
As the Chapter’s highest honor, the WVB Award recognizes a public relations professional who exemplifies excellence and impact across four pillars: service to the community, the chapter, the profession and PRSA.

We reached out this month to our area’s arts centers, locally focused organizations that bring cultural and artistic activities – and a sense of community – to their neighborhoods. We asked them to showcase their programs and amenities, as part of M&M’s continuing effort to recognize those in Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit ecosystem.

The writing, storytelling and Pilates saved Sims. She was pleased with where she was, but also beginning to think her calling was no longer celebrating the arts but using the arts as a tool to help others. In 2005, she combined all her passions to create The Well. Her idea was to bring art, mindfulness, writing and movement to help provide healing for people.

With apologies to T.S. Eliot (and to our local TV meteorologists), April is the coolest month. This week brings new cultural offerings from boogie-woogie piano to classic ballet, the daffodilian emergence of outdoor events, colossal Mahler at the CSO, a grand opening for ArtWorks, plus two landmark hippie-era rock musicals. How cool is that?