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The City of Covington celebrates Full Spectrum as an Annual Arts Festival that gives platform to all Artists in the region, Covington and beyond. This Full Spectrum’s Second year.
Covington has a steep history in the Arts, dating back to the late 19th century when the Catholic Church first spearheaded expansive art projects throughout the city, gearing its architectural and communal efforts to celebrate the arts in practically all aspects of daily life. Now, in the Twenty-first century, Covington has retained this legacy by attracting a vast population of Artists and those of the creative class, but has also recognized that a common public platform to celebrate its reflective constituency is essential to that community.
The history of how Full Spectrum came about is the story of people listening to other peoples ideas and saying yes.
While Covington was preparing for its Fifth Annual Art Off Pike street arts festival to take place in October 2009, it was recognized that this event reflected only a portion of the City’s artistic population. Around this time, Liz Wu, a musician who ran World Music Fest for the past two years in Newport’s Southgate House, approached Natalie Bowers, the Arts District Manager, to see if Covington might be a good alternative venue. Liz told Natalie that World Music Fest was looking for a larger and more children-friendly venue. Natalie immediately agreed to help Liz make arrangements here in Covington. World Music Fest, Liz told Natalie, was usually held in October.
Now Covington had two big events scheduled for October and both represented two different artistic mediums, visual art and music. This was the premise for Full Spectrum. When Natalie told Liz about the idea of having a month long arts celebration to showcase every aspect of the Arts, other events quickly took shape, and Full Spectrum was born, an idea to celebrate the arts through every weekend in the month of October while ‘cultivating Covington’s creative side’.
The resultant events of this year’s Full Spectrum are really a culmination of some blue sky thinking compressed with available resources.
We hope you will enjoy what we were able to pull together. Through Full Spectrum, you will not only see a plethora of talent, art and entertainment, but you will also see what an amazing community we truly have.
Without the help of our sponsors and supporters, this event would not be possible. A very special thanks goes to Center for Great Neighborhoods, LISC, the City of Covington, Crest Graphics, Cincinnati Film Festival, Cincy World Cinema, Merlot Group, Covington Business Council and many others who have worked hard to make this the best month ever! |
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