By Fran Watson

Help is on the way, collectors. On Saturday from 1-4 p.m. it's CONSULT-A-CURATOR day at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Those who know will tell you what you have, but not how much it's worth, when you produce your museum membership card. Don't have one? Couldn't be a better time to cash in on the year-round family entertainment that counts as one of our city's best bargains. Info: 513-639-2968.

Design is one of the most popular studies today. Our culture gobbles up icons and graphics at the speed of light, and begs for more. One more good reason to take in the reception and gallery talk by artists WALTER ZURKO and SUSAN EWING on Oct. 13, 4-6 p.m. at Hiestand Gallery on the Miami University campus. Zurko's work pertains to the role of "dress as a cultural signifier," and Ewing was honored in 1993 by President Clinton when he was selected to the White House Collection of American Crafts. Info: 513-529-1883.

That deadline for FEED THE BODY, FEED THE SOUL entries is zooming up. Hamilton's Fitton Center for Creative Arts is eager to dump the $2,500 first-prize award on some unsuspecting artist, but get that work to them by Oct. 14. Great jurors, too: Gary Gaffney and Kim Humphries will make the decisions. Info: 513-863-8873.

Got talent? ARTS AND KIDS mailed out a call for young artists to enter work in its Annual Art Competition, deadline Dec. 31, 2000. Entrants 17 years of age and under may enter one piece of art, entries are not returnable, and there is no entry fee. Info: www.artsandkids.com or Arts and Kids, Suite 101-2112, 3600 Crondall Lane, Owings Mills, MD 21117.

So what do those people who actually go to the art shows in Cincinnati think about what they see? Feedback counts at CityBeat. Reader Connie Albright recently wrote to us: "I consider myself a fairly liberal person, but I cannot understand what is going on with that show at the Weston Gallery this month?! My 72-year-old mother and I went to see it on the opening night and I don't think I've ever been more confused or troubled by an art show in my life. What is going on in this city? There wasn't anything that could be considered a painting or a sculpture anywhere. It wasn't even ready to be seen by the public for God's sake, there was water running down one wall and some man was working on the plumbing during the show opening!! What gives? Am I getting too old to understand art?" The show she's commenting on is in the Aronoff Center's art gallery; it's called STACKED, curated by Matt Distel, founder of the now-defunct alternative exhibition space, DiLeia Contemporary. Stacked includes sculpture, photography, works on paper, site-specific sculpture and video.

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