This interview was conducted prior to Nico’s performances in January 2024. Please join us in reflecting on Nico’s work in Grieving Landscapes and their collaboration with the inaugural Urban Arts…
Upon entering Hopkins Hall Gallery, one will immediately sense the vibrant energy emanating from the transformed space. The 2024 exhibition by the trace layer play collective…
Convergence is the current exhibition on view at Hopkins Hall Gallery, with pieces made by nine first-year MFA students. The exhibition focuses on how people with different backgrounds and…
When viewing art, people often extrapolate a deeper meaning behind the work. The minds of the artists themselves, however, typically go unconsidered.
Ohio State’s Department of Art and the…
At the onset of the dance performance staged as part of “Grieving Landscapes,” Nico Lawson and Siera Dance will ask one another a series of four questions: 1) When did you realize you could think…
As he prepares to wrap his residency at Urban Arts Space with a closing exhibition, the Columbus artist said he leaves better equipped for the next phase of his career.
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Vibrant colors, hidden stories, and kinetic energy create an electrifying energy that flows through Arris’ J. Cohen’s paintbrush onto the canvas. Cohen, also known as Sir’Ra, is emerging as a…
In recent years, poet Ajanaé Dawkins has chipped away at a handful of projects, many of which center the relationships that Black women have with each other, and in particular the dynamic between…
As the uprising unfolded overseas, Illya Mousavijad, an Iran-born artist and assistant professor at Ohio State, began to consider how he could contribute to the movement while living in exile.…
