State Auto's Historic Christmas Display and Life-Sized Nativity

Now through January 1

State Auto

The State Auto Christmas display and life-sized nativity is recognized worldwide for its beauty and attention to artistic and historic detail. The display will be lighted nightly at 5:30 p.m. If you wish to share your thoughts about what the tradition means to you and your family, email Christmas@StateAuto.com.

Exhibit: Landscape Re-Imagined

Now through January 3

Angela Meleca Gallery, 144 E. State St.

http://www.angelamelecagallery.com  

Merry & Bright

Now through January 4

Franklin Park Conservatory

Merry & Bright celebrates the holiday season with elegant poinsettias and seasonal foliage, time-honored traditions like the poinsettia tree and Paul Busse model garden railway, and an array of special entertainment and family activities. http://www.fpconservatory.org 

25 Bright Nights

January 1 - 4

Franklin Park Conservatory

Visit in the evening to enjoy live entertainment, hot beverages around the bonfire, and festive lighting displays throughout the Conservatory's warm and inviting plant collections. Open until 10 p.m. on selected evenings. http://www.fpconservatory.org 

Exhibit: threeASFOUR TOPOGRAPHIC

Now through January 8

CCAD Canzani Center Gallery

The avant-garde fashion label threeASFOUR (made up of designers Adi Gil, Angela Donhauser and Gabriel Asfour) has worked with Bjork, Yoko Ono, Kate Spade and the Gap. TOPOGRAPHIC will feature their new collection, which reveals the varied visual aspects of nature and its inherent geometries through a topographic approach rendered in shades of white. The exhibition will also include threeASFOUR's recent experimentation in new technologies that provide an immersive virtual fashion show experience. This program is free and open to the public. http://www.ccad.edu 

Exhibit: Everything That's Empty

Now through January 8

CCAD Canzani Center Gallery

Influenced by fashion, textile design and astronomy, the sculptor and installation artist Heather McGill deploys intensive patterning and strong, space-activating color across all her work. As a resident of suburban Detroit, she has absorbed the city's spirit of Fordist innovation and technological promise and channels that influence as she applies the media of industry to the mantras of modernity. http://www.ccad.edu 

Exhibit: Almond Zigmund

Now through January 8

CCAD Canzani Center Gallery

Almond Zigmund's work sharpens out perceptions of space while exploring the nature of opposition. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color and intricate patterns, her drawings, sculptures and installations engage the eye and the body at once, offering generous amounts of visual stimulation while also inducing visceral reactions to the virtual and actual spaces she creates. http://www.ccad.edu   

Ninth Annual Ohio Online Visual Artists Registry

Now through January 10

Awards Reception: January 10, 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Columbus Main Library, Carnegie Gallery

OOVAR is an online database that showcases the work of more than 1,200 artists from around the world. The show features original works by Ohio artists and is a joint project of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Artist Program, the Arts & Media Division of Columbus Metropolitan Library and the Friends of the Library. A $1,000 prize will be awarded to the winner of Juror's Choice and a $500 prize will be awarded to the People's Choice winner, who will be selected by visitors to the exhibit and library customers through Saturday, January 3. 

Exhibit: Finding My Way Mixed Media Paintings by Richard Duarte Brown

Now through January 30

Artist's Talk: January 30, 4 - 5 p.m.

Fresh A.I.R. Gallery

Brown's show features vibrant colors and various textures derived on mixed media surfaces, highlighting his desire to connect with the family of mankind. Brown recalls, "Living with mental illness and substance abuse was a normal way of life"; and he paints from a place that probes an intense desire to relate, communicating a cry for life. http://www.southeastinc.com 

DRIVEbys: An exhibition of unconventional architecture for the most conventional thing

Huntington Center, Ground Floor Lobby

Now through the first week of February 2015

Five Columbus architects developed designs for Bold Booths, an original and innovative proposal for installation of attendant booths at downtown surface parking lots, as part of Finding Time: ColumbusPublicArt2012. Drawings, models and descriptions of the six designs are on view at the exhibition. DRIVEbys documents projects by Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design, BAWorkshop, Blostein/Overly Architects, Neal Clements, and DesignGroup. The exhibition is curated and designed by Beth Blostein, Associate Professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, and Bart Overly, Blostein/Overly Architects. The exhibition is open to the public. An Engagement/Impact Grant from The Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement is providing primary support for this initiative and the exhibition. Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District is the community partner for the program. http://www.boldbooths.org

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