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Hybrid Arts Lab

Overview

Urban Arts Space's Hybrid Arts Lab is a multi-venue learning lab that experiments with how art is imagined, made, viewed, and understood. Hybrid Arts Lab encourages collaboration, experimental approaches to artmaking, and an inclination towards asking big questions that ignite thoughtful conversations.

Hybrid Arts Lab showcases collaborative and experimental exhibitions, performances, and discussions by art makers and researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences. Art makers and researchers are invited to explore new ways of integrating and circulating their creative activity, teaching, and research within the associated venues:

Urban Arts Space
Hopkins Hall Gallery
UAS Online

Submit a Proposal

The proposal round for Spring 2023 has now closed. Selected projects will be featured in Spring 2023 across Urban Arts Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, and UAS Online. 

Hybrid Arts Lab is open to proposals from faculty, students and staff in the departments of Art, Arts Administration, Education and Policy (AAEP), Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), Creative Writing, Dance, Design, History of Art, Music, and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of faculty representatives from these departments.

While solo applications will be considered, applicants are encouraged to collaborate across program areas to create and experiment with their creative practice.

Featured Projects

Embroidered Past, Imagined Future: Lucie Kamuswekera and the Violence in Eastern Congo
Mershon Center and the Center for African Studies at The Ohio State University
September 19 – November 18 | Urban Arts Space 

Iran: Deciphering Violence and Resistance 
The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs (OAA)
September 26 – November 18 | Urban Arts Space 

National Recycling Day Art Show
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
November 6 – November 11 | Urban Arts Space Corridor 

Sixth Annual Design Winter Market
Department of Design
December 6 | Hayes Hall

trace layer play 3
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
February 20 – February 24 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Fundamental Play 2
Department of Art
March 23 – March 30 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

An Unsettled Space
Department of Art
May 10 – May 19 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Grieving Landscapes
Department of Dance
May 16 – May 20 | Urban Arts Space

Farewell Transmission: Community Resilience amid the End of Coal in Ohio
School of Environment and Natural Resources; Department of Geography; Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts; Glenn College of Public Affairs
August 22 – September 16 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

About Perception
Department of Dance; Department of Art
September 26 – September 30 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

About Perception - the artists are in the house!
Department of Dance; Department of Art
September 28, 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. | Hopkins Hall Gallery

I Don't Sleep at Night
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy; Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
October 31 – November 3 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Moving Memories: In the Absence/Presence of Queer Bangladeshi Voices
South Asian American Digital Archive
November 14 – November 22 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Moving Memories: In the Absence/Presence of Queer Bangladeshi Voices - Panel Talk
South Asian American Digital Archive
November 21, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Hopkins Hall Gallery

fault lines
Department of Dance
November 17 – November 18 | Urban Arts Space

fault lines - reception
Department of Dance
November 18, 8:00 – 8:45 p.m. | Urban Arts Space

Fifth Annual Design Winter Market
Department of Design
December 7, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Hayes Hall, front steps

Unitus
Department of Art
February 1 – March 1 | UAS Online

trace layer play II
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
February 21 – February 25 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

trace layer play: RE-PLAY
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
February 25, 5:00 p.m. | Hopkins Hall Gallery

We're still here, busting our glass
Department of Art
March 7 – March 11 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Fundamental Play
Department of Art
March 21 – March 25 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Whisper into a Hole
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
April 4 – April 8 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Design is Repair
Department of Design
April 18 – April 22 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Music's Meanings
The School of Music
April 20 – May 31 | UAS Online

Behind the White Coat
College of Medicine
April 26 – May 7 | Urban Arts Space

Extinction | Imagination
Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme
May 2 – May 20 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Sometimes I make the shape of a hug with my arms and imagine you inside it
Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
September 14 – 30 | UAS Online
September 16 – 24 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Looking for Hamlet, 1603
Department of English
September 20 – October 17 | UAS Online
September 30 – October 8 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Artist Talk: Looking for Hamlet, 1603
Department of English
October 6, 4:00 p.m. | UAS Online

