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Q&A: Poet Hannah Stephenson
Columbus Alive
Jackie Mantey
May 3, 2012
A patron of inspiration, poet Hannah Stephenson teaches at two local colleges, hosts the monthly literary series Paging Columbus, and will speak about the surprisingly complicated craft of creativity-building at the Writers Conference at Columbus State.
200Columbus Wraps First Season
200Columbus
April 26, 2012
Hundreds of events, including a special exhibition at the Urban Arts Space, brought together thousands of residents throughout the first of three phases of the 200Columbus.
What to do with all those clothes you spring cleaned from your closet
Columbus Alive
April 20, 2012
Jackie Mantey
The gallery is holding an event called "Swap at the Space." Pack along clothing and accessories you want to get rid of but that don’t deserve to be thrown out yet.
Kennedy Commons Becomes OSU's Fourth LEED Silver Building
onCampus
April 19, 2012
Adam King
Ohio State now requires all new construction or significant renovation projects to achieve LEED Silver. The Lazarus Building, where the OSU Urban Arts Space is housed, is LEED Gold.
Roundup: Earth-friendly style
Columbus Alive
April 18, 2012
Jackie Mantey
If you’re at the Columbus Commons visiting Green Columbus’ Earth Day celebration Saturday, pack along clothing and accessories you want to get rid of to swap at the Urban Arts Space.
Joseph E. Steinmetz Remarks, School of Music Gala - A New Day
College of Arts and Sciences
April 17, 2012
Joseph E. Steinmetz
If you’re at the Columbus Commons visiting Green Columbus’ Earth Day celebration Saturday, pack along clothing and accessories you want to get rid of to swap at the Urban Arts Space.
Arts masters' exhibit the 'bee's knees'
The Lantern
April 11, 2012
Christopher Braun and Aly Mizesko
Live bees and QR codes might be the buzz at an exhibit at the Urban Arts Space.
Ohio State Art Scholar's exhibition goes green
The Lantern
April 5, 2012
Nadine Akra
The 2012 Arts Scholars Juried Exhibition, “How Do You Feel About ‘Green’?” features some OSU students’ portrayals of environmental responsibility, sustainability and “going green” at the OSU Urban Arts Space.
Dance: Portraiture and Perception at thet OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive
March 28, 2012
Melissa Starker
The relationship between human bodies in motion and space is dissected in the Urban Arts Space performance installation "Portraiture and Perception."
Best Art Gallery: OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive
March 27, 2012
Appropriately enough for a gallery located in the building that once housed the late, lamented Lazarus department store, the OSU Urban Arts Space has risen to the top of the "Best Art Gallery" heap.
Columbus environmental group aims to raise some green for Earth Day
The Lantern
March 11, 2012
Amber Evans
Green Columbus is kicking off a countdown to Earth Day with its Green Drinks event at the OSU Urban Arts Space from 6 to 8pm on Thursday. This year marks Green Columbus' sixth annual Earth Day event.
Tracing Lines at Urban Arts Space
WOSU ArtZine
March 3, 2012
Ashley Brook
We often take what we see every day for granted. It becomes invisible. Tracing Lines is an exhibit at the Urban Arts Space that explores the parts of our landscape that we tend to edit out.
Organization pages Columbus creatives for monthly activities
The Lantern
February 29, 2012
Dani Wedemeyer
Paging Columbus, the brainchild of Hannah Stephenson, is a small organization that holds monthly arts activities, often poetry readings featuring local writers.
Writers to face off in Flash Fiction Championship Smackdown
Columbus Underground
February 28, 2012
Brenda Layman
Columbus Creative Cooperative and Paging Columbus will present a Flash Fiction Championship Smackdown at the Urban Arts Space. Ten contenders will each deliver a two-minute story. Audience votes will determine the top two, and those finalists will go pen-to-pen in an on-the-spot, flash fiction write off.
Exhibit Review: Show run by students salutes Ohio
Columbus Dispatch
February 26, 2012
Melissa Starker
Prompted by the city’s bicentennial celebrations, the latest show, “Ohiocentric,” presents a wildly diverse collection of 62 works by 50 artists — culled from more than 175 submitted pieces.
Exhibit depicts ‘Good Design in Hard Times’
This Week
February 22, 2012
Kevin Parks
Ironically, it was the demolition of the old Clinton Theater on North High Street that got Tim Lai and Eliza Ho, principals of Tim Lai ArchitecT and founders of the nonprofit organization ALTernative, to begin the thought process that led to “Good Design in Hard Times,” a display that spent the month of January at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space downtown before moving to the Whetstone Library last week.
Amy and Matt | OSU Urban Arts Space
Little Tree Studios Blog
February 22, 2012
Our first wedding of the 2012 season was this past Saturday with Matt and Amy on a chilly February evening. We started out at the Westin while Amy and Matt got ready and stayed for a quick round of photos, and continued onto the OSU Urban Arts Space for the ceremony, one of the most…quirky venues we’ve ever photographed.
Couples’ struggles reflect impact of bigger worldviews
Columbus Dispatch
February 16, 2012
Michael Grossburg
Lee will also answer questions after Available Light Theatre’s free staged reading of his play The Curing Room, at 2 p.m. Feb. 25 in Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.
Preview: OHIOCENTRIC
Columbus Alive
February 15, 2012
Heather Gross
The City Center Gallery at OSU Urban Arts Space ordinarily shows work by local artists. To celebrate Columbus’ bicentennial, the student-run gallery is hosting an exhibition of art by people from all over the state. By opening the show up to everyone, the gallery hoped to paint a broader picture of Ohio’s creative achievements.
An exhibition that invites us to take a closer look at invisible infrastructure
The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet
January 28, 2012
Anna Tatelman
The computer network that holds your bank records and your Facebook photos. The refrigerator that keeps your milk cold. The highway or subway that carries you to work. Contemporary life relies on an increasingly intricate infrastructure, but we so rarely notice much less consider the power lines, generators, or road systems that permit us to run through our days.
Seeing Infrastructure in ‘Tracing Lines’ Exhibition
Outlook
January 24, 2012
Leigh Lotocki
Artists Jessica Larva, Aimee Sones and John Javins will open your eyes and rouse curiosity about how power works in your life. Their exhibition at the OSU Urban Arts Space called ‘Tracing Lines’ brings into focus the real presence and impact of power lines, cell phone towers, electrical plants and turbines that we depend on, but try to forget.
Vote for the 2012 Alive Best of Columbus
Columbus Alive
January 24, 2012
The 2012 Alive Best of Columbus contest is here, and we want your votes. Where are the best places to eat, drink, relax and shop in Columbus?
We’ve provided some excellent nominees, but we welcome your own suggestions, too. Voting is open until noon on March 1, and our big results issue hits newsstands Thursday, March 29.
MOVIES: Shame, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, Contraband
The Other Paper
January 19, 2012
If you've got a yen to learn more about the Japanese animation style known as anime, one of the best ways is to head the OSU Urban Arts Space tonight for the "Monthly Anime Adventure," an instructional series aimed at aficionados.
OSU Urban Arts Space exhibit explores new art media
The Lantern
January 16, 2012
Caitlyn Wasmundt
A 26-foot pillar made of clothing, a bunker made of torn pillows and more displays created by artists' eyes.
"Object/Imprint," a new exhibition held at the OSU Urban Art Space, begins Tuesday.
Review of Bright, Black and Veiled
Columbus Dispatch
January 15, 2012
Christopher A. Yates
In the exhibit “Bright, Black and Veiled” in the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Stefan Hoza and Adam Johnson present large, energetic paintings designed to extinguish “the myth of the enlightened painting.”
Beer festival survival guide
Columbus Alive
January 11, 2012
Jesse Tigges
Beer is coming. Columbus Winter Beerfest and Creative Living’s Brew Review are this weekend, and the Columbus AleFest takes place in a couple of weeks.
Creative Class 01.10.2012 : Be There Or…
Outlook
January 10, 2012
Justin Luna
As of this past June, I was no longer the Gallery Director of ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists. I spent two and half years doing everything I could to keep our nonprofit arts space alive (constantly promoting and installing our monthly exhibitions, soliciting donations and memberships, fundraiser planning, amongst a whirlwind of other essential duties). My position entrenched me firmly in the local arts scene as an ambassador and fervent patron of Columbus creativity. Then, suddenly, I uprooted.
Winter exhibits at OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive
January 10, 2012
Erin G. Edwards
“It’s always been a mystery: What is inside?” Eliza Ho wondered about a dilapidated theater located in Old North Columbus. “How about we just make up something?”
Architect-designer couple see food trucks drawing diners to struggling areas
Columbus Dispatch
January 10, 2012
Murals can perk up urban neighborhoods, but so can a cluster of food trucks. So say architect Tim Lai and his wife, designer Eliza Ho, who will showcase the idea in an exhibit called “Good Design in Hard Times,” which they say should inspire struggling neighborhoods.
Exhibition promotes improvement projects
ThisWeek
January 4, 2012
Clintonville-based nonprofit group “ALTernative” will kick off the Columbus bicentennial in 2012 with “Good Design in Hard Times,” an exhibition that showcases four potential projects to improve various Columbus neighborhoods.
The Gospel of Good Design: OSU Urban Arts Space
Outlook
January 1, 2012
By Sarah Greene
Good Design in Hard Times, a new exhibition opening on January 10th at the OSU Urban Arts Space, explores the post-recession ingenuity and community spirit that is changing the face of Columbus.
Exhibits: Highlights included first Caravaggio shown here
Columbus Dispatch
December 25, 2011
By Melissa Starker, Christopher A. Yates, and Nancy Gilson
Works of art ranging from an Italian masterpiece to dizzying collages inspired by Greek mythology, profound glass sculptures, photographic nude studies and even treasures made from reclaimed wood were among the visual art highlights this year in central Ohio.
Local Artist Spotlight: Heather Wirth
Columbus Underground
December 9, 2011
By Walker Evans
It’s tough to put a definition on what makes someone a professional artist, but I believe that Heather Wirth embodies that definition with everything that she does.
Staff Pick: Rock, Paper, Scissors at OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive
November 30, 2011
By Jackie Mantey
This three-day event celebrates “the astounding amount of writing and art projects happening around Columbus,” said organizer Hannah Stephenson, the poet behind Paging Columbus, OSU Urban Arts Space’s monthly literary art series.
Exhibit: Down on Town at OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive
November 9, 2011
By Jackie Mantey
Those who can’t do, teach? Hardly. The sprawling exhibition “Down on Town” is a testament to the idiocy of that idiom. The show, currently on view at the OSU Urban Arts Space, features the work of 24 faculty members of the Ohio State University’s Department of Art.
Faculty art exhibit showcases OSU's best in video games, photography
The Lantern
November 8, 2011
By Nicholas Pavlik
Nestled against a dim, abandoned wall hangs a large flat-screen television with a joystick stationed in front of it. A weightless gem-like pattern transmitting an ambient glow from the screen hypnotizes spectators, provoking them to step forward to pull the trigger.
Exhibit Review | Urban Arts Space: OSU faculty members share visions
The Columbus Dispatch
November 6, 2011
By Melissa Starker
In the ambitious and excellent exhibit “ Down on Town,” the Urban Arts Space offers works by 20 artists — all faculty members in the Ohio State University Art Department.
Show & Tell: Entertainment news
The Columbus Dispatch
October 25, 2011
Valarie Williams is the new leader of Ohio State University’s Arts Initiative.
Columbus Mega Weekend – Fall 2011 – Vol. 6
Columbus Underground
October 13, 2011
By Anne Evans
Wow! After that crazy anniversary weekend I am ready to relax and sleep away this weekend. But that will be impossible with all of the amazing things going on THIS weekend!
Creative Class 10.11.2011 : This Fall, OSU Department of Art Faculty Exhibition Seizes Columbus
Outlook Columbus
October 11, 2011
Annual faculty exhibitions that both celebrate and introduce the teaching artists of The Ohio State University’s Department of Art to the public are few and far between. But a shift in attention and opportunity seems to have coincided with the launching of the Urban Arts Space in 2008, which welcomed the first collective faculty exhibition in eighteen years in the October of that year.
