By Fran Watson

PYRAMID HILL, the outdoor sculpture park, offers its Second Annual Pyramid Hill Park Bench Competi-tion. With 265 acres of rolling landscape at the park, places to rest and contemplate are sorely needed, so why not make them art? Since sculpture competition entries don't spring up overnight, consider this fair warning. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2000. Make it aesthetic ... but practical. Prospectus: Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, 222 High St., Suite 201, Hamilton, Ohio 45011.

Miami University Art Museum has become the site of so many fine exhibits in the past few years that a special thanks must be offered to exiting director ROBERT KREBS. The museum has provided our area with gourmet art/food for thought under his direction since 1998. He moves onward and upward in December to directorship of Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tenn.

A Cincinnati standard, the SUMMERFAIR poster competition for 2001, is accepting entries up to the deadline date of Nov. 17. Like the Big Pig Gig, this one is open to both individuals and art teams. More important than the $2,000 prize, these posters are grabbed up by collectors every year, offering "really big" exposure, a valuable commodity in itself. Entry forms: Summerfair, Inc. 513-531-0050, or download at www.summerfair.org.

TOM PHELPS, curator, instructor, installation artist, set designer, instructor and member of The Neo-Ancestralists, a group whose work centers on African-American heritage, will be featured at Northern Kentucky University's free Lecture Series on the Visual Arts in the Fine Arts Center, Room 416, on Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. Phelps has worked at so many art events and in so many media in this area that his art experience alone makes this one a must-see. Info: 859-572-6659.

Moving art is featured at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Oct 20-22 at the SOWELL FILM FESTIVAL, a two-day listing of independent films, documentaries, and film shorts from local and national film artists. "Where else in Cincinnati can you start with Afro-Cuban films on Friday, learn about Spike Lee and the Underground Railroad on Saturday, and end up talking about the image of the black preacher on Sunday? This truly runs the spectrum of entertainment," says Andria Carter, co-chair of the Festival. Info: 513-721-2787.

As if being knighted by the Queen of England, founding a music movement, and being a galaxy-class celebrity weren't enough, Beatle Paul McCartney has become a painter. Yep! Just like that! Check it out on Yahoo! on Oct. 19. Let's hope this one's more real than Pavarotti's art that hit the news when the author of the how-to-paint book from which he copied his work sued the tenor. To connect: www.chat.yahoo. com

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