October 18– December 11, 2022
MOVE is an exhibit of artwork from the Ross Art Museum’s Permanent Teaching Collection built to coincide with the launch of OWU’s new first year seminar, How to Change Your World. This interdisciplinary course is structured around a pressing issue of immediate relevance to contemporary life. In 2022 the topic is Move: Mobility, Migration, and Belonging. The Ross’s companion exhibit showcases the many ways that people, animals, and things move and the potential conflicts that can arise from migration. Prints, photographs, and drawings help visualize course topics and give students the opportunity to apply their learning in the Ross Art Museum.
by Harold Edgerton
by Ryan Spencer Reed
October 18– December 11, 2022
This exhibit introduces a new resource to audiences of the Ross Art Museum: the Educational Materials Collection. These two collections of photographs provide an opportunity for educators, art-lovers, and students to experience art first-hand. Copies of the groups of photographs on display—Landscapes and People, Places, Things—can be checked out by campus and community members for educational and teaching purposes. Get to know work by contemporary photographers such as Kristin Capp, Lucien Clergue, and Donna Ferrato.
by Tom Baril
by Joe Maloney
by Donna Ferrato
August 26, 2022 – December 11, 2022
This exhibit opens at 4pm, August 26, and is a tribute to the work of women during the pandemic. For several months in 2020, Artist Eliana Calle Saari was locked down behind the closed borders of the Caribbean Island of Antigua. The prints and books on display document her observations of the women of this island nation who continued to fulfill their duty as workers, mothers, and caretakers in a time of uncertainty, fear, and hope. This body of work is Saari’s love letter to women who show strength and perseverance in the face of adversity.
by Eliana Calle Saari
by Eliana Calle Saari
Learn about the genesis of the museum and its historic building through this online exhibit developed by students of History 250.
An exploration of works by women photographers from the permanent collection of the Ross Art Museum, celebrating arts patron Sally Ross Soter.
Exhibit will coincide with a companion exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art, in gallery 5 of the Ross Building, August 21, 2021 – May 8, 2022.
by Ann Noggle
James Stewart’s paintings and ceramics interpret Ilya Kaminsky’s award-winning book of poetry Deaf Republic, in which a young deaf boy inspires a town’s resistance to military occupation.
by James Stewart
by James Stewart
by James Stewart
The West Gallery at the Ross Art Museum features Landscape through the Lens: Responses to William Henry Jackson. This exhibit brings four contemporary photographers—Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Zig Jackson, and Martina Lopez—into conversation with the work of 19th century landscape photographer William Henry Jackson. Through this lens, it examines the legacy of photography in relation to the development of the American West.
by Mark Klett and Bryon Wolfe
by Martina Lopez
by Zig Jackson
Now Online
Students in Ohio Wesleyan University’s ART 492 class have created an online “Past to Present: OWU’s Evolution” art exhibition that showcases how the university’s academics, student life, places, and extracurricular activities have, or haven’t, changed over time.
