Columbus Arts Events to Experience

Trails of Hope

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

November 9 - June 10, 2012 / Kelton House Museum & Garden
A series of historical re-enactments depicting the struggles for freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Harper Holidays!

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

November 30 - February 29, 2012 / Reed Arts
Our annual show featuring original gouache paintings by Cincinnati artist Charley Harper, including newly released lithograph, serigraph and giclee prints, as well as notecard sets, coffee mugs, ornaments and books

Free Throw Fridays

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

December 30-28, 2012 / clayspace

Hands & Feet in Clay Workshop

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

December 30-29, 2012 / clayspace
Call to schedule a time to bring your kids to clayspace & put their hands in clay. Clayspace artist Todd Hickerson will make a one of a kind box with your child's hands or feet in clay.

Introduction to Ceramics; Handbuilding & Potter's Wheel

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 9 - February 27, 2012 / clayspace
This eight week class offers exiting project ideas for functional and decorative ceramic pieces using basic hand forming techniques for the first four weeks of class. The last four weeks covers the potter's wheel and basic throwing techniques including centering, making cups and bowls on the wheel, trimming and altering thrown pieces and surface decoration using texture colored slips and glazes.

Introductory Potter's Wheel

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 10 - February 28, 2012 / clayspace
This eight week introductory class covers basic throwing and glazing techniques. Students learn how to wedge clay, center, make cylinders, bowls, and plates, how to alter thrown pieces, and make and attach handles. Class time includes informal discussions, demonstrations and hands on instruction.

Exhibit: Tracing Lines Project

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January 10 - March 24, 2012 / OSU Urban Arts Space
The Tracing Lines Project at the OSU Urban Arts Space follows power lines and infrastructure within the landscape; these lines are vital to our way of life, yet somehow they remain just outside our conscious focus. This exhibition explores themes of power, communication, energy, mobility, global desire, progress, consumption, and contemporary culture through photographic imagery and other works of art in an attempt to reveal deeper connections and support ongoing dialogue around these subjects.

Intermediate Potter's Wheel

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January 11 - February 29, 2012 / clayspace
This eight week intermediate throwing class offers an opportunity for more experienced students to improve and expand their skills. Each class presents a new project idea with inspiration and excellent technical assistance. Class time includes informal discussions and demonstrations as well as hands on instruction. Students are encouraged to explore their interests and work at their own pace.

Art from the Other Side: Work from a Movement Without a Name

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 12 - February 19, 2012 / Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Open Door empowers artists with disabilities to develop unique, artistic voices and to experience opportunities afforded through the arts. We believe that creativity knows no boundaries and that all individuals deserve an environment for expression without limitation.

Slab Building at clayspace

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 12 - March 1, 2012 / clayspace
This exciting eight week hand building class instructed by clayspace artist Todd Hickerson offers students an opportunity to design and construct boxes, platters, and large vessels with clay slabs. There is a strong emphasis on surface decoration using texture and colored slips as well as glazing and firing. Students are encouraged to explore their own interests with support for individual projects.

Worthington Area Art League Juried Exhibition

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 12 - March 18, 2012 / Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington
Jurors, Jim Bowling and Joe Lombardo, Michael McEwan, and Mary Gray.

Conversations & Coffee

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 12 - March 29, 2012 / Cultural Arts Center
Bring your sak lunch; we'll supply the Coffee and the Conversations with Painters, Writers, Fiber Artists, Sculptors, Ceramists -- a new artist every Thursday. Your Host Dr. Ellen O'Shaughnessy.

Cabernet Cabaret Series: A Winter of Song, Wit and Wine

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 13 - March 10, 2012 / Short North Stage
The holidays are a rose-tinted memory once again, and 2012 is a new playbill yet to be filled. And what better way to start the New Year for the Short North Stage fans than by announcing our Cabernet Cabaret performance series! Five of Columbus' most talented performers will be heating up the intimate 60 seat Green Room venue at Short North Stage. Cabernet Cabaret promises to be an eclectic series of cabaret shows that can only be described as a cosmic, bipolar, jazz-infused, Broadway-inspired exploration of the ups-and-downs of life. And we did mention the "Cabernet", right?

