• Crow Project

    pasting for the Crow Homecoming

    Over the years, many people in Coshocton have suggested a mural on this wall.  The surfaces are too impermanent for painting.                   We began imagining the plaster wall sections as pasting surfaces for billboard-scale posters (inspired by JR’s pasting work). Enter our interest in researching the habits of Coshocton’s winter crow roost and the chance to partner with Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, inaugural exhibition artist Diana Cooper (NYC), and Kenyon professor Karen Snouffer’s “Painting Redefined” studio class. Coshocton’s crow data was translated into art in March 2012. (Thanks locally, to the Simpson Family Fund at the Coshocton Foundation.) We’ll be pasting 2500sq.ft. of paper as part of…

  • Performances,  Rent Parties

    Matt Opachick Plays November’s Rent Party

    Matt Opachick, acoustic | Friday, November 2, 7pm Genres grassroot, folkfunk Influences the Dead, Phish, MMW and the Derek Trucks Band suggested donation $10 Matt Opachick  crafts his unique yet comfortable blend of grassroots folkfunk music after such influences as the Dead, Phish, MMW and the Derek Trucks Band. His folky-fingerpicking guitar stylings combined with a refreshing attention to the human-condition provides the listener with sounds that  ease the mind and challenge the most cavernous  souls. WHAT IS A RENT PARTY? At the time of the Great Migration north (1910-1930), blacks emigrating from the south settled the problem of Harlem’s inflated rents by throwing parties. Furniture was moved to the…

  • Gatherings

    Best Holiday Cookie Contest IV

    ENTRY DEADLINE November 30th downloadable entry form PARTY Friday. Dec. 7, 7:00pm               The Pomerene Center for the Arts is searching for the best holiday cookie in Coshocton County! It’s a contest BAKERS! TEST YOUR SKILLS. WIN PRIZES for baking the best Cut Out, Cut Up or Decorated Cookie; Bar, Ball or full of Nuts Cookie; Heirloom Cookie; Spirit Cookie or winning the coveted Santa’s (People’s) Choice Award. entry form It’s a musical-comedy-COOKIE TASTING-auction evening that pulls community members together to laugh and eat cookies while raising funds to support community arts. The contest generates a limited edition of cookie gift boxes of excellent…