“How We Roll” Campaign Launches to Assist Student Cyclists
Columbus Underground
October 11, 2011
By Walker Evans
Cycling is a quickly growing transportation option in Columbus. In 2010, only 0.7% of commutes were by bike, but ongoing efforts are working to nearly triple that ratio to 2% by next year
The SBB unveils nominees for Local Business Awards
The Metropreneur Columbus
September 7, 2011
By Melanie McIntyre
The Small Business Beanstalk yesterday announced the nominees for its first-ever Local Business Awards.
The finalists for the awards are:
Best Local Gallery
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End of summer art preview
Uweekly at OSU
August 17, 2011
By Sarah Ledford
This summer season the OSU Urban Arts spaces partners with the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation to showcase “Urban Arts Outdoors.” This open-air gallery is currently going on now through Aug. 31 and will be open on Wednesdays. Visit the Columbus Commons for your chance to checkout artists, including young talent from Ohio State.
Art Ed Student Teams Up with Somali Community
OSU College of Arts and Sciences
August 10, 2011
This is an Idea Lab funded project
In the back of a large indoor mall on Morse Road in Columbus, Ohio, Somali children are making cards to send to refugees of Japan’s nuclear disaster. The project is part of a week-long summer arts camp funded by the Somali Women & Children’s Alliance (SWCA) and developed in collaboration with Ruth Smith, a second-year master’s candidate in art education.
Exhibit: Control at OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive
August 4, 2011
By Jackie Mantey
This new exhibit at the City Center Gallery will continually evolve as its artists - Joshua Penrose and Nick Bontrager - try to outwit each other in a series of turn-based installations.
"Control" is a game. The first move was by Penrose, in the form of a blank white canvas hanging on the wall. Beside it is a near-camouflaged white button. When the viewer pushes this button, the canvas rises to reveal a live video feed showing the OSU Urban Arts Space back office.
GCAC Presents: When your job and your art collide – Urban Arts Space showcases staff in Internal Affairs
Columbus Underground
July 28, 2011
By Liz Celeste
What do you do in your free time, when you’re not slaving away at work? Sleep, eat, work, eat, sleep, repeat? For the staff at the Urban Arts Space, this may also include attending classes, studying for exams, working additional part-time jobs, and often times, creating art. Almost entirely student-run, the Urban Arts Space boasts a multi-talented team of staff and interns – from fine artists and designers to writers and scholars.
Charles Csuri to be Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences
July 25, 2011
VANCOUVER -- ACM SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques will present its Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art to Charles Csuri for his visionary and creative merging of art and technology. Through his work, Csuri inspired generations to embrace computer imaging as a serious form of artistic investigation. An artist, computer graphics pioneer and professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, Csuri will receive the award at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, BC, August 8.
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Exhibit Review | Urban Arts Space: Rich show captures flavor of rural region
Columbus Dispatch
July 17, 2011
By Amy Davis
Appalachia comes to central Ohio in a new exhibit at the Urban Arts Space.
The Downtown venue, an Ohio State University-sponsored space, is presenting the juried exhibit "Spirit of an Appalachian Region: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Southeast Ohio," compiled by the Majestic Galleries artist cooperative in Nelsonville.
On display are 56 works by 45 contemporary artists, encompassing photography, mixed media, sculpture and painting.
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Artist Brooke Hunter-Lombardi
WOSU ArtZine
July 7, 2011
By Ashley Brook
Art is not just for galleries, and art is not just for adults.
Art Is for Everyone
Recent MFA graduate of The Ohio State University, Brooke Hunter-Lombardi thinks that “Art is for everyone.” Hunter-Lombardi says, “I like to look at art with kids because they just allow the art to be interesting, or beautiful, or ugly, or whatever! … I like the way that children look at things.”
Exhibit: Nothing is Very Complicated
Columbus Alive!
June 30, 2011
By Melissa Starker
The slipperiness of language is something Dina Sherman treats like a slide on a kids' jungle gym. It's an area for play, for running loose and getting the blood and mind flowing. With cohorts Ryan Williams and Sarah Blyth-Stephens, she puns her way through works in various media in the exhibition "Nothing is Very Complicated" at OSU's Urban Arts Space.
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Uncommon market an outlet for students
Columbus Dispatch
June 26, 2011
By Melissa Starker
As the new kid on the block, in an area of Downtown that is still building a residential base, Columbus Commons has to work a little harder to attract the crowds that populate the city's long-established public parks.
A full schedule of events marked the Memorial Day opening at the former Columbus City Center site, and efforts continue with summertime programs presented by organizations.
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Burn, baby, burn: Pursuing the art of mixtapes
UWeekly
June 22, 2011
By Emily Haggard
I recently attended an OSU event at the OSU Urban Arts Space called Urban Monthly Mix Exchange. The Mix Exchange is a gathering of fellow music aficionados who dig talking about music, sharing music and making mix CDs. It sounds like something Rob Gordon from “High Fidelity” would come up with, but Rob would have had more of a music snob edge. This is not what the Urban Monthly Mix Exchange is about; it puts together music snobs and music nits, and gets them to talk to one another. Hopefully the latter will get some taste, and the former will come off his/her high, fixed gear bike and accept a band someone else has heard of.
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Exhibit Review | Ohio State University: Campus bus becomes vehicle for works by students
The Dispatch
June 19, 2011
By Melissa Starker
Unless they're carrying Buckeyes fans home from a victory at Ohio Stadium, public buses in Columbus rarely play host to a celebration.
On a recent sunny Monday morning, though, a festive group of Ohio State University students, faculty members and administrators gathered inside a parked campus bus to launch the "Oh Art" program.
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Preview: Urban Arts Outdoors
Columbus Alive!
June 16, 2011
By Jackie Mantey
The OSU Urban Arts Space has gathered a lineup of young local artists to sell their work beside the live music, food trucks and library book sale at the weekly Lunch on the Lawn events on the Columbus Commons.
Wander through the wares of the artists' multiple mediums, such as the nearly neon abstract paintings and photography by Jacob Brewer and the delicate Asian artwork by Fang Zhao.
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In GCAC’s Art in the House Exhibition, Youth Provide a Fresh Perspective
Outlook
June 7, 2011
By Leigh Lotocki
It is late on a Wednesday afternoon in April, and I have been told that a group of artists featured in one of our current exhibitions, called Art in the House, are on their way to the OSU Urban Arts Space to inspect their work in the gallery.
Columbus Commons to groom lawns with art
The Lantern
May 30, 2011
By Caitlin Hill
The OSU Urban Arts Space and the Columbus Commons are joining forces with other city organizations to bring art and culture downtown every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. beginning Wednesday.
OSU Urban Arts Outdoors will be part of Lunch on the Lawn, located at the newly opened Columbus Commons park.
Urban Arts Outdoors will feature 10 artists from Ohio schools, selected in a competitive process, who will sell their work in booths around the commons' lawn.
While 10 artists will be featured, their presence at the event depends on their availability June through August, said Zoey Boyles, deputy director of the OSU Urban Arts Space.
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Staff Pick: Interiors at OSU Urban Arts Space
Alive!
May 26, 2011
By Jackie Mantey
Earlier this month, the dances of "Interiors" were performed in a small house on Wilber Avenue. Visitors were given a tour of the house, where dancers were performing in all of the rooms. Video cameras recorded the show.
The house belongs to OSU dance students Meredith Hurst and Joanna Reed. "Interiors" is their BFA Distinction Project.
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Show & Tell:OSU dance majors in film
The Dispatch
May 26, 2011
A dance movie featuring Ohio State University students will be shown free at 2 p.m. Saturday in the OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.
The 25-minute Interiors features dance majors Meredith Hurst and Joanna Emily Reed, and was directed by OSU graduate Matthew Mascaro. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow.
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AEP tosses lifeline to arts education $120,000 grant will restore programs
The Dispatch
May 17, 2011
By Elizabeth Gibson
Gahanna artist Wendy Kendrick, who works with elementary students, said students develop self-confidence and respect for others by making art and learning how to speak politely about others' creations.
She said she challenges students to push themselves and stop thinking "I can't do that." This year, her students took what started as a bundle of chicken wire, packing tape, paint and fabric and made "phenomenal sculptures influenced by African art" that are now on display in the OSU Urban Arts Space in the former Lazarus building Downtown.
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Show & Tell: Park gallery seeking works
The Dispatch
May 2, 2011
An open-air gallery featuring works by students and graduates of Ohio schools will have a place in the new Columbus Commons park Downtown.
Urban Arts Outdoors will be developed by the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St.
The project will contribute to the weekly "Sensory Celebration," to rely on live music and a farmers market.
The Urban Arts Space is soliciting applications from artists seeking to have works shown and sold.
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Urban Arts Space: Talented graduate students spread their wings
The Dispatch
By Melissa Starker
May 1, 2011
Each spring, graduate students in the Ohio State University Art Department are given the opportunity to show the public how the program shapes their work.
In the latest exhibit, the aptly named "Confluence(s)" in the OSU Urban Arts Space, 21 artists present a shared affinity for combining diverse influences, disciplines and materials.
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5-day event will focus on environment
The Lantern
By Matt Kraus
April 18, 2011
For many, Earth Day is just another date on the calendar. For others, it's an opportunity to spend some time thinking about humanity's impact on the environment.
Our Art/Our Planet, a five-day series of environmentally-conscious programming, begins Tuesday at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus. It will include two tours of the rooftop garden, an exchange of mix CDs that will focus on nature and a screening of the environmental documentary "Dirt!"
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Exhibit to highlight work of OSU graduate students
The Lantern
By Grace Ellis
April 18, 2011
Artists noisily clamor about a bright, cluttered room, putting the finishing touches on their visual masterpieces. A human-sized cardboard spaceship looms in the corner as several artists work to focus a nearby projector's flashing images of faces onto the white wall. A man mutters to himself as he grabs a level to straighten a colorful abstract painting that's listing lazily to the left.
The sunny day breaks through the windows, but the dank smell of wet paint hanging heavily in the air serves as a blissful reminder to the students that the real action will be inside the exhibit.
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Paging Columbus at OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive!
By Jackie Mantey
April 13, 2011
When poet Hannah Stephenson recently moved back to Columbus after five years in other cities, she "noticed so many changes. There was so much happening here and a focus on local culture. I loved that idea."
Impressed with the organized visual arts and foodie movements in town, she felt the literary arts scene had similar potential.
Stephenson's idea? A monthly event called Paging Columbus that will celebrate all things language - one month it could be a poetry slam, the next a workshop on nonfiction-writing techniques or a panel discussion about how to craft witticisms in 140 characters.
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New poetry reading series to focus on array of topics
The Lantern
By Rachel Remy
April 12, 2011
Paging Columbus is calling the community together for a night of poetry Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Ohio State Urban Arts Space. The new literacy series is taking place on the first Thursday of every month and will focus on different forms of writing.
Hannah Stephenson, the event curator and an OSU alumna, said the purpose of the event is to read private writings aloud. The event will not only focus on poetry, but feature a range of writing forms from arts and culture blogging to journalism.
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Exhibit to showcase work of Scholars
The Lantern
By Sarah Thompson
March 30, 2011
Members of the Ohio State Scholars Program will showcase their work at the OSU Urban Arts Space this week, but despite the venue's name, not everyone will be showcasing art.
The 14 different Scholars Communities at OSU will be represented at the OSU Urban Arts Space from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday. Exhibitions will range from prints and paintings presented by arts scholars and alternative energy vehicles created by engineering scholars, to audio, video and sound techniques practiced by media, marketing and communication scholars.
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'Domestic Matters' mixes medias in dance of south
The Lantern
By Judy Samson
March 9, 2011
With brightly colored country-style dresses, recycled materials and graceful movements, the OSU Urban Arts Space exhibits "Domestic Matters" showcases the everyday life of the agrarian South through mixed media and dance.
