December 7, 2021– March 20, 2022
Columbus-based artist Ron Anderson’s figurative paintings bring African American stories of music, sport, and dance into the spotlight.
by Ron Anderson
by Ron Anderson
December 7, 2021– March 20, 2022
James Stewart’s paintings and ceramics interpret Ilya Kaminsky’s award-winning book of poetry Deaf Republic, in which a young deaf boy inspires a town’s resistance to military occupation.
by James Stewart
by James Stewart
by James Stewart
An exploration of works by women photographers from the permanent collection of the Ross Art Museum, celebrating arts patron Sally Ross Soter.
Exhibit will coincide with a companion exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art, in gallery 5 of the Ross Building, August 21, 2021 – May 8, 2022.
by Ann Noggle
Nationally recognized photographer John Clark Mayden captures the majesty, beauty, and pain of Black life in the American city of Baltimore. Mayden ’74 is the Fall 2021 Distinguished Alumni Exhibitor.
With funding and support from The Ohio Arts Council, The Marion Parson Alden Fund for Exhibitions & Visiting Artists, the Anne Outram Gui Distinguished Alumni Fund for Exhibitions.
by John Clark Mayden
by John Clark Mayden
by John Clark Mayden
This year, the Senior Fine Arts Exhibit, titled Unprecedented to reflect the challenging circumstances of 2020/21, the exhibit shows bodies of work by the following ten students graduating from the Fine Arts Department:
Miller Buckholz
Elise Crawford
Isaiah (Zay) Harris
Paige Hashman
Mary Kate McElroy
Maggie Myers
Maithili Rajput
Kayla Rondinelli
Patience Savino
Avery Wood
by Maggie Myers
by Miller Buckholz
by Paige Hashman
by Kayla Rondinelli
by Isaiah Harris
The Kuhlman Gallery at the Ross Art Museum features Pattern Drift: Cityscape, a mid-career survey of art by Philadelphia-based printmaker Amze Emmons. It presents selections from three main bodies of work in which the city serves as background and context for the art. Emmons’ images show his virtuosity as a printmaker and draftsman, as well as inspiration by mechanical illustration, cartoon language, and newspaper journalism. The artist is an Ohio Wesleyan graduate and an associate professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
by Amze Emmons
by Amze Emmons
by Amze Emmons
The West Gallery at the Ross Art Museum features Landscape through the Lens: Responses to William Henry Jackson. This exhibit brings four contemporary photographers—Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Zig Jackson, and Martina Lopez—into conversation with the work of 19th century landscape photographer William Henry Jackson. Through this lens, it examines the legacy of photography in relation to the development of the American West.
by Martina Lopez
by Zig Jackson
by Mark Klett and Bryon Wolfe
This biannual exhibit by the studio art faculty showcases the broad range of talent in the Department at Ohio Wesleyan University. Although the works in the exhibit speak in different voices and cover a wide range of media, they are united by the seriousness of each faculty member's inquiries into particular issues of form, content, and process.
by Kristina Bogdanov
by Cynthia Cetlin
by Frank Hobbs
by Jim Krehbiel
by Jonathan Quick
This exhibit showcases a series of artist books that explore material approaches to communication beyond spoken language. The featured books, by Ohio-based Ellen Sheffield, were developed in response to songs, poems, signs and signals.
by Ellen Sheffield
by Ellen Sheffield
by Ellen Sheffield
by Ellen Sheffield
by Ellen Sheffield
Now Online
Students in Ohio Wesleyan University’s ART 492 class have created an online “Past to Present: OWU’s Evolution” art exhibition that showcases how the university’s academics, student life, places, and extracurricular activities have, or haven’t, changed over time.
