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Marotta Hour: Adam Smith
|  Thursday, December 16th
7 to 8pm
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.
Marotta Hour is an electro-acoustic music series featuring unexpected sounds from free jazz to electronic to free-form improvisation. Come hear some of the most cutting-edge musicians and composers from Columbus and beyond.
Free and open to all. Donations accepted.
This series is part of our after-work programming offered Thursday evenings. Before or after the show, stop by Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails and ask for the Urban Artists' Special. It's very special indeed and its only $3.
Image: Adam Smith
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Artist Talk and Demonstration with
Emily Moorhead
|  Friday, December 17th
3 to 4pm
The OSU Urban Arts Space invites you to attend a special event. 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.
Image courtesy of Emily Moorhead
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Upcoming Programs
Tuesday, December 21st through Saturday, January 1st
Space closed
Happy holidays! Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, January 4th.
Friday, January 7th
Applications for IdeaLab 2011 are due by close of business For more information and to learn how to apply, visit uas.osu.edu/idealab.
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.
Friday, January 14th, 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.
Thursday, January 20th, 7 to 8pm
Urban Monthly Mix Exchange
Love sharing and making CD mixes? Join our mix tape community! Urban Monthly Mix Exchange is a program for the community to mingle, become exposed to new musical artists, and exchange mix CDs with fellow music enthusiasts. 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
CLOSES THIS WEEK
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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City Center presents Fabricated Art
CLOSES THIS 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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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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Upcoming Exhibitions
City Center Presents Third Eye
Friday, January 7th through Friday, February 11th
|  City Center presents Third Eye, a collection of artwork from ten Columbus-based artists who question, revolt against and embrace photography's impact on perception within contemporary culture. Through exploring the constructs and limitations of photography, the artists reveal its capacity to illustrate the relationship between artist, subject and viewer.
Image: Miles Tsang, 2008-2010 (detail), polaroid integral film
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Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Tuesday, January 18th through Saturday, March 26th
Reception: Friday, January 28th, 5 to 7pm
|  Created by documentary artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America showcases images, stories and sounds of recent immigrants and refugees living in the most diverse locality in the U.S.-Queens, New York.
Since the project began in 1999, Crossing the BLVD has grown into a multifaceted documentation, consisting of an award-winning book, CD, website, performances, public radio documentaries, and the traveling exhibition.
Image: Warren Lehrer, from Crossing the BLVD exhibition of Arthur Gulkarov, 2003
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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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(614) 292-8861
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