K-12 School Engagement

Education and Touring Information
The OSU Urban Arts Space offers free tours and educational programming for K-12 students, university groups, and adults.

K-12 School Tours
Our tours are interactive, in-depth, tie in to the Ohio Academic Content Standards and, can include guided art making, writing exercises, and other interdisciplinary activities. In addition, we offer preparatory educational materials for teachers to help establish a dialogue with their curriculum prior to the gallery visit.

Examples of tour questions:

• What do you see?

• Why do you think the artist chose this imagery?
  

• How do you think this piece was made?
  

• What does it remind you of?
  

• How does it make you feel?
  

• What do you think the artist is trying to say?
  

• Why is this message important?
  

• Do you like this piece? Would you want it in your home? Why or why not?
  

Group Tours
Bring your community or university group for an engaging and thought provoking tour of our current exhibition. We offer additional programming such as art making activities upon request.


School Partnerships
In addition to our tours, we have K-12 learning partnerships with various private and public learning institutions. These partnerships have produced interdisciplinary projects and learning experiences as well as opportunities for community engagement.

OSU Urban Arts Space partnered with Columbus School for Girls for the [Ways of Knowing Water Exhibition]. The students visited the gallery space, toured the Lazarus building’s rooftop garden, and learned about water conservation. In addition they participated in a sketching and writing response exercise, creating their own artworks and stories about the exhibit.

The OSU Urban Arts Space also partnered with Marion Franklin School [Columbus Public Schools] to produce the theatre performance, When Arts Collide. The Space worked with teacher Todd Decker and his advanced theatre students to create a non traditional spoken word, instrumental music, and movement performance. The work was inspired by the OSU Urban Arts Space retrospective exhibition of painter and emeritus professor Alan Crockett. Students had the opportunity to meet with Professor Crockett and discuss the connections between the visual and performing arts and how they have informed his life. These connections were beautifully illustrated in the resulting public performance.

To schedule a tour or find out more about accessibility or K-12 partnerships, please contact the space at 614.292.8861. Tours, educational programs, and exhibition admission are always free. Please contact the space at least 2 weeks in advance to schedule. One adult for every 10 children must accompany groups of children ages 12 and younger.