Mair Culbreth, currently working on her doctorate in dance at Ohio State, and Nicole Bauguss, who worked on the installations, were the creative forces behind the exhibit. Both lived and worked in San Francisco prior to moving to Columbus and "have been conceptualizing this work for several years."
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Photos capture rich tapestry of immigrants in borough of Queens
The Columbus Dispatch
By Melissa Starker
March 6, 2011
Among the most densely populated areas in the nation, the New York borough of Queens is also a destination for recent immigrants, making it home to perhaps the most ethnically diverse population in the country.
A visit to some of its busier streets offers an overload of different languages, cuisines and cultures in close quarters.
A taste of the contemporary melting pot is found in the touring exhibition "Crossing the BLVD" at the OSU Urban Arts Space.
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Exhibit: Domestic Matters at OSU Urban Arts Space
Columbus Alive!
By Jackie Mantey
March 3, 2011
Southern childhoods for Mair Culbreth and Nicole Bauguss (both grew up in North Carolina) left the two as adults oscillating between fighting the region's strict ideologies of gender and sexuality and defending its traditions of community and self-reliance.
The married duo is behind the new exhibit at the OSU Urban Arts Space, "Domestic Matters: Distilling Geographies, Identities and Boundaries." It pairs Bauguss' and Culbreth's different mediums - constructive art and dance, respectively - to get at the root of their Southern identity and deconstruct the definitions they find there.
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The Marotta Hour features innovative music sounds at OSU Urban Arts Space
onCampus
By Katy Ricchiuto
March 2, 2011
The intriguing sounds of electronically produced music or a live interpretation of dramatist Bertolt Brecht’s classic theater songs aren’t exactly what most people expect to see when they walk into the OSU Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus.
But Larry Marotta, local musician and international composer, had exactly that picture — and more — in mind when he began to curate the Marotta Hour, a live music program hosted there.
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Mixing things up: OSU Urban Arts Space encourages variety in musical taste
The Lantern
By Sarah Suter
February 23, 2011
The Urban Monthly Mix Exchange is an outlet for music-lovers to trade CDs with each other, and to possibly win prizes for coming up with theme ideas.
The event is scheduled to take place at the Ohio State Urban Arts Space today from 7-8 p.m.
Joanna Reed, creator of the event and a fourth-year in dance and history of art, said the event usually includes 12 to 15 people and is mostly comprised of artists, students, downtown residents and arts space employees. This range of characters leads to an eclectic mix of music since "everyone who participates has very different taste," she said.
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Photography Exhibition Sheds Light on Perception
Outlook: Columbus
By Sean Moore
February 22, 2011
In 1888, when Kodak creator George Eastman first introduced his product to the market, who could have guessed its transformative effects? With the slogan, “you press the button, we do the rest,” Eastman provided the general public with the ability to create lasting memories, forever altering the concept of the ephemeral moment, and thus revolutionizing the world of art. Aesthetic realism was left in the hands of the common man with his pocket KODAK camera, freely capturing the world on his own terms, visually illustrating his own perceptions. This allowed the mediums of the “fine arts” to focus on the intrinsic qualities individual to each: painting became about the expression of pigment on a canvas, drawing became about mark-making, and sculpture became about three-dimensionality.
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GCAC Presents: Crossing into Crossing the BLVD
Columbus Underground
By Brianna Dance
February 10, 2011
When I volunteered to write an article about the Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America exhibition, I thought the article would just “come” to me. I knew the show focused on the diverse culture in Queens, New York, and from my interaction with one of the artists (Judith Sloan) who created it, I knew that it was one of the few projects of its kind to focus on the topic of immigrants pre- and post- 9/11. I thought that after looking at all the photographic portraits, reading through all the accompanying stories, and listening to the audio tracks that comprised the show, I would have an idea about what I wanted to write about.
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Art exhibition aims for viewer's eyes, ears and noses
The Lantern
By Judy Samson
February 6, 2011
The Ohio State Art Scholars themed its annual juried exhibition around the idea that pieces of art can stimulate emotions and senses besides sight.
"(The exhibition) is dealing with how we can take art and elicit an emotional or sense response from the audience," said Tim Valentine, Art Scholars program manager.
Students mostly run the exhibit. A student committee, the Arts Leaders Council, is a part of the Art Scholars and is in its first year of running exhibitions.
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BUCKS IN THE 43215
Downtowncolumbus.com
February 8, 2011
By Heather Brown
Columbus is a Buckeye town, no doubt. But is it a Buckeye downtown? Most things Ohio State are confined to the campus area and to our TVs when the Bucks don the scarlet and gray for some gridiron or cager glory. But there is a little corner of Buckeye-dom right in the center of 43215.
Sure the OSU Urban Arts Space, which is housed in the beautifully renovated Lazarus Building, has some really cool exhibits and activities, but did you know the great minds and hard work behind the art come from Buckeyes through and through?
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Group great for anime-niacs
The Lantern
February 2, 2011
By Vanessa Spates
When Ohio State's Urban Arts Space approached the owners of an anime convention called Anime Punch about doing monthly talks on the topic of Japanese animation, the group was more than willing to use the opportunity to expand.
Anime Punch is a college-level exploration of the culture behind Japanese anime. It was created by fans for fans, according to its website, animepunch.org. The next "Monthly Anime Adventure" meeting is today at 6 p.m. at the Urban Arts Space.
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Featured photos seek out underlying reality
The Other Paper
February 2, 2011
By Ann Starr
If you’re looking for a diversion that will put a spring in your step at no charge, take a trip to Downtown’s OSU Urban Arts Space to see Third Eye before it closes on Feb. 11.
This is a small photography show curated by CCAD senior Ryan Walters. Walters has assembled the work of 10 young photographers, several of whom are so interesting that you will be bragging for years to come that you first saw them in this marvelous show.
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Peeling back modern photography
onCampus
February 2, 2011
City Center Gallery at the OSU Urban Arts Space invites faculty, staff and students to attend a special artist talk with the curator and artists of its current exhibition, Third Eye, from 1-4 p.m. Feb. 5. Learn about these Columbus-based artists’ aesthetic approaches and their experiences putting their conceptual intentions into play in the exhibition. The discussion will fulfill a core objective of Third Eye, which is to foster new understandings and conversations about contemporary photography. The OSU Urban Arts Space is located at 50 W. Town Street, in the Historic Lazarus Building in downtown Columbus.
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Crossing the BLVD: Exhibition illustrates what makes the U.S. a melting pot
UWeekly
February 2, 2011
By Sean Lehosit
For years the exhibition, "Crossing the BLVD," has traveled the country educating people on the diverse body of immigrants that reinforce the notion of the United States being a melting pot of culture. With over 70 pieces, representing around 30 ethnicities, this exhibition is now installed at the OSU Urban Arts Space - its 12th location since its first exhibition in 2003.
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Art explains America in migrants' views
The Lantern
January 31, 2011
By Jessica Shambaugh
Sloan appeared at the Ohio State Urban Arts Space on Saturday to lead an interviewing workshop and talk about her experience making her piece "Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America."
"Crossing the BLVD," transforms oral history into an art form. It features portrait-style photographs of nearly 80 individuals. Personal histories gathered from interviews of the subjects, and audio clips of each telling their immigration story accompany the pictures.
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Staff Pick: Urban Monthly Mix Exchange
Columbus Alive!
January 20, 2011
By Jesse Tigges
The OSU Urnam Arts Space always hosts awesome avant-garde exhibits, including current shows, "Third Eye" and "Time-Sensitive." Tonight there's even more reason to stop by the gallery thanks to the Urban Monthly Mix Exchange, which invites mixtape aficionados to compile their favorite studd and share it with others.
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Exhibit displays conceptual photos
The Lantern
January 10, 2011
By Alex Hampel
"Third Eye," an exhibition at the OSU Urban Arts Space, features 10 Columbus-based artists who question and explore understandings of modern-day photography.
"The exhibition sets up this really interesting dichotomy of two polar aspects (intrusion and intimacy) of photography's effect on both the viewer and the artist's perception," said Jackie Little, City Center Gallery director.
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Winter Arts Guide: ROY G BIV's Justin Luna
Columbus Alive
January 6, 2011
By Chris DeVille
In some ways, Justin Luna's photography is instant and immediate.
He carries a Diana plastic camera, documenting his life on strips of 120mm film. Shying away from digital photography's constant self-editing and general loss of candidness, Luna captures life as it happens, mistakes and all.
"You can just take one shot and be done with it," said Luna, ROY G BIV gallery's creative director, whose work will be included in the "Third Eye" exhibit at OSU Urban Arts Space this winter.
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3rd Eye
UWeekly
January 5, 2011
By Sean Lehosit
The OSU Urban Arts Space welcomed 10,646 visitors between spring 2009 and winter 2010, averaging 44 visitors per day. According to their annual report that is a 91 percent increase from the preceding year.
These statistics are testimony to the revolutionary and interesting exhibits the gallery has set out to bring to students at The Ohio State University. The Space now is jumping into the NEw YEar, and is continuing to bring students and residents new and exciting exhibitions that are aimed to be thought-provoking to the viewer.
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Photography exhibit offers insight into Communist China
Columbus Local News
January 5, 2011
By Mark Dubovec
One year ago, Fei's work was organized in an exhibit for the first time in the United States at Ohio State University's Urban Arts Space. The display was organized by Eliza Ho, an OSU doctoral candidate in art history, to go along with her dissertation. Now she's bringing the exhibit to Upper Arlington.
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Columbus Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2011
Columbus Underground
January 4, 2011
By Erin Moore
Art will be used more as a community development tool. In the last few years, it seems that Columbus is really embracing art as a catalyst for community change. In the last couple of years we're seeing how art spaces like the Lincoln Theater, OSU Urban Arts Space and Wonderland are helping reshap the communities they live in.
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Best of 2010: ART
The Other Paper
December 29, 2010
By Ann Starr
At the OSU Urban Arts Space, Josheph Brandesky curated a wonderful overview, Jaroslav Malina: Paintings and Designs. The thorough introduction to the Czech painter and stage designer contained an abundance of magical work in several modes.
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Eye-openers: Unique talent inspired viewers with creative visions
The Dispatch
December 26, 2010
By Melissa Starker
"Time-Sensitive," Oct. 26 to Jan. 29, OSU Urban Arts Space: "A collaboration between Ohio State University's Downtown gallery space and the Roy G Biv gallery results in one of the most memorable, through-provoking group shows of the year.
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OSU cultural liaison planning to retire
The Dispatch
December 17, 2010
By Michael Grossberg
Karen A. Bell, who arrived at Ohio State University in 1980 as a modern-dance professor and rose to become the university's first cultural ambassador, will retire Dec. 31.
Mark Shanda, interim dean of arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, agreed: "Karen has been a tremendous ambassador for the university in the community. Her pioneering effort to establish the OSU Urban Arts Space probably will be one of her most lasting contributions."
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GCAC Presents: A Transitory Experience
Columbus Underground
December 16, 2010
By Quinn Stocker
Two days a week, I see unsettled water, littered with replendent trash, and flowers and necklaces swaying in the waves without ever really relocating.
I tread by houses, some immaculate and new, and some that once were, but are now in fragments and trashed. Pieces of furniture share the area, many burned to black ashes. Nearby, chocolate casts of several dead birds lie among the ruins.
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Fabric collages weave themes with whimsy
The Dispatch
November 28, 2010
By Christopher A. Yates
The fabric collages of Don "DonCee" Coulter - on view Downtown in the OSU Urban Arts Space - are wonderfully inviting.
In each heavily layered and intricate piece, a complex detail leads the viewer on a curious journey. One discovers hidden narratives adn surprising interactions among characters. The works are light, playful, sometimes funny and sometimes a little threatening.
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Fabricated Art
UWeekly
November 23, 2010
By Sean Lehosit
The OSU Urban Arts Space recently unveiled their latest exhibition by visual artis, Don Coulter. Back in the early day of break dancing, Coulter discovered his knack for visual arts when it became his job to paint and design the sleeves and jackets of local hip-hop artists and dances.
