by Jan Brown Checco If you are a working artist living in Cincinnati, and you don’t have a salaried position within one of our prestigious arts institutions, you know how difficult it is to live from commission to commission, adjunct position to street fair, open studio sales evening to short-term project.  There are thousands of […]

A Letter from Munich by Jan Brown Checco June 4 – 9, 2013 In the first week of June, a gaggle of travelers from the Cincinnati Park Board and Cincinnati Parks Foundation flew to Munich for a special event that neatly closed a circle – a promise made six years ago, 20 feet up in […]

It’s satisfying to identify the first seeds of what we become, and to what we commit.  The mentor who sowed my life into a fertile ground of art and travel is clear:  Uncle Bob gave me my first art history book in 1962 upon return from one of his many international adventures.  A Renaissance man, […]