NEWS
RELEASE
CONTACT:
Missy S. Toms, 216.521.2540 x22 or mtoms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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