Pomerene Center for the Arts Mulberry Street Coshocton Oh

• The Pomerene Center for the Arts was founded in 1984 and has been at the Johnson-Humrickhouse home on Mulberry Street.
• The Pomerene Center lath recently voted to movement out and seek open up gallery/studio space in downtown.
• Reasons for the move include not needing the space anymore and refocusing on the goal of connecting the public to the arts.
• The house will revert to the Coshocton County Library System and if sold coin would get to the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum.

COSHOCTON – The board of the Pomerene Eye for the Arts is looking to downsize and refocus on its mission of connecting the community to the arts, and therefore move the center.

Since its founding in 1984, the Johnson-Humrickhouse home has been at 317 Mulberry St. However in that location is no set timeline for the move, according to Anne Cornell, executive director since 2000.

The building the center is currently housed in is owned by the Coshocton Canton Library System and it would revert to control of the library lath. If sold, the coin would go to the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum. The lath said they're just at present starting discussions on what to exercise with the property.

"We were trying to support the house with private events. In the finish, we're kind of redundant there. It's non ideal. Our parking isn't good. It was a lot of work that took away from our actual mission," Cornell said. "Gathering in small, crowded spaces is not being done right at present and I'm not sure when, and if, that comes back. The things we could do well in that space, we can't practise, at least for a long time notwithstanding."

Cornell said they are looking for studio/gallery space in the downtown area. They are working with Linda Linham of LML Consulting and Successful Ventures on developing a strategic plan. Linham is an artist herself who recently returned to the area and has a wealth of experience in strategic and tactical planning with businesses and not-profits, Cornell said.

"We want something visible and central. It will be studio space, we want large gallery space," Cornell said.

She said how order relates to each other and gathers has changed greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the way people learn, make and swallow art and access music has changed drastically in the ii decades she's been at the Pomerene. The questions they're request at present is who in the arts community is doing what and how, what is not being done and how and with whom they can collaborate to meet certain needs.

Many programs and projects of the Pomerene Centre are continuing. This includes the Heritage Quilt Barn Trail, Niggling Social Histories in the former SOTA/Selby Edifice windows, the artPARK and Art CONNECTS, an education and manufacturing plan placing artists in schools to assistance create big-scale industrial art in the artPARK.

A recent project born from the pandemic was a partnership with Coshocton Regional Medical Eye chosen Need a Mask, Take a Mask. The artwork for the installation was created by residents of GentleBrook Lafayette Meadows with guidance from habilitation specialist and artist Beth Dillehay. Cornell attended workshops via Zoom and assembled the work in the Pomerene Studio. It's currently being installed at the medical middle.

Cornell said this is an example of how they want to focus the mission of involving the community in the arts with customs artmaking. The goal is to bring businesses, schools, artists and the general public together to create collaborative temporary public works of art. This is i thing the new studio infinite will exist needed for.

The Pomerene is likewise looking forward to staging social gatherings and musical performances at the artPARK when such events are allowed over again. At the site of the former Park Hotel lot on Main Street, the artPARK features various installations designed to engage people and serve as a public meeting infinite.

The firm on Mulberry Street too had musical events, fine art showings and other events. Yet, all of that has slowed with the pandemic. As a way to boost use this summer, people could rent out areas in the house as a remote workspace.

"We're making a decision I retrieve will benefit the other organizations we overlap missions with. I think it's important we streamline as a community in where we put our money and what nosotros back up," Cornell said. "I feel like this is a good move for the community that nosotros're not trying to sustain a house that, quite honestly, not all that many people utilise."

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