Current Exhibitions

Our Exhibitions and Programming:

The Ross Art Museum strives to exhibit diverse, emerging and established artists for our OWU family and community. Exhibits rotate in alignment with the academic calendar. We proudly support the creativity and vitality of the arts in the state of Ohio and beyond.

Every year, our curatorial focus centers on specific issues impacting our students and community. Our goal is to foster discussion, learning, and shared discovery. During the 2025-26 academic year, the Ross Art Museum will include exhibitions examining humanity's complex relationship with the Land and Environment.

Reflections on the Land & Environment 2025 - 2026

Michelle Stitzlein: Demarcations and Delineations

October 14, 2025 - March 29, 2026

Michelle Stitzlein's large sculptures and installations challenge viewers to consider environmental threats facing Ohio and the whole of the natural world. By focusing attention on seams, stripes, and margins, her Fibre Series speaks to issues of resource wastefulness, fragmented land use, vanishing rural tracts, and efforts to reverse the toll of humanity's ecological footprint.

Michelle Stitzlein Webpage

Michelle Stitzlein

Migration Pattern Fibre Series, mixed media, 2025

Michelle Stitzlein

Lines Crossed, Fibre Series, mixed media, 2025

Our Changing Landscape: Life in the Anthropocene

October 14, 2025 - March 29, 2026

Our Changing Landscape explores humanity's influence on the natural world, past, present, and future. Over thirty artists interrogate our complicated relationship with the environment during our current period of rapid ecological change. They depict man-made environmental destruction as well as creative solutions and dreams of a better future.

John Sabraw

Hydro Chroma S1 6, AMD pigments and mixed media on canvas on panel, 2023

John Sabraw

Oneiric Chroma S1 1, AMD pigments and mixed media on canvas on panel, 2023

John Sabraw

Oneiric Chroma S1 2, AMD pigments and mixed media on canvas on panel, 2023

Barry Andersen

Peat, Storm, Connemara, Ireland, Archival Inkjet Print, 2004

Robert von Sternberg

Alsup's Valero Service, Tucumcari, New Mexico, Digital Photo, 2015

Rick Silva (b. 1977)

Western Fronts, 2018, video, 18 minutes, 32 seconds. Art Bridges. Image courtesy of artist

Sprawl: 2025 OWU Faculty Exhibition

October 14 - December 14, 2025

In Sprawl, Department of Fine Art Faculty Kristina Bogdanov, Frank Hobbs, and Jeff Nilan react to their surroundingsdesultory urban development, lifeless industrial debris, and manicured landscapes. Together, these works urge us to look closely at the landscapes we inhabit and envision imaginative ways of addressing the challenges of our age.

Kristina Bogdanov Website Frank Hobbs Website Jeff Nilan Website OWU Department of Fine Arts