Barnett Symposium to focus on creative careers

The Dispatch wrote Event to focus on creative careers

Sunday, April 20, 2008

BY JEFFREY SHEBAN

Attracting young arts professionals to Columbus and building the city’s creative economy will be topics at a symposium sponsored by Ohio State University.

The 2008 Barnett Symposium, starting at 9 a.m. Friday and open to the public, also will explore career issues for arts professionals; arts enterprises being developed in central Ohio; and the creative work environment.

Those experienced in the arts — as well as those just out of school — will be front and center.

Speakers will include Susanne Jaffe, executive director of Thurber House; Mike Reed, a central Ohio artist and founder of the Couchfire Collective of emerging visual and musical artists; Thomas B. Schorgl, president and chief executive officer of the Community Partnership for Arts & Culture; Tom Hawk, director of Hawk Galleries; and Beverly Bethge, founder and chief creative officer of Ologie, an agency that works to boost brand recognition.

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