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- “The Nearest Faraway Place: Ohio’s Painters, Makers & Their Mentors” showcases the work of past Ohio artists and their contributions to the city’s art scene.
- The exhibit explores the influence of these artists, including lesser-known female artists, on Ohio’s current art scene.
- Carole Genshaft, retired educator and curator, will lead a program highlighting the contributions of Columbus artists.
A new central Ohio art exhibit features past Ohio artists’ contributions to the city’s prominent arts scene.
“The Nearest Faraway Place: Ohio’s Painters, Makers & Their Mentors” is on display at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio (DACO) in Lancaster at 145 E. Main St., featuring work from the central Ohio art community during the 1900s and earlier. The center will host a program Sunday, April 6 to explore how these artists have shaped the booming arts community we know today.
The art on display features artists from regional areas, including Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, who have brought experiences abroad to help shape Ohio’s creativity hub.
Carole Genshaft, retired educator and curator at the Columbus Museum of Art of nearly 40 years, will be leading a program, Columbus Connections, at 2 p.m. on April 6.
“This will give people a new perspective on how important the arts community was more than 100 years ago,” Genshaft said.
Work from artists like Alice Schille and Roy Lichtenstein will be on display, however, Genshaft said it’s the names that are not well-known that are worth exploring — many of those names belong to women.
“What I find really wonderful about this exhibition is that it features a number of women who… their names are not famous,” Genshaft said. “They were daring for their time; they traveled a lot.”
Genshaft said art institutions we know today such as the Columbus College of Art & Design, formerly known as the Columbus Art School, was started by a group of women in 1897 as a place where artists gathered to collaborate, share ideas and mentor.
Artists, like Schille, who attended the school, or Lichtenstein, who taught at the Ohio State University, have shaped Ohio’s creative hub.
“It just shows you how important the presence of the art department in those institutions were in nurturing artists,” Genshaft said.
“That tradition began at the end of the 19th century and into the early 20th century, which connects very much to contemporary art, which is interesting.”
The exhibit is on display now. Guests can register for the Columbus Connections program at decartsohio.com. General-admission tickets are $10 and $5 for members.
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