Dayton artist Michael Bashaw and his large-scale, welded steel instruments.

The jazz band at the Stivers School for the Arts.

Detroit artist Scott Hocking.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Dayton Ballet.

K12 Gallery & TEJAS, an artists’ studio just outside downtown Dayton.

Bluegrass artist and Ohioan Katie Laur.

Artists at the Cleveland Art Museum inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The Dayton fusion dance company SMAG Dance Collective.

Ohio Heritage Fellow and painter Edwin George.

The Beauty Box in Houston.

Dayton comic book illustrator Bruce O. Hughes.

Banjo musician Tony Ellis.

Heimrad Backer’s photography exhibit at the Museum of Conteporary Arts in Denver.

We Care Arts in Dayton.

African arts ambassador, drummer and Mansfield resident Sogbety Diomande.

Colorado dance company Frequent Flyer Productions.

Dayton’s “Playing For Change”,created as part of an international multimedia project.

Human Race Theatre Company.

Strings maker and musician Doug Unger.

Nevada sculptor Steve Liguori.

Dayton painter Mike Elsass.

Ohio Heritage Fellow fiddle player Kenny Sidle.

Columbus indie rock group Dave Buker & the Historian.

The Dayton Visual Arts Center.

Ohio Fellowship Award Winning dancer Anupa Mirle.

Scrapdaddy sculptor Mark Bradford.

The Missing Peace Art Space.

R&B drummer Phillip Paul.

International quilt festival.

The annual Visual Voices art exhibit and the spotlight on Dayton funk.

Textile artist Carolyn Mazloomi.

Installation artist Jonathan Latiano.

Texas mosaic artist Dixie Friend Gay.

DCDC dancer Sheri Williams
and her 2014 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio.

96-year-old collage artist Eunice Parsons.

An Arizona recycling artist who is turning tin cans into works of art and acts of human kindness.

Painter and entertainer Dan Dunn.

Dayton artist Amy Kollar, who combines natural elements, decorate patterns and untraditional paint choices.

Dayton Philharmonic conductor Neal Gittleman.

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus.

Phoenix blown-glass artist Dale Chihuly.

Native American artist Raymond Anthony Roach.

The Dayton Opera.

Las Vegas painter and illustrator Joseph Watson.

Designer Heidi Kambitsch and her work with the Columbus Museum of Art.