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Vessels in Red: Experiencing Color Through Medium, Metaphor, Memory
The upcoming Urban Arts Space exhibition Vessels in Red boldly invites the audience to feel without fear—unapologetically and without restraint. Through a landscape of red-toned…
The Vibrancy of “Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed” at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum
"Can I catch all flying things, arrest them, and not stop them, heaven by design, and not by Raphael or Poussin, by me and painted air, all things moving in my sky…" wrote Syd Solomon in a poem in…
Dr. Terron Banner Receives Community Engaged Practitioner Award
Dr. Terron Banner has served as Urban Art Space’s Manager of Community Learning and Experience for over three years. From live events to virtual exhibitions, Dr. Banner’s presence has been vital…
Reckoning with the Record Through Poetry with Urban Art Space’s Community Artist-in-Residence
In the fall of 2024, I had a fantastic opportunity to observe a workshop on conducting research and archiving history through poetry. I never considered myself a poet before, but this workshop…
Found Objects: An Artist Interview with Andrew Mehall
Andrew Mehall is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at The Ohio State University whose work meditates on our relationships with technology, memory, and authorship. Constructed from found objects and…
Intergenerational Connection: Artist Interview with Annelise Duque
Annelise Duque is a Filipino-American artist, currently an MFA graduate student at The Ohio State University, and one of thirteen artists featured in Desire Lines, the MFA…
How Do I Stay?: Artist Interview with Isabella Saraceni
Grief, loss, and mourning are central to life and Isabella Saraceni's work. As she explores the fragility of life through various materials of the same nature, she hopes to create navigational…
Columbus students use art to respond to Ohio's transgender bathroom law, Trump policies — The Columbus Dispatch
"What I really want people to take away from the show is that transgender joy and resilience is something that's part of the human experience and it has been probably for as long as we've been…
Ohio State's Urban Arts Space to Host Live Figure-Drawing Event Celebrating Diverse Black Skin Tones and Identities
"The overall triptych in its entirety has a forefront of celebrating Black trans bodies, but it also talks about this idea of creating space for Black bodies to be nurturing, soft and vulnerable,"…