Past Exhibition List

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. 

Past Exhibitions

2002–2003 Academic Year

October 23 – December 19, 2002
A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography

January 19 – February 23, 2003
Personal Visions I

March 4 – April 13, 2003
Personal Visions II

April – May 11, 2003
Senior Show 2003

May 16 – May 19, 2003
Faculty Show

May 16 – May 19, 2003
Permanent Collection

2003–2004 Academic Year

August 21 – September 26, 2003
Consuming Passion {Edible by Design}

October 3 – November 9, 2003
Richard M. Ross: Photographer and Craftsman

October 3 – November 9, 2003
Permanent Collection: Sally Humphreys

November 16 – December 18, 2003
Traveling Different Paths: Faculty Show

January 15 – February 15, 2004
Carl Toth Retrospective

January 15 – February 15, 2004
Cultural Radar

February 24 – April 9, 2004
Side by Side: Robert Fry and Philip von Raabe

April 17 – May 9, 2004
Senior Art Exhibition: There Is No Map

2004–2005 Academic Year

August 19 – September 19, 2004
Overtones: Ralph Gibson

September 28 – November 7, 2004
Creativity: Beyond the Norm

November 14, 2004 – January 16, 2005
Numinous Spaces: Alvin Sher

November 14, 2004 – January 16, 2005
Peace Prayer: Hui-Chu Ying

November 14, 2004 – January 16, 2005
Permanent Collection

January 25 – February 20, 2005
Figuratively Speaking: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art

February 10 – April 3, 2005
Prints and Drawings by Rudy Pozzatti

February 27 – April 10, 2005
The Gold Standard: Lisa Gralnick

February 27 – April 10, 2005
Dialogue Between Art & Design

2005–2006 Academic Year

August 24 – October 2, 2005
Forms of Fiber

August 24 – October 2, 2005
Robert Ebendorf: Past and Present: A Continual Journey

October 11 – November 18, 2005
National Colloquium: Past and Presence — Islamic Art: Djahanjir Pirasteh

December 8, 2005 – February 5, 2006
We Are One: Fine Arts Faculty

February 14 – April 9, 2006
Art and Artifice

February 14 – April 9, 2006
Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching Photographs by Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum

April 22 – May 14, 2006
Senior Fine Art Majors

May 19 – July 5, 2006
The Essence of Things: Quilt Surface Design Symposium Invitational

2006–2007 Academic Year

August 24 – September 29, 2006
The Grand Sport of Harness Racing

August 24 – September 29, 2006
60 Years of the Little Brown Jug

August 24 – September 29, 2006
Currier & Ives Prints

October 5 – November 12, 2006
Lost and Found: Cal Kowal and Anita Douthat

October 5 – November 12, 2006
Acts of Unremarkable Bravery: Jane Terzis '72

November 30, 2006 – February 4, 2007
Lensless Images & Cameras

February 15 – April 8, 2007
David Hayes: An Exhibition of Drawings, Maquets and Small Sculpture

February 15 – April 8, 2007
Family Time: Janis Mars Wunderlich

April 21 – May 13, 2007
Senior Fine Arts Majors

2007–2008 Academic Year

August 23 – September 23, 2007
Panoramic Ohio: Thomas R. Schiff

August 23 – September 23, 2007
Mostly Ohio: Dick Arentz

October 3 – November 11, 2007
The (sub)Urban Landscape

November 29, 2007 – February 3, 2008
Celebrating Creativity: OWU Fine Art Faculty

February 14 – April 6, 2008
Witness: Kathleen Browne

February 14 – April 6, 2008
Drawing on Nature: Christopher Davis

February 14 – April 6, 2008
The Space of Freedom — Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964–1986

April 19 – May 11, 2008
Senior Fine Arts Majors

May 16 – July 5, 2008
The Quilted Surface IV: Quilt Surface Design Symposium Invitational

2008–2009 Academic Year

August 21 – October 12, 2008
Historic Quilts of Delaware County

August 21 – September 21, 2008
Disappearing Landscapes of Delaware County: Linda Wesner

August 21 – September 21, 2008
Remembering Delaware

October 1 – November 16, 2008
Discarded to Distinctive

October 21 – November 16, 2008
On the Shoulders of Ancestors: Willis Bing Davis

December 4, 2008 – February 8, 2009
Eye of the Beholder: Wanda Ewing

December 4, 2008 – February 8, 2009
Building the Collection: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts

February 19 – April 8, 2009
Recurring Themes: Paul-Henri Bourguignon

April – May 2009
Senior Fine Arts Majors

2009–2010 Academic Year

August 20 – September 20, 2009
Marking Time: Douglas Goering

August 20 – September 20, 2009
Building the Collection II: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts

October 1 – November 15, 2009
Painted to Please: Marilyn Meek Webster

October 1 – November 16, 2009
Malleable Thought: Contemporary Ceramics

December 3, 2009 – January 31, 2010
On and Off the Wall: OWU Art Department Studio Faculty

February 18 – April 1, 2010
The 5 Colleges of Ohio: Student Biennial Art Exhibition