Performance of Making
Department of Design
October 13 | UAS Online

Moss Cyan
Department of Dance
November 8 – November 12 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Inevitable Circling: the work of dreams
Department of Dance
November 12, 6:00 p.m. | Urban Arts Space

Explorations in Physical Poetry
Department of English
November 15 – 23 | Hopkins Hall Gallery
December 6 –17 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Sound and Fury Signifying...
Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
December 2 – 3, 8:00 p.m. | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Freedom Practice(s)
Department of Dance and School of Music
December 15 – January 31 | UAS Online

19ChoreOVIDs
Department of Dance
February 1 – 28 | UAS Online

Hear We Go 
Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
February 8 – March 7 | UAS Online
February 13, 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Collaborative Animals
Department of Art
February 15 – 19 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

trace layer play
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
February 23 – 26 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Visualizing Music 
School of Music
February 24, 4:00 p.m. | UAS Online

digital traces: a live performance from home
Department of Dance
TBD | UAS Online

[Title TBD]: a collectively themed painting exhibition
Department of Art
March 8 – 12 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

NoBody There
Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
March 18 – 26 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Moving from the Inside/Out
Department of Dance          
March 9, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. | UAS Online

Inside/Out
Department of Dance
March 19 – 20 | Hopkins Hall Courtyard

Manifested Dreams 
Department of Dance
March 17, 8:00 p.m. | UAS Online 

Is This the Truth?
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
March 22 – April 18 | UAS Online

Cut, Scan, Mill, Print, Render, Tweak, Shuffle, Repeat
Department of Art
March 30 – April 7 | Hopkins Hall Gallery
March 29 – April 25 | UAS Online

Iteration X
Department of Dance
April 5 – May 2 | UAS Online

Hostile Terrain 94
Department of Art
Department of Sociology
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
April 12 – 16 | Hopkins Hall Gallery

Be Well
Department of Design
April 26 – 30 | Hopkins Hall Gallery
April 26 – May 23 | UAS Online

2020 Vision: Making the Invisible Visible
Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
May 6 – 7, 7:00 p.m. | Hopkins Hall Gallery

To learn more about the inaugural season of Hybrid Arts Lab, view our summary of Autumn 2020 Hybrid Arts Lab Projects

24-Hour Drama

24-hour Drama
Department of Art
Exhibition in Hopkins Hall Gallery, Stillman Hall Tent,
and Online @ UAS from Home

 

 

Dimelo Cantando

¡Dimelo Cantando!
Department of Art
Exhibition in Hopkins Hall Gallery

 

 

 

Rapid Fire Text

Rapid Fire Text
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy 
Exhibition in Hopkins Hall Gallery and Online @ UAS from Home

 

 

Tappyness

Tappyness
Department of Theatre
Performance in Stillman Hall Tent and 
online @ UAS from Home

 

 

Winter Market

Industrial Design Winter Market 
Department of Design
Exhibition & store online @ UAS From Home
 

 

One Voice, One Message: Black Lives Matter

One Voice, One Message
Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center
Exhibition in Hopkins Hall Gallery and 
online @ UAS from Home 

 

 

School of Music Tent Showcase Series

School of Music Tent Showcase Series
School of Music 
Performances in Stillman Hall Tent

 

 

Staircase

Picturing Power & Privilege
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy 
Exhibition online @ UAS from Home 

 

 

SURFACE/SKIN/SIGHT

SURFACE/SKIN/SIGHT
Department of Art: Photo & Sculpture collaboration
Exhibition in Hopkins Hall Gallery and
online @ UAS from Home 
 

 

Art Scholars Engage the Arts exhibition header, shows two girls sitting back to back in a dance studio with two different color overlays creating a divide between them

Arts Scholars Engage the Arts Video Exhibition
Arts Scholars 
Exhibition online @ UAS from Home 

 

To view a full listing of past, present and future Hybrid Arts Lab events, view our event archive. 

Hybrid Arts Lab Event Archive 

Questions?

Contact Merijn van der Heijden at vanderheijden.1@osu.edu for more information.