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The Urban Arts Space is highlighting up-and-coming artists.
Whether it's connecting to nature through movement, or preserving sacred traditions, two shows happening this month are sure to…
More than 100 undergraduate students at The Ohio State University have worked as “externs” with area arts organizations since 2023, when the university received $2 million from the Mellon…
“I was a Columbus City Schools kid myself, and as somebody who has always enjoyed the arts … you want to do anything you can to fuel that interest,” January said, pointing to obstacles such as…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Seniors in the Ohio State University art department want you to celebrate their graduation.
Watch the full interview segment on WSYX!
The Columbus writers will celebrate the release of their new collection with a poetry collage party at Urban Arts Space on Saturday, Sept. 20.
The Ship and the Storm, a new…
"'Restless Office' is an exhibit that looks at a new type of office, hopefully an office of the future, in response to the current conditions of the office," Nowak said. "We know that the hybrid…
A pair of exhibitions opened at Urban Arts Space this week are divided by a border, of sorts, with “Fragmented-Recaptured” staged in the upper gallery space and “
"My practice is rooted in a deep respect for the body, for color, and for the emotional weight both can carry. I create work that celebrates Blackness and womanness with intention, clarity, and…
In some ways, the exhibition serves as a visual representation of the divide that exists between Herman’s fiction work and her collections of nonfiction essays, with the gallery split between oil…
Community Connectors is a monthly series highlighting Ohio State staff members who have shown leadership in partnering with our communities to make an impact.
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Tyiesha Radford Shorts has begun to prepare for her future artist-in-residency stint at Urban Arts Space by looking to the past.
An educator, writer and multidisciplinary artist, Shorts has…
“I had a deep fixation with witnessing the women in my life, the women who raised me, and seeing their interiority and their relationship with the world, and then thinking about our relationship,”…
“I want to make work about anger and grief, but also falling in love,” Martin said. “And those are things that have always been present in my work in some way, but I noticed the more I create, the…
The Department of Art Auxiliary Faculty and Staff Exhibition at Hopkins Hall Gallery was featured in Ohio State News! Read the full article for interviews with artists Kate Durham and…
Watch the full feature about Artist Commune: Intersections on Lantern TV, featuring interviews with our Manager of Community Learning and Experience, Dr. Terron Banner, as well as Professional…
"What I really want people to take away from the show is that transgender joy and resilience is something that's part of the human experience and it has been probably for as long as we've been…
"The overall triptych in its entirety has a forefront of celebrating Black trans bodies, but it also talks about this idea of creating space for Black bodies to be nurturing, soft and vulnerable,"…
We’re enthusiastic to share that our Community Artist-in-Residence Ajanaé Dawkins has been awarded the prestigious Elizabeth George Foundation Grant! This is a highly selective opportunity that…
In her debut poetry collection, Good Dress, Brittany Rogers displays a masterful economy of language, able to capture complex generational relationship dynamics in just a few keyboard…
Iyana Hill is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University, double majoring in Photography and African American and African Studies, and minoring in Arts Entrepreneurship. In this Broad & High…
This episode of Broad & High highlights Urban Arts Space Community Artist-in-Residence Ajanaé Dawkins. She has grown from the teenager telling stories at a poetry slam to the docu-poet she is…
This is the first story in a Broad & High series called Behind the Scenes: Art Across Ohio. In this episode, Broad & High highlights Urban Arts Space intern Iyana HIll and Community Artist-in…
If you're fortunate enough to visit the Peter Megert Memorial Exhibition on the campus of The Ohio State University this autumn, you may think that its purpose is simply to showcase highlights…
A month after Peter Megert died at age 85 in June 2022, Oscar Fernandez, an associate professor in the School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, scheduled a call with colleagues across the…
"[Peter] was a wave of fresh air, of joy, of humor," Professor Axel Roesler of the University of Washington said in a recent interview with The Lantern. "He would never follow the…
A new water-themed printmaking exhibit — titled "You can't take it with you.." — has taken center stage at Hopkins Hall Gallery.
The exhibition, which opened Thursday and will be on view…
"The Ohio State Urban Arts Space hosts Totes on Town, a community event within their series Artist Commune. Ohio State students help host the event for the community every month. This…