April 17 – May 9, 2010
Senior Fine Arts Majors

2010–2011 Academic Year

August 19 – September 17, 2010
Seeing Things: Anne McCauley

August 19 – September 17, 2010
Calle de Luz — Street of Light: Duane Monczewski

September 28 – October 31, 2010
About Places: Gale Wallar '71

September 28 – October 31, 2010
Brazil: Ralph Gibson

November 9 – December 16, 2010
Transfigures: Laura Young

November 9 – December 16, 2010
Jewelry and Wearable Objects: Arthur Hash

November 9 – December 16, 2010
Ceilings: Ardine Nelson

January 13 – February 20, 2011
Branch Rickey & Jackie Robinson: A Partnership of Vision and Courage

January 13 – February 20, 2011
Winfred Rembert: Memoirs in Paint

March 1 – April 6, 2011
The History of the Future: Michael Berman & Julian Cardona

2011–2012 Academic Year

May 13 – September 16, 2011
Haycock Retrospective: Ebb Haycock

May 13 – September 16, 2011
Sites, Reconstructed: Marilyn Ashbrook '52

September 29 – November 13, 2011
Sarah Rhymes with Clara: Susan Paulsen '80

September 29 – November 13, 2011
Microscopy: Dennison Griffith '74

December 8, 2011 – February 5, 2012
Mixed Messages: Fine Arts Department Studio Faculty

February 14 – April 1, 2012
Pride of the Ross: Permanent Collection

February 14 – April 1, 2012
Taking Clay to New Levels III: Carolyn Dulin '54

February 14 – April 1, 2012
Night's Speechless Carnival: Randall Tiedman

April 14 – May 13, 2012
Visual Insights: Senior Fine Art Majors

May 14 – July 3, 2012
Celebrating Our Past: Art Quilts

2012–2013 Academic Year

August 23 – October 7, 2012
Full of Grace: Curated by Ray Merritt

October 16 – December 20, 2012
Tamarind Touchstones: Lithographs from the Tamarind Institute

January 15 – February 17, 2013
From Liverpool to Ohio with Stops in Between: Barry Gunderson

February 24 – March 31, 2013
Diverse

April 13 – May 12, 2013
Marks Made: Senior Fine Art Majors

May 17 – July 3, 2013
Unexpected: Art Quilts

2013–2014 Academic Year

August 22 – October 6, 2013
Luminous: John Sabraw

August 22 – October 6, 2013
A Portrait of Ice: Caleb Cain Marcus

October 13 – November 15, 2013
Nature's Edge: Rod Bouc

October 13 – November 15, 2013
Old Farms – New Work: Melinda Rosenberg

December 3, 2013 – February 2, 2014
FA8: Fine Art Department Studio Faculty

February 11 – March 30, 2014
New Art/New Mexico

April 12 – May 11, 2014
Happenings: Senior Fine Art Majors

May 16 – May 18, 2014
Paintings by Terrance LaNoue

May 23 – July 3, 2014
2014 QSDS Invitational: Celebrating 25 Years of QSDS

2014–2015 Academic Year

August 21 – September 21, 2014
Tightrope: The Line Between Art & Design — Jim Zivic '83

August 21 – September 21, 2014
Two Decades: Chris Kahler '91

September 30 – November 2, 2014
The Wonder of It All: Clark Winter '73

September 30 – November 2, 2014
Metamorphosis: Pamela Becker '64

November 9 – December 18, 2014
Dreamscape: Elizabeth Fergus-Jean

November 9 – December 18, 2014
Awe: Izze Frances (pseudonym for Elizabeth Fergus-Jean)

November 9 – December 18, 2014
Penumbra: John Fergus-Jean

January 13 – February 15, 2015
Covering Ground: Larry Cressman

January 13 – February 15, 2015
One Way or the Other: New Acquisitions

February 24 – April 5, 2015
Edmund Kuehn: A Retrospective

April 18 – May 10, 2015
Ongoing: Senior Fine Art Majors

2015–2016 Academic Year

August 20 – September 23, 2015
Eric Nation: On and Off the Wall

August 20 – September 23, 2015
Howard Little: Coming Home

October 1 – November 13, 2015
Sur: Paul Ching-Bor

October 1 – November 13, 2015
Matter of Fact: Todd Gordon

December 1, 2015 – January 31, 2016
In Close Proximity: OWU Studio Faculty Members

February 9 – March 27, 2016
Looking Down to Look Up: Walter Zurko

February 9 – March 27, 2016
New on View: New Acquisitions

February 9 – March 27, 2016
David Jansheski: Art of the Print

April 9 – May 9, 2016
Relativity: Senior Fine Art Majors

May 13 – July 1, 2016
Party On: Art Quilts

2016–2017 Academic Year

August 18 – October 11, 2016
A Show of Horses

October 25 – December 15, 2016
Ohio Designer Craftsmen: The Best of 2016 Annual Juried Members Exhibition