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Takes on time prove up-to-the-minute
The Dispatch
November 7, 2010
By Melissa Starker
Time as a concept is common the the human experience.
But each person's experience is different: Time can stretch on or slip away. It can lead to degradation or growth. It can be friend, enemy or indifferent catalyst.
"Time-Sensitive," at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, explores the effects of time through works by more than a dozen artists. Judged by Swedish writer and artist Ola Stahl, the exhibit is co-presented by the Roy G Biv gallery.
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Students help veterans express post-tramatic stress syndrome through art
The Lantern
October 21, 2010
By Casey Hansman
Erica Slone joined the military when she was 20 and served nine months in southern Iraq, seven months in MOsul, Iraq, and seven months in Qatar. She was a staff sergeant before separating from the military to pursue an art degree at Ohio State. But the military never left her, and her experiences led her to create the Visualizing the Experiences of War project, which will be shown in the OSU Urban Arts Space until Oct. 23.
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Hair today, art tomorrow
UWeekly
October 20, 2010
By Sean Lehosit
Earlier this month, the OSU Urban Arts Space introducted a new exhibition in which the main medium used is something all students are familiar with, though not in a showroom gallery. What has set this exhibit apart from others students may have viewed is the fact that the pieces are manufactured not out of paint or computer graphics, but human hair and wool. It is a medium which collaborating artists Jonathan Geiger and Jane Tuss said is relatable, but can also tend to repulse the viewer.
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Veterans Use War Experiences As Create Fuel For Art
Outlook: Columbus
October 2010
By Brianna Dance
War.
That three-letter word, even when standing alone, carries a heavy weight, saturated with politics, opinions, imagery, history, violence and controversy. It breeds strong opinions that rarely play a passive role.
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The Art of War
The Ohio State University Homepage
October 14, 2010
Watch or read a news story about the Iraq War, and you'll likely hear about the big picture: strategies, casualties, troop movement.
"In the media today we see the large picture of the war," says Ash Woolson, an Iraq war veteran and Ohio State grad student in art. "But we're not really seeing what the soldiers personally experience."
Woolson and Erica Slone, a fellow veteran and a first-year art student, want to see more veterans' personal stories shared.
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IGG-E Threads Launch Party
IGG-E Threads
October 9, 2010
Check out UWeekly's Photo Page to see all the photos featured from our Launch Party at the OSU Urban Arts Space! Thanks to everyone that came out and supported us!
Exhibit: "Hair Works"
Columbus Alive
October 7, 2010
By Shelley Mann
Hair is kind of a strange thing when you think about it. When it's attached to your head, it's silky and luxurious. When a strand maked its way to a dish of food, though, it's disgusting. That dichotomy is what's being explored in "Hair Works," a new exhibit at the OSU Urban Arts Space. Artists Jonathan Feifer and Jane Tuss use mixed media to bridge the divide between the ideas of hair as enticing and hair as repulsive.
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A hairy tale to tell
onCampus
October 7, 2010
For its third exhibition, City Center presents Hair Works at the OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., featuring the art of Jonathan Geiger and Jane Tuss. Using mixed media, the pair explores the contrasting qualities of hair as an intimate item of attraction and foreign item of aversion. In the exhibition, the two artists contempate the capability of wool and hair to both entice and repel a viewer.
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Taking A Hard Look At War
onCampus
September 22, 2010
By Julia Harris
There is nothign beautiful about war. And yet Ash Woolson, a graduate student in the Department of Art and a veteran of the Iraq war, can't seem to stop looking at photographs from the battlefield. It's almost obsession. "Every day I go online and collect images published by the media, places like The New York Times and USA Today and even some foreign correspondents like Al-Jazeera. And I analyze them every day, looking at how the war is being narrated in the media," he said from his cluttered studio in Haskett Hall.
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Transient Music Series at the UAS
OSU Image of the Day
September 9, 2010
The Transient Music Series, presented by the OSU Urban Arts Space, showcases musicians and performers from the contemporary experimental underground. For more info about The Transient Music Series and UAS visit us at www.uas.osu.edu.
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Beyond boundaries
Columbus Monthly
September 2010
By Kendra Hovey
The passageway that leads to the Urban Arts Space, located in the recently resurrected Lazarus building, is brick, bronze-colored and spotted with art deco remnants from the building's former life. Inside, though, the aesthetic is suddenly sparse and white. The gallery is open, stripped down, unfinished, cavernous and perfect for a retrospective: There are a lot of walls for a lot of art. On this night- a Tuesday in late July- these walls are home to the exhibit "Beyond Boundaries," highlighting five decades of the pioneering, computer-generated art of Charles Csuri.
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Rooftop Garden Tour
OSU Image of the Day
August 24, 2010
The OSU Urban Arts Space offers tours of the Lazarus Building rooftop gardens on the first Tuesday of every month. Guests will get an inside look at current exhibitions of the space in addition to beautiful green roof gardens. Visit us at www.uas.osu.edu for more information and to RSVP!
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Workshop helps vets cope with stressors
Columbus Dispatch
August 20, 2010
By Kevin Joy
During a seven-month assignment in Mosul, Iraq - her second of three Middle Eastern tours - Air Force Staff Sgt. Erica Slone endured the stresses of deployment to locales that frequently saw mortar and rocket fire, at times requiring her to detect and report the positions of undetonated explosives. When a quiet moment arose, she'd write in a journal. "It was a release," said Slone, 26. "Writing, especially about personal experience, made me understand my own experiences better."
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The exhibition that tells veterans' tales through art
UWeekly
August 4, 2010
By Sean Lehosit
It is nothing new to report that the OSU Urban Arts Space has continually built relationships between student and community by enabling the students to gain real-life experience in the arts, and create a discourse around important topics that are on the minds' of the general public. This mission continues to be capitalized on with the opening of their latest exhibition, "Visualizing the Experiences of War"...
In Search of a City: Come See Some Scribbles
DowntownColumbus.com
July 27, 2010
Columbus is home to many innovators. Few have changed art and technology as much as Charles Csuri, a pioneer in computer animation. Smithsonian Magazine recognizes him as the “father of digital art and animation.” His work is being exhibited at the OSU Urban Arts Space in the former Lazarus Building through October 9. The exhibition includes more than 85 computer works dating from 1963 to 2010...
Show reflects on metamorphosis of mall
Columbus Dispatch
July 18, 2010
Four young artists contemplate the decline and rebirth of Columbus City Center mall in "Chine-colle," an exhibit by an artists collective at the OSU Urban Arts Space.Ross Caliendo, Todd Pleasants, Alex Ross and Brian Sharrock use installations, paintings, sculpture and performance art to explore the nature of urban decay and renewal...
Brave new worlds: Professors emply technology in bold, tradition-defying works
Columbus Dispatch
July 18, 2010
By Amy Davis
The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space illuminates the digital art of two members of the talented faculty in two forward-thinking exhibitions. On view at the Downtown venue in the old Lazarus building are "Charles A. Csuri: Beyond Boundaries, 1963-Present," an international traveling retrospective, and "Alan Price: Immersive Environments 2005-2010."
Arts: City Center Gallery
Columbus Alive
July 15, 2010
By Brittany Kress
The OSU Urban Arts Space, a university-owned gallery in the former Lazarus building Downtown, found itself with some unused space. The hallway entrance, a long, white-walled path to the Urban Arts Space's front desk, has now been transformed into a student-run gallery space, City Center Gallery, that students are optimistic won't...
Art you can touch: The interactive works of Alan Price
UWeekly
July 14, 2010
By Sean Lehosit
I stood only a foot away from the computer rendering of a narrow faced old man pictured in a silver frame, standing with his chin dropped in despair. The room the figure stands in is an old decaying house, the walls cracked, and the floor dirty, and the elderly man's only company is an equally old chair placed a few feet from him. Slowly, I raise my hand and poke him in the forehead...
Go for the refreshments, stay for the culture
The Other Paper
July 8, 2010
If you’ve never been to an opening at the OSU Urban Arts Space, you’re missing out on a good time. Tonight’s reception at the space’s new City Center Gallery promises more of the same, with catered refreshments and live entertainment provided by Chine-collé, the featured group of artists...
Charles Csuri: Pushing "Beyond Boundaries"
UWeekly
June 23, 2010
By Sean Lehosit
Since 1964, the research of Charles A. Csuri has helped to further advance the field of computer graphics technology. He's received a multitude of awards like Ohio State University's Joseph Sullivant Medal, made numerous television appearances, and along with writing on the subject of computer graphics technology himself, has had his own work reported on within the pages of respected periodicals and journals...
2010 MFA Exhibition at the UAS
OSU Image of the Day
April 22, 2010
Preparation for the Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: You and Me and Everyone We Know that will be on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space Wednesday, April 21st through Thursday, May 20th.
Me and You and Everyone We Know
UWeekly
April 21, 2010
By Sean V. Lehosit
Even though it has been years since the closing of the City Center Mall, students are still finding reasons to venture down High Street to explore the area and its neighboring venues. However, these reasons are no longer consumer driven and motivated by merely purchasing new clothing and movie posters. Instead, these cultural adventures are aimed toward the off-campus exhibitions and artistic performances hosted at historic sites such as the OSU Urban Arts Space located within a portion of the old Lazarus Building...
2010 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
OSU Image of the Day
April 21, 2010
Installation for the 2010 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: You Me and Everyone We Know on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space Wednesday, April 21st through Thursday, May 20th. Visit us at www.uas.osu.edu for more information.
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition Features Best of Student Art
The Lantern
April 20, 2010
By Jami Jurich
The 2010 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Me and You and Everyone We Know, opens Wednesday at Ohio State's Urban Arts Space downtown. For the 27 participating Master of Fine Arts students, the exhibition will serve as both a beginning and an end...
Spring Perspective Displays Dance Alongside Other Art Forms
The Lantern
April 5, 2010
By Ashley Dingus
Ohio State's Department of Dance introduced the works of four master of fine arts candidates Thursday and Friday at OSU Urban Arts Space.
Both performances started at 7:30 p.m. and ended at 10 p.m. The performances were open and free to the public...
Great American Weigh Expo: Toledo Scales Top List
April 2010
By Shana Wheeler
For a half century, Americans relied on penny scales to watch their weight. At their peak, over 10 billion pennies were dropped annually into these colorful machines. Native Ohioan and avid penny scale collector, Christopher Steele, can attest to the role that Toledo Scales played in this trend which began in the late 1880s...
MFA Dance
OSU Image of the Day
March 27, 2010
"Spring Perspective" will be on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space March 18th through April 2nd and will be comprised of both exhibition and performance. Performances will take place April 1st and 2nd. Visit www.uas.osu.edu for more information.
A Duet of Science and Dance
Columbus Monthly
Mach 22, 2010
The work of four MFA students from Ohio State's Department of Dance debuted at the OSU Urban Arts Space last week. The installation and performance pieces, which explore the crossroads of technology and the body, are on view through April 2. Exhibitor Lise Worthen-Chaudhari’s art involves combining her work as a professional dancer and neuromuscular...
Spring Perspective Exhibition
OSU Image of the Day
March 21, 2010
"Spring Perspective" will be on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space March 18th through April 2nd and will be comprised of both exhibition and performance. Performances will take place April 1st and 2nd.
Art Scaled to Size
Larry Hamill Photography
Mach 11, 2010
By Pamela J. Willits
The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space recently paid homage to a 100 years of American ingenuity and industrial design with an exhibit of penny scales. As part of a nationally recognized collection belonging to Christopher K. Steele, the display chronicled penny scales from 1890, through the art deco era, to 1992...
CSG and The American Weigh
OSU Image of the Day
Mach 6, 2010
A group of students from the Columbus School for Girls tour "The American Weigh" exhibition at the OSU Urban Arts Space, led by artist/collector Christopher Steele. Steele's collection will remain on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space through March 7th.
The American Weigh
NBC4i
March 5, 2010
A collection of coin-operated public scales are on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space. Take a look at the unique ways the scales kept us healthy.
