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In A Hotter House: Art Exhibition in the Biological Sciences Greenhouse

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flyer for the art show "in a hotter house". This show opens April 22nd, 2024 from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the biological sciences greenhouse at Ohio State university

April 22nd, 2024 from 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Biological Sciences Greenhouse, 332 W. 12th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210. Directions.

In an age of rapidly changing climate, the greenhouse is not the only hothouse of our own making. The artists of this exhibition are united by the question, what solutions to our warming climate may we learn from paying attention to plants?

Not sure how to get to the greenhouse? The Lichen Likers will be leading a group from Hopkins Hall to the Greenhouse as part of a participatory pre-show performance titled Fungal Entanglement: A Lichen Journey. Arrive on the steps of Hopkins Hall at 7pm for a meandering walk that will lead you to the show.

Spring 2024 Art Exhibition: In A Hotter House

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In A Hotter House

An Earth Day art exhibition in a greenhouse on top of a parking garage.

The Biological Sciences Greenhouse mimics the warming effects of the Earth’s atmosphere to nurture a cornucopia of plant diversity and botanical research. On April 22nd from 8:00-10:00pm, it will also serve as a cultural hotbed to present an exhibition of phytophilic (plant-loving) art. This venue is uniquely situated atop a central parking garage on Ohio State University’s campus, carbon dioxide from the exhaust of humans and cars below drifting upwards to the plants who transform it into oxygen.

The Department of Art’s Living Art & Ecology Lab, partnered with resident artist Doosung Yoo, the Lichen Likers research group, eleven invited local artists, and this semester’s Art & Science course (co-taught by faculty members Amy Youngs and Iris Meier) cordially invite you to experience their artistic creations at this plant-human meeting ground. In an age of rapidly changing climate, the greenhouse is not the only hothouse of our own making. The artists of this exhibition* are united by the question, what solutions to our warming climate may we learn from paying attention to plants?

Address: Biological Sciences Greenhouse, 332 W. 12th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210. Directions.

Time for Change Week 2024: DIY Bandanas with Plant Dyes

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DIY Bandanas with Plant Dyes Hosted by The Living Art and Ecology Lab April 2nd, 2024 2:00pm-4:00pm April 3rd, 2024 2:00pm-4:00pm Hopkins Hall Room 480 To register, please visit https://tinyurl.com/33ex53ct Time for Change Event

Learn more about the world of plant-based color through this hands-on workshop! Join us in Hopkins Hall Room 480 on Tuesday, April 2nd or Wednesday, April 3rd from 2:00-4:00pm. Come dye your own bandanas using plant-based dyes such as indigo and madder root, creating unique patterns via resist dyeing techniques. Throughout the crafting process we will also discuss the rich history of natural dyes and how humans have been working with plant colors for millennia. Open to OSU students only. Registration required. To sign up, click here.

This event is part of Time for Change Week 2024, an OSU Signature Event Series. For more information on the rest of this week’s events, please visit the official T4C website.

Note: Participants are encouraged to wear clothes and shoes that they are ok with getting dirty as dyes can stain clothes.

Kate Klingbeil: Mycelium Sculpture Workshop and Artist Talk

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MYCELIUM SCULPTURE WORKSHOP & ARTIST TALK with KATE KLINGBEIL Build your own mycelium-based sculpture using found/recycled materials and local waste. Kate Klingbeil (b. 1990) is a visual artist predominately work- ing with painting, sculpture, video, and most recently, fungi. Through highlighting the connections between our psyches and Earth’s subterranean landscapes, Kate’s work builds on the foundation of the root systems and fungal networks that hold us together. She has recieved residency awards from Silver Art Projects, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Marble House Projects, The Arts/Industries program at John Michael Kohler Art Center, Yaddo, and ACRE. She has presented solo exhibitions with Steve Turner, Los An- geles. Hesse Flatow and at SPRING/BREAK, New York with Field Projects. Kate received a BFA in Printmaking from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA in 2012. She currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, and is represented by Steve Turner in Los Angeles, CA. Presented by the Graduate Student Art Club, The Living Art Eco Lab & The Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center) Friday, April 5th, 2024 4-7 pm Hopkins Hall Room 266 Print Shop Limited Capacity Please RSVP & direct questions to woods.986

Join Visiting Artist Kate Klingbeil in the Hopkins Hall Print Shop (Room 266) on April 5th, 2024 4:00-7:00pm to make your own sculpture using fungal mycelium and up-cycled materials! Please see the above flyer for more details, and RSVP to woods.986@osu.edu to attend (seats are limited). More information on the artist’s work can be found here or on her Instagram @k8klingbeil.

This event is made possible through the Graduate Student Art Club, the Living Art and Ecology Lab, and generous funding from The Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education, and Engagement (FREE Center).