October 25 – December 15, 2016
Two by Two: Photographic Conversations

October 25 – December 15, 2016
Machine Drawings: Tristan Perich

January 17 – April 2, 2017
Accumulated Errors: Carol Boram-Hays

January 17 – April 2, 2017
From One Thing to Another: Louise Captein

April 15 – May 13, 2017
Refraction: Senior Fine Art Majors

May 19 – June 30, 2017
With These Hands: Art Quilts

2017–2018 Academic Year

August 18 – October 2017
Marty Kalb: Retrospective

September 20 – October 31, 2017
The Shadows We Cast: Tiffany Carbonneau & Susanna Crum

October 19 – December 14, 2017
Precious Objects: Charles Mintz

October 19 – December 14, 2017
Various Walls with Windows: George Rush

January 17 – March 30, 2018
Range of Vision: OWU Studio Art Faculty

April 14 – May 12, 2018
11:11 Make a Wish: Senior Fine Arts Majors

May 18 – June 29, 2018
See My Voice: Quilt Surface Design Symposium Exhibition

2018–2019 Academic Year

August 22 – October 7, 2018
What We Make

October 18 – December 13, 2018
Culinary Roots/Migratory Routes

October 18 – December 13, 2018
Double Take: Precision & Ambiguity in the Photograph

January 22 – March 31, 2019
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: 29 African-American Artists from Columbus

April 13 – May 11, 2019
Converge: Senior Fine Arts Majors

2019–2020 Academic Year

August 21 – October 20, 2019
After/Before: JoAnn Verburg '72

October 31, 2019 – February 9, 2020
Figuring Our Humanity

October 31, 2019 – February 9, 2020
Bijoux Contemporains

February 25 – November 25, 2020
From the Studio: OWU Studio Art Faculty

2020–2021 Academic Year

January 2021
From the Collection: R.B. Kitaj Screenprints

February 3 – April 8, 2021
Pattern Drift: Cityscape — Amze Emmons '96

February 3 – April 8, 2021
Landscape Through the Lens

May 1 – May 29, 2021
Unprecedented: OWU Senior Fine Art Majors

2021–2022 Academic Year

August 25 – November 12, 2021
Women Behind the Lens

August 25 – October 24, 2021
Baltimore Lives: John Clark Mayden '74

December 7, 2021 – March 20, 2022
Deaf Republic: James Stewart

December 7, 2021 – March 20, 2022
Ron Anderson

April 9 – May 7, 2022
Action Potential: OWU Senior Fine Art Majors

April 9 – May 7, 2022
Check Me Out

2022–2023 Academic Year

August 24 – October 2, 2022
From OWU's Studios: Fine Arts Faculty

August 24 – October 2, 2022
Then and Now: Fifty Years of Camera Vision by Justin Kronewetter

October 18 – December 11, 2022
Move: Mobility, Migration, & Belonging

October 18 – December 11, 2022
Check Me Out

January 18 – March 26, 2023
Ohio Imprint: Dick Arentz & Brian Harnetty

January 18 – March 26, 2023
Black Palimpsest: Jared Thorne

April 16 – May 12, 2023
Marty Kalb: Ocean Paintings

April 16 – May 12, 2023
Kaleidoscope: OWU Senior Fine Art Majors

2023–2024 Academic Year

September 5 – October 29, 2023
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press

September 5 – October 29, 2023
Abstract: Art from the Permanent Teaching Collection

November 14, 2023 – March 24, 2024
Move: Mobility, Migration & Belonging

April 13 – May 11, 2024
Annual Senior Fine Arts Exhibit: OWU Senior Fine Arts Majors

April 13 – May 11, 2024
Restore: Conserving Masterworks

May 17 – June 28, 2024
Remembering Denny Griffith '74

2024–2025 Academic Year

August 13 – September 27, 2024
Ohio Art League: 2024 Fall Juried Exhibition

October 15 – December 13, 2024
Fossils and Halos: Faculty Show

October 15 – December 13, 2024
Tony Mendoza: Pictures with Stories

October 15, 2024 – March 23, 2025
Culture Push

January 14 – March 23, 2025
Caribbean Transformers: Becoming and Being in the New World by Alicia Brown

April 13 – May 10, 2025
Senior Student Show 2025: OWU Senior Fine Arts Majors

April 13 – May 9, 2025
Lance Johnson: Urban Rhythms

May 16 – June 29, 2025
Tariq Tarey: From Struggle to Strength

2025–2026 Academic Year

August 19 – September 28, 2025
New York State of Mind: Permanent Collection

August 19 – September 28, 2025
Emilie Clark: Costumes for Survival

August 19 – September 28, 2025
Skip Brea: Threads

October 14 – December 17, 2025
Sprawl: OWU Fine Arts Faculty

October 14, 2025 – March 29, 2026
Our Changing Landscape: Life in the Anthropocene

October 14, 2025 – March 29, 2026
Demarcations and Delineations: Michelle Stitzlein

January 13 – March 29, 2026
Suda House: The Water Holds Me

April 11 – May 8, 2026
Roots: OWU Senior Student Show

April 11 – June 28, 2026
Rod Bouc: Transitory Spaces

May 15 – June 28, 2026
Uncharted Land: Collection Works