Arts Alive! Archives

2005
Press Releases

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 Joan Lauk from the Akron Art Museum.         Jill Bacon Madden, Arts Alive! chair &           Joel Wolfgang, Mary Ann Jackson &

                                                                    Jessie Raynor, Akron Area Arts Alliance                        Scott Griffith

                                                                                          Director             

   Dr. Penny Frease & Sean McConaha            Lifetime Achievement Winner Lola              Melissa Paul, Tom Keith & Mary Ann

         from Weathervane Playhouse                 Rothman(left), Sandra Smith & Barbara                           Jackson

                                                                    Ballance making bids at the Out-of-the-         

                                                                                    Box Auction    

U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan, Deputy                A full house enjoyed short films prior           Master of Ceremony Dennis O'Connell,

     David Leiberth & City of Akron                                     to the ceremony.                          AAAA president & co-producing director

Communications Director Mark Williamson                                                                                of Magical Theatre Company

   Arts Patrons Lola & Bruce Rothman                    Artist/Educator Mark Soppeland                     Outstanding Artist in Music winner

  Lifetime Achievement Award winners                 Lifetime Achievement Award winner                           Tucker Jolly

   Kara Steward of the Cuyahoga Valley             Outstanding Arts Educator Sally                  Frank Quirk & Rising Young Star/Leadership

     Youth Ballet's R.O.A.D. program,                  Schneider of Firestone High School                      winner Elizabeth Quirk Sheeler

             Arts Outreach Award

 Mitchell Kahan, Christopher Hixson &          2001 Outstanding Visual Artist winner               Outstanding Arts Volunteer winner

 Joan Colbert winner Outstanding Visual               Don Drumm & Rising Young Star/                              Mary Ann Jackson

                      Artist                                              Artist winner Liz Remmel

Chief Curator of the Akron Art Museum                Outstanding Artist in Dance winner                  Outstanding Artist in Theatre winner

Barbara Tannenbaum, Patron Award                             Kathryn Mihelick                                Jim Fippin of Coach House Theatre

winners Fred & Laura Bidwell & Director                                                                                                        (right)

   of the Meyers School of Art at the

University of Akron, Richman Haire     

2003
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Holly Barkdoll and Dennis O'Connell co-producing directors of 2003 Outreach Award recipient Magical Theatre Company

2003 Arts Educator Award recipients Susan Yingling and Julienne Hogarth of Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts

2003 Volunteer Award recipients Howard and Betty Taylor	Government Support Award recipient Summit County Executive James B. McCarthy with wife Rose (center) and Summit County Director of Communications Jill Skapin	2003 Rising Young Star Award recipient Sean Anderson, baritone
Tuesday Musical Assoc. president Marcianne Herr and surprise centerpiece	2003 Outstanding Visual Artist Award recipient Craig Lucas of Kent State University	Master of Ceremony Neil Thackaberry of Actor's Summit Theatre and Arts Alive! co-chairman Mary Ann Jackson

2003 Patron Award recipients Ann and David Brennan

2003 Outstanding Artist Award for Dance recipient Lana Carroll Heylock of The University of Akron Dance Institute

2001 Theatre Award recipient Sandra Emerick and performer Tobias Wyley