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OSU Exhibit Weighs in on Iconic Scales
Business First of Columbus
March 5, 2010
Ohio State University's downtown Urban Arts Space is giving the Arnold Sports Festival crowd descending on Columbus this weekend a chance to view a closing exhibit featuring a fast-disappearing slice of Americana...
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Juried Exhibition Features Student Work Downtown
The Lantern
March 4, 2010
By Bobby Gartrell
The Ohio State Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus has opened the 2010 Arts Scholars Juried Exhibition. The exhibition features artwork from students enrolled in the Arts Scholars program at OSU. All of the artwork on display was chosen through a daunting selection process that required students to submit their work to a panel of judges and lobby for their inclusion...
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OSU Urban Arts Space
UWeekly
March 3, 2010
By Sean Lehosit
Since their doors opened in February of 2008, the OSU Urban Arts Space, a multi-disciplinary exhibition space, has been moving forward to enhance the relationship between student-artists and the community. When The Ohio State University established the Urban Arts Center they had a vision to not just develop another venue for students to visit and appreciate beautiful artwork, but to create a cauldron of ideas, which would offer a hands-on approach to develop career skills and practical know-how...
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The American Weigh
Ragazine.cc
February/March 2010 Volume 6, Number 2
By Charles Einhorn
My eccentric friend Chris Steele is an artist, designer, model maker, inventor of of odd contraptions, spin-art virtuoso, founder of Citizens for a Better Skyline (pioneering the first murals to appear in the Short North), photographer, ceramist, and accumulator of assorted weird stuff. I first met him in 1972 when we opened Benchworks, a fine crafts collective in German Village. He brought an enormous old penny scale he had rescued from the then recent demolition of old Central Station. I agreed to let him place it at the entrance...
Scale Collector: Machines "Awfully Fun"
Associated Press
February 22, 2010
Dozens of Christopher Steele's coin-operated weighing machines are being displayed in an gallery in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Steele explains why he's interested in saving "remnants from a simplier time".
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Scales Weigh Artistic at Exhibit Downtown
The Lantern
February 16, 2010
By Ryan Book
Many people have personal collections, but Christopher Steele's passion ranks highly in both eccentricity and extremity. Steele has collected penny-scales since 1971. The penny-scale was a vending service that was most popular during the first half of the 20th century. A person would insert a penny and the scale would give their weight. Steele said that as personal bathroom scales were pricey, penny-scales were an important tool for...
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Transitions by Fredrik Marsh at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space
Examiner.com
February 15, 2010
By Kelly Darbyshire
Before writing his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut returned to Dresden in 1967 for the first time since the firestorm of 1945. He observed that the former Florence of the Elbe, "looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, [but with] more open spaces than Dayton has". Many of those open spaces were filled with Soviet-owned factories and Soviet era apartment buildings...
Collection of Penny Scales is Weigh of Life for Steele
Columbus Local News
February 2, 2010
By Khalila Perrin
Christopher Steele is a collector in every sense of the word.
The heaps of faded sleeping bags on the floor of the Urban Arts Space on Thursday, Jan 28, were as much as testament to that as the 54 antique penny scales on display at the 50 W. Town St. gallery.
A child of the 1940s, Steele grew up in Clintonville collecting baseball cards, bottle caps, gumball machines and soaps collected from hotel rooms during family trips...
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Old Way to Weigh Was Grand
Columbus Dispatch
February 2, 2010
By Joe Blundo
Christopher Steele doesn't remember weighing himself in public when he was growing up, though apparently it was a big deal for others. Until the first practical home scales were introduced around 1950, he said, people could learn their weight only by visiting the doctor’s office or by dropping a penny into a public weighing machine.
It's the latter option that has become Steele's passion...
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China Invades the OSU Urban Arts Space
FOCUS: Arts & Humanities
February 2010
Volume III, Issue 1
The OSU Urban Arts Space presents Art, Documentary, and Propaganda in Wartime China, a selection of images from legendary Chinese photographer Sha Fei. Producing one of the most fascinating photographic records of war, Sha Fei (1912-1950) chronicled the ways in which the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 reshaped China and its citizenry. His photographs not only capture the Chinese Communist army actively resisting the Japanese, but also the socialist revolution as it progressed in China's countryside amidst the war. Combining photography's potential for art, documentary, and propaganda, Sha Fei created a large body of photographs in his brief life of thirty-eight years...
The American Weigh exhibit showcases the Christopher Steele collection of coin-operated weighing machines, chronicling more than 100 years of American ingenuity and industrial design. It will be on display from Feb. 2 through March 6 at the Ohio State University's Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., Downtown Columbus.
This premiere comprehensive exhibition presents nearly 50 scales, ranging from cast iron work-horses of the 1890s to colorful art deco pieces, and from 1950s novelty scales to rare contemporary digital models. All of the scales are in fine condition...
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A Penny for Your Weight
OSU Alumni Magazine
January/February 2010
Interview by Lynne M. Bonenberger
Christopher Steele collects things that weigh a lot. His nearly 200 American penny scales are heavy, fanciful contraptions of cast iron and porcelain and chrome and mirrors. And yes, they’ve weighed a lot of people over the years. The oldest scale in the collection dates to 1890. Fifty of Steele’s scales will...
Weighty Display Mixes History, Technology
The Other Paper
January 27, 2010
By Richard Ades
Christopher Steele doesn’t remember weighing himself in public when he was growing up, though apparently it was a big deal for others. Until the first practical home scales were introduced around 1950, he said, people could learn their weight only by visiting the doctor’s office or by dropping a penny into a public weighing machine.
It's the latter option that has become Steele’s passion...
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Cold War Remnants of East Germany Displayed in Photography Exhibit
The Lantern
January 26, 2010
By Dylan Bateman
Two decades since its end, the Cold War's effects on Eastern Europe are still visible in many ways. One example is the work of photographer Fredrik Marsh.
As showcased in his exhibition, Transitions: The Dresden Project, Marsh's photography depicts abandoned and decaying architectural remnants of the former Soviet Bloc. His images capture the forgotten shells of industry on the outskirts of Dresden, Germany...
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Photos Expose History of War-time China
The Lantern
January 26, 2010
By Dylan Bateman
Though his name is unfamiliar to many, Sha Fei's legacy is second to few. His photography is unique in its ability to blend art, historical documentation and propaganda. Fei's work stands today as an important and remarkable record of war and the spread of socialism in China during the 1930s and 40s...
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Visions of Vacancies
Columbus Dispatch
January 24, 2010
By Michael Grossberg
One visit to Dresden wasn't enough for Fredrik Marsh.
After a three-month artistic residency in 2002, the Columbus photographer returned during four more summers to explore the German city and its abandoned architecture.
The haunting results are on display...
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Sha Fei Exhibition
OSU Image of the Day
January 24, 2010
"The Photography of Sha Fei" exhibition will be on display at The OSU Urban Arts Space from January 19th through March 27th and will feature images photographed by Sha Fei from China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Photography of Sha Fei Installation
OSU Image of the Day
January 23, 2010
Installation of "The Photography of Sha Fei" exhibition that will be on display at The OSU Urban Arts Space from January 19th through March 27th and will feature work from China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Transitions: The Dresden Project Set Up
OSU Image of the Day
January 22, 2010
Installation of the "Transitions: The Dresden Project" exhibition that will be on display from January 19th through March 27th and will feature photographs of Dresden, Germany by artist Fredrik Marsh.
Forgotten Chinese Photographer Resurrected
National Public Radio
January 19, 2010
By Claire O'Neill
Famous war photographer Robert Capa, founding member of Magnum photos, was in China in 1938. He was covering the Chinese resistance against the Japanese invasion that had begun in July 1937. Capa was a seminal figure in the world of photojournalism; his work is familiar to many. But how many of you can say you've heard of Sha Fei, the Chinese photojournalist who was covering the same events as Capa?...
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Transitions
Photo-Eye Magazine
January 18, 2010
By George Slade
By Fredrik Marsh's accounting, there's a lot of ruin in Dresden. Or should I say "ruins," as in time's effect on architecture, culture's physical artifacts, over centuries? Is Dresden a ruined city, or a city of ruins? Neither, probably, but both in this version of its story. The place that was Dresden, thriving and productive, is a distant memory here. An atmosphere of aggression, neglect, disaster, and abandonment pervades these photographs. I hesitate to read the essays, in part because I want photographs to tell...
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Photos Document War That Shaped Modern China
Columbus Dispatch
January 17, 2010
By Nancy Gilson
Chinese photographer Sha Fei managed to produce a fascinating record of the conflict that changed his nation -- the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 -- before he died in 1950 at age 38.
A selection of his photographs, depicting how the war reshaped China and its people, will be on view Tuesday through March 27 in the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., in the old Lazarus building...
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Designer's Visions on Display
Columbus Dispatch
January 14, 2010
Free guided tour of the exhibition "Jaroslav Malina: Paintings and Designs" will be offered at 6:30 tonight in the OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., in the old Lazarus building. The exhibit includes 65 paintings, posters and other works of art by the theatrical designer...
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Weigh to Play
Home & Away
January/February 2010, Volume 31, Number 1
By William Purpura
Sitting in a non-descript warehouse in Columbus, Ohio is a slice of Americana many today would never recognize. It's a work of art, a thing of wonder. And how it survived is miraculous.
Gathered in this studio is the world's finest collection of penny weighing machines. Granted, on the surface, that may not mean much to some, but anyone interested in American history, the American psyche of the 19th and 20th centuries, works of art, marketing, mechanical genius, and just simple fun would find Christopher Steele's colorful collection fascinating...
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Got an Idea? Urban Arts Space Can Help
The Lantern
January 5, 2010
By Megan Savage
Morgan Green began volunteering with the Art Bridge Studio during her sophomore year. She had worked at the studio, a smaller part of the United Cerebral Palsy of Central Ohio, once a week for almost a year when, in a meeting with an adviser, she found a way to increase her contribution to the association.
Her adviser suggested Idea Lab, a grant program for Ohio State students in collaboration with the Urban Arts Space. The Urban Arts Space is meant to function as an art lab and a professional launching pad for Ohio State staff and students, said Rachel Smith, coordinator of the Idea Lab...
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Ohio Collector's Vintage Penny Scales Represent Early Vending Machines
Voices of America
December 29, 2009
By Ted Landphair
At this time of year when, everywhere we look, Americans are tempted by fattening holiday treats, many of us are resolving to lose weight in the New Year.
So stepping on a scale is no fun unless you're the Columbus, Ohio, artist who has hopped onto thousands of them over the past 38 years and loved every moment of it...
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Tactile Color Exhibit on at Ohio State University Urban Arts Space
About Quilts
December 23, 2009
Sarah Barker has her “Tactile Color†exhibit, with quilted versions of oil paintings on canvases, which is on through February 6, 2010, at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space in Columbus, Ohio.
Barker developed a system that assigns six fabric textures to colors: satin for red, wool for blue, velvet for green, flannel for yellow, taffeta for orange and linen for purple. White is represented by cotton with soft cotton batting, while black is the same cotton cloth over hard cardboard with no batting...
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Teaching Through Art
OSU Image of the Day
December 22, 2009
Students from the Columbus School for Girls recently took part in a private tour of the space. The space is open and willing to providing educational tours.
Ben Bennett at Marotta Hour
Vimeo
December 17, 2009
By Jeffrey Collins
Thanks to Larry Marotta and Ben Bennett for his performance at the Ohio Urban Arts Space...
Set Apart
Columbus Dispatch
December 13, 2009
By Michael Grossberg
Vivid colors and layered textures mark the art of one of the world's most influential theater designers. More than 100 paintings, drawings and sketches are displayed in "Jaroslav Malina: Paintings and Designs," which continues through mid-January in the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, in the old Lazarus building Downtown.
"It's beautiful, an intellectual and visual feast. . . . Some of his paintings have such vibrant colors and color combinations that it is all I can do not to touch them," said Valarie Williams, director of the Urban Arts Space...
