Feb 06 Thursday
The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley is now accepting applications for its 2025 scholarship opportunities. Those applying only need to fill out one universal application for all of the Foundation’s open scholarships. Applicants will complete a set of standard questions that determines what scholarships they are eligible for, and students are immediately prompted to provide any additional information needed for each eligible opportunity. Applications are due by the end of the day March 2 and can be found at CFMV.org/scholarships.
Scholarships are available for students meeting a variety of criteria, including current high school students as well as those already enrolled in a post-secondary education program. All Mahoning Valley students are encouraged to apply to ensure they don’t miss out on potential scholarship awards.
Feb 07 Friday
YSU's Cliffe College of Creative Arts will celebrate Black History Month in Bliss' Judith Rae Solomon Gallery, with the exhibit, Adornment, by Chrystal Miller, which explores Afro-futurism using unconventional materials, including beads, glitter, rhinestones, and foam. Miller holds an associate degree in Graphic Design and a bachelor’s degree in Painting, Sculpture, and Expanded Media from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
For more information, call 330.941.2307 or email kamerrill@ysu.edu
The Medici (meh DEE chee) Museum of Art presents Mirages, an exhibition by Canadian artist Alex Garant, running through April 5th. A trailblazer in contemporary figurative op art, Garant's oil paintings blend graphic elements with traditional portraiture techniques. Garant works delve into human duality, exploring the conflict between inner identity and outward persona. More information is available at medicimuseum.art.
Garant pioneers analogue Glitch Art, employing patterns, duplication, symmetry, and image superposition to craft her mesmerizing visuals.
The Trumbull County Historical Society & Medici (meh DEE chee) Museum of Art present Science Fiction & Hollywood: The Art of John Zabrucky, an exhibition showcasing modern props designed by Zabrucky now on display at the Medici Museum of Art through June 28th. An American prop designer and co-founder of Modern Props Inc., Zabrucky contributed props to hundreds of films such as Ghostbusters and RoboCop, as well as films and TV series in the Star Trek, Marvel, and DC franchises. This exhibition is free and open to the public. More information medicimuseum.art.
The YSU McDonough Museum of Art presents the exhibit, Underworld/Otherworld, by Anna Chapman, an artist and educator investigating transformative approaches to art making from Tuesday, January 21 through Friday, February 28.
In this exhibit, Chapman explores the question, "How do we move through the underworld to meet the Otherworld?”
There is a lecture by Anna Chapman on Wednesday, January 22, at 5:30 pm, at the McDonough. More information at ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum
The YSU McDonough Museum of Art presents the exhibit, The Dams are Broken, by Julia Betts, an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, from Tuesday, January 21 through Friday, February 28.
Betts describes this exhibit as oscillating between containment and release, shifting fluidly between abstract and recognizable forms.
There is a lecture by Julia Betts on Wednesday, February 5, at 5:30 pm. More information at ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum
The YSU McDonough Museum of Art presents the exhibit, Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines (Black Forest), by Sidney Mullis, a sculptor who lives and works in Pittsburgh, from Tuesday, January 21 through Friday, February 28.
Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines, " is a make-believe forest, an invented landscape to think about childhood selves and to find where they retreat to in adulthood."
There is a lecture by Sidney Mullis on Thursday, February 20, at 5:30 pm. More information at ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum
The McDonough Museum of Art presents an exhibition by director of artistic programming at the Wassaic Project in New York, William Hutnick, titled "QUEER HORIZONS," from Tuesday, January 21 through Friday, February 28. More information at ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum.
According to Hutnick, QUEER HORIZONS, is "the disruption of a heteronormative sense of time - and by extension, sense of place - is inherently queer, oscillating in a present tense that is not fixed. We’re moving at a pace that is becoming ridiculously challenging to keep up with, which, it seems, has little hope of slowing down anytime soon. The present is right now and just out of reach.”
Hutnick's lecture will be on Thursday, February 27, 5:30 pm.
The McDonough Museum of Art's Spring Exhibitions will run from January 21 through February 28. Featured will be exhibitions by Julia Betts, Anna Chapman, Abby Cipar, Will Hutnick, and Sidney Mullis. A closing reception for all the exhibitions will be held on Friday, February 28 at 5:00 pm. The exhibitions and reception are open to the public. Museum hours, artist lecture dates, and more at ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum