GCAC Grantee Events
Columbus Art Walks & Landmarks Talks-German Village
Join Columbus Landmarks for this free art walk. The German Village Art Walk will lead you through Columbus’ first historically designated neighborhood located just south of Downtown. Experience the heart of German-American culture, restored homes with legendary tales, and over a dozen unique architectural styles. You will find More...
Julia Scher, lip sync 2015
Desire and paranoia are at the center of this latest installment in Julia Scher’s ongoing series of videos that feature the artist performing popular songs in front of the camera. In lip sync 2015, Scher is chased through the halls of an unassuming office building giving a frenzied performance of Miley Cyrus’s "Wrecking Ball." More...
ARTrepreneur Workshop Series
The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise at The Ohio State University, The Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC), Creative Control Fest, and Mosaic Education Network present The 3rd annual ARTrepreneur Workshop Series (AWS).
AWS is a FREE 4-week professional development program, led by industry professionals, for established More...
Best of 2018
The Ohio Craft Museum presents "Best of 2018," Ohio Designer Craftsmen's 35th annual juried members' exhibition, showcasing exemplary work in clay, glass, metal, wood, fiber and mixed media by 51 artists. More...
Accidental Anthropology
Discovering Meaning in the Discarded and Overlooked
Artists Phil Adams and Shelley Bird create visual narratives that seek to reveal new potential in the seemingly insignificant. By appropriating what they find around them, the discarded and overlooked are re-imagined and made relevant again. Nothing is waste.Ohio Art League's X More...
Inherent Structure
Richard Aldrich • Zachary Armstrong • Kevin Beasley • Sam Gilliam • Channing Hansen • Arturo Herrera • Eric N. Mack • Rebecca Morris • Carrie Moyer • Sam Moyer • Angel Otero • Laura Owens • Ruth Root • Thomas Scheibitz • Amy Sillman • Stanley Whitney
Inherent Structure showcases a multigenerational group of More...
Theo Watson
Conservatory visitors will interact with a 46’ long ecosystem projected on the Cardinal Health Gallery walls, where grasses and flora grow based on their bodies’ position and movement in the space. Transforming the virtual environment, visitors can attract unique species of butterflies that will interact with the visitors and the More...
Fantastical Creatures Gallery Exhibition
What happens when you mix the creative imagination of a child with the skills of a talented glass artist? A masterpiece that reminds us that our imaginations are the only limit when it comes to glass art. See what the Columbus area students dream up to be transformed into works of art in this 3rd annual exhibit. Glass Axis has More...
Greater Columbus 2018
The annual Greater Columbus exhibition features work by outstanding artists based in central Ohio. The exhibition represents a partnership between the Columbus Museum of Art and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.On behalf of the Arts Council, a jury of distinguished arts professionals working outside the region awarded Individual More...
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Sophie Fiennes, 2017)
As unconventional as its subject, the new doc Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami follows the iconic model, singer, and actress—known for her inscrutable persona and such innovative 1980s hits as “Private Life” and ‘Pull Up to the Bumper”—over the last 10 years. Staying in the present and avoiding “talking head” interviews, More...
Theatre Roulette 2018
Theatre Roulette 2018
MadLab Theatre, 227 N. 3rd St. Contact: 614-221-5418, www.madlab.net Details: In its nineteenth year, Central Ohio’s longest running shorts festival presents 3 very distinct nights of new works rotating over 3 weekends culminating in the final day when all 3 nights of programming are More...
Actors' Theatre presents Macbeth
Season Presenter: Fortner Fine LivingThe Tragedy of Macbeth, King of Scotland is one of a handful of William Shakespeare’s plays that has never wavered in its popularity or relevance. Led by supernatural forces, Macbeth kills a king and usurps the throne, each day growing in paranoia and bloody murder. His wife, the famous Lady More...
Actors' Theatre 2018 Opening Gala
Join us for the opening of Actors’ Theatre of Columbus’ 2018 summer play series, “Monsters & Men,” a boisterous romp through all the things that we’re afraid of – murder most foul; melancholy monsters; talking tomcats; and feuding fairies.Save the date for our annual gala on Friday, May 25, 2018. Enjoy a splendid dinner, More...
It's All Been Done Radio Hour: After Dark
It's All Been Done Radio Hour: After Dark is an adults-only, non-canon, filthy version of our show! With erotic fan-fic, random casting, and improv using your favorite characters, it's IABD like you've never seen it before!
Part of MadLab's Friday Night Afterwords.
General admission: $6 Parking is More...
ROY Spectrum: Troyer, Rusenova Ina, Jian, Ahern, Vogley Woods
ROY G BIV Gallery presents the final in a series of four exhibitions highlighting the past, present and future of ROY. This exhibition showcases artists who have exhibited in the gallery previously, as well as some who have previously applied to show in the Short North space. This group of artists will present a variety of drawings and More...
