Artists and institutions may obtain assistance in securing meetings abroad, planning international tours or hosting foreign visitors. The International Program is committed to bringing together individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds in a shared effort to develop understanding of each other's cultures. The Ohio Arts Council believes the arts create community. As individuals experience the arts they are able to explore what they have in common, as well as their differences. The arts are universal and have the potential to unify.
Art speaks many languages.
Art does not discriminate. Its focus is on quality, talent and competence. Understanding each other's culture is good business. Who the Program Serves From its beginning in 1988, the Ohio Arts Council's International Program has developed arts initiatives among artists and academic and cultural arts institutions in Ohio and Argentina, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain and West Africa. The International Program has developed partnerships with the Kettering Fund in Dayton, Ohio, and the Citizens Exchange Council in New York City that give Ohio organizations opportunities to host Central and Eastern European artists and arts administrators for one-month residences.