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While art is important all year long, March has been designated Youth Art Month, in recognition of the impact of art education on the lives of our nation’s youth. The arts allow elementary, middle, and high school students an avenue to express themselves, learn, and grow with a creative and innovative mindset. Even as some […]

“A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power.” – Martin O’Malley   In addition to memorializing the creative legacies of those who have passed, POBA seeks to build community among those who connect through one universal catalyst: art. The POBA community has expanded over the years, and so has our […]

We know that arts are an important part of many lives–creatively, economically, socially, and more. A recent report released by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Patterns of Arts Participation: A Full Report from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, shows the many ways Americans engage with the arts.  This survey of […]

POBA celebrates the recent release of some digital treasures to the public domain, thereby keeping art alive and providing copyright-free images for public viewing and use. According to its website, ‘the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, […]

Many artists have used hearts as a visual image of love, whimsy, sorrow and more. On POBA, this is more than a visual metaphor. “Art with Heart” – the urge to create, enjoy, collect and preserve art – is the motivating force behind POBA. After five years of taking POBA from a kernel of an idea to fruition today, we return to the impulse that led a family to create POBA: an act of the heart.

Louisville (KY) NPR station WFPL unpacked the physical archives of celebrity photographer Gene Spatz after discovering his digital photography archives on POBA. In a moving interview with Spatz’s sister, Amy Lowen and with POBA’s Co-Managing Director, the story became one of the most popular of 2017 to the Arts and Culture desk of this NPR station.

Daryl Rosen (1951-1973) lived an artful life and an art-filled life. The former was too brief but the latter was abundant and rich. In her brief 22 years, she produced drawings, paintings, objects from metal, found materials and mixed media, and sculptures of dexterity and delicacy. Only a few of the works from her prodigious creative life remain – some from her childhood show her untutored promise and some show the mature artist in her early 20s. Daryl’s work epitomizes why POBA was created: to preserve exceptional creative legacies, however large or small.

This November, #CelebrateOhioArts spotlights Ohio museums and artists in an exciting, month-long campaign. A joint effort of POBA and Ohio Museums Association in partnership with the Ohio Arts Council, all participating Ohio museums and cultural institutions will be able to share and benefit from #CelebrateOhioArts, a social media and traditional PR campaign to highlight, display and promote the cultural richness and diversity of Ohio to Ohioans and a wide national audience.

Edwin H.K. Chau (1929-1988) a Canadian artist of Chinese descent, created beautiful paintings in which east meets west. These works balance, straddle and integrate the lines between contemporary/traditional subject matter and east/west vision and methods. Chau’s work is best characterized as being painterly and somewhat impressionistic. In the Eastern tradition, each and every brushstroke counts […]

“It was just a gift from an old friend,” ArtNews reported Kim Reeder as saying about the remarkable drawing she was given personally by Jean Michel Basquiat in 1984. This work had hung on her living room wall until late 2016, when serendipity put her on the path to POBA. Working as a make-up artist prepping […]