Other Prom
LGBTQIA+ youth and their allies are invited to Other Prom, our annual alternative party copresented with Kaleidoscope Youth Center. Hundreds of young people from the region head out to the Wex for this event that features snacks and beverages, prom photography, a DJ, and the crowning of prom royalty. The party continues to grow every More...
Electricity by Terry Ray
Starring Terry Ray and Ralph Scott and directed by Mark Phillips SchwambergerSex, drugs and booze make up the life of Brad Burke, while ex-seminary student Gary Henderson is so closeted that he hides his sexuality behind an invented wife. This unlikely pair hook up in a motel room after their 10-year high school reunion and it's a More...
Aspects of Love
Love takes many forms—love between couples; romantic infatuation; the devotion of married people; the ties of children to their parents. This chamber musical examines all of them as it weaves a magical dream of poetic poignancy. Love Changes Everything is the theme song of this drama and "nothing in the world will ever be the same." More...
CDT@20!!
CDT@20, presented by PNC Arts Alive and Columbus Dance Theatre, is the culminating retrospective concert celebrating the wide range of repertoire created by Columbus Dance Theatre over the past twenty years. Musical guests will include The Carpe Diem String Quartet and RJD2 for four separate performances held over one festival style More...
Stephen Sondheim's Assassins
Step right up and take your shot at eternal fame! That’s the premise of Stephen Sondheim's glitteringly dark and brilliant ode to that cadre of desperate lost souls—Presidential assassins. Sondheim's stunning score portrays the psyches of these outcasts with both razzle-dazzle and fevered More...
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Sara Driver, 2017)
“In a world where Black people were not celebrated, he did it; he blew the roof off that sucker!”—Felice Rosser on Basquiat
As a counterpoint to the countless saintly and iconic portraits of the painter, Boom for Real focuses on the five years before Jean-Michel Basquiat became an artworld superstar. A ground-level view of the More...
Cygnus Quartet: "The Masters"
Nonprofit recital series Sunday at Central presents a classical music concert by the Cygnus Quartet in the Arthur C. Johnson Auditorium at Ohio History Connection. Admission is free for OHC members, $5 for non-OHC members and free for children 12 and under. Please note this is the price of venue admission; the concert itself is More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Franklinton
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Franklinton Art Walk will lead you through the first settlement in Central Ohio and the future site of More...
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach New Restoration (Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1968)
“The net effect is not having seen a film but having lived a real moment, in the presence of monumental music. Is this a documentary, a biopic, or something else we’ve never named?”—Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
On its 50th anniversary, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach still remains ahead of its time and holds its place as one More...
Teen Summer Workshops
The Ohio Craft Museum presents 8 summer workshops for teens entering grades 6–12. Session 1 (June 6–8): AM Session: 3D Mash-Up; or Knot Your Mother's Macrame. PM Session: My Island; or Puff Pebble Sculpture. Session 2 (June 25–27): AM Session: Papier Mache-Up; or Glass Fusion. PM Session: Stopmotion Claymation; or Paper More...
Figure Drawing
This is a casual figure drawing group for everyone (as long as you’re over 18). It costs $7 per night.We meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month from 7-9, please contact info@wildgoosecreative.com for more info.Facebook Group: More...
CSA Songwriter Showcase
Each month, 10-20 local songwriters perform (2) of their newest original songs for live audiences. In 2018, audiences will select (3) songwriters from each showcase to perform for music industry professionals in the CSA Finale Showcase in December.Over the last 5 years, hundreds of songwriters have connected through Columbus Songwriters More...
Columbus Arts Festival
The Columbus Arts Festival, presented by American Electric Power, returns to the downtown riverfront to kick off summer with more than 270 professional, juried visual artists, six performing art stages, a Hands-On Activities Village, the Big Local Art Tent, scores of food vendors including popular local food trucks, and local craft More...
Wex at the Fest
Sat, June 9 | 3–6 PM ABC6 Bicentennial Park Stage
233 South Civic Center Drive
Free for all audiences
The Wexner Center for the Arts kicks off its summer programming with this celebration of homegrown musical talent held in conjunction with the 2018 Columbus Arts Festival. The wildly eclectic outdoor show begins with local More...
Open Lab
A completely low tech night where ANYONE has 5 to 10 minutes to do ANYTHING THEY WANT on our stage.
We'll throw on some lights and make sure there's a microphone if you need one.
Insure a spot in the lineup by emailing ahead of time to nikkis@madlab.net, or just show up and find the short girl with glasses and tell her you want More...
For Those Who Have Gone Before
Join us for the Premier of “For those who are gone but still remain," a new work choreographed by Martha Graham principal dancer Abdiel Jacobsen to music composed and played by Columbus musician Mark Lomax!
