News & Voices
Columbus Monthly highlights how CreativeOhio’s ArtsVote Ohio campaign empowers Ohio artists to inspire voter engagement through nonpartisan creativity.
Terrace Park author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand writes about how democracy gives us the freedom to shape our own lives and pursue our dreams.
Vanessa Jean Speckman writes about how her artistic life and democracy intersect on a daily basis being a touring artist.
Whether you're a performing artist who wants to do your own GRWM (get ready with me) video, or you're extra great at sharing to stories and tagging your friends, ArtsVote Ohio needs your help in elevating Carrie Coon's message to Ohio's creatives.
ArtsVote Ohio’s creative campaign to inspire voter engagement was featured statewide through The Ohio Newsroom, highlighting the intersection of art and civic participation ahead of the November elections.
In 2023, Ohio implemented a new voter ID law, requiring all in-person voters to present a valid photo ID to cast their ballot. Here's everything you need to know to ensure you're prepared on Election Day.
On a recent episode of All Sides with Anna Staver, the spotlight was on the role of political art in American society, featuring ArtsVote Ohio artists and advocates who are making an impact.
To ensure your vote counts, the USPS recommends mailing your ballot at least one week before your state's deadline. For Ohio, that's October 29.
Sweeney's Walnut Street Tavern, Secret Studio and AJ Vanderelli are participating in democracy *creatively* with an ArtsVote Ohio Postcard Party on Monday, October 21 from 6 to 9 pm. Join us as [...]
Join Gem City Action and other civically engaged and like-minded creatives for a night of food, fun, and art at Yellow Cab Tavern (700 E 4th St, Dayton, OH 45402). Event organizers [...]
Congress passed a temporary FY25 Continuing Resolution (CR) spending bill, preventing a government shutdown on October 1, 2024. The bill passed with broad bipartisan support, temporarily extending level funding for all federal agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, until December 20, 2024.
NatterDoodle, Columbus October 11 from 5 to 8
Do your part to encourage a strong voter turnout from Ohio’s creatives by hosting an ArtsVote Ohio Postcard Party. This is a fun way to gather friends, fellow creatives, and community members to encourage local artists to make a plan to vote.
ArtsVote Ohio is giving away 3,000 free, nonpartisan yard signs with art by Ohio artists. Learn how to get one today.
Join us as we get together to send out postcards to your favorite artists and musicians reminding them the importance of getting out to vote! Remington Road Group will sponsor two [...]
The Kettering Foundation and statewide partners CreativeOhio (an advocacy group championing creativity as a core economic driver), and ArtsVote Ohio (a nonpartisan statewide effort to get members of the creative sector to [...]
ArtWorks and statewide partners CreativeOhio, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and ArtsVote Ohio partnered with renowned street artist Shepard Fairey on a nonpartisan Get Out the Vote mural project to re-ignite voter [...]
The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) will be a voter registration site September 21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th and October 5th and 6th.
As part of the ArtsVote Ohio effort, the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), in partnership with Creative Ohio and ArtWorks in Cincinnati, is organizing the nonpartisan “Get Out the Vote” mural project with renowned street artist Shepard Fairey. The project will feature a series of temporary wheatpaste murals in Columbus and Cincinnati this fall, and a permanent large-scale mural in Cincinnati.
ArtsVote Ohio is giving away 3,000 free, nonpartisan yard signs with art by Ohio artists. Learn how to get one today.
On Friday, September 13, Jami Goldstein spoke about ArtsVote Ohio on Good Day Columbus. She shared the details about our initiative.
ArtsVote Ohio teams up with ArtWorks in Cincinnati for the Get Out The Vote Mural Project with Shepard Fairey.
September 17, 2024 | 11:30 a.m. | Livestream available
Columbus, Ohio will have 20 Shepard Fairey murals in the Short North, Downtown, and Columbus College of Art & Design
In her work, Robyn Winkler creates space for adults with disabilities to express themselves, tell their stories, and claim their place in the community. In doing so, she writes "We’re participating in an act of democracy."
In her life as an activist, educator, and author, Sandra Kucinich-Horn has witnessed the transformative power of voting.
As part of the ArtsVote Ohio effort, the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), in partnership with Creative Ohio and ArtWorks in Cincinnati, is organizing the nonpartisan “Get Out the Vote” mural project with renowned street artist Shepard Fairey. The project will feature a series of temporary wheatpaste murals in Columbus and Cincinnati this fall, and a permanent large-scale mural in Cincinnati.
April (Ape) Bleakney is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, artist, entrepreneur, and a student of history making art in Cleveland, Ohio.
Art Academy President Joe Girandola honors suffragist Cornelia Cassady Davis and encourages the community to vote this election year.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | Contemporary Arts Center | Cincinnati, Ohio | Reservations Required
Cincinnati's CityBeat shares details about Shepard Fairey's visit to Ohio
Columbus poet Rikki Santer writes about voting in her first presidential election in 1972, in Youngstown, Ohio.
Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour shares her words on voting as an artist living in rural Ohio.
Presidential Debate Watch Party & Voter Registration at Gateway Film Center on Tuesday, September 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Erin Smith Glenn is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate taking part in the ArtsVote Ohio Yard Signs project.
Lisa Quine is an award-winning ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, muralist and illustrator based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ohio's Arts Scene Is Massive, says the Columbus Navigator, and Now It's Flexing Its Voting Power.
Claire Wagner is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate from Cincinnati, Ohio and would like to be considered a helper.
Nazli Brush is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate from Columbus, Ohio whose journey began in Istanbul, Turkey.
A new directive from Ohio Scretary of State impacts how individuals assissting relatives or disabled voters can return their absentee ballots.
Gramercy Books owner Linda Kass writes about her history and her dedication to using her voice for social justice.
