When our President & CEO, Martine Collier, accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Paul Helfrich of the DPAA, she issued her own challenge to three of our long term board members:  Steve Petitjean, Alan Schaeffer, and Larry Forman. Our Board Members are excellent sports and all three accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge. Larry set up his challenge at the Oakwood … Read More

Our President and CEO, Martine Collier, was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by Paul Helfrich, President and CEO of the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.  Always a good sport, Martine accepted the challenge yesterday right in front of the Schuster Center.  In turn – she nominated three of our Board Members to do the same.  Ice and cold water … Read More

CANCELLED:  We are cancelling our event at Salar  for next Thursday, September 26th due to conflict with Rosh Hashanah.  We may reschedule at a later date, please check back for updates!  

Congratulations to the 2014 Culture Works Leonard P. Roberts Scholarship Recipients! This Scholarship is offered to deserving Junior and Senior college students who demonstrate participation in and patronage of the arts in recognition of Mr. Roberts’ career as a businessman and his passion for the arts. This year’s recipients are: Jordan Mathews, Wittenberg University, Majoring in Music Mimi Klipstine Dick, … Read More

On August 25th,  the Dayton Power & Light Company Foundation will award Culture Works a $50,000 Signature Grant to provide matching funds of 50 cents for every dollar donated to Dayton Region power2give projects!   This is the second year that the DP&L Foundation has provided matching support to power2give gifts. Last year, matching funds enabled 37 non-profit organizations to raise more … Read More

Marc Goldring of WolfBrown in Boston has been serving as consultant to the Culture Works Cultural Planning process, CultureConnects 20/20, since last year.  He writes a regular blog for the WolfBrown website, and this month’s posting, Conversations vs. Confrontation?  Moving Beyond Silos has an interesting perspective on the discussions around the planning process in the Dayton region thus far.  Read Marc’s … Read More

In celebration of Culture Work’s 40th Anniversary, Salar Restaurant & Lounge is hosting a fine wine and small plate pairing on Thursday, October 25th, 2014 at 6:00pm.  Check back for later details regarding the wine offerings for this event!  Limited to 50 attendees. Salar is located in Dayton’s Historic Oregon District at 400 East Fifth Street; Dayton 45402.

Culture Works is now a registered non-profit with the fundraising arm of Amazon.com, AmazonSmile.  This partnership means 0.5% of eligible purchases will be donated to Culture Works from Amazon, if shoppers choose Culture Works as their designated charity.  Go to  AmazonSmile, sign in with your Amazon ID, and choose Culture Works as your charity of choice.  Whenever you shop at … Read More

We’re so happy that the Dayton Visual Arts Center has joined our Passport to the Arts Program and is offering discounted tickets to our Passport Members!  Current Passport Members are eligible for Buy One – Get One FREE tickets to the DVAC Art Auction as well as to Artist Palate Parties throughout the year.  Details here.

We had two excellent Community Meetings in early June as part of our Cultural Planning initiative, Culture Connects 20/20!  We invited the arts community, elected officials, arts patrons and supporters, and other interested community members to these Community Meetings moderated by Marc Goldring of WolfBrown, Richard Stock of the University of Dayton, and Jane Dockery of Wright State University.   … Read More

We’re always excited to add more value for our Passport Members, so we wanted to let you know that the Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus has joined our list of Passport Participants for the 2014-2015 season!  They have two outstanding performances on the schedule for the season – their holiday show in early December and a Broadway Revue performance next June. … Read More