Mark Lomax describes the piece as a tribute to those who have transitioned to the Ancestral realm. The three people mentioned More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Clintonville
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Clintonville Art Walk will lead you through one of Columbus’ most civically engaged neighborhoods More...
Young Masters Summer Day Camp
The Ohio Craft Museum presents five 1-week camps for kids entering grades 1–6. Themes and dates: Lights, Camera, Art! (June 11–15); Tell Me a Story (June 18–22); My Place at the Table (July 9–13); Where I Live! (July 23–27); Recyclart (July 30–August 3). Detailed descriptions at More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Highland West
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Highland West Art Walk will lead you through the Highland West Neighborhood of Columbus' Greater Hilltop More...
Human School
Human School presents
Philosophy (for creatives) led by philosopher Michael Hiltbrunner.
Everything is on the table. Hilt will lead a conversation about a new topic each time.
Human School is Wild Goose Creative's newest program. A return to our educational roots. We bring you all the things you didn't learn in More...
Actors' Theatre presents Frankenstein
Season Presenter: Fortner Fine LivingProduction Sponsor: Antolino & AssociatesAppearing on the English stage only five years after Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, Richard Brinsley Peake’s Frankenstein, or the Dangers of Presumption is the first adaptation of that venerable novel. More...
Cinderella
Soprano Megan Moore stars in Rossini's Cinderella (La Cenerentola). The OPC orchestra under the baton of Maestro Alessandro Siciliani, stage director A. Scott Parry, and a talented supporting cast will bring this classic tale to life for a limited engagement at the McCoy Center for the Arts in New More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Capitol Square
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Capitol Square Art Walk will lead you through the Central portion of Downtown Columbus. Experience More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-University District
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The University District Art Walk will lead you through Columbus’ most densely populated neighborhood and the More...
Goodale park Music Series
Please help us celebrate the 10th season of the Goodale Park Music Series (GPMS). This is a music series of six free, family-friendly Sunday-afternoon concerts at the gazebo in Goodale Park each summer. The mission of the GPMS is to promote community and diversity, support Columbus musicians and artists, and celebrate Goodale Park. All More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Near South
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. See the architecture of the Old Oaks Historic District, the stained glass windows of Holy Rosary & More...
Kingdom Night of Laughs & Community Fair
A evening of love, unity, and transparency through laughter. This evening will help identify, educate, and bring awareness to raising effects of mental health illness. More...
Veronica's Position by Rich Orloff
Directed by Jack Petersen Featuring Mark Phillips Schwamberger, Lori Cannon, Tim Browning, David Vargo, Sonda Rose Staley and Brent RiesA mixture of love, politics and art in a star-spangled comedy set in Washington, D.C., 1990. When Veronica, a self-absorbed movie star in mid-life agrees to co-star in a play with her More...
Actors' Theatre presents Puss in Boots
Season Presenter: Fortner Fine LivingPuss in Boots, or the Master Cat, is one of the great fairy tales in Western literature. First put to paper by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in the 1550s, Puss in Boots is the story of a talking cat who serves his poor owner by his wits, making his master wealthy, finding him love, and stealing him a More...
Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home
Works by 14 artists from across the country focus on the issue of shelter, and the lack of it. The show aims to bring awareness to the problem, whether local or global, private or public. More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Arena District
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Arena District Art Walk will lead you through the Northwestern portion of Downtown Columbus and More...
Momentum University Summer Intensive
Momentum will celebrate the Harlem Renaissance by engaging more than 1,000 central Ohio children in dance, music and performance during their weekly, in-school Momentum classes throughout the 2018-19 school year. During July 2018, 100 of Momentum’s advanced dancers will attend a two-week intensive. There they will learn original dances More...
2018 All Disabilities Fest - Columbus GospelFest
The Columbus GospelFest (CGF) and UPFAD(Unlimited Possibilities For All Disabilities) provide a one of a kind annual family oriented community event! This dynamic partnership features the All Disabilities Fest, the largest of its kind in Ohio. This collaboration provides persons with special needs a platform to showcase their artistic More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmark Talks-Merion Village
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Merion Village Art Walk will lead you through one of the oldest immigrant enclave neighborhoods More...
Actors' Theatre presents A Midsummer Night's Dream
Season Presenter: Fortner Fine LivingProduction Sponsor: Captivating WorldsA Midsummer Night’s Dream is William Shakespeare writing comedy, romance and magic at their finest. Often cited as the play that led people to a life-long love of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a special place in the history of Actors’ Theatre of More...
Columbus Art Walks & Landmarks Talks-Brewery District
Columbus Art Walks and Landmark Talks are 1-hour tours guided by expert historians from the Columbus Landmarks Foundation, and designed to highlight public art, architecture and historical sites in neighborhoods around Columbus. The Brewery District Art Walk will lead you through the heart of the city’s storied industrial past. You More...