Exhibit: Object/Imprint

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 17 - March 3, 2012 / OSU Urban Arts Space
Object /Imprint showcases the work of regional artists who utilize individual artistic approaches to expand on conventional ideas about the historical definitions of art, art categorization, and the art object itself.

Exhibit: Rare: Joel Sartore's Portraits of America's Endangered Species

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 17 - March 24, 2012 / The Schumacher Gallery, Capital University
National Geographic contributing photographer Joel Sartore has spent two decades on a mission to document North American plants and animals facing extinction. Intimate color portraits capture the essence of each species with subjects ranging from condors to crocodiles, wolverines to woodpeckers, snails to sea turtles. The exhibition, curated by Smith Kramer Fine Arts, Kansas City, also celebrates the comeback of endangered species such as the American alligator, the gray wolf and the iconic bald eagle.

Exhibit: Frozen: Prudence Y. Gill and Terry Lindquist

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 19 - February 24, 2012 / Dublin Arts Center
Water has the ability to transform into three common states of matter-liquid, gas and ice. Artist Prudence Gill has worked with water and concepts of water throughout her career. In this most recent work, she directs her attention to the qualities of water in its coldest state. Whether visualizing life at the ocean's deepest sub-aquatic level or along the under surface of northern lakes and streams in the dead of winter, her desire to connect with the mystery of otherness within an untouchable environment remains constant.

Denison Museum Spring 2012 Exhibitions

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 28 - March 25, 2012 / Denison Museum
China Modern: Designing 20th Century Popular Culture presents an in depth exploration of 20th century Chinese advertising images, mass media, graphic and product design that demonstrate how political ideologies and cultural values are transmitted through everyday objects. The more than 170 objects in this exhibition bring two contrasting 20th century ideologies-Capitalism and Communism-to the level of popular culture. Beijing's East Village: Photographs by Rong Rong, 1993-1997. From 1993 to 1994, a group of experimental artists took up residence in an impoverished neighborhood in Beijing that they dubbed East Village. This exhibition features a selection of photographs by one of its principal members, the contemporary Chinese artist Rong Rong (b.1968).

Exhibit: Sarah Morris: Points on a Line

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 28 - April 15, 2012 / Wexner Center for the Arts
Painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris continues her investigations of the built environment and of the connections and power structures that shape it, in her latest film. Points on a Line takes viewers on a journey from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Illinois to Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut - with pivotal stops along the way at New York's Seagram's Building, designed by Mies, and the Four Seasons restaurant on its ground floor, designed by Johnson. Beyond the often-discussed personalities and questions of influence and originality between the two master architects, Morris explores absence and presence, natural and constructed environments, and historical significance and continuing relevance. Points on a Line, commissioned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, reveals the political underpinnings of the architectural codes that surround us yet "ultimately upends the possibility of any singular understanding of either structure or architect" (Artforum). Morris is based in New York and London.

Exhibit: David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 28 - April 15, 2012 / Wexner Center for the Arts
This traveling show is the first major thematic exhibition devoted to the work of renowned 20th-century sculptor David Smith. It features more than 75 works, including his geometric metal sculptures, as well as drawings, paintings, and photographs. Cubes and Anarchy offers a fresh interpretation of Smith's work, revealing the Indiana-born artist as a sculptor whose identification with the working class motivated him to adopt the geometric forms of the constructivist avant-garde (modernist artists who used hard-edged geometries to express utopian optimism) from the very first years of his career in the 1930s until his untimely death in 1965.

Exhibit: Ernst Caramelle

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:09 GMT

January 28 - July 1, 2012 / Wexner Center for the Arts
The Austrian-born artist will transform the lower lobby/cafe area with a site-specific installation. Caramelle is known for his colorful graphic treatments of architectural spaces that flatten dimensional spaces and subvert expectations.