CHIAROSCURO 2022
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CHIAROSCURO 2022
CHIAROSCURO 2022
In this issue
FROM THE CHAIR'S DESK
This year represents a milestone for me as chair of the same department where I began my educational journey, deepening my knowledge of critical theory and…
FOCUS ON ALUMNI: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
Terron Banner engages the local community through outreach at the Urban Arts Space BY TERRON BANNER (PhD, 2019) As the Manager of Community Learning…
Ohio State Welcomes the Center for Artistic Activism
By Robin gordon, barnett fellow One month before Ohio’s midterm elections, Ohio State welcomed the New York-based and internationally networked Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA) to its…
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: CENTERING INDIGENOUS PEDAGOGIES
Richard Finlay Fletcher creates Temporary Sites of Unlearning by richard finlay fletcher, associate professor Back in February 2020, in those…
Anna Freeman reflects on the Toronto Biennial
by anna freeman, phd candidate Jeffrey Gibson, ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL, 2015. Listening to a TBA Storyteller at the Small Arms Inspection Building. In the summer of 2022, I attended…
STUDY ABROAD: Listening and Learning at the Toronto Biennial of Art
by tamryn mcdermott, phd candidate I am grateful for the opportunity to be a co-conspirator in the Listening and Learning at the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) course in the summer of 2022. This…
ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH THE DANCING WITH DEVILS EXHIBITION
Since spring 2021, Tamryn McDermott has been a student curator for the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection. In the fall of 2022, curators…
Celebrating the legacy of Christine Ballengee- Morris with Momus Emerging Critics Residency Scholarships
In August 2021, the artist and scholar Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoan: Āpia, Salelologa, Si‘umu, Leulumoega), with whom I had worked on the reading room of Indigenous art books installed at…
AAEP CONGRATULATES CHRISTINE BALLENGEE-MORRIS ON HER RETIREMENT
Christine Ballengee-Morris retired Sept. 1, 2022, as full professor. Ballengee-Morris’ service to the department spanned 27 years, during which she served in…
Ballengee-Morris leads Monuments Project to support Indigenous artists’ residencies
BY CHRISTINE BALLENGEE-MORRIS, Professor Emeritus Near central Ohio is the largest complex of geometric mounds and earthworks in the world; earthworks that were creatively imagined,…
FOCUS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Barnett Fellows reflect on site visits with local arts organizations
DE’AVIN MITCHELL: This year, the Barnett Field School has opened up the opportunity for me to connect with arts leaders in Columbus who are engaging with and developing community-based arts…
FOCUS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Barnett Endowed Professor of Arts Management Rachel Skaggs engages students in entrepreneurship
BY Rachel Skaggs, Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Assistant Professor of Arts Management The job of a professor is made up of three interwoven…
MCKENZIE C. GELO CREATES MANIFESTAVIBE
By McKenzie C. Gelo (BA, 2023) In August of 2021, I enrolled in Arts Entrepreneurship 3690, a class taught by Dr. Rachel Skaggs. I have always had a strong interest in this field of the arts, as I…
FOCUS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Rachel Skaggs engages students with Ohio State alumnus Coyote Peterson to examine the case study of Brave Wilderness
Students in the Social World of the Arts class have been working all semester to understand the fields ofcreation, production and reception in a broad range of art worlds. After completing the…
Morgan McDonald uses art to build collaborative classroom communities
BY MORGAN MCDONALD, University Fellow Can I do it all? Should I? These are questions I asked myself during student teaching as an undergrad student here at Ohio State. As many of us know, it’s easy…
EMERGING ART TEACHER LEADERS: BAE students serve and lead at the Ohio Art Education Association’s regional conference
The AAEP Bachelor of Art Education (BAE) Licensure program places an emphasis on training and fostering a culture of leadership with our pre-service art education students. Each year we continue to…
AAEP Chair Joni Acuff honored as 2022-23 Inaugural Lecturer
AAEP Department Chair Joni Acuff was selected as a 2022-23 Inaugural Lecturer. Inaugural Lectures celebrate arts and humanities faculty who have been promoted to the rank of professor. Joined by…
AAEP hosts 2022 Graduate Research in Art Education (GRAE) conference in the Barnett Collaboratory
On October 7-8, the department hosted the 2022 GRAE Conference at the Urban Arts Space and in the Barnett Collaboratory. Part of a consortia of schools including Penn State University and…
FOCUS ON MUSEUM STUDIES: Syrus Marcus Ware visit on September 8, 2022
Last fall, AAEP and the Wexner Center for the Arts welcomed Syrus Marcus Ware to present “Building an Abolitionist Future: Collectivity and Activism in Art Museums” as part of a lecture series for…
Barnett Center hosts Indigenous art exhibit Dancing with Devils
On September 9, 2022, the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies, hosted a reception in the Barnett Collaboratory for Dancing…
Barnett Fellowship recipients
EMILY HUTLOCK Emily Hutlock is a student in the Master of Arts in Arts Policy and Administration program. She graduated summa cum laude from Baldwin…
