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How Artist Michael Hambouz Uses Music to Form Dimension and Color

By Andrew Wong

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Hambouz is a multidisciplinary artist and musician who creates a variety of intricate and abstracted works ranging from prints and sculptures to animations…

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Dual Urban Arts Space exhibitions transcend borders

A pair of exhibitions opened at Urban Arts Space this week are divided by a border, of sorts, with “Fragmented-Recaptured” staged in the upper gallery space and “

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Columbus Makes Art Presents Tyiesha Radford Shorts on Community, Storytelling and Resistance

Our newest Community Artist-in-Residence, Tyiesha Radford Shorts, was interviewed by Urban Arts Space Intern Sarah Jenkins for Columbus Underground!

"I am on a journey to reorient…

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Meet Miriam King, Ashley Martin, and Christina Navarro | Artists, Curators and Collaborators

"My practice is rooted in a deep respect for the body, for color, and for the emotional weight both can carry. I create work that celebrates Blackness and womanness with intention, clarity, and…

three paintings by glen holland, including one of a helicopter lifting a car; one of two race cars; and one of two people sunbathing on a beach

Michelle Herman finds new ways to communicate with ‘If You Say So’

In some ways, the exhibition serves as a visual representation of the divide that exists between Herman’s fiction work and her collections of nonfiction essays, with the gallery split between oil…

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Dancing Through Time: An Interview with the Creators of OhioDance’s Living Archive

By Mackie Mantenieks

Ohio: A State of Dance is a dynamic, multimedia exhibition that invites visitors to explore the rich and diverse history of dance across the state of Ohio. Through the OhioDance Virtual…

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Tyiesha Radford Shorts looks to the past for new Urban Arts Space residency

Tyiesha Radford Shorts has begun to prepare for her future artist-in-residency stint at Urban Arts Space by looking to the past.

An educator, writer and multidisciplinary artist, Shorts has…

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Found Objects: An Artist Interview with Andrew Mehall

By Chloe Limputra

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…

artwork on the walls at Urban Arts Space, including collage weavings

Intergenerational Connection: Artist Interview with Annelise Duque

By Georgia Nielsen

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…