Domestic Matters Performance and Family Day, Urban Mothly Mix Exchange, Gaming Anime Punch Style Coliseum

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Domestic Matters: A Performing Installation

Saturday, March 26th - 4 to 6pm

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 in collaboration with the dancers. A new work by Amanda Byars Wickens will premiere in addition to a new video by Dante Brown. Dancing bodies will inhabit Nicole Bauguss's visual structures and prompt a dialogue about ritual, intimacy and memory within the landscape.

Image courtesy of Nicole Bauguss

Saturday, March 26th

2 to 4pm

Domestic Matters artists invite families and youth of all ages to enjoy a day of cooking, climbing and activity within the artwork. Dancer Mair Culbreth will give special lessons for kids to learn how they can climb through, dance within and interact with the installation pieces. Installation artist and cook extraordinaire Nicole Bauguss will lead a cooking lesson in which guests can learn how to make pasta from scratch.

Image courtesy of Liz Celeste

Thursday, March 24th
7 to 8pm

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. Delicious dessert items will be provided by Katzinger's Delicatessen.

Please bring a copy of your mix, accompanied by a complete CD information sheet. Guests will also submit and vote for next month's mix theme. The person with the winning theme will receive a gift certificate to a local business or restaurant! For more information about this month's exchange or to RSVP, please contact Joanna Emily Reed at uas@osu.edu.

Image courtesy of Joanna Emily Reed

Saturday, March 26th
2 to 6pm

Join in on a Super Smash Brothers Brawl, where players can duke it out with their favorite Nintendo characters. Take up arms with up to 35 different characters, such as Mario, Link, Kirby or Bowser. All levels of skill are welcome.

The Gaming Anime Punch Style (GAPS) Coliseum is a fun, interactive event where gamers can put their skills to the test in a head-to-head, tournament-style video game competition. This event is hosted and produced by the staff of Anime Punch, an anime convention that is considered to have the best gaming room in Columbus! Controllers will be provided but bringing your own is recommended. Free and open to all.

Image courtesy of Anime Punch

Upcoming Programs

Thursday, March 31st, 7 to 9pm

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 one last time and prompt a dialogue about ritual, intimacy and memory within the landscape. Free and open to all.

Thursday, March 31st, 7 to 9pm

All Scholars Showcase

The Ohio State University Honors & Scholars program invites you to the first annual All Scholars Showcase. Representing fourteen unique and thematic campus communities, this event will showcase the creativity, knowledge and ingenuity found within the Ohio State Scholars Programs. Free and open to all.

Thursday, April 14th, 6 to 8pm
Paging Columbus! (a poetry reading)
Join us for the first event of this literary series in which Columbus-based (and OSU alumni) poets Maggie Smith, Jason Gray, Jen Town and Hannah Stephenson will read recent work. Stick around after for refreshments and conversation. Free and open to all.

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On View

City Center Gallery Presents Third Eye
CLOSES THIS WEEK
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

CLOSES THIS WEEK

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.

Image courtesy of the Greater Columbus Arts Council

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.

Image: Paula Gaetano Adi, Desiring-Machine I (y/o la reencarnación femenina de Sísifo) installation, 2010

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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