“Ohio State’s Carlos Gabriel Kelly (Department of English) reads from his debut poetry collection, Wounds Fragments Derelict—an evocative exploration of love and loss, the exhilarating highs and lows of relationships, and the passage of time. His romantic, bold, and erotic verse speaks to the heart and takes full advantage of the page to create memorable, nontraditional forms.

Photo credit: Geren Heurtin

Jacklyn Brickman is a second year MFA student in the Art Department. Her work explores the realms of the environment, climate change, domestic labor, science fiction and speculative futures by engaging elements of installation, performance, and video with special interest in collaboration and interaction. Born in Michigan, Jacklyn graduated with a BFA (with honors) from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI (2005). She spent a semester abroad at Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, MX followed by a month of traveling via bus and hammock through southern Mexico (2003). She has been awarded Fellowships by the Jentel Foundation (2007), Popp’s Packing (via the National Endowment for the Arts and the Erb Family Foundation) (2016), Connecting Heritage Fellowship and Residency through the Maryland Milestones/ Anacostia Trails Heritage Area and the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (2016), TechHub OSU Student Project Grant (2017), and National Academy of Sciences Sackler Student Symposium Fellow (2018). Brickman has Co-curated exhibitions at Butter Projects in Royal Oak, MI (2010-2013). Other endeavors that inform Brickman’s process include being a Realtor (2007), Volunteer Frog and Toad Surveyor (2010), Certified Babywearing Educator (2013-16), and Mother of 3 incredible humans (2008+). She has exhibited domestically, in Canada and Slovenia.

Current work:
The Doorway Effect is the experiential phenomenon of walking through doors and forgetting what one was doing. Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting was a site-specific installation that was part of a larger group exhibition of the same title in August of 2018. Located in a former school, built for children with Tuberculosis in the early 1900’s. The installation spanned the ceilings of two classrooms connected by a doorway, employing remnants from a retired hot air balloon that hung from the ceilings. The installation invited viewers to move through the space. Open windows allowed the wind to gently move the balloon throughout the room.

Caroline Hong performs Beethoven’s Ninth with Ryan Behan – Wednesday, April 17, 5:00 pm, Weigel Auditorium

“Each year, the Arts and Humanities celebrate faculty who have recently been promoted to the rank of professor by asking each to make a public presentation on his or her body of research or creative activity and current projects. As part of the Arts & Humanities Inaugural Lectures, Caroline Hong, professor of piano, performs Franz Liszt’s two-piano transcription of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in collaboration with pianist Ryan Behan.”

https://music.osu.edu/events/faculty-lecture-recital-caroline-hong-piano

When: Fri 4/19 AND Sat 4/20 @ 7:30 pm

Ticket Information:

Enter the CGS lottery here for a chance to win up to 2 free tickets. 

Friday: https://ouab.osu.edu/secure/events/?eventId=100

Saturday: https://ouab.osu.edu/secure/events/?eventId=101

CGS Arts and Culture is excited to host a Paint Night in the Ohio Union Creative Arts Room, Friday, April 19, 2:00-3:30 PM. Come de-stress and do some painting before finals! All materials will be provided, along with light refreshments. Space is limited, so please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zrkpht6W7T5J8p0KK9-CyKc2kiaxfTUopHnOrsMFX6wsew/viewform?usp=sf_link. Contact Arts and Culture Chair, Kathryn Holt, at holt.351 with any questions.

Ann Carlson – The Symphonic Body/Food

“The Symphonic Body/Food is an orchestral dance work built entirely from gestures. Instead of using instruments, individuals from many corners of the food system in Columbus create evocative portraits onstage constructed from the movements they do every day—from sitting in a meeting to teaching a cooking class to pulling a carrot out of the ground. Part social sculpture and part jazz improvisation, The Symphonic Body/Food offers a one-of-a-kind window into the breadth of labor, passion, and struggle that makes up the complex web of how we nourish each other and ourselves.

The Symphonic Body/Food marks Carlson’s return to the Wexner Center. One of our first Artist Residency Award recipients, the celebrated choreographer and performance artist premiered her work WHITE here in 1992. She is completing this latest project working in residence at the Wex and with several community partners, including departments across Ohio State. Featuring members of Local Matters, Mid-Ohio Food Bank, NNEMAP Food Pantry, and the Wexner Center itself, each performance is followed by a complimentary, light vegan meal prepared by Columbus’s Willowbeez Soulveg.”

Friday, April 12-Sunday, April 14, Wexner Center for the Arts.

https://wexarts.org/performing-arts/ann-carlson

Calista Lyon is an Australian researcher and visual artist living and working in Columbus, Ohio. Through the mediums of photography, video, ceramics and performance she engages the archive—investigating natureculture narratives and their ecological, scientific and political entanglements. Lyon is interested in revealing the connections between bodies, histories, knowledge and knowing— reimagining forms of storytelling that might serve non-human and human worlds in our contemporary moment of ecological crises.

Lyon recently shared, The Unknown and the Unnamed, a hybrid performance drawing from a range of forms including the educational lecture, the artist talk, the memoir and family slideshow evenings. The performance was presented as part of her MFA Thesis Exhibition at Urban Arts Space.

In 2017, Lyon presented a solo exhibition at the Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia. Selected  group shows include: Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University, Columbus (2019); DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati (2018); Cultural Arts Center, Columbus (2018); Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus (2018); Beeghly Library, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware (2018); Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles (2017) and The Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles (2015) among others. Lyon is a 2019 Frontier Fellow at Epicenter and will present a solo exhibition at ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, Ohio in late 2019.

You can see more of Calista’s work here: http://www.calistalyon.com/

There’s magic to do when a prince learns the true meaning of glory, love and war in a new incarnation of this 1972 coming-of-age classic. “Pippin” takes us back to the time of Charlemagne as one young man struggles to be extraordinary. Featuring a thrilling score by Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked” and “Godspell”). Director Edward Carignan creates a fantastical and sexy re-imagining of the recent 2013 Broadway revival, which the New York Post called “A thrilling piece of eye-popping razzle dazzle.”

Short North Stage – This week: Thurs, Fri, Sat at 8 pm, and Sunday at 3.

https://www.shortnorthstage.org/calendar/v/678