Monthly Anime Adventure, Winter Quarter Exhibition Reception, Domestic Matters: A Performing Installation

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Monthly Anime Adventure:
Japanese Culture and Anime

This month's Anime Adventure will look at Japanese traditional and modern culture and its visible influence in anime. The discussion will cover Japanese daily rituals, manners, political and civil history, mythology, religious dogmas and superstitions.

Monthly Anime Adventure is a series of talks, discussions and multimedia events all centered on Japanese animation. The meetings will be as entertaining as they are informative! This program is produced by the staff of Anime Punch, an annual anime convention hosted in Columbus dedicated to a "college level" exploration of Japanese animation.

Thursday, March 3rd
6 to 8pm

Celebrate and experience the Winter Quarter exhibitions with the artists and curators. Reception guests will also witness the first of Domestic Matters' installation performance series.

This reception is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be provided.

Thursday, March 3rd
6 to 8pm

Immerse yourself in an installation of dance and visual constructions exploring Domestic Matters. This interactive exhibition comes further to life as dancers fill the space for the evening, performing new and recreated pieces of choreography by Mair Culbreth, Dante Brown and Amanda Byars Wickens. Dancing bodies will inhabit Nicole Bauguss's visual structures and prompt a dialogue about ritual, intimacy and memory within the landscape.

Upcoming Programs

Saturday, March 12th, 1 to 2:30pm

Art Explorations: Faith Ringgold Painted Quilts
Bring your children to the Space for a day of quilting and imagining. 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; RSVP to (614) 292-8861 or e-mail uas@osu.edu.

Saturday, March 12th, 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.

Saturday, March 12th, 4 to 6pm

Thursday, March 17th, 6 to 7pm

Domestic Matters: A Performing Installation

Immerse yourself in an installation of dance and visual constructions exploring Domestic Matters. Dancing bodies will inhabit the exhibition structure and prompt a dialogue about ritual, intimacy and memory within the landscape. Check out our events calendar for additional performance dates. Free and open to all.

Thursday, March 17th, 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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On View

City Center Gallery Presents Third Eye

Friday, January 7th through Friday, March 25th

City Center Gallery 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

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 United States: 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

While smells fade, visions fall, and sounds trail off and become silent, how can we prolong our sensations and feelings to make them immortal? This year, the Arts Scholars juried exhibition explores Perpetuating the Senses. The 2011 Arts Scholars Juried Exhibition features work from high-achieving Ohio State University students from all years of study who share a joint interest in the arts, including music, visual arts, design, dance and theatre.

Image: MaKenzie Frank, City of Actualization, 2010

Domestic Matters explores the intimate geographies and everyday life practices in the Agrarian South. Combining mixed media, moving bodies and constructions of recycled materials and familiar spaces, the company entertains questions of art as a necessity and the embodiment of socio-cultural norms, socio-economics and constructions of identity.

Using materials (tar, reclaimed wood, corrugated metal, house paint, photographs), dancing bodies, stories and recipes of the South, Domestic Matters works with memory, displacement, concepts of home, and the complexities of gender, race, and sexuality.

Image courtesy of Mair Culbreth and Nicole Bauguss.

The Art in the House exhibition displays an eclectic array of artwork produced by children participating in the Greater Columbus Arts Council's Art in the House program. Using the Frank Museum of Otterbein College's Ceremonial Objects & West African Artifacts exhibition as a point of inspiration, the young artists worked with the support of four master teaching artists to create works of art that are directly influenced by cultural objects from around the world.

Reception: Saturday, May 7th, 6 to 8pm

This annual exhibition is an opportunity to sample an array of current directions in contemporary art, fresh from the studios of practicing professional artists who are completing MFA degrees in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

Participating artists work in painting and drawing, performance, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking, video, sound, new media, and varied combination of these media.

Call for entries from independent emerging artists:

City Center Gallery 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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City Center Gallery is generously sponsored by the Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund.

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