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ANNUAL CONFERENCE2011 InformationPlease join us next year from October 22-24, 2012, in Springfield, Ohio, for the 25th Annual Showcase Conference! Details will go live on this website April 2nd. Please visit our Facebook page for previews and updates. The Ohio Arts Presenters Network was pleased to hold our 24th Annual Showcase Conference for the second year in a row in Columbus, Ohio. Thank you for joining us! The conference took place from October 24-26, 2011, at the Columbus Athenaeum, historic Lincoln Theatre and the Sheraton Columbus Hotel at Capitol Square in downtown Columbus. Our annual conference serves as a productive, affordable marketplace for arts and entertainment booking, as well as a valuable forum for networking and professional development. If you or your organization hires performing artists, schedules entertainment, offers performances, represents performing artists or provides support services to the performing arts field, ours is THE conference to attend! We provide a friendly, intimate setting to meet and develop business relationships with performing arts colleagues from Ohio and beyond. During the three day conference, presenters, artists and agents from Ohio and surrounding states gathered to see talented work presented by 36 performing artist showcases, visited a sold-out exhibit hall with over 70 artists and artist organizations, attended many networking functions and took part in professional development workshops. We were also pleased to be able to host VSA Ohio's traveling exhibit, Accessible Expressions Ohio, for a second year. An adjudicated, statewide exhibition and tour of visual art, Accessible Expressions Ohio began in 1996 and is an opportunity for artists to create, exhibit and sell their art; recognize all ability levels; and present art by people with disabilities in inclusive settings. The exhibit was enjoyed by all and added another level of the arts to our conference - visual! Conference attendees included presenters, performing artists, agents, service organizations and consultants who reside within and outside of Ohio. Special thanks to our conference partners: Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Citizens for the Arts and Ohio Alliance for Arts Education. Please click the links below to read about our advertisers, award winners, exhibitors, showcase artists, sponsors and our 2011 Young Artist Initiative winner.
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