Arts at Ohio State

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Events

Sepia-toned video still of a short tree or shrub standing in a field with smoke or fog rises from the ground around it.
Sep 1 - Oct 31, 2026
Sep 1 through Oct 31
Exhibition | Film/Video

Léonard Pongo | Tales from the Source (2024)

Time
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
A large group of people gathered in a gallery look at the artwork on the walls and pedestals and converse with one another.
Sep 18, 2026
Sep 18
Exhibition | Art

Fall 2026 Exhibitions Opening Celebration

Time
4 p.m. - 8 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
A gallery with a reflective floor displays antique furniture with partially opened doors and drawers. An abstract gray, white, and yellow painting hangs nearby.
Sep 19, 2026 - Feb 14, 2027
Sep 19 through Feb 14
Exhibition | Art

Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes

Time
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
Two female dancers stand between two vertical metal rings on a dark stage illuminated from above by a blue disk.
Sep 20, 2026 - Jan 24, 2027
Sep 20 through Jan 24
Exhibition | Art

sweat variant: Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

Time
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Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
A gallery containing a glass and wood display case, an architectural model of an open structure with curved roof supports, and images of a building and building plans.
Sep 20, 2026 - Feb 14, 2027
Sep 20 through Feb 14
Exhibition | Art

Sammy Baloji: When Extraction Becomes Form It Speaks in Borrowed Tongues

Time
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Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
A person in a white cap examines a tree trunk with a translucent vintage portrait of a man's face superimposed on the bark.
Sep 20, 2026
Sep 20
Screening | Film/Video

The Tree of Authenticity (L’arbre de l’authenticité, Sammy Baloji, 2025)

Time
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
The Dissidents book cover; headshot of Derf Backderf.
Sep 23, 2026
Sep 23
Event | Cartoons/Comics

The Dissidents with Derf Backderf

Time
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
Green, red, blue graphic with words "Planning in full color"
Sep 23, 2026
Sep 23
Talk/Lecture | Architecture

Planning in Full Color: Five AICP Fellows on Leadership, Design, and the Future of Place

Time
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. ET
Location
Knowlton Hall, Gui Auditorium
A person stands in a gallery and sketches in a notebook.
Sep 24, 2026
Sep 24
Workshop | Art

Sketch with April Sunami

Time
6 p.m. - 8 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
A young woman sits sideways in a hammock in front of a fence covered in greenery.
Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25
Screening | Film/Video

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (Sasha Waters Freyer, 2026)

Time
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
A man is leaping in the air in front of a box truck covered in grafitti.
Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25
Talk/Lecture | Dance, Music

Guest Artist YNOT: Lecture/Demonstration and Showing

Time
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. ET
Location
Barnett Theatre, Sullivant Hall
A woman sits while a man lies with his head in her lap. They both wear white clothes and hats, surrounded by grass on a sandy beach.
Sep 27, 2026
Sep 27
Screening | Film/Video

Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981)

Time
1 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts