Recycled Art

The OSU Urban Arts Space hosted "The Iron Artists Challenge" on Weds, Sept 25, where four groups of artists took part in an hour-long competition to create a work of art from recycled materials, explains Liz Celeste, organizer. The teams -- including the Couchfire Collective, Franklinton Arts District, downtown Columbus and Free the Planet -- used items such as old pipes, fabric, skis, yarn and even faucet handles to create sculptures. Couchfire Collective artists -- including Anne Holman and Adam Crum, above -- were judged the winners. The event was presented as part of Welcome Week at OSU.

Notable News

Governor Ted Strickland has announced new appointments to the Ohio Arts Council Board of Directors, including Karen Bell (Arts and Culture). Bell joins three other new members, Charles McWeeny of Athens, Louisa Celebrezze of Columbus and Steven Allen of New Albany.

Exciting sights, sounds, and aromas appeared on the South Oval Sept 22 when the Foreign Language Center held its fourth annual Langfest during Ohio State's Welcome Week. Designed to showcase the more-than 30 languages offered at Ohio State, Langfest features performances, music and food that bring these languages and cultures alive.



Robert Ladislas Derr (Art) is exhibiting in the Mirror Stage, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art in Cyprus, Sept 17-28. He also has work in the 2008 Freewaves Festival HollyWould in LA Oct 9-13.

OSU's new Office for Arts and Culture has a just-created website -- artsandculture.osu.edu -- that promotes the arts around campus and in the community.

The OSU Community Orchestra is seeking members. This ensemble, conducted by Marshall Haddock (Music), is open to all OSU faculty, staff, students and alumni and all instruments are welcome. The orchestra rehearses once a week and includes a performance with the OSU First Year Orchestra. For information, call 292-2870.

An orchestra piece by Tom Wells (Music), Echoes from the Southern: A Ragtime Overture,
will be performed by ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Southern Theater. The work was commissioned in 1998 for the grand opening of the Southern.

On Sept 21, 24 new Arts and Humanities faculty and family members were welcomed to Ohio State by Interim Dean John Roberts at a new-faculty brunch at the Blackwell Hotel ballrooms. The newcomers were introduced to colleagues and senior administrators of both colleges.

John King (English) and James Bracken (OSU Libraries) have been selected to direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers. Entitled “The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650,” the seminar will explore continuity and change in the production, dissemination and reading of Western European books during the 200 years following the advent of printing with movable type.