The Contemporary, our local fine art non-profit organization, started its annual art auction yesterday. This year’s auction will be on-line. One hundred two local artists have contributed artwork to this year's event. Go to their website, https://thecontemporarydayton.org/, sign up and buy some local art. There are paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures. I donate a piece from my Marie Aull Note Card and the Aullwood Garden series. Marie Aull in the 1960s donated her 40-acre garden to The National Audubon Society. She lived on the grounds in her house until the age of 102. Marie Aull was very spiritual and religious and wrote little note cards that she pinned on the community bulletin board. I researched at Wright State University library about Marie and found the files with all these note cards in them. I photographed many of these note cards. Most of my background photographs were created at Aullwood Garden Metro Park. This image is titled “Art At It’s Best.” The quote is by Lewis Mumford and reads, “Art at it’s best discloses hidden meanings. It tells more than the eye sees or the ear hears, or the mind knows. With the aid of the symbol, man not merely remembers the vanished past, he takes us the emergent or the potential future.” Go to their website and buy some art before it’s all gone. Dan Cleary is a portrait and fine art photographer in Dayton, Ohio. You can see more of his fine art photography work, including his Wright Brothers: Then and Now series, at www.ClearyFineArtPhoto.com.
