Exhibit Moving in Covington
The Enquirer
"Exhibit Moving in Covington"
Art Machine setting up to show children's work
By Mike Rutledge, staff writer
Published: January 2, 2005
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COVINGTON - As city officials work to create an arts district around Pike Street in Covington, a children's arts organization already is moving into the area and preparing for its first exhibition.
Art Machine, known for the Scholastic Art Awards exhibits it has presented at Crestview Hills Mall for the last three years, is moving into warehouse space at 812 Russell St. The exhibit is scheduled to open Feb. 4.
"We plan to have exhibitions of children's work - local, regional, and international," said Jennifer Baldwin, Art Machine's executive director. "We'll provide hands-on activities in relationship to those exhibitions, and they'll rotate every two months."
By the end of this month, city officials hope to approve legislation that will create an arts district, the geographic boundaries of which have not been set.
"We have spent the last 10 months heavily researching other communities, "Covington Renaissance Manager Kathie Hickey said. "We wanted to make sure we did all the things right. But we also wanted certainly to avoid the pitfalls that have allowed a lot of arts districts to fail across the country."
Artists will have a stake in a run-down area of town.
"I think it's probably going to be a three- or four-city-block area, basically giving incentives for artists to relocate, to live and work," said Alex Edmondson, the district's most vocal supporter on the commission.
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