By Fran Watson

Poles, a decidedly non-traditional theater/sculpture/ performance art piece by Robert Wilson, return to Grailville on Sunday in its newest reincarnation as POLESTOCK. This '60s venture based on a structure of telephone poles comes back with as much performer-as-audience (and vice versa) interaction as its nearly 40-year-old debut. "Among the artists scheduled to participate are the Art Academy Shouting Choir ...," said the press release. Stop right there. This is too good to pass up. A call was placed to choir director, BETTY ANDERSON, requesting a little elucidation. Betty Anderson felt the position held was not so much director as traffic cop. The group encompasses solo shouters, group shouters, and specialty shouters who make a statement (up for interpretation) by shouting the lyrics of particularly saccharine old music standards. Betty Anderson explains the premise as a protest against 21st-century art forms, seen as so polished and technique-ridden that the joy and emotion get lost in the search for perfection. Continuing , "however at a gut-level approach, it's funny to have someone shout 'love you!" Since telephone poles are the main construction material in Polestock, telephone themes will be given the spotlight, such as "Pennsylvania 6-5000" and pertinent phrases, like "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you." Since the Contemporary Arts Center will be featuring videos of Wilson's work this summer, they will provide additional information on Polestock. Info: 513-345-8400.

There's no better way to plug Cincinnati's famous open press, TIGER LILY PRESS, than with a show of work by its trio of new directors, CARA BARDIS, ELIZABETH FOLEY and THERESA GATES KUHR. Take your pick of printmaking techniques displayed through Sept. 2 at the Cathedral Gallery in Covington. Bardis manipulates repeated printings of crushed materials printed over the base; Foley explores layered collographs; and Kuhr exhibits monoprints and screen prints. Tiger Lily is now up and working at the Dunham Recreational Center, after being moved from one side of the city to the other. It offers a press, networking via monthly events, and reasonable fees of a one-time $30 membership fee. Then it's $2 an hour for speedy workers, up to $40 for a full month's privileges. Info: 531-251-5862.

Creative thinking raises creative dollars. This in from the ARTS SERVICE OFFICE of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: Campaign honors went to a number of area firms for dreaming up new ways to inspire contributions. Company rewards were offered by winners Federated Department Stores, Cincinnati Financial, General Cable, Cole & Russell, Convergys and Kroger. But it was Kroger's marketing area that made real waves by raising their employee donor base by the biggest increase in the history of the campaign from 200 to 2,700! Very huge congratulations.

Show time at the Fitton Arts Center. Once again artists are requested to submit slides of art for jurying for the annual FEED THE BODY, FEED THE SOUL exhibit by August 31, 5 p.m. Show opens October 28. This year's jurors are TIMOTHY RUB, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and KAY KOENINGER, executive director of the Dayton Visual Arts Center, great names for any résumé. Info: 513-863-8873 or www.fittoncenter.org.

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