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

Suda House: The Water Holds Me

January 13 - March 29, 2026

Photographer, writer, educator, and avid rough water swimmer, Suda House is a fierce advocate for women's rights and environmental justice. Her experience swimming in the open ocean informs her work. The goddesses in her Aqueous Myths series are buoyant, alluring, and powerful, but also dangerous. In the series Saving Grace: the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, House summons the daughters of Atlas and Pleione to repair the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGS). Extending from Hawaii to California, the GPGP is an immense floating swirl of manmade plastic and marine trash. Trapped in the naturally occurring Pacific Gyre, the contaminants threaten wildlife and ultimately human health. Otherworldly and beautiful, the sisters move effortlessly through debris and obstacles. With expressions of resolve and protection, their collective gaze feels uncomfortable and unsettling. Perhaps their efforts to restore and repair come at a cost?

Suda House: Web Page

Suda House

Leda (Aqueous Myths), Silver-Halide Dye Print,16x20", 1985/2024.

Suda House

Diana (Aqueous Myths), Silver-Halide Dye Print,16x20", 1985/2024.

Suda House

Electra (Removing the Ghost Nets), 113x 30", Inkjet - Hahnemuhle Metallic, 2019-20.

Suda House

Maia (Saving Albatross - Plastic Ingestion), 108x30", Inkjet Hahnemuhle Metallic, 2019-20.

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.