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BIGG Glass Art Tour Series
Glass Art History

Einav Mekori, A Tribute to Alonso Sanchez Coello
Friday, September 4th
1 to 2pm

This summer Columbus has become a hotspot for glass art as a variety of art spaces in the city host glass exhibitions and events. Join the fun and wonderment at the OSU Urban Arts Space by participating in a variety of thematic tours of our current exhibition, BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass. This BIGG Glass Art Tour Series takes place on Friday afternoons throughout the upcoming months, offering interactive and informative discussions, touching on a variety of issues and ideas presented in these breakthrough artworks.

This tour will delve into the historical context of glass art , focusing on artists exploring the media through an historic lens and/or using traditional techniques.

To attend one or many of the tours in this series please RSVP to uaseducation@osu.edu or (614) 292-8861.

Image: Einav Mekori, A Tribute to Alonso Sánchez Coello, 2008

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Closed: Saturday, September 5th
Happy Labor Day

1942 Labor Day Parade in Detroit by Arthur S. Siegel.

Image: Photograph of 1942 Labor Day Parade float in Detroit taken by Arthur S. Siegel, courtsey of Michigan in Pictures.
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Upcoming Programs
Wednesday, September 9th
1 to 3pm
Eco Bags Workshop
Bring your unwanted disposable plastic shopping bags and transform them into beautiful and sturdy handbags.

Friday, September 11th
noon to 1pm
Unique Handmade Books: Marcia Preston Discusses Her Collection

Friday, September 18th
1 to 2pm
BIGG Glass Art Tour Series: Touch Tour
Feel the artwork! As a part of our commitment to accessibility, OSU Urban Arts Space offers touch tours that allow visitors to handle additional art pieces and materials provided by the artists.

Thursday, September 17th
7 to 8pm
Marotta Hour: L.A. Jenkins
Stay downtown after work every third Thursday of the month and check out new sounds curated by local musician and international composer Larry Marotta. This month: the ethereal guitar stylings of L.A. Jenkins.

Thursday, September 24th
7 to 9pm
E.F. Hebner | excerpts...2009 Reception
E.F. Hebner, Professor Emeritus, creates paintings steeped heavily in a personal history of design, painting and performance collaboration.  His work thrives in nimbly balanced color and daring, energetic composition. This exhibition presents excerpts from 50 years of art making.

Friday, October 2nd
1 to 2pm
BIGG Glass Art Tour Series: Art and Spirituality
Many of the artists in this exhibition express a spiritual connection to artmaking. This tour presents historic examples of artists who connect art and spirituality and discusses how some BIGG artists define their own spiritual connection to their work.

Saturday, October 10th
3 to 6pm
Art21 Preview Party
Join us for the Art21 Preview Party and be the first to see Transformation, the third episode in Season 5 of the Peabody Award-winning television series, Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century. After the screening
artists, teachers, and students reflect on the episode as well as their own relationships to "transformation" in art and life.. Free and open to all.

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Call for Proposals
Now Open

Tony Straiges set design for The Great Magoo
Proposals due September 18th,  2009.

The OSU Urban Arts Space curates, co-curates, and hosts a variety of exhibitions, programs, and classes. We welcome proposals and space requests from inside and outside The Ohio State University.

Currently we are accepting Preliminary Project Proposal applications for Winter 2011 through Summer 2012.* Through this proposal process applicants can present ideas for any type of activity including exhibitions, programs, and classes.


If you have questions please call the Space at (614) 292-8861 or email us at uas@osu.edu.


*Note: During Spring Quarter 2012 (April 1 - June 15) the Space is reserved for The Ohio State University student exhibitions.

Image: Tony Straiges set design for The Great Magoo.

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On View
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BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass

July 10th-October 10th   

BIGG
BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass is a dynamic collaboration among The Ohio State University Department of Art's Glass Program, OSU Urban Arts Space and Hawk Galleries. This exhibition is sponsored by Steuben Glass.

Together we will discover and introduce to the public a select group of artists with a conceptual and working engagement in glass. These artists will have completed their formal training in art beyond the baccalaureate (MFA or equivalent) since the beginning of the new millennium. This collaboration demonstrates a commitment to advancing new and innovative glass art worldwide. Through an international juried selection process and critical writing about work in the field, we intend to expand the discourse about glass art globally.

The exhibition will be presented at the OSU Urban Arts Space and Hawk Galleries in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Select works from the BIGG exhibition will travel to SOFA Chicago 2009 on exhibit November 5th through the 8th.

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E.F. Hebner | excerpts...2009
July 10th-October 10th     Reception: September 24th, 7 to 9pm

hebner
E.F. Hebner, Professor Emeritus, creates paintings steeped heavily in a personal history of design, painting and performance collaboration.  His work thrives in nimbly balanced color and daring, energetic composition. This exhibition presents excerpts from 50 years of art making.

Sometime within the last fifty years, my marks, spills, splatters, smears, erasures, lucky color choices and precise edges have taken form as drawing, print, collage, transfer or painting. occasionally they look, to me, keepable, even exhibitable. shown here as "excerpts" are a few of them. i'm not always sure how far "too far" to go is.
                                                                      - E.F. Hebner

Images Credit: Christopher Kay.

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