Spring Phenology Walk Series

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Have you ever found yourself waiting impatiently for spring, only to look up and realize that it’s suddenly summer? If so, this walk series may be for you! Starting Thursday, February 29th, join the Living Art and Ecology Lab for afternoon walks along the Olentangy River Trail to notice and appreciate signs of spring. Sights of interest may include a range of seasonal wildflowers, migrating bird species, and various other fungi, flora and fauna. Walking groups will meet on the steps outside of Hopkins Hall at 11:45am and take the bus together to the St. John’s Arena stop, which is located adjacent to the Olentangy River Trail. From there we will have a free-form exploration of the trail with the goal of returning to the bus stop by 1:00pm. The main path of the Olentangy trail is flat and well-paved with unpaved side trails that we may explore depending on group interests and abilities. A limited number of binoculars will be available for participant use. To join us on one of these walks, please submit your interests to the sign-up links below:
Sign up forms for additional dates will be posted as the semester progresses. Any questions about this event series can be directed to the Living Art and Ecology Lab Coordinator Emma Kline at kline.434@osu.edu.

Past Event: Natural Pigments Demonstration at the Undergraduate Art Open House

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Thank you to all who stopped by during LAEL’s natural pigment demo on December 6th! This event took place in the lobby of Hopkins Hall during the undergraduate art open house and featured an array of plant-based inks for visitors to explore.

Inks were made from grocery store items (such as red cabbage, turmeric, butterfly pea, and cinnamon) as well as foraged materials (including pokeweed, European buckthorn, oak gall, and red oak acorn).

A display of various pigments, as well as tools for making them into paints and inks
Visitors exploring painting with natural pigments at the event activity table
Visitor artwork from the event (yellow and red: turmeric, green and tan: buckthorn, pink: pokeweed, blue: red cabbage)

 

All of the foraged plants featured at this event are locally abundant in our region. They were collected in small quantities following the guiding principles of the Honorable Harvest, an Indigenous framework for considering ethics and reciprocity when taking from the natural world. Interested in learning more about what this means? Check out this article on the Honorable Harvest by Potawatomi botanist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmer, or stop by and chat with us at our next event! Foraging ethics will remain a central topic for discussion in the lab’s future foraged pigment activities.

We look forward to continuing to explore natural pigments in their many forms with the campus community.

 

Workshop Series: Lichen Creation & Ideation

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The Lichen Likers* of the Living Art & Ecology Lab will host the second workshop in our series. We are artists learning with lichens, observing and experiencing their symbiotic lifestyle, conceptualizing, and practicing respectful, creative activities with lichens. In this workshop, we invite you to join us in five different hands on activities involving observing, drawing, ideating, mediating, and creating with lichen – in ways that do not harm them.

* The Lichen Likers art research group includes art faculty Doosung Yoo and Amy Youngs and art students Anna Arbogast, Madison Blue, Xiuer Gu, Elias Marquez, and Nate Tyler.

Follow Lichen Likers on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lichenlikers

 

Materials Matter – tour of exhibition at Wexner Center for the Arts

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All are welcome to join a special tour and discussion on Thursday November 16th, 2 – 4pm. Meet at the entrance of the bookstore of the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Explore the concepts of material sourcing, use, and ethics in artistic practice during a tour and discussion of the Fall 2023 exhibitions.

Where do artists get their materials from and why does it matter? What are the ethical considerations behind their use and display? Featured artists include Harold Mendez, Jumana Manna, and Sahar Khoury. This dialogue is a collaboration of the Learning & Public Practice at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the OSU Living Art and Ecology lab.

Harold Mendez exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts

Workshop Series: Learning Lichen!

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The ‘Learning Lichen’ workshop is the first one in a series of art workshops with Living Art & Ecology Lab, where our art communities are learning with lichens, observing and experiencing their symbiotic lifestyle, conceptualizing, and practicing respectful, creative activities with lichens. This first workshop includes a talk by Emeritus Professor Robert Klips, author of ‘Common Mosses, Liverworts, and Lichens of Ohio’, who will speak about lichens and share his research experience in the study of lichens and bryophyte ecology, and long-term teaching in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at OSU.


The first workshop is a great opportunity to learn more about the science of lichens, such as identification, anatomy, morphology, and interactions with environment. Also, it would be a good opportunity to learn more about lichens’ symbiotic lifestyle with other organisms, including being ‘non-binary’, ‘multiple’, ‘resilient’, and ‘beyond human time’. Learning scientific backgrounds and facts will help us move to the next themes of workshop series, in which we will discuss and envision how we might better approach non-human beings, including and embracing ‘others’ as we learn from lichens.

At the beginning of the workshop, the members of ‘Lichen Research & Art Project’, Doosung Yoo and Amy Youngs will briefly introduce our collaborative work, along with undergraduate interns Anna Arbogast, Madison Blue, Xiuer Gu, Elias Marquez, and Nate Tyler. We hope to engage more artists in our projects and future workshops. Please join us!

Our Lichen Likers Instagram is linked in the poster QR code