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Students, staff, faculty, and their friends and family are invited to drop in for our free, informal welcome back to campus!
Everyone is welcome to participate in what’s happening at the Wex. Join us for music, talks with exhibiting artists, gallery experiences with educators, and a screening of the film Gabbeh—just a taste of what we offer year-round. You can also participate in hands-on art making, including a workshop on creating natural dyes that will deepen your connections to the featured exhibitions and film.
Hang out and relax with some free snacks and beverages. Stop by the Learning & Public Practice department’s welcome table to learn about the day’s offerings, enter a giveaway for books and swag, and hear more about what else the Wex offers throughout the year.
The Wex is the place to encounter the art and issues of our time in a welcoming and inclusive environment. Stop by and see what we are all about.
IMAGE CAPTION Wex Open House, photo: Emma Parker.
Art-Making Studio: Plants and PigmentsThe Oval (closest to the Wex) | 4–6 PMExplore watercolor paints made from plants with an open studio hosted by Ohio State's Living Art and Ecology Lab. The workshop is inspired by exhibiting artist Tanya Lukin Linklater’s work, which uses pigments made from berries. Grab a kit and let your imagination run wild!
Performances from the School of Music’s Jazz EnsembleWex Lower Lobby | 4–4:30 PMGet ready for the 2024–25 Jazz at the Wex series and listen to students from Ohio State's School of Music perform.
Drop-In Gallery ExperiencesGalleries | 4–7 PMLearn more about Jonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void and Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather) from Wex educators. The galleries stay open until 7 PM.
Artist Talk: Tanya Lukin LinklaterGalleries | 4:30–5:15 PMJoin exhibiting artist Tanya Lukin Linklater for a drop-in conversation about her work with faculty collaborator Richard Finlay Fletcher. Moderated by the exhibition’s curator, Kelly Kivland.
Artist Talk: Jonas N.T. BeckerGalleries | 5:30–6:15 PMJoin exhibiting artist Jonas N.T. Becker, Laura Larson, and Sheila Restack for a drop-in conversation about Becker's work.
Poetry ReadingWex Store | 6:30–7 PMStudents from Ohio State’s Creative Writing program share work in response to Jonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void, and Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather).
Film Screening: GabbehFilm/Video Theater | 7 PMFree with ticket (visit the front desk or wexarts.org)
A modern Iranian cinema classic, Gabbeh is a brilliantly colorful, profoundly romantic ode to beauty, nature, love, and art. In Farsi with English subtitles. (75 mins., DCP)
Tanya Lukin Linklater has recently participated in the Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Her work has also been shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; among other institutions. Her first collection of poetry was Slow Scrape (published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism Books in 2020 and by Talonbooks in 2022). A catalogue, Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather—copublished by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Oakville Galleries; and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin—was released in spring 2024. Lukin Linklater’s Alutiiq/Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska where much of her family continues to live. She is a tribally enrolled member of the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in the Kodiak archipelago.
Learn more about the artist.
Jonas N.T. Becker has exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; FotoFocus Biennial at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles; and Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California. Awards include the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Fellowship (2022–23); Lucas Artist Residency Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, California, (2016–19); Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Switzerland (2015); and Six Points Fellowship (2011–13). Becker is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2023–24 Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme External Fellow at Ohio State. They live and work between West Virginia and Chicago.
LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYAmerican Electric Power FoundationCoverMyMedsHuntingtonMartha Holden Jennings Foundation ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYIngram-White Castle FoundationOhio Arts CouncilThe Ohio State University Office of Outreach & EngagementMilton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation SUPPORT FOR LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS RESIDENCIES PROVIDED BYMike and Paige Crane
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Greater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family Institute of Museum and Library Services Mellon FoundationEvery Page FoundationOhio Arts Council , with support from the National Endowment for the Arts CampusParc Nationwide Foundation Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme The Columbus Foundation Axium Packaging
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYOhio State Energy Partners Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection David Crane and Elizabeth Dang Melissa Gilliam and William GrobmanRebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle
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