The Community
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Dancing Wheels workshop & performance
Saturday, November 8, 2014 Cleveland based DANCING WHEELS, a mixed ability professional dance company, is coming to Coshocton to teach and perform for the 3rd Annual Crow Homecoming. Dancing Wheels is a premier arts and disabilities organization with dancers representing diversity of age, ethnicity, gender and physical ability.  The Company embodies the message of equality and accessibility. HERE’S THE SCHEDULE 11am-12:30pm FREE dance workshop @ the Coshocton Salvation Army Gym LEARN from Mary Verdi-Fletcher and other dancers from the company she founded. Mary is the first professional wheelchair dancer in the United States. Born with spina bifida, she offers others with disabilities full and equal access into the world of dance. The…
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3rd Annual Crow Homecoming
The Pomerene Center for the Arts is proud to present DANCING IN THE CROWS–the 3rd Annual Crow Homecoming, Saturday November 8, 11-3pm, in the 300 Block of Main Street, Coshocton, OH. Lots of free fun. Why a Crow Homecoming? Fiercely territorial and loyal to their family groups during the summer nesting season, crows undergo a fall/winter transformation and become “communal” by the thousands to roost, i.e. sleep together. These roosts are one of the great animal phenomena of the world. Notoriously intelligent, crows have moved their once rural roosts into towns where they find light, warmth and safety. Coshocton is one of those towns. Annually, upwards to 10,000 crows gather nightly…
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Joan Staufer
Joan Staufer. Painting. Joan lives and works in northern Coshocton County.  Her work can be viewed at the Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry and has been exhibited most recently at the Pomerene Center for the Arts as part of the exhibit  OUR HILLS ARE ALIVE, May/June 2014. On a cold and blustery February morning, I received an invitation to participate in the “bug” exhibit at the Pomerene Center for the Arts in conjunction with the annual Dogwood Festival.  I declined, explaining that since my right arm was broken, the studio was closed until spring. Besides, I thought, I’m a symbolist whose work reflects my spirituality and reverence for the earth, not…
