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Art Reception for ‘Microcosm’ by Andi Wolfe

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Join us to celebrate the installation of Microcosm by Andi Wolfe in the Living Art and Ecology Lab (Hopkins 340) on January 30th, 2025 at 5:30pm. This artwork features ~168 glass protozoans (single-celled, eukaryotic microorganisms), which were initially created by Wolfe during an invited art & science residency with University of Wyoming’s Microbial Ecology Project. We will meet in the lab at 5:30pm to appreciate the sculpture indoors, then migrate outside to look at the artwork through the lab’s large windows using binoculars. This practice serves to emulate the experience of observing real protozoans through a microscope. Binoculars to share will be provided. Microcosm will remain on display in LAEL for one year.

About the Artist: Andi Wolfe spent her career as a botanist at The Ohio State University. During this time, she examined the natural world of plants from the macroscopic landscape to the molecular. Simultaneously, she explored art whenever she had time via sculptural woodturning, photography, painting, and glass. She is currently a Professor Emerita, allowing more time to focus on her artistic endeavors. Her work is in many private and public collections and has been featured in exhibits throughout the USA, including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, and Gallery of Wood Art in Minnesota. Examples of her wood art can be seen at www.AndiWolfe.com. Other explorations can be viewed on Instagram @andiwolfe.

Visiting Artist: Ruth Burke

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Join us to welcome Ruth Burke to campus for a visiting artist talk on Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 from 4-5pm in Hopkins Hall 358.

Ruth Burke is an interdisciplinary artist whose socially-engaged practice straddles the fields of contemporary art, human-animal studies, and agriculture. From and of the Midwest, she lives and works in Central Illinois on lands that were once home to the Illini, Peoria and the Myaamia people, as well as many other Nations later displaced to the region by colonial encroachment and genocide. Burke’s work has focused on collaborating with animals since 2015, and her current focus is a series of large-scale native plant earthworks powered by animal traction.

Burke has published articles and creative work in various peer reviewed journals, presented her work at venues and institutions nationally and internationally, created earthworks in three US states, and received numerous grants from various entities. She was recently honored with the Harold Boyd Endowed Professorship (2024-2026) from the ISU Wonsook Kim School of Art, the ISU College Teaching Initiative Award (2024), and a 2024 Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) Partnership Award (2024), amongst other awards and residences.

Ruth Burke holds a BFA from the Ohio State University, an MFA  from the University of Michigan, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Video Art in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, School of Art. She also runs DAP STUDIOS LLC, an art-and-agriculture business for hire on public artworks and small scale agricultural or garden projects.

 

 

Teatime with Soil Kin: Artist Talk with Amy Youngs

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Stop by the Hopkins Hall Lobby on Thursday, November 14th from 2:30-3:30pm for teatime with OSU professor Amy Youngs and her magnificent worm bin. During this event, we will both learn about and participate in the circle of soil life by hearing Amy talk about her artistic practice with soil creatures, and offering our teabags to the worm bin as food. Teas and cups will be provided. This event will be occurring concurrently with the Ohio Soil Health Week Exhibition, Those Who Feed Us, located in the Hopkins Lobby as well.

Microbial Fuel Cell Workshop with Ken Rinaldo on November 15th

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Academy Emeritus Professor Ken Rinaldo will lead a workshop on making a microbial a fuel cell in the Living Art and Ecology Lab in the Department of Art; November 15 2PM-4PM, room #340 Hopkins Hall, for soil week. In this workshop Rinaldo will present artists, and architects that have employed microbial fuel cells (MFCs) into their creative work. He will review theories of how Microbial Fuel Cells function, offering hope for a future powered by microbes. Together the attendees will create their own MFC fuel cells using living soil. In this two-hour workshop they measure voltages of their MFCs, using multimeters while exploring the promise for green energy technologies. All attendees must bring two sealable plastic containers for their MFC & other materials will be provided. No experience is necessary. Seats will be limited to the first 14 attendees.

About the artist:

Ken Rinaldo is internationally recognized for interactive bio robotic art installations and moving image works. Rinaldo’s work develops hybrid ecologies with humans, machines, plants, and animals, by constructing idealized social, biological, and machine symbionts. His work appears in 100s of books and art reviews, traveling to over 35 countries, and in private and museum collections. https://www.kenrinaldo.com/

 

 

 

Art Exhibition to Celebrate Ohio Soil Health Week

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Those Who Feed Us An Art Exhibition in Celebration of Ohio Soil Health Week Presented by the Living Art and Ecology Lab Invited Artists: Marcia Armstrong, Ken Rinaldo, Mandy Darrington, Amy Youngs, David King, Alena Sun, Brian Trelegan Juried Artists: Adelaine Muth, Eve Warnock and Pelham Johnston (OBLSK Interactive), Dr. Kim Landsbergen, Dr. Janette Knowles, Raman Ebrahimi, Thomas Ellsworth, Dr. Daniel Gingerich, Dr. Parinaz Naghizadeh, Kyoung Swearingen, Scott Swearingen, Dr. Robyn Wilson November 13th-18th Reception: Nov. 13 4:30-7:00 pm Hopkins Hall Lobby and Project Space (First Floor) Related events: 11/ 14 – Tea Time with Soil Kin: Artist Talk with Amy Youngs (2:30-3:30pm, Hopkins Lobby) 11/15 – Microbial Fuel Cell Workshop with Ken Rinaldo (2:00-4:00pm, Hopkins 340, Seats Limited)

Join us in celebration of the first Ohio Soil Health Week at this short exhibition of soil-centered artwork! The reception for this show will be held on November 13th, 4:30-7:00pm in the Hopkins Hall Lobby and adjoining Project Space (128 N Oval Mall Columbus OH 43210, first floor). More information on Ohio Soil Health Week and other events occurring for this celebration can be found at the official OSHW Website.

 

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).