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Josh Anderson and Michelle Sipes, graduates students in the Department of Dance, dance using the LabanLens software, which is an app downloaded to the Microsoft HoloLens device.

LabanLens brings AR technology to Department of Dance

The Department of Dance’s augmented reality software, LabanLens, is transforming the way the art and history of dance are studied, researched, created and performed.

Spearheaded by Hannah…

Professor of design Paul Nini waves The People's Flag of Columbus in front of Columbus City Hall. Photo courtesy of Brian Kaiser.

Design professor proposes The People's Flag of Columbus

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What does a flag mean to a city?

In the United States, admittedly, not much. Cities don’t often rally behind their own flags.

But Paul…

Jonathan Capps, a glassmaker in the Department of Art, uses a blowtorch on a piece of glass art he's making. Capps will spend nine months in Finland for a Fulbright-funded research project.

Art alum, glassmaker headed to Finland on Fulbright grant


Handmade glass cloud sculptures by Jonathan Capps.

Jonathan Capps’ upcoming Fulbright-funded research trip to Finland is a decade in the…

Carmen Winant

Carmen Winant named first Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art

COLUMBUS, Ohio – After a national search, Carmen Winant, a Columbus-based visual artist and writer whose work has been celebrated across the world, has been named the first Roy Lichtenstein Chair…

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Merijn van der Heijden named director of Urban Arts Space

Merijn van der Heijden has been named director of Ohio State’s Urban Arts Space. Van der Heijden has an extensive background in the arts and has served as Urban Arts Space’s interim…

Eleanor Gobrecht

The adventures of theatre alumna Eleanor Gobrecht

The Folly III, the 30-foot yacht Eleanor Gobrecht and her partner, Suzanne, used to sail around the Pacific Ocean.

Eleanor Gobrecht’s…

15 Arts and Sciences graduate students awarded Presidential Fellowships

Fifteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have received a spring 2018 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School.

Awarded each…

Still from Professor Ann Hamilton's performance, "The Theater is a Blank Page" at UCLA in May 2018. Image credit Calista Lyon

Art professor's production brings experience of reading to life

In Virginia’s Woolf’s 1927 novel, “To the Lighthouse,” the plot takes a backseat to the book’s philosophy. The same can be said of Ann Hamilton’s immersive theatre production, “The Theater Is a…

Olivia Sawatzki and Jasmine Smith rehearse for "Leah and the Dybbuk," image credit Brandie Williams

Theatre student stages Yiddish ghost story

A new play based on a Yiddish theatre classic will take the stage this weekend at Ohio State.

“Leah and the Dybbuk” explores and deconstructs the early 20th century play and ghost story “…