a part of the community for 2009.
Funding for the Columbus Arts Festival presented by Time Warner Cable comes primarily from sponsor support, with some earned revenue through artists' booth fees, food vendor booth fees and beverage sales. All activities and performances at the Festival are free and open to the public. The Festival receives no public funding.
"We are so thankful to our sponsors, because without them there would be no Columbus Arts Festival," said Katie Laux Lucas, Columbus Arts Festival Director. "Because of their commitment to the central Ohio community, we are able to provide a free arts experience to hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors each year."
Columbus Arts Festival sponsors include: Time Warner Cable, the presenting sponsor; American Electric Power, volunteer sponsor; alive!, the official print sponsor; Giant Eagle; Salon Schools Group; Motorists Insurance Group; CD101; WOSU Public Media; WRKZ / WMNI / WTDA; Cityscene; Ohio Magazine; and Design Communications.
The 2009 Festival, located in downtown's Discovery District, will feature fine art and fine craft from approximately 230 nationally and internationally acclaimed juried artists, along with continuous live entertainment, gourmet food and hands-on art activities for all ages. More than 250,000 people of all ages and diverse backgrounds attended this "welcome to summer" event last year.
Begun as the "Downtown Festival of the Arts" on the Ohio Statehouse lawn, the Columbus Arts Festival has provided central Ohio with the best in visual arts, music, poetry and local foods for three days a summer since 1962. Featuring a relaxed, gallery-like setting perfect for browsing the best selection of art, the Festival attracts over 1,000 fine art and craft applicants from across the country each year, chosen by a jury of visual arts professionals to bring their work to Columbus.
The 2009 Columbus Arts Festival will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Fri., June 5 and Sat., June 6 and from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sun., June 7. For more information on the Columbus Arts Festival, call (614) 224-2606 or visit the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s website at gcac.org.
About the Greater Columbus Arts Council: Through vision and leadership, advocacy and collaboration, the Greater Columbus Arts Council supports art and advances the culture of the region. A catalyst for excellence and innovation, we fund exemplary artists and arts organizations and provide programs, events and services of public value that educate and engage all audiences in our community. Thanks to the City of Columbus, Franklin County and the Ohio Arts Council for their continued support of GCAC.
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Contact: Emily Swartzlander
(614) 221-8492
Columbus, Ohio - Great corporate partners like Time Warner Cable, American Electric Power, Motorists Insurance Group, alive! and more are teaming up with the Greater Columbus Arts Council to support the 48th annual Columbus Arts Festival June 5, 6 and 7 in the Discovery District, ensuring that this event remains a part of the community for 2009.
Funding for the Columbus Arts Festival presented by Time Warner Cable comes primarily from sponsor support, with some earned revenue through artists' booth fees, food vendor booth fees and beverage sales. All activities and performances at the Festival are free and open to the public. The Festival receives no public funding.
"We are so thankful to our sponsors, because without them there would be no Columbus Arts Festival," said Katie Laux Lucas, Columbus Arts Festival Director. "Because of their commitment to the central Ohio community, we are able to provide a free arts experience to hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors each year."
Columbus Arts Festival sponsors include: Time Warner Cable, the presenting sponsor; American Electric Power, volunteer sponsor; alive!, the official print sponsor; Giant Eagle; Salon Schools Group; Motorists Insurance Group; CD101; WOSU Public Media; WRKZ / WMNI / WTDA; Cityscene; Ohio Magazine; and Design Communications.
The 2009 Festival, located in downtown's Discovery District, will feature fine art and fine craft from approximately 230 nationally and internationally acclaimed juried artists, along with continuous live entertainment, gourmet food and hands-on art activities for all ages. More than 250,000 people of all ages and diverse backgrounds attended this "welcome to summer" event last year.
Begun as the "Downtown Festival of the Arts" on the Ohio Statehouse lawn, the Columbus Arts Festival has provided central Ohio with the best in visual arts, music, poetry and local foods for three days a summer since 1962. Featuring a relaxed, gallery-like setting perfect for browsing the best selection of art, the Festival attracts over 1,000 fine art and craft applicants from across the country each year, chosen by a jury of visual arts professionals to bring their work to Columbus.
The 2009 Columbus Arts Festival will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Fri., June 5 and Sat., June 6 and from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sun., June 7. For more information on the Columbus Arts Festival, call (614) 224-2606 or visit the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s website at gcac.org.
About the Greater Columbus Arts Council: Through vision and leadership, advocacy and collaboration, the Greater Columbus Arts Council supports art and advances the culture of the region. A catalyst for excellence and innovation, we fund exemplary artists and arts organizations and provide programs, events and services of public value that educate and engage all audiences in our community. Thanks to the City of Columbus, Franklin County and the Ohio Arts Council for their continued support of GCAC.
