Arts & Humanities
A dance degree means learning how to be an entrepreneur, not just a dancer. That’s a core belief of Charles O. Anderson, chair of the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.
Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research suggests.
The newly inaugurated Artist Laureate at The Ohio State University, Nyama McCarthy-Brown, just returned from a trip to Brazil. An associate professor in the Department of Dance, McCarthy-Brown accompanied students to the country for two weeks to …
Ohio is home to a large number of fragments from medieval books, a rarity for the Midwest. Eric Johnson, professor and curator of Thompson Special Collections at The Ohio State University, said Ohio has more manuscript pages per capita than …
Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin visited the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University earlier this month to screen her 1993 documentary “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance.”
Margaret Newell, a distinguished professor in The Ohio State University Department of History, was “delighted” to learn she would be receiving $492,000 from the Mellon Foundation.
“Historians generally don’t get these big grants,” she said. …
This fall, an exhibition featuring the work of artist Sarah Rosalena is opening at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). Kris Paulsen, associate professor and chair of undergraduate studies in the Department of History of …
Gaëtane Verna’s interest in the arts began in her childhood.
“I come from a family where my parents thought that a good education required that you did some art,” said the new executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio …
Modern technology offers tools for preserving and piecing together clues to decipher ancient manuscripts, international scholars said during The Ohio State University’s 2022 Texts and Contexts Annual Seminar.
The event …
Michael Ibrahim, the newly appointed director of The Ohio State University School of Music, knew the university was special when he agreed to take the job last spring.
According to Michelle Wibbelsman, associate professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, the masks featured in the “Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions” …
