As January comes to a close...

We'd more than likely be upset with ourselves if we ended up not posting anything this month. So, without further ado, "Happy New Year!" ...sorry we almost forgot.

Still, we wanted to let you know that the planning of our 2012 season is well under way! For starters, we've been invited to participate in this year's FOTOFOCUS exhibition (details to the right). We've also been coordinating some pop-up exhibitions in new neighborhoods and putting together a major interdisciplinary art event for late spring (details launching soon). And to keep the ball rolling, we recently met with a lot of the city's art centers and plan to start working on our Driven 31 series in the next month or two.

Our major capital campaign to build an Art & Education Center will be launching soon as well. So, feel free to link to our Building Plans page or TheRoadToRefresh.com for details on the structure ...if you're unfamiliar with our design.

So, while all of that is being finalized, we'd like to, AGAIN, thank everyone who made 2011 such a memorable year for us. The amount of community and media support has been greatly appreciated. And as we continue to update our press postings, we'd like to leave you with some links that we've found:

And finally, if you've been keeping up with this website recently, you've probably noticed things are beginning to change, so we appreciate your patience if you've caught us on one of our testing days this month. We're working to bring you a nice, cohesive site, so please bear with us ...and feel free to follow our movements on your own or via one of the tools in the far right column (towards the bottom).

Thanks again for everything,

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PAR-Projects completes first $500K round of fundraising. Alisha Budkie joins Team PAR- to help launch Round 2.

If you Blinked too hard you may have missed it. With the help of organizations like ArtsWave, Greater Cincinnati Foundation, and The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation, both civic and cultural leaders are creating powerhouse experiences. Our town's symphony is thriving. Our major museums are producing nationally recognized exhibitions. Even our ballet and playhouses are making headlines. Cincinnati is doing BIG things! Then there's us. Over at PAR-Projects, we don't make much noise. Why not?... Well... until now, we were still waiting our turn in line. There's a whole lot of fast action clutter out there. But in the same breath, there's a lot of fizzling out as well. Because of the latter, our goals have simply been to keep our head down, keep working, and be the best we can be. The cool thing is we've never changed our mission and we've always held ourselves to the highest of standards — press or no press. We too have BIG things to accomplish...

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Cincinnati-based Arts Org Selected to Join MdW — a coalition of artist-led spaces representing 11 states across The Midwest.

This past July, Jonathan Sears — Executive Director of Cincinnati-based PAR-Projects — found himself traveling halfway across the country to Kansas City to meet with a diverse collection of artists. The reason? He was tapped to help plan a regional conference that's convening hundreds of arts-leaders to help strengthen the connectivity of artist-run initiatives located throughout The Midwest. Aptly named MdW (pronounced "Midway") , this group of artists, like him, lead creative spaces across The Midwest. And while a segment of the coalition toured PAR-Projects back in April (2024), this was officially his first in-person meeting with the MdW arts coalition. So how did all of this come about? As Jonathan notes, in April of 2024, when a large group of artists showed up for a tour, an odd level of comfort & conversation was achieved while exploring the 15,000 square foot expansion space of the PAR-Project Campus. At the

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