Pecha Kucha, Steele Talk & Romantic Holiday

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Thursday, February 11th
7 to 9pm

Join Pecha Kucha Columbus for a night of performance and presentation.

The festivities begin with local musicians The Alwood Sisters followed by a diverse group of image-based presentations. Each presenter will follow the international Pecha Kucha format of showing 20 images and speaking about each image for 20 seconds.

Members from the OSU Department of Dance will perform during intermission. Music accompanying the event will be provided by Scott Vayo of BPM Productions. Local food vendors The Hills Market and Sassafras Bakery will sell refreshments during the event.

Open to all. Donations accepted.

Saturday, February 13
2 to 3pm

Join collector Christopher Steele as he highlights several pieces from his critically acclaimed collection of coin-operated weighing machines featured in The American Weigh: The Chris Steele Collection exhibition.

The exhibition showcases penny scales spanning over 100 years, from the cast iron work-horses of the 1890s through the colorful art deco period up to and including the rarest mechanism free computer scale of 1992. Come experience this highly unique national treasure that eloquently chronicles 100 years of American ingenuity and industrial design.

Free and open to all.

Image by Chas Krider.

Saturday, Friday 13th
3:30 to 6pm

Join us in celebrating St. Valentine a day early with a special screening of the classic film, Roman Holiday, with live piano soundtrack performed by Steve Walter.

Roman Holiday (1953), starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, is the story of a bored and sheltered princess who escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American reporter while in Rome. For this special event, the original sound of the movie will be muted and replaced with a live performance by pianist Steve Walter.

Free and open to all. Refreshments available.

"Spread the Love" donations are welcome with proceeds benefiting The American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund.

Image: Still from Roman Holiday, courtesy of www.imdb.com.

Call for Proposals Now Open

Deadline: March 15th

Ways of Knowing Water

You are invited to submit a proposal for an exhibition, program, and/or class at the OSU Urban Arts Space. We welcome proposals from anyone inside or outside The Ohio State University.

Currently, we are accepting Preliminary Project Proposal applications for Winter 2011, Autumn 2012, and Winter 2012. Proposals are due March 15, 2010.

If you have questions about exhibitions please call the Space at (614) 292-8861 or email us at uas@osu.edu. For more information, take a look at our past, current, and upcoming exhibitions.

Upcoming Programs

Friday, February 26th
5 to 7pm
Winter Quarter Artists Reception
Join us in celebrating our four Winter exhibitions: Transitions: The Dresden Project, Photographs by Fredrik Marsh, Art, Documentary, and Propaganda in Wartime China: The Photography of Sha Fei (1912-1950), The American Weigh: Christopher Steele Collection, and the2010 Arts Scholars Juried Art Exhibition.

Thursday, March 4th
6:30 to 8pm
Beyond the Decorative Surface: Strategies for Getting Your Work Seen
Join artist Fredrik Marsh, featured in Transitions: The Dresden Project, in a how-to discussion of exhibition design, installation, and documentation. Free and open to all. Please RSVP to uaseducation@osu.edu or (614) 292-8861.

Thursday, March 11th
7 to 9pm
Columbus Moving Image Art Review Screening Event
The Columbus Moving Image Art Review (CMIAR) hosts its second of many quarterly local moving image screenings, showcasing the work of artists residing in Columbus and surrounding areas. The screening event will be programmed with moving image work obtained through submissions (deadline February 12th).

Thursday, April 1st, 7:30 to 10pm
Friday, April 2nd, 7:30 to 10:30pm
Spring Perspective Performance
Four graduate students in the OSU Department of Dance present their Master of Fine Arts projects as exhibition and performance. Performances will further activate the four unique physical environments created by each artist. After each short performance the artist will discuss his or her work and answer questions. Free and open to all.

Thursday, April 8th
6:30 to 7:30pm
The English Reformation
Join us as Kathy Simcox leads a free, discussion-based course tracing the Reformation, from the Wars of the Roses to the reign and death of Queen Elizabeth I. This is a seven-week course, held every Thursday beginning April 8th and concluding May 20th. Free and open to all. Class size is limited to 20 students and those who are interested need to RSVP to uaseducation@osu.edu by April 1st.

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On View

Transitions: The Dresden Project Photographs by Fredrik Marsh

January 19th through March 27th, 2010
Artist Reception: February 26th, 5 to 7pm

During a three-month artist residency in Dresden, Germany in 2002 and over 4 subsequent summers, Fredrik Marsh explored the city and its outskirts photographing the detritus of human culture found in the decaying interior spaces of vacant factories, abandoned apartments, and hotel rooms.

The resulting series demonstrates the juxtapositions and ironies still abundant in the post-Socialist world of Eastern Europe twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, showing the old and the new as well as the grandeur and the decay of these once-majestic buildings.

Image: Fredrik Marsh, Abandoned Apartment near Bahnof Neustadt, 2005

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Art, Documentary, and Propaganda in Wartime China: The Photography of Sha Fei

January 19th through March 27th, 2010
Artist Reception: February 26th, 5 to 7pm

Legendary Chinese photographer Sha Fei (1912-1950) produced one of the most fascinating photographic records of war. The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 reshaped China and the lives of all its citizenry. Sha Fei's lens captured these dramatic changes, in particular as they occurred in North China behind Japanese lines.

His photographs depict the northern Communist army, known as the Eighth Route Army during the war years, as it resisted the Japanese. Moreover, they portray the socialist revolution as it progressed in China's countryside. Combining photography's potential for art, documentary, and propaganda, Sha Fei created a large body of photographs in his brief life of thirty-eight years. While most of the original prints have been lost, their negatives have survived.

Image: Sha Fei, The Eighth Route Army Fighting on the Ancient Great Wall, 1938

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The American Weigh: Christopher Steele Collection

February 2nd through March 7th, 2010
Artist Reception: February 26th, 5 to 7pm

The American Weigh showcases American coin-operated weighing machines selected from the nationally recognized collection of Christopher K. Steele. This comprehensive premiere exhibition will showcase pieces spanning 102 years and take the visitor from the cast iron work-horses of the 1890s through the colorful deco period up to and including the rarest mechanism free computer scale of 1992.

Image: Christopher Steele with scales. Photo by Chas Krider.

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