Community Calendar

The Butler Institute of American Art presents the exhibit, The Audacity of the Mundane, by artist Charlee Brodsky, through Sunday, March 2. Ms. Brodsky describes her work as dealing with social issues and beauty, and her recent work is a series of still lifes. More information at butlerart.com.

There will be a meet-the-artist on Sunday, January 5, 1:00 - 3:00 pm.

The Butler Institute of American Art features the exhibition Sally Weber and Craig Newswanger, Entangled Attraction, with Soundscape composed and produced by Jonathan Crawford, running through February 16. Entangled Attraction is inspired by nature's patterns and complexities, and their effects on the entire system. More information is available at Butler Art dot com.

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

The YSU McDonough Museum of Art presents an exhibit by Northeast Ohio multidisciplinary artist, arts advocate, curator, and wage laborer, Abby Cipar titled "Sometime, Somehow, For You."

This exhibition explores Cipar's thoughts about the simultaneous strangeness and beauty of their trans-nonbinary body, as it exists in a "pre-medical, not-quite-there-but-getting-there state of transition and affirmation.”

Abby's lecture will be on February 12, 5:30PM. More information at ysu.edu/mcdonough-museum

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 Butler Institute of American Art is hosting its 85th Area Artist Annual through February 23 at the Butler Institute on Wick Avenue, in Youngstown. The Area Artist Annual is a juried exhibition, that includes selected original artworks in all media created and submitted by artists residing in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties in Ohio; Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania. More information at butlerart.com.

Works include paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics, and sculpture.

The Butler Institute of American Art presents the exhibit, The Audacity of the Mundane, by artist Charlee Brodsky, through Sunday, March 2. Ms. Brodsky describes her work as dealing with social issues and beauty, and her recent work is a series of still lifes. More information at butlerart.com.

There will be a meet-the-artist on Sunday, January 5, 1:00 - 3:00 pm.