“The artistic significance of what [Sherri] has brought to Ohio, at the Wexner Center, is hard to exaggerate, as while it spans many art forms, it never strays from the highest rungs of quality, nor from the courage it takes to undertake a full exploration of the creative spirit.” —DOUGL AS KRIDLER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION, NOMINATING GELDIN FOR A GOVERNOR’S AWARD
The Shumate Advisory Council (top left) celebrate Blues for Smoke. PresidentDesignate Michael V. Drake, MD, and wife Brenda (inset left) joined us for the opening of the Cruzamentos exhibition. Sherri Geldin (inset right) received the award for arts administration at the Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio; she is pictured here with Julie Henahan, then-director of the Ohio Arts Council; Marc Folk, Ohio Citizens for the Arts board
president; and Jeffrey Rich, Ohio Arts Council board chair. (614) Magazine readers called the Wexner Center the “Best Art Gallery” for the fourth time. Surge Columbus, a network of five cultural organizations in town—including the Wex—offering spaces and programming for teens, held its official public launch (“Ignite”). Wexner Center members, patrons, and guests danced the night away at Off the Grid, the GenWex group’s annual fundraiser.