Middletown's Art District
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Topic: Middletown's Art District
Posted By: TudorBrown
Subject: Middletown's Art District
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 12:47pm
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I'm positive, don't get me wrong. Can someone explain the "Art District" though? I don't get it? My first thought would be that an "art district" is the last thing that would be appropriate for our downtown?  |
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Posted By: wasteful
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 2:32pm
| Tudor when you get a clear answer let the rest of us know WHY? |
Posted By: Mr. Dave
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 3:27pm
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Posted By: spiderjohn
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 5:08pm
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Outside of the glass place/Waldens, I can't find any art outside of occasional childrens scribbling
Just where is the art in the "Got Art" area/arts district?
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Posted By: Smartman
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 7:22pm
| Got Art would be running a bulldozer though downtown and see what figures the pile look like! Then Auntie Ann would have reasons to put flowers around a real dead area! |
Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 8:18pm
| In all seriousness why has the city latched onto this Art district kick. Art and Middletown go together like Oil and Water. I am not saying that to knock anyone it is just that Middletowns makeup does not lend itself to supporting an Art District. They have talked about this for 5-6 years I have been here now and no one can give a convincing answer as to why it will work in Middletown and why it is basically the only idea they are running with. |
Posted By: Mr. Dave
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 8:32pm
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From City web site
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009
(All day or non-timed event) Location: http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/popup.php?&op=view&id=21806776&crd=middletowncalendar#location - Middletown Arts Center ( http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/popup.php?&op=view&id=21806776&crd=middletowncalendar# - map ) Category: General Description Reunion Exhibit by graphic artist Sam Ashworth
Free and Open to the Public Monday 9-4 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9-9 Saturday 9-12 Isn't Sam Judy's Boy friend? Just saying that could be one reason
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Posted By: Hermes
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 8:33pm
I think among the "well to doers" it's called prestige.  ------------- No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !! |
Posted By: Mr. Dave
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 8:43pm
Yea and among the criminals its called people to rob 
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Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 9:51pm
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I am ashamed to have to ask this as I thought that I was well-informed, but I've seen several references to "Walden's". Who/what/where is "Walden's"???
PS: I already know about Walden Pond (I was there shootin' the bull with Henry David) and I know Butch. I'm referring to the one that is apparently in the former downtown Middletown. ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 10:18pm
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Mike His Gallery is located in the Beauverre building, very nice people.
http://www.natureartists.com/artists/artist.asp?ArtistID=87 - http://www.natureartists.com/artists/artist.asp?ArtistID=87
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Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Dec 10 2009 at 10:24pm
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Hmm...I am not certain, but I think that a couple of his works might have been auctioned off during the Big Brothers/Big Sisters fundraiser at Carol's Speakeasy last week!!! They were nicely done and probably went too cheap!!! ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Dec 11 2009 at 6:49am
| Mike- you remember Butch Walden from the 60's at MHS? I knew him too but lost track of him. He was married to Patti Miller (Mike's sister) at one time. Had a son- Lincoln, right? Patti went on to marry Bob Gage who died recently. What happened to Butch? |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Dec 11 2009 at 6:58am
Pac - been wondering the same thing myself. Just don't see this blue-collar steel/low income/welfare town going for the arts thing. Never have. It's also ironic that at the same time the city leaders are trying to lure low income people for fed money and make this the welfare capital of SW Ohio, they are trying to create a cultural environment for the downtown with the arts. Kinda opposites, aren't they? These "artzy" people will have to rely on the out-of-town interest because, let's face it, there ain't an overabundance of cultured folks living in this town. Just more city leader ignorance. 
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Posted By: TudorBrown
Date Posted: Dec 11 2009 at 8:50am
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Yeah, I could possibly even understand something like an "Industrial Art's District", or.... But to have pictures drawn with markers by homeless people in all the windows of our vacant downtown buildings, and to call it our "Art District" is just pathetic. |
Posted By: Hermes
Date Posted: Dec 11 2009 at 9:05am
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Vet - Well who said the blue-collar low income steel workers were invited to attend any of these artsy-fartsy art thingeys anyway ? If they wanted to invite low income blue collar types they'd have a tractor pull or maybe a tobacco spittin contest. Naw this artsy thing is for the well defined,the aristocratic,the well educated. With the mixture of low income section 8 & aristocrats it makes them feel even more important and then they can try to bring civility to the masses. People with money and those who think they have money need these type of things in order to maintain the natural order of importance within the community. ------------- No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !! |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Dec 11 2009 at 9:27am
The last I heard (which was a few years ago), he took an early retirement from AK and moved to the east coast of Florida. Palm Bay, I believe. ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
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