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Artist Talk: DonCee
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Thursday, December 9th
6 to 7pm
City Center Gallery invites you to attend its first monthly artist talk with Fabricated Art artist Don 'DonCee' Coulter. DonCee discusses his past experiences as an artist and what led him to work primarily with fabric. You will learn how the artist creates his intricate works of art as he demonstrates his process through the documentation of his latest piece.
Free and open to all.
Image: Don 'DonCee' Coulter, Jazz Therapy, 2009
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Space Closes Early
|  Friday, December 10th
Open until 2pm
Normal business hours will resume on
Saturday, December 11th.
Image: Stine Diness and Martin Olaf Thaulow, Falling
Water, 2009
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Pleiades Foundation Public Meeting
|  Saturday, December 11th
12:30 to 2:30pm
Learn skills that will lead you to higher degrees of achievement. Guests will discuss resources that can lead to financial and social success, and leave the meeting knowing how to empower and promote growth within themselves. Free and open to all.
The Pleiades Foundation encourages healthy learning and offers a platform for discourse among attendants. The recently-founded grassroots organization offers alternatives to crime in order to cultivate a more productive generation of young adults.
Image courtesy of the Pleiades Foundation
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Art Explorations: Points-of-View
|  Saturday, December 11th
1 to 2:30pm
Resident-artist Ruth Smith teaches young artists the basics of visual perspective through the art currently on display in the State of the MFA exhibition.
Using the artwork in State of the MFA, participants will explore various points-of-view through the viewfinder of a camera and take digital photographs of the art on display to create a photo collage. In addition, they will be using their new knowledge of perspective to draw a composition that articulates a story. Free and open to all.
Art Explorations is a monthly family program designed to engage youth (recommended for ages 4 to 8) and families on a different topic each month. Reservations for this free program are recommended; drop-ins are permitted only as space and materials are available. All materials provided. RSVP to (614) 292-8861 or e-mail uas@osu.edu.
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Upcoming Programs
Thursday, December 16th, 7 to 8pm
Marotta Hour: Adam Smith
This month's Marotta Hour features multi-instrumentalist and composer Adam "Smitty" Smith. Smith will perform a solo set using his modified 8-track and reel-to-reel tapes as well as Moog and ARP analog synthesizers. Free and open to all. Donations accepted.
Friday, December 17th, 3 to 4pm
Artist Talk and Demonstration with Emily Moorhead
Multimedia artist, Emily Moorhead will be maintaining her ephemeral work Deconstructing Polarities 2 in the Time-Sensitive exhibition. Using the installation of new ice as a platform for engagement, the artist will answer questions and welcome conversations about the work. Free and open to all.
Tuesday, December 21st through Saturday, January 1st
Space closed
Happy holidays! Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, January 4th.
Saturday, January 8th, 12:30 to 2:30pm
Pleiades Foundation Public Meeting
Learn skills that will lead you to higher degrees of achievement. Guests will discuss resources that can lead to financial and social success, and leave the meeting knowing how to empower and promote growth within themselves. Free and open to all.
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Got an idea?
The OSU Urban Arts Space wants to help you launch yours into reality
|  Idea Lab is a student run project that facilitates the process of transforming ideas of The Ohio State University students into reality.
By providing up to $2,000 in project support and guidance to see your project through, we are able to fuse innovative education and practical experience to create an opportunity for your ideas to be seen. Project ideas are not restricted to any specific topic.
For more information and to learn how to apply, visit uas.osu.edu/idealab or email uasidealab@gmail.com. Applications are due Friday, January 7th, 2011.
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On View
State of the MFA
Tuesday, October 26th through Thursday, December 16th
|  STATE OF THE MFA showcases a broad range of new and engaging works created by emerging, young artists currently enrolled or recently graduated from a Masters of Fine Arts program around the state of Ohio. The exhibition, juried by James Voorhies and Diana Matuszak, features a variety of media, visual expression and forms of production.
Image: Michael May, Fountain of Youth, 2010
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Time-Sensitive
Tuesday, October 26th through Saturday, January 29th
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ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists presents Time-Sensitive, an exhibition that features artwork exploring the idea of the ephemeral. Ephemeral artworks fade, disappear, or simply "end" due to the materials or time that they inhabit. The artworks in Time-Sensitive explore the impermanent and the transitory, as well as disintegration and decay. Juried by Ola Ståhl.
Image: Ghosh, Ganges #2, 2009
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City Center Presents: Fabricated Art
CLOSES NEXT WEEK
Tuesday, November 16th through Tuesday, December 14th
|  City Center presents Fabricated Art, a collection of fabric-based pieces composed by Don 'DonCee' Coulter.
Using objects such as denim jeans, leather jackets and aluminum pans, DonCee manipulates common materials to create lush landscapes and capture the environment of the Jazz movement. DonCee's environmentally-friendly pieces illustrate creative reuse of materials while also touching on past cultural movements, bringing them to the forefront of the gallery.
Image: Don 'DonCee' Coulter, On the Move (detail), 2007
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City Center at the OSU Urban Arts Space
|  Call for entries from independent emerging artists:
City Center at the OSU Urban Arts Space is an opportunity for local emerging artists to display their art and launch their careers. One proposal per month will be given a grant of up to $500 and use of the corridor space at the entrance of the OSU Urban Arts Space.
By providing an exhibition space and funding, City Center hopes to foster the development of the independent, creative and innovative community in Columbus, Ohio.
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Give Feedback about the
OSU Urban Arts Space!
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If
you've been to the OSU Urban Arts Space lately, we'd love to hear from
you! Here at the Space, we want to encourage new ways of thinking
about the performing and visual arts and their role in everyday life.
Your feedback will help us to improve that experience. Please take a
minute to complete a short survey on our website at http://uas.osu.edu/feedback.
We value your opinion!
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 50 W. Town St. Lazarus Building
Columbus, Ohio 43215
(614) 292-8861
For TTY/TDD: (800) 750-0750
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