Czech Painter, Set Designer is Worth Knowing
The Other Paper
December 9, 2009
By Ann Starr
An exhibition of work by Czech artist Jaroslav Malina fills a large portion of the enormous OSU Urban Arts Space. The chance to see so many pieces from any artist completely new to me would make the show worth visiting for that reason alone.But the exhibition offers much more than mere novelty. If, like me, you don't yet know this contemporary painter and designer of theater sets, do yourself a big favor and go see it. The beauty, humor and intelligence of the work will delight you.Joe Brandesky, an Ohio State professor of theater and longtime friend and associate of Malina, curated the show and brought it to the U.S. This is the fourth stop of its five-museum tour...
3 to Try
Columbus Dispatch
December 3, 2009
By Nick Chordas
...Deckers of the Halls. Meet the creative types behind four exhibitions at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space during a gathering from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. The Autumn Quarter Artists Reception will celebrate "Works by Neighborhood Design Center," "Jaroslav Malina: Paintings and Designs," "The Monuments of Columbus" and "Tactile Color." Admission is free. Light refreshments will be provided. So, basically, all you need is transportation...
Esquivel's work exhibited at OSU's Urban Art Space
Arch One: Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
December 2, 2009
An installation created by an assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M is part of an exhibition at Ohio State University exploring innovative design concepts.
"Malbec," a creation by Gabriel Esquivel, is on display in "Works by Neighborhood Design Center: Proposing New Possibilities," an exhibit running through Jan. 8 at OSU's Urban Arts Space.
Working at the College of Architecture's Digital Fabrication Facility, aka the Architecture Ranch, Esquivel created "Malbec" with student help. The digital storefront, he said, was inspired by the idea of rustication — defined as cutting or shaping so as to create a bold textured look...
Ruins Among Us
UWeekly
December 2, 2009
By Eleanor Ankrom
Living on campus, we might tend to think of Columbus as a very neat little patch of city blocks where you can eat, shop, study and grab a few drinks. Indeed, most of what you need is within walking or biking distance from Clintonville to the Short North. But Columbus is much, much more than its main drags of entertainment and shopping, and less tamed within its own walls than the few square miles we all inhabit each day.
Currently showing at the OSU Urban Arts Space on Town Street is "The Monuments of Columbus" exhibit. The exhibit has been up since the end of October, and will continue to show until Dec. 12. It features some of the less citified aspects of urban living, a wilder and less polished side that exists within and throughout the city...
Pedal Pusher: Monuments of Columbus Bike Tour
Short North Gazette
December 2009
By Greg Knepp
I've been on many a bicycle tour over the decades, but none like the Monuments of Columbus Bike Tour. Sponsored tours are generally tightly organized, with various pre-lectures on itinerary, safety, equipment and the like, waivers and applications to be signed in order to satisfy the dual demons of lawyers and insurance companies, and, of course, tour fees to be paid. The Monuments tour had none of this. In fact, I and the only other fellow who actually arrived on time at the staging point were initially doubtful as to whether there would be a tour at all. But as the Saturday morning drizzle abated, leaving gray windy skies in its stead, several more cyclists trickled in...
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'Cabaret Urbain' Highlights Strong Talent
Columbus Dispatch
November 21, 2009
By Jennifer Hambrick
For lovers of food and opera, last night was a feast for both the stomach and the soul.
The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space was host to OSU School of Music's second annual Cabaret Urbain, a program of arias from opera and musicals and cabaret songs performed by students in OSU's opera program. The music-making was accompanied by a buffet of hors d'oeuvres and a selection of spirits, making the event less a concert, more a multisensory experience that displayed some intensely strong local talent before the public...
Exhibit at OSU Urban Arts Space Tackles Notions of Landmark and Landscape
OnCampus
November 18, 2009
By Julia Harris
Ask your average Columbus citizen what the city's landmark sites and structures are and you’re likely to get a furrowed look in return.
And then the usual suspects will pop up: LeVeque Tower, the Statehouse, maybe the full-scale replica of the Santa Maria, definitely the iconic Ohio Stadium.
What you re not likely to hear mentioned are places like The Gates of Hell, a rugged urban hollow beneath High Street full of graffiti and mythology, or the “Salt Mountain,a shifting elevation of road salt stored north of I-670...
Deb Colvin-Tener Sings Brecht
WOSU Arts Blog
November 18, 2009
By Scott Gowans
What a cool concept. Kudos for the daring programming from the Urban Arts Space.
Stay downtown after work every third Thursday of the month and check out new sounds curated by local musician and international composer Larry Marotta.
This month's Marotta Hour features actor/singer/musician Deb Colvin-Tener.
Colvin-Tener will present a program of songs by German playwright/poet Bertolt Brecht, touching on themes of women's rights, capitalism, poverty, and war. The evening will include Brecht's early collaborations with the composer Kurt Weill as well as his work with the leftist composer Hanns Eisler...
Falling Water: Sculptural Collaboration Immerses Viewers
Examiner.com
November 13, 2009
By Jessica Kronika
Recently on exhibit at SOFA 2009's special exhibit BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass, Falling Water is an eloquent interactive installation. Martin Oluf Thaulow and Stine Diness Mikkelson, are Danish collaborating artists working in glass, video and sound. These artists bridge new media combinations and create a dialogue in their working process and with the audience via the spatial construct of their work...
'Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress'
UWeekly
November 11, 2009
By Eleanor Ankrom
Certain jobs in our culture have a ring to them that makes the average American raise their eyebrows, or avert their eyes, trying to mask their scornful expressions. The term "waitress" is one of them. Waitressing is seen by most as a job you take to get through Hell to something better, be it college, or the dreary post-college years while you send your resume to countless prospective employers in the struggle to get a "real" job...
SOFA 2009: Highlights of Sculpture and Innovation
Examiner.com
November 7, 2009
By Jessica Kronika
Running the gamut from traditional forms to contemporary explorations, thronging with guests and filled with treats for the eye and the collector, this year's Annual Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair is a grand success. Featuring over sixty-eight galleries, eight SOLO artists, eight Special Exhibits, and thirty-one lectures with artists, collectors and organizations the 16th Annual SOFA has something for every taste in three dimensions...
Rooftop Garden Tour
OSU Image of the Day
November 6, 2009
OSU Urban Art Space guests enjoy a tour of the Lazarus Building Rooftop gardens.
Seeing a World of Color Through the Fingertips
Wilmington News Journal
November 2, 2009
By Sofia Burgess
Sarah Barker does not have an art education or a background in art history, yet she is changing history with her tactile art exhibit that is aimed specifically at the visually impaired.
Barker, 69, a retired certified financial planner who lives in Wilmington, experienced an epiphany shortly before retirement in 2000. It was through knowing a deaf woman, who claimed that she can experience music, that Barker started on her path to help blind people see colors.
"If the deaf can enjoy music, how can the blind enjoy art? That was the question that haunted me," she said...
Haunting Melodies
The Other Paper
October 29, 2009
By Kitty McConnell
A local band is providing original accompaniment for a pre-Halloween screening of a classic vampire flick.
Vampires have gone soft. Their once pestilent attacks have evolved cinematically into little more than love bites. Blame teen-fiction writers for morphing the species into the soft-horror heartthrobs they are today...
Flick or Treat: Halloween-themed Movies Promise Frightfully Good Time
The Columbus Dispatch
October 29, 2009
By Nick Chordas
Halloween brings out the worst in some -- and the best in others. Michael Myers, for example, doesn't do well on Oct. 31: The masked killer from the Halloween films has some major family issues.
Movie theaters and other venues, conversely, shine: They offer scary alternatives to, say, Astro Boy...
The Lazarus Green Roof
OSU Image of the Day
October 21, 2009
We're green! The OSU Urban Arts Space offers tours to explore the rooftop gardens of the Lazarus building.
Resident Artist, Chad Shepherd, to Show at Urban Art Space
The Shelf
October 15, 2009
...The Monuments of Columbus begins with Smithson and CLUI, and digs deeply into the landscape zeitgeist of central Ohio. Work in the exhibition, produced by the community of students, faculty and collaborators of the Landscape Architecture Section of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, includes inventories, mappings, experimental geographies, sonic tours, and imagined and projected futures for the landscape of Columbus. This is the city-now: the ruins, remnants and piles, the sites unstewarded and open to interpretation and exploration...
Textile Glass!
OSU Image of the Day
October 8, 2009
OSU Urban Arts Space patrons are captivated by Ditte Johansson's textile glass work, part of the BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass exhibiton. On view until October 10th.
Color-coded Quilting Helps Blind 'See' Famed Paintings
The Columbus Dispatch
October 7, 2009
By Jeffrey Sheban
An artist with a vision, Sarah E. Barker has found a way to expose blind people to the talents of master painters. The 69-year-old Barker, who uses the name SallyB for her art, developed a colorcoding system and quilting technique that she uses to reinterpret famous paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and others. Her "Tactile Color" exhibit, with quilted versions of oil paintings on canvases, opened yesterday and continues through Feb. 6 at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. Unlike visitors at most other galleries, "Tactile Color" patrons don't have to keep their hands to themselves. "You can touch it all you want"...
BIGG Exhibit Brings OSU Students Together With World-renowned Professionals
The Lantern
October 6, 2009
By Kinisha Holland
Ohio State University Urban Arts Space works hard to house hundreds of exhibits within its walls in hopes of bringing the university and Ohio community together through experiences in art...
A groundbreaking collaboration between OSU Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State Department of Art's glass program and Hawk Galleries of downtown Columbus, BIGG shines a spotlight on today's most forward-looking and innovative glass artists.
Calls for entries spanned the world, and the requirement of having a Master of Fine Arts degree from 2000 or sooner ensures the participation of the next generation of glass artists...
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Art Exhibition Travels from OSU Urban Arts Space to New York City and Chicago
FOCUS: Arts & Humanities
October 2009
Volume II, Issue 7
While the Ohio State campus often slows down over the summer, things heated up downtown at the OSU Urban Arts Space with BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass. Sponsored by Jay Schottenstein's company, Steuben Glass, and presented in partnership with the Department of Art Glass Program and Hawk Galleries, BIGG opened with a grand celebration on July 10 featuring works by 42 glass artists from around the world. Exhibition organizers were joined by many of the artists, who traveled from places as close as Bowling Green, Ohio and as far as Amsterdam. Throughout the exhibition, the undergraduate and graduate students working in the Space have had the opportunity to work closely with the artists and their projects to lead touch tours, interactive activities, and school visits...
A BIGG Tour
OSU Image of the Day
October 1, 2009
Image by Rachel Ross
Patrons experience art in a more interactive way through partaking in a tour. The OSU Urban Arts Space currently has the BIGG exhibition an E.F. Hebner's...excerpts 2009 on view.
OSU Urban Arts Space Welcomes Over a Decade of Work from Ohio State Professor
The Lantern
September 22, 2009
By Molly Gray
It is obvious that E.F. Hebner appreciates beauty as soon as one walks into his home. Hebner is a former professor at Ohio State and remains a skilled artist well into his 83 years. His latest exhibit, 'excerpts- 2009,' is on display at the Ohio State Urban Arts Space until Oct. 10.
Hebner said that he has been drawing since he was a very young boy, but he got his formal education at Washington University in St. Louis. He taught visual design and composition for industrial painting at OSU from 1956 to 1992. He retired to pursue his work at his home studio. Before making his way to Columbus in 1956, Hebner worked on design of construction exhibition and industrial design...
Fall Arts Guide: Kevin Parzych
Columbus Alive
September 10, 2009
By Melissa Starker
Last spring, Kevin Parzych earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from Ohio State, and this fall he'll start his master's work there in the same field, but he didn't exactly take the summer off.
As an intern at the Neighborhood Design Center, a Knowlton School of Architecture collaborative that poses new design solutions for old Columbus neighborhoods, he helped coordinate the upcoming exhibition Works by Neighborhood Design Center. As the show will illustrate, he also explored a different way of looking at the make-up of the Short North.
"We were interested in visualizing the demographics of the area," Parzych said. "Not just through simple charts and graphs, but also looking at things like electronic transactions, social network...
