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Contents Up Front
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132 GETTING STARTED 34 A NOTE FROM KRISTY
36 NOTES & QUOTES 40 B EHIND THE SCENES A look inside Capital Style’s spring fashion shoot
Your Community 45 LADY LIKE
Handmade hats for Hat Day
46 LIMELIGHT
Seen on the scene
58 CAPITAL CAUSES
tepns ti art
collecting
A calendar of benefits
78 LEADING LADIES
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Museum head Nannette Maciejunes
84 PASSION TO PROFITS Sexy, sweaty yoga heats up New Albany
Your Style
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91 BELLE STREET JEWELRY 06 C RAVE Goodies we desire 1
111 NOUVEAU YOU
Luxe manicures around the city
116 FRESH FACES
Jaclyn Peresetsky finds success in the art of beauty
Y our Life 129 STUDIOS ON HIGH
Short North studio celebrates 25 years
50 LET’S BRUNCH Sage 1 54 DOING DINNER 1
Delicious eats at Powell’s Vittoria
160 U NCORKED Via Vecchia 162 GARDENING Growing herbs 164 MOMOLOGY Talking to your teen 162 M EET & GREET Leah Wong 28
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on the cover 62 DEBRA PENZONE 70 AMINAH ROBINSON 86 DOING GOOD with art 94 CAPITAL COUTURE 111 NOUVEAU YOU 132 DECOR
Tour the home of Denny Griffith & Beth Fisher
154 DINNER at Vittoria
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Editor’s Note
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Photo by Will Shilling
ven at 71, Aminah Robinson sleeps just a few hours a night, wakes at 4 a.m., pours a cup of coffee and starts painting again. She draws on the countertops and floors. She sculpts on the stovetop and doors. Her studio is not confined to a room; it is the entirety of her home. Her art is not confined to a hobby; it is the entirety of her existence. She has so many stories to tell, and this is how she does it. She does not want to create; she needs to. It’s as if she explores her innermost feelings and then uses inks, mud, glue, buttons, neckties, music boxes—almost anything—to translate them so the rest of us can feel them, too. I have interviewed hundreds of people—people who have fascinated me, delighted me and occasionally become friends—and none have been as unique as Aminah. In this issue, you’ll have the
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chance to meet her, and I believe it’s an introduction you’ll enjoy. My path to Aminah actually started during a fashion discussion. Many months ago, as our staff was brainstorming places for photo shoots, someone mentioned the Columbus Museum of Art. Cool concept, we thought, to feature wearable art among permanent art. We took off from there, deciding to theme the entire issue around artistic inspiration, focusing on visual pleasures. I’m confident you’ll feed off the creative energy in these pages as enjoyably as we did while putting them together. We profile longtime hair artist Debra Penzone, who keeps the Charles Penzone salon chain fresh (and the community happy) with her adept leadership skills and giving spirit. We introduce Nannette Maciejunes, who is leading the charge to make the already-grand museum more interactive and engaging. And we feature Courage Unmasked, a program for which artists decorate radiation masks to raise money for head and neck cancer. We also take you into the gallery-like home of local arts power couple Denny Griffith and Beth Fisher. And in case you’re intrigued by the idea of collecting yourself, we offer tips on how to do it (and introduce gallery owners who are happy to help you start). As I cooked dinner the other night, stewing over thoughts for this note, I was enjoying Malbec from a beautiful, green-glazed glass. My sister, a high school teacher, had commissioned her art teacher friend to make me a set of wine glasses for Christmas a few years back. Every time I use them, they make me smile. I’m awed at the talent, the time, the care. I can say the same about the other original art in our home, too. Knowing the artist behind the piece and the story behind the art—and cherishing the fact you’re the only one on the planet with that specific piece—makes it far more meaningful. I asked Will Shilling, our photo editor and a talented artist in his own right, why he thinks art is important. He thought about it for a bit, and in the end, his answer was simple. “Art gives people the chance to stop and say ‘wow,’ ” he said, “for no reason at all.” I love that. Aminah Robinson’s work does that for me. I hope this issue does that for you.
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Notable quotables from inside this issue
“Sometimes these ladies sit in my chair, and they drive BMWs, and they’re all sophisticated, and I don’t know what to talk to them about.” —Debra Penzone
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“I kind of think of her as the local version of the Dalai Lama.” —Denny Griffith
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“You almost get a high.” —Nikki DuRussel
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“It takes courage for an artist to make the piece. It takes courage for the gallery owner to show it. And it takes courage to buy it.” — Sherrie Riley Hawk
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“I laugh a lot! Sometimes my imagination just goes crazy.” —LEAH WONG
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