The museum staff plans and regularly mounts exhibitions in three buildings on the Ohio Wesleyan campus. Scroll down for more information about all of our current exhibitions.
A Special Message to Our Patrons
To support public health and safety, the Richard M. Ross Art Museum will require facial coverings and respectful physical distancing for all visitors. In addition, any planned group visit of more than five people is asked to first call or email the museum to schedule a time. Please see OWU’s Safe Campus Guide (COVID-19) site for more information.
You can tour the current Ross exhibition in 3-D: From The Studio: Fine Arts Faculty 2020, and you can continue to browse our permanent collection here.
August 20 – November 24, 2020
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
March 5 - December 14, 2020
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
Though they aren’t on campus to exhibit their art, Ohio Wesleyan University’s graduating fine arts students have created “Becoming Visible,” an online showcase of their work.
by Iain Anderson
by Frank Brown
by Devin Cotton
by Michaela Fown
by Rory Gleeson
by Charlotte Elizabeth Gross
by Cheyenne Hall
by Cameron Jaudzems
by Andrew McFarland
by Moira Meehan
by Jesse Sailer
by Mia Smith
by Kami Stoflinsky
by Sarah-Faith Strait
by Chappie Wick
by Kate Van Horn
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.