A Conversation With Tom Hawk About 'Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass'
The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet
August 17, 2009
By Brett Nuckles
Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass, now on view at a commercial gallery and a university art space, is an exhibition with big ambitions. If 1979's seminal New Glass: A Worldwide Survey was the art form's last attempt to define the most important new ideas of using glass as an art form, B.I.G.G. hopes to have ended a 30-year drought, according to Tom Hawk, who has lent his gallery space to the effort that is currently on view at Hawk Galleries in Columbus, Ohio, and at Ohio State University's Urban Arts Space,."The two exhibitions ["Glass 1979" and "B.I.G.G."] go hand in hand," says Hawk. "We have the same ambition, which is to grasp how far artists worldwide have come in exploring this magical material."
Hawk and his co-jurors, artist Lino Tagliapietra, and curator Tina Oldknow, selected works for the exhibition that speaks to contemporary times. "We wanted to show that, today, glass is alive and flourishing," says Hawk. He pointed to new work by Vanessa Cutler to exemplify how glass has changed in the years since 1979; the Bitish artist uses a computer-controlled waterjet machine to cut out intricate patterns in thick sheets of glass, creating unique, distinctly modern sculptural shapes...
Glass Art 365 Features City's Artistic 'Sweet Spots'
Columbus Local News
August 10, 2009
There are very few things that are capable of captivating a city for an entire calender year. Glass Art 365 aims to do just that. A collaborative effort between Experience Columbus and seven Columbus area art galleries, Glass Art 365 features glass... artwork from artists from all over the world...
Big Glass Art Breaks New Ground
Larry Hamill Photography
August 12, 2009
By Pamela J. Willits
BIGG - Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass - is currently on display at the OSU Urban Arts Space and Hawk Galleries. A collaboration between The Ohio State University's Dept. of Art Glass Program, OSU Urban Arts Space and Hawk Galleries, the exhibit showcases 43 international artists.
A total of 97 pieces of glass artwork were selected following a juried review of over 650 artists' submits. The international jury panel included Italian
glass artisan, Lino Tagliapietra; the Corning Museum's Curator of Modern Glass, Tina Oldknow and Director of Hawk Galleries, Tom Hawk.
Over the years, William Morris, Dale Chihuly, Christopher Ries and Lino Tagliapietra, among others, have led the glass art movement. Sponsored by Steuben Glass, this exhibition was designed to advance new and innovative glass art worldwide. "We were looking for the next talent in glass art," said Kelly Kaser...
Fulfilling Its Promise
Columbus Dispatch
August 8, 2009
By Anna Sudar
On the outside, the Urban Arts Space changes little from day to day.
Inside, though, the place is constantly evolving.
The first-floor occupant of the historic Lazarus building is nothing if not versatile: Wall panels hang from a ceiling track system so they can be moved to create new spaces.
The lack of spatial restrictions makes the Ohio State University-owned venue -- a 10,000-square-foot expanse Downtown on W. Town Street -- well-suited for the range of free...
Abstractitudes
Blogspot: ArtWatch
July 26, 2009
By Tom Wachunas
Encountering the paintings by E.F. Hebner (Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University) currently on view at OSU Urban Arts Space, and discerning how and where they intersect with the history of abstraction, is a bit like talking to a soft-spoken stranger for the first time. You might feel instantly engaged by his cryptic yet poetic way of speaking, but can't quite place his vaguely foreign accent. You ask him, "Who are you, where did you come from?" He might very well answer with the casual aplomb of, say, a Zen Master, "Oh, here and there."
A mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Or is it a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in a mystery? I never get that one straight.
The 17 acrylic paintings on masonite in this exhibition, called "E.F. Hebner / Excerpts:2009 were done between 1994 and 2005, and are culled from a rich body of work that includes, to name only some phases, mixed media assemblages with an eye on Bauhaus elegance...
Sketch By Number 4.0
Sketchbynumber.org
July 25, 2009
The first sketch of our show at Ohio State's Urban Arts Space downtown. Set amongst the newly erected glass exhibition, SBN tries to execute comedy at 100mph, all while avoiding breaking any of the exhibit's priceless glass on display. Will SBN do it? Or will we have to bolt out of there faster than you can say "holy crap, we just like, totally broke that glass thing...
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BIGG Best in Show: Hyun Sung Cho
Blogspot: ABJ Seattle Glass Online
July 22, 2009
By Chris McGregor
"From Carbondale to Columbus, Ohio, Hyun Sung Cho is best in show.
Cho, a graduate student from Seoul, South Korea, in the glass program, had his work selected as Best in Show at BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass. The exhibit featured work from 43 artists; which was narrowed down from more than 800 applicants. Of the 43, Cho was one of 10 artists to earn Best in Show.
"The exhibit is a way of discovering the next generation of glass artists," said Kelly Stevelt, deputy director of Ohio State University's Urban Art Space program.
The exhibit, which runs through Oct. 10 at Ohio State University, is a way to foster creativity locally and internationally, she said...
Glass Around Columbus
Blogspot: itlookslikeitsopen
July 22, 2009
By Aimee Sones
July seems to be the month for glass in Columbus, Ohio!
A few old and new friends are showing at the BIGG show at the Urban Art Space and Hawk Gallery, up until October 2009 >> http://uas.osu.edu/bigg
And I am showing with several friends and colleagues at the Melting Pot Show, opening today at the Upper Arlington Concourse Gallery, with a reception on Monday July 27 from 5-7pm, through August 21...
SIUC Glass Artist has BIGG Breakthrough
Daily Egyptain
July 21, 2009
By Chris McGregor
From Carbondale to Columbus, Ohio, Hyun Sung Cho is best in show.
Cho, a graduate student from Seoul, South Korea, in the glass program, had his work selected as Best in Show at BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass. The exhibit featured work from 43 artists; which was narrowed down from more than 800 applicants. Of the 43, Cho was one of 10 artists to earn Best in Show.
"The exhibit is a way of discovering the next generation of glass artists," said Kelly Stevelt, deputy director of Ohio State University's Urban Art Space program.
The exhibit, which runs through Oct. 10 at Ohio State University, is a way to foster creativity locally and internationally, she said.
"Part of what we are hoping to come out from this is an international community of artists who stay connected and support and challenge one another in the field," she said.
The opening night of the event featured more than half the artists' work and Stevelt said it was a great way...
Two Venues Showcase Shapes, Colors, Textures of Glass
The Columbus Dispatch
July 19, 2009
By Kaizaad Kotwal
Glass, for all its fragility, is remarkably malleable and versatile.
"BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass," a large exhibit in two Downtown venues, exemplifies the dynamic visions of 43 international artists who play with glass in unique and beautiful ways.
The must-see show is at Hawk Galleries and the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space.
Artists approach the medium in a variety of ways. Sometimes, glass is merely the vehicle for transmitting a larger idea or particular narrative.
In other works, the glass itself becomes the focus, allowing the viewer to revel...
Food for Thought: The Student Farm at OSU is Gorowing More than Just Vegetables
onCampus
July 15, 2009
Image by Julia Harris
Farming is not for the faint of heart. It's hot, dirty and often back-breaking work. And it takes a lot of sunscreen, applied liberally and often, to keep sunburn at bay. Just ask two Metro High School students, Zakia Nasrin and Zach Brazik, who have been spending their summer on three plots of land carved out of a small portion of Ohio State's Waterman Farm...
Columbus Becomes "City of Glass"
Out in Columbus
July 15, 2009
By Anna SudarColumbus offers unprecedented experiences as "City of Glass" through July 4, 2010
A yearlong celebration of glass art has begun with the debut of GlassArt365. A collaboration between Experience Columbus and seven local cultural arts institutions and galleries, GlassArt365 offers travelers extraordinary opportunities to enjoy and celebrate a wide range of works by celebrated international, national and local glass artists. In addition, travelers can immerse themselves in the glass art experience via year-round hands-on workshops...
365 Days of Glass Art in Columbus
Experience Columbus
July 2, 2009
By Cathe Moog, Marketing Director
July 4 marks the beginning of an entire year's worth of glass art exhibitions in Columbus. Seven organizations are hosting glass art programs - three featuring the works of Dale Chihuly, and many at the same time:
- Franklin Park Conservatory: Chihuly Reimagined (July 4-March 28)
- OSU Urban Arts Space and Hawk Galleries: BIGG (July 10-Oct. 10)
- Upper Arlington's Concourse Gallery: Melting Pot (July 22-Aug. 21)
- Columbus Museum of Art: Chihuly Illuminated (Sept. 25-July 4)
- Hawk Galleries: Chihuly XIV (Oct. 2-Jan. 31)...
Exhibits to Showcase Works by Chihuly, Emerging International Talents
Columbus Dispatch
June 28, 2009
By Michael Grossberg
Glass will be bigger and flashier than ever in Columbus this summer.
Two major shows will settle in -- one at the Franklin Park Conservatory; the other, a two-venue Downtown exhibit presented by Ohio State University and Hawk Galleries.
"Ohio has always had a love affair with glass," said Bruce Harkey, executive director of the conservatory, which, beginning Saturday, will again host the colorful blown-glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly...
OSU's Bright Young Things Strut Their Stuff
IndieColumbus, In Arts
June 9, 2009
By Jung Kim
Great ideas know no bounds: artists with disabilities, pedal-powered machines, resources for the music community, student-run farms, and writer-artist storytelling collaborations. These ideas represent the five award recipients for the OSU Urban Arts Space Idea Lab, a student-driven program that emphasizes creativity and entrepreneurship across different disciplines. The budding student entrepreneurs and their progress to date in implementing their ideas will be celebrated in a reception, this Thursday evening at Urban Arts Space...
10 Art Galleries Located Off the Beaten Path
Columbus Underground
June 8, 2009
By Walker
"The Short North is the official 'Arts District;' in Columbus, and is home to the highest concentration of art gallery spaces in any of our neighborhoods. The area is a huge asset to the local arts community, and while Gallery Hop (which took place last weekend) always draws out huge crowds, many local art aficionados prefer something a little more low-key. For those seeking something a little different, we've compiled a list of 10 great art gallery spaces "off the beaten path". Some of these galleries are well known, while others may be flying below your current radar: but all 10 of them are located outside of the Short North Arts District, and are still worth a visit...
Unique Ways to Spend a Lunch Hour in Columbus
Experience Columbus
May 26, 2009
By Brian Cheek, Tourism Sales Manager
This time of year, distances to walk at lunchtime seem shorter than they did during the frigid temperatures of the previous months. I like to take advantage of the warmer weather by strolling to some of the lunchtime programs in the area. They're great escapes in the middle of the day... On varying days, the OSU Urban Arts Space offers a variety of exhibits and lectures at their space located in the historic Lazarus building...
Frozen Meat at the OSU Urban Arts Space
OSU Image of the Day
May 26, 2009
Image by Jasmine Hamilton
On Saturday, May 9th, many gathered at the space for reception of the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Eddy Ostrander's artwork drew some attention as it enabled viewers to interact with a block of ice suspending 3 large cuts of meat.
Urban Arts Space: The Place is the Thing
School Partnerships
The Ohio State University
2008 Summary
If you build it, they will come. From the minute the doors opened in February 2008, Ohio State's Urban Arts Space (UAS) has attracted K-12 students and teachers. "There's a lot of enthusiasm among the teachers," says Molly Uline-Olmstead, graduate student assistant. "They're hungry for this type of partnership." Urban Arts Space is one of several entities bringing new life to the old Lazarus building in downtown Columbus. The space was designed to be a 'storefront to the community,' a place where Ohio State students and faculty could experiment, exhibit, and collaborate with the community beyond campus walls...
Foot Notes: Dance Downtown 2009: Face Time
Columbus Alive
May 7, 2009
By Melissa Starker
Every spring, OSU's highly acclaimed Department of Dance stretches its legs off-Campus in the Dance Downtown showcase. In keeping with the title of this year's program, Face Time, choreographers have offered local audiences a variety of free ways to get to know pieces and dancers before the show officially kicks off tonight.