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Musical
Book by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott. Based on the Latent Image/Specific Films Motion Picture Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Based on the smash-hit movie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical is the heartwarming, uplifting adventure of three friends, Tick, Bernadette and Adam, a glamorous Sydney-based performing trio More...
The Toxic Avenger
Meet Toxie, New Jersey’s first Superhero, in this hilarious monster of a rock musical based on the classic cult film. Toxie, a seven-foot mutant freak with a heart as big as Newark, struggles with bullies, mobsters and a corrupt mayor to win love and save New Jersey from pollution and global warming. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle More...
Eubie!
CATCO's contribution to central Ohio's celebration of the Harlem Renaissance Centennial. Eubie! took Broadway by storm when it premiered in 1978. This revue features the music of famous jazz/swing musician Eubie Blake and contains 12 songsfrom the landmark 1921 production of Shuffle More...
Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me
Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me gathers paintings and related works by celebrated multi-disciplinary contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, NJ).
Culling from art history, popular culture, and personal relationships, Thomas is known for her arresting, rhinestone-encrusted portraits that lay bare the deeply More...
Devil Boys from Beyond by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott
Revival of our inaugural production! Four of the original cast members will be returing to reprise their roles; Mark Phillips Schwamberger, Scott Risner, Leslie Robinson and Dawn Farrel. Directed by Beth KattelmanFlying Saucers! Backstabbing Divas! Muscle Hunks and men in pumps! Wake up and smell the alien invasion in this More...
Jazz Legends on Film
Jazz Legends on Film
Relive the music of the Harlem Renaissance in this program of six musical shorts featuring Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and Cab Calloway. The shorts were produced by Paramount Pictures between 1929-1933. (Prog. 74 mins, HD More...
The Rocky Horror Show
Mad scientist and infamous transsexual Frank N. Furter leaps across the time warp to make his Short North Stage debut in this wildly popular tribute to sci-fi and B-grade horror movies. Dig out your fishnets and vinyl and dress up if you dare. Just don’t miss this fast-paced, high-energy explosion of fetish More...
Bassist Edgar Meyer & Dover String Quartet
The Dover, one of the hottest string quartets on the American scene and 2018-2019 Quartet-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center, joins bassist Edgar Meyer. Meyer, known as a bass virtuoso, composer, MacArthur award winner, plays classical, bluegrass, and jazz, all with equal More...
I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Uniquely curated by renowned author Wil Haygood, this exhibition celebrates the cultural blossoming that occurred in Harlem in the 1920-50s. Featuring works by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Beardon, Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, and unprinted photographs by James Van Der Zee, I, Too, Sing America explores the creative, religious, political, More...
La Cage Aux Folles
Glittering and buoyant, this 2010 revival version of one of Broadway’s biggest and happiest hits, gains even more relevance in today’s world. Gay partners Albin and Georges run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez. Their world turns topsy-turvy when Georges’s son, conceived from a one-night stand, brings his fiancé and her bigoted More...
Saint Lawrence String Quartet
The St. Lawrence String Quartet plays traditional and contemporary chamber music and with joy, excitement, drama and with a hint of rock 'n roll intensity. Whether it is Hayden or John Adams, their playing smolders with excitement, electricity, spontaneity and More...
Mamma Mia!
Celebrate the Holidays in the Greek Isles. The timeless hits of the Swedish pop group Abba propel this sunny, funny tale of a teen’s search for her birth father on the eve of her wedding in an Aegean paradise. Non-stop laughs, explosive dance numbers and a plethora of those songs we can’t help loving make Mamma Mia! the More...
Harlem Quartet
The Harlem Quartet passionately plays jazz, world music and the classics while building diversity and engaging new More...
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Enjoy the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, the world's most renowned wind ensemble, on its Farewell Tour. Its performances are breathtakingly perfect examples of unity, blend, precision, articulation and More...
Kalichstein, Laredo, Robinson Trio
Since making its debut at the White House for President Carter's Inauguration in January 1977, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature. It continues to play with all the brilliance, finesses and unity that comes from being a forty year old trio with all of its original More...
Quartetto Gelato
Quartetto Gelato, musicians playing a violin, cello, oboe and an accordion, features a passionate, humorous, exotic, eclectic mix of folk music, opera, classical and popular music. Known for virtuosic showpieces, romantic tenor arias, pyrotechnical solos, blazing show pieces, multi-instrument mastery, artistic passion, and humor, More...
Momentum Year End Performances
Momentum will celebrate the Harlem Renaissance by engaging more than 1,000 central Ohio children in dance, music and performance during their weekly, in-school Momentum classes throughout the 2018-19 school year. During the year dancers will learn original dances that tell the story of the Harlem Renaissance. The school year will More...
