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How Artist Michael Hambouz Uses Music to Form Dimension and Color
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.…
BLOOD-FLEX by Ajanaé Dawkins Explores Mother–Daughter Relationships Through Poetry
"A daughter / observes until her eyes are blood-thick with / history," writes Ajanaé Dawkins in Blood-Flex, the author's debut chapbook. In this collection, Dawkins dissolves the clouded vision of…
Discover Our Playlists on the UAS Music Collective
The Urban Arts Space Music Collective is a collaborative Spotify project. We create playlists that incorporate specific genres of music, music history, record labels, new album releases…
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 “Cartography” stretched throughout…
“You’ll Just Know”: A Review of Michelle Herman’s Newest Essay Collection, “If You Say So”
“My loneliness demands my attention too. I tend to it the best I can.” — Michelle Herman
In her latest book, If You Say So, Michelle Herman takes us through a series…
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 myself to…
A to Zines: The Creation of Zines Out Loud
In late May, I was approached by the senior staff at Urban Arts Space. There wasn’t an Artist Commune event for June planned and they wanted an intern to plan the event. I jumped on…
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…
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…