Greater Columbus highlights six artists working in Central Ohio: Malcolm Cochran, Yusef Ferguson, Dana Lynn Harper, Marcus Jackson, Michelle Stitzlein, and Bradley Weyandt. Across a range of media and subjects, these artists engage materials, communities, and archival histories in inventive ways. Dana Lynn Harper and Yusef Ferguson rework family heirlooms and video to access intergenerational memory. Bradley Weyandt and Michelle Stitzlein each mix fiber traditions and unconventional materials in large-scale wall works. Marcus Jackson makes reverent street portraits of everyday life in BIPOC communities, while Malcolm Cochran turns to sonorous sculptures to grapple with the representation of innumerable loss.
Presented biennially, this exhibition represents a continuing partnership between the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) and the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC). On behalf of GCAC, a jury of distinguished arts professionals working outside the region awarded the 2025 Visual Arts Fellowship to these six artists. The 2025 blind review jury included Anthony Graham, senior curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Maddie Klett, associate director, Ortuzar art gallery in New York, New York; and Antoinette Roberts, assistant curator of contemporary art, Baltimore Art Museum.
Through this partnership, the museum and GCAC support the arts and advance cultural development in the Columbus area. GCAC’s Visual Arts Fellowship program was established in 1986. Since the inception of the program, hundreds of artists have received awards in a variety of disciplines, including the visual arts, crafts, film and video, creative writing, music composition, and choreography/movement arts.
Greater Columbus is curated by Rae Root, Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow.
Sat, Apr 25 • All Day