Columbus Author Thao Thai shares about the how art and democracy intersect in her life as both a mother to a sprightly and opinionated eight-year-old and a daughter to Vietnamese American immigrants who often felt disenfranchised.
Writer Jarod K. Anderson explores the impact of voting with his prose in "Nudge." He writes, "Sometimes I hear folks downplay the role of voting because they don’t want to “nudge” the future. They want a bigger, bolder verb. To pummel. To slam. To detonate. If voting can’t hand them that, then what’s the point?"
Westerville Poet and Author Amit Majmudar muses about the crossover between a vote and a vow in this piece. He writes, "Our word vote comes from the Latin word for “vow” or “solemn pledge.” Every time we vote, we are pledging allegiance to our democracy."
CreativeOhio Executive Director and CEO Sarah Sisser spoke about ArtsVote Ohio and why supporting and funding the creative sector is a nonpartisan effort on September 4, 2024
Calcagno Cullen, Program Manager at Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation, has seen firsthand the power that art can have at giving power to the people, and at mobilizing disenfranchised voices to engage in democracy.
John Lanzador of Cincinnati, Ohio is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, artist and educator who is passionate about working for the greater good.
Asa (AY-suh) Featherstone, IV is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, a photo-based artist, curator, and founder of MIDTONES Creative Platform currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio.
ArtsVote Ohio Advocate Casey McCarty of Hilliard, Ohio is Executive Director of the Hilliard Arts Council and long time arts and Makerspace advocate.
Lydia Stutzman is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, art director, graphic designer, and hand letterer based in Columbus, Ohio who wants to make sure you're registered to vote.
ArtsVote Ohio Advocate Stephanie Rond (Columbus, Ohio) is an internationally recognized painter whose street art, canvas paintings, and community works subvert and reimagine traditional expectations of space, place, gender, and power.
Brian Methe is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate in Cincinnati, Ohio and has created over 200 hand-drawn, hand screen-printed posters for Grammy award winning, international touring artists.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — ArtsVote Ohio (AVO), a nonpartisan statewide initiative, has officially launched its campaign to mobilize Ohio’s creative sector to participate in the upcoming November elections. A collaboration between CreativeOhio and the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), ArtsVote Ohio aims to empower Ohio’s creatives—artists, arts administrators, arts patrons and more—with the resources and knowledge needed to encourage robust voter turnout and engagement in the legislative process.
Forty-one million members of Gen Z can vote in this year’s election and money is on their minds. Economic issues — including inflation, cost of living and jobs that pay a living wage [...]
The League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus will host its annual dinner meeting, along with a discussion about mis- and dis-information related to elections, on Sept. 10 from 6-8 p.m. at [...]
Join a statewide nonpartisan gathering of arts advocates on Thursday, September 12 from 12:30 to 1:30 to learn how you can encourage Ohio’s creative community (all 157,000 of us!) to show up at the polls this November. Hosted by ArtsVote Ohio and CreativeOhio, this meeting will include Ohio artists, speakers from the Arts ActionFund, the Haile Foundation and the League of Women Voters and will provide resources and opportunities for you to represent the creative community and get out the vote throughout Ohio.
On Tuesday, September 17 find or host a voter registration drive in your communty, and join nonpartisan organizations across the country in celebrating National Voter Registration Day. Sign up here to become [...]
Join supporters of the Mid-Ohio Food Collective at Land-Grant Brewing Company (424 W. Town St., Columbus, OH 43215), on Sept. 17 from 6-8:30 p.m. to eat, drink, register to vote, and play [...]
From 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 volunteers from the League of Women Voters and the Human Services Chamber of Franklin County will be available at all 23 Columbus library locations to answer [...]
Val Smith, founder of Sugar Camp in Dayton believe that artists are often a barometer for social change and reflect the values and aspirations of our society. "We must prop up a democratic system that supports us as changemakers," she says.
In 2022, when Americans for the Arts asked every state to get involved, Greater Columbus Arts Council’s (GCAC) Vice President of Marketing, Communications & Events answered that call and joined up with CreativeOhio to make this campaign a reality. For the first two years, ArtsVote Ohio shared the tools—exclusive shareables from Shepard Fairey for those who pledge to vote, and the Ohio Voter Fact Sheet—provided by the Arts Action Fund.
Chris Mundell, Vice President for Institutional Engagement at Columbus College of Art & Design shares his hopes for young artists and designers.
We need your help! Nearly 160,000 people were purged from Ohio's voter rolls. Were you one of them? Check your registration and then spread the word.
ArtsVote Ohio is accepting and publishing your original essays and letters to build up and demonstrate the power of our creative community. You don’t need to be a published author. You simply need to share with us why democracy matters to you.
Danielle Kukric is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, artist, illustrator and owner of Dragon Rise Studio, living in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dara Harper is an ArtVote Ohio Advocate, artist, educator and the Co-Founder and President of the Akron Black Artist Guild in Akron, Ohio.
Maureen O'Keefe is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate and portrait and figure painter living in Piqua, Ohio.
Molli Ross is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate and the creative brain behind Oddball Design Co.
Leigh Brooklyn is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate and multidisciplinary artist living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Who you vote for can impact budgets. Follow the trail of public investment to understand of how your vote can fund arts and culture in Ohio.
Poet and small business owner Amy Turn Sharp believes in the power of collective action.
Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) Executive Director and CEO Tom Katzenmeyer shares about his lifelong commitment to democracy.
Discover what nonprofits can legally do to encourage voter participation. Learn the dos and don'ts for 501(c)(3) arts and cultural organanizations.
Micah Kraus is an ArtsVote Ohio Advocate, artist, and educator living in Akron, Ohio.
CreativeOhio Executive Director and CEO Sarah Sisser shares her journey into arts advocacy in this Voices personal essay.