Rehearsals scheduled during the month of April at Sullivant Hall were open to the general public, and videos were created for OSU Dance's website with each of the four participating choreographers. For dance lovers who work Downtown, "brown bag" sneak previews were offered during lunch hour April 22 and 29 at OSU Urban Arts Space...
Art for Visually Impaired Affects Entire Community
UWeekly
May 6, 2009
By Katherine Liebers
Doing something different is nothing new for art galleries. But last week, the university's Urban Arts Space embarked on a project that changes a long-forbidden practice. Now, patrons will be allowed to touch the art.
(Or at least a representation of it.)
The Urban Arts Space gallery, which is housed in the Lazarus building downtown, now features tactile tours specifically designed for the visually impaired. According to the gallery's accessibility coordinator Eva Ball, the tours are designed to objectively describe the visual components...
Enjoy the View
OSU Image of the Day
April 14, 2009
Image by Liz Celeste
The Lazarus Building, home of to the OSU Urban Arts Space, has a 1/3 acre rooftop garden! The Lazarus Building is the most significant "green" building in the country and is certified Gold through the LEED Program.
Lazarus Building Projects Into the Sky
OSU Image of the Day
April 6, 2009
Image by Liz Celeste
Downtown, the Lazarus Building, which houses the OSU Urban Arts Space, poses as a cloudy mirror, projecting into the sky.
KBD Sonic Cooperative @ OSU Urban Arts Space
OSU Image of the Day
April 5, 2009
By Lisa Hohman
A member of KBD Sonic Cooperative musically engages audience members at the OSU Urban Arts Space.
Stage/Studio in Action at the OSU Urban Arts Space
OSU Image of the Day
April 4, 2009
By Rachel Ross
MFA actor, Scott Wilson, shows great skill in his part of the Stage/Studio performance held at the OSU Urban Arts Space last Friday.
Easton's "Project Glow": Partnership with The Ohio State University Funds Public Art by Students
Easton News
March 26, 2009
Officials at Easton Town Center recently celebrated the culmination of a joint partnership with The Ohio State University to create ongoing public art installations at Easton, the first of which, now installed and ready for viewing, is known as 'Project Glow'.
Art 895 and Art 691 – Seminar Public Art Concepts: Public/Private Art Making are two classes comprised of approximately a dozen students per class, within which students are challenged to develop artwork concepts for public space, learn about the history of public art, and through the process experience what it is like to commission art within a public venue.
As an added benefit and unusual opportunity, each student was also given the opportunity to propose his or her own ideas for a twelve-month public art display at Easton Town Center...
Council Honors Three Companies
The Columbus Dispatch
Awards
March 7, 2009
During its annual meeting, attended yesterday by about 300 people, at COSI Columbus, the council recognized businesses and individuals who have supported the arts; and presented its Artistic Excellence Award to the Ohio State University College of the Arts.
The Artistic Excellence Award, with a $10,000 prize, is given annually to an arts organization that has...
Mayor Coleman at Columbus Commons Press Anouncement
Downtown Columbus
February 18th, 2009
Mayor Coleman during a press announcement at the OSU Urban Arts Space...
Happy B-Day to OSU Urbans Arts Space
WOSU Arts Blog
February 12, 2009
By Scott
OSU's College of the Arts has been nominated by the Greater Columbus Arts Council to receive a 2009 Artistic Excellence Award which annually recognized a local arts initiative that demonstrates risk, innovation, and excellence. The nomination comes in recognition of the opening of the OSU Urban Arts Space in February 2008 along with its inaugural exhibition, Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival...
The Jury is In: League's Spring Event is a Winner
The Columbus Dispatch
February 8, 2009
By Christopher A. Yates
A juried show is sometimes like a buffet line: Some items stand out, but everything starts to taste the same.
In the hands of a good juror, however, everything changes. Disparate voices strangely harmonize. The experience of such a show is cumulative, as each piece builds upon the next. Such is the case with the Ohio Art League's Spring Juried Exhibition at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space.
David Pagel, chairman of the Art Department at Claremont Graduate University in California, is this year's juror. A noted art critic, he is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times.
The exhibit hinges on two thematic currents...
Outlook Weekly
January 15 - January 21, 2009
Volume 13, No 28
By Eva Ball
February marks the one-year anniversary of the OSU Urban Arts Space. With a vibrant and productive inaugural year behind us, we are delighted to share some of our excitment.
We are in the middle of installing the Ohio Art League 98th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition. We realize the title is a mouthful, but fittingly so, considering this show, and all activities surrounding it, will offer plenty for you to stink your teeth into. This partnership with Ohio Art League (OAL) continues our mission to bridge...
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College of the Arts Nominated for Artistic Excellence Award
Arts & Humanities
FOCUS, VOL II, ISSUE 1
January 2009
The College of the Arts has been nominated by the Greater Columbus Arts Council to receive a 2009 Artistic Excellence Award which annually recognized a local arts initiative that demonstrates risk, innovation, and excellence. The nomination comes in recognition of the opening of the OSU Urban Arts Space in February 2008 along with its inaugural exhibition, Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, will be announced at the GCAC's annual Community Arts Partnership Awards luncheon on Friday, March 6 at COSI...
Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival
The Columbus Dispatch
Best Visual Arts Events
December 28, 2008
By B.M.
Ohio State University Urban Arts Space: The collection was a suitably festive inauguration of the new arts venue Downtown in the renovated Lazarus building.
Urban Cabaret
The Arts Initiative at Ohio State
Photo of the Week
December 8, 2008
The OSU Urban Arts Space was transformed into an opera cabaret on Friday, Nov 21, when 14 students and two pianists presented an evening of arias, opera scenes, musical theatre and cabaret in a galleria setting. The festive evening featured 30 excerpts from operas including Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Rossini's Barber of Seville along with selections from Guys and Dolls, West Side Story and Les Miserables, according to Peter Kozma, director of the opera program in the School of Music. The 180 attendees were seated in cabaret style surrounded by artworks in the current exhibitions.
Faculty Exhibition at OSU's Urban Arts Space
City Beat
November 18, 2008
Matt Morris
Hopefully many art lovers from Cincinnati are already making plans to get up to Columbus to see the truly astounding show of Any Warhol's work at the Wexner Center. If you're Planning such an excursion before Jan 10, make sure to leave time to drive just a short bit into downtown Columbus to visit Ohio State University's very nice Urban Arts Space. The gallery space is impressive and winding, well suited to the diverse faculty exhibition that currently shares the gallery with retiring abstract painter, Alan Crockett...
Sid Chafetz: Professor's vision breeds political artwork
The Lantern
September 30, 2008
By Amanda ForbesSid Chafetz stood, hunched slightly, gripping his cane. He gazed over his glasses and
spoke with a low rasp to those surrounding him, waiting for their turn to greet the honored guest. Although Chafetz looks as though he should be spending his days enjoying some down-time, his new exhibit proves otherwise.
Chafetz, an emeritus professor of art at Ohio State University, has been creating art for more than 60 years, often infusing his political outlook and experiences as a soldier in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II...
Art Space Welcomes Students
Best Visual Arts Events
September 26, 2008
By Matt Hancharic
A yard-long dragonfly created out of household scrap material stole the attention Wednesday night at the first Iron Artist Challenge.
The challenge was at The Ohio State Urban Arts Space in the Lazarus Building downtown as part of Welcome Week.
The event included an assortment of refreshments, music by disc jockey Walker Evans and, of course, art. The headlining event was the Iron Artist Challenge, an hour-long competition of four teams of artists whose task was to create...
Old Lazarus Store Figures Into Works By Eight
The Columbus Dispatch
August 21, 2008
By Bill Mayr
Like the exhibit title, some of the works in "What Time Is This Place" might give visitors pause.
The pieces were created in the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space during 72 hours in early July.
Eight artists, most from central Ohio, were asked to create works, keeping in mind both the site's previous existence as part of the Lazarus department store and the Downtown building's subsequent renovation...
Focus on Art
OnCampus
August 12, 2008
By Julia Harris
...Beginning Sept. 16, the OSU Urban Arts Space will open its doors on an exhibit of works by one of the most well-known and well-published artists in Columbus.
Printmaker Sidney Chafetz is a professor emeritus at Ohio State whose career spans 60+ years.
He taught at the university from 1948-82 and continues to maintain a studio here. His creations include woodcuts, intaglios, dry points and lithography, and his body of work reflects interests in literature, history and politics.
Often called a 'living treasure' by those in the Columbus arts community, Chafetz is a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, a two-time Fulbright Scholar and a frequent world traveler...
Hydro Dynamic
The Columbus Dispatch
July 27, 2008
By Bill Eichenberger
In the mid-1800s, water was central to the lives of Ohioans: The state bustled with canal travel, every city of note was situated next to Lake Erie or a river, and many a factory was fueled by water power.
Today, it seems, we central Ohioans barely notice our water.
We take for granted the Downtown riverfront. We often mistake the Olentangy for the Scioto. We rarely...
Go with the flow
Columbus Alive
July 24, 2008
By Tracy Zollinger Turner
The lush foliage, reflective blue ripples of water and rutted bark in George C. Anderson's river pictures have a beckoning, dreamlike quality. Generally a purveyor of commercial work, the photographer seems to be advertising the allure of some placid vacation spot, far from the city, with the images he shot while spending his free time canoeing and fishing. But most of his works...
New OSU Urban Arts Space Exhibition Featuring Current GCAC Exchange Artist in Dresden
Uber Tage
July 10, 2008
What Time is This Place...This project invites artists of all disciplines to discuss place as an "emblem of past, present, and future time" through the creation of site-responsive and time-specific work. Using the OSU Urban Arts Space as their studio-in-situ, artists had the opportunity to respond, react, merge, define, revise, elaborate, and collaborate over a three-day-period (July 7-9), and create new work while on-site at the OSU Urban Arts Space. The creation of these works and the resulting exhibition coincide with a five-week studio / seminar course offered by OSU for graduate and undergraduate students. Those students were available as collaborative assistants during the three-day process...
Spring Fever
OSU Arts & Humanities Blog
May 27, 2008
Earlier this month, high school students from the Arts & College Prep Academy in Columbus shared stories told through dance, music and readings for National Storytelling Day at the OSU Urban Arts Space. They performed during one of the free lunch-time programs...
Urban Arts Space
Guy Michael Davis Blog
April 23, 2008
By Guy Michael Davis
For the completion of our MFA here at the Ohio State University we are having a group exhibition at the new OSU Urban Arts Space, in the former "historic" Lazarus building. The location is one block away from the State House and is going through some rehab. After an intensely redundant process of assembly I have categorized my work by type and organized each piece on the floor in a for clear selection . I have spent a couple of days now up and down the ladder working on composition. Soon I will post the finalization of this body of work within this academic setting...
Urban Unpacking
OSU Arts & Humanities Blog
January 25, 2008
Boxes and crates are being unpacked, walls are being painted and colorful flags and photos are being hung in the new OSU Urban Arts Space in the former Lazarus building downtown. All the activity is in anticipation of the opening of the space and its inaugural exhibition, Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival. The exhibition, co-curated by Lesley Ferris (Theatre), opens Feb 5, and the OSU Urban Arts Space's grand opening celebration...
College of the Arts has Endless Options for its Downtown Gallery Space
OnCampus
January 9, 2008
By Adam King
The College of the Arts has a problem with its new 10,000-square-foot space downtown: There are so many good ideas floating around about what to do with it that the staff can't keep up with them.
But it's a good problem to have, says Kelly Stevelt Kaser, an Ohio State graduate and manager of the OSU Urban Arts Space at 50 W. Town St. It shows that a lot of people are invested in promoting the college to the community and want to see the new space succeed, she said.
"We're talking about it as a launching pad for our students," Stevelt Kaser said. "We want to blur the lines between students and professional alumni."
With 9,000 square feet of exhibition space, the college will significantly increase the room it has to display faculty and student works. Currently, most exhibitions are shown in the college's Hopkins Hall + Corridor Gallery, which encompasses about 1,500 square feet, or other locations scattered around campus. Now, more students can exhibit...
