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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 the…
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…
Community Connectors: Terron Banner
Community Connectors is a monthly series highlighting Ohio State staff members who have shown leadership in partnering with our communities to make an impact. Dr. Terron BannerManager of Community…
Dancing Through Time: An Interview with the Creators of OhioDance’s Living Archive
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 Dance…
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 in recent…
Ajanaé Dawkins takes a more empathetic view of the past in ‘Blood-Flex’
“I had a deep fixation with witnessing the women in my life, the women who raised me, and seeing their interiority and their relationship with the world, and then thinking about our relationship,”…
Personal transformations lead to ‘Vessels in Red’
“I want to make work about anger and grief, but also falling in love,” Martin said. “And those are things that have always been present in my work in some way, but I noticed the more I create, the…
The Artist Commune Journal Celebrates Care, Culture, and Justice
Urban Arts Space is proud to launch the Artist Commune Journal, a community arts publication. The inaugural issue—centered on the theme of Care/Culture/Justice—amplifies twenty-five different voices…