Arts and Culture Alliance

Here is an email that went out this week that tells some of the follow up that is being done by the Arts and Culture Alliance here in Coshocton. As you will see, Hasseman Marketing is involved in a pretty cool project with them!

September 24, 2007

Hello Friends -

We want to update you on what's been happening since the Arts and Cultural Alliance meetings in August. As you remember, many ideas were discussed with national consultants Jerry Yoshitomi and Christy Farnbauch. If you have ideas or comments generated from these meetings, please let us know.

We have already acted on several of the ideas that were discussed at those meetings including the Quilt Barn project, a Coshocton email newsletter, The Collect Coshocton Art Show, and Buycoshocton.com.

Here is a brief description of each of these projects.

Email Newsletter

Our goal is to let as many people as possible know about Coshocton and what we have to offer. Email is one of the most effective ways to do this and we can use your help. One of the things we'd like to request is that each of you send us at least five email addresses of friends or family who live outside of Coshocton who may be interested in hearing about Coshocton events, information about the buycoshocton.com website and other cultural happenings. Please send your emails to the Coshocton County Convention and Visitors Bureau at coshcvb@coshocton.com.

Quilt Barns
We have a local quilt pattern designer, Theresa Scheetz, on board to work on developing the designs for the barns and we have identified some barns in key areas to have the designs displayed. We will need assistance in securing supplies such as wood to construct the 8' X 8' squares, paint for the designs, and builders and artists. If you can help in any of these areas, please contact Dorothy Skowrunski at dskowrun@cotc.tec.oh.us or Jan Myers at janalanm@roadrunner.com.

Once we have at least three barns displaying quilt patterns, we can put a map together to guide travelers past each of these sites and hopefully have them stop at artists' galleries and shops along the way. There are a number of these quilt barn trails in Southern Ohio that have created a lot of tourist activity. We will be able to link our "trail" to those from other counties. Here are a couple websites with quilt barn information if you are interested in seeing what we are talking about: www.appalachiandiscovery.com and www.athensohio.com.


Collect Coshocton

An initial Coshocton Collects Art Show was held at the Towne Center Civic Hall during the Art Walk on September 7. Twenty-four local artists' works were displayed from the collections of ten local owners. This show was greatly received and will be repeated and expanded in the months ahead. Our purpose is to showcase the extreme amount of local talent in our Coshocton artist community. If you are a collector of local art and would like to share your collection in an upcoming exhibit, contact

Anne Cornell at the Pomerene Center for the Arts at anneecornell@gmail.com, or John Kuhn at the Coshocton Performing Arts Center at johnkuhn2002@aol.com.



BuyCoshocton.com

Buycoshocton.com is in the process of being designed with hopes of implementation sometime yet this year. You will be hearing more about this unique site which will feature local artists, Coshocton-made products and links to individual web sites where available. Hasseman Marketing is developing this site for us. If you are interested in being a part of this internet marketing opportunity with your business or artwork, contact Hasseman Marketing at Kirby@hassemanmarketing.com.

Thank you for your interest in promoting Coshocton. Please let us know if you have ideas for promoting the arts and cultural aspects of Coshocton County. Send your comments to Belinda Williamson at the Coshocton Convention and Visitors Bureau coshcvb@coshocton.com.