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Year in Review
wexner center for the arts AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
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Director’s Message the year in review Exhibitions Performing Arts Film/Video Education and Public Programs Wexner Center Programs 2018–19 Thanks to Our Donors Wexner Center Staff and Volunteers
Director’s Message
It’s hard to believe that this Year in Review, a survey of the Wexner Center for the Arts’ vibrant 2018–19 season, comes just nine months after my arrival in March 2019. If we haven’t had the opportunity to meet at one of the center’s many exhibitions, performances, screenings, education programs, or member events, I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the center’s (relatively) new director. The Wexner Center is an institution I have admired from afar for many years, from my days in graduate school to my time as the New Museum’s Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, and I am excited to join the center’s board, staff, and enthusiastic family of members and supporters in thinking about how we best steward this organization’s incredible legacy. I’ve already been invigorated by the community support I’ve witnessed since starting, not to mention our brisk schedule of events. Before taking a look back at what’s transpired in the past 12 months, please know that I’m deeply grateful for your continued participation in the life of the Wex. I truly feel I couldn’t have landed in a more inspiring context.
In case you are not familiar, the Wexner Center for the Arts is Ohio State’s multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art. The only institution of its kind located at a top-10 research university, the center is, to quote our mission, “designed to act as a forum where established and emerging artists can test ideas and where diverse audiences can participate in cultural experiences that enhance the understanding of the art of our time.” Since its founding in 1989, the center has been resolutely risk-taking and groundbreaking in realizing this mission, sometimes breathtakingly so, and that adventurous spirit was certainly a factor in my attraction to this place. Nowhere is that spirit more in evidence than in the center’s Artist Residency Award program, which annually allocates significant financial, intellectual, and technical support to artists across disciplines to develop new work on-site and to engage with Ohio State faculty and students through collaborations, master classes, workshops, and open rehearsals. But perhaps the most critical aspect of this program, active since the center’s early days, is that it provides
artists creative space—the freedom and facilities to tell their own stories, in their own voices. It takes great institutional confidence to do that, a deep faith in the artists selected and the integrity of their practices. But the reward for that investment is generating contemporary art at its best: work that offers vital, unique, and unfettered perspectives on today’s pressing issues. The 2018–19 season saw several exemplary Artist Residency Award projects come to fruition in our galleries, in our theaters, and on our screens. Opening this past fall, the exhibition Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me featured Thomas’s large-scale paintings, room-sized installations, and engrossing video works, including her Artist Residency Award–supported video Je t’aime trois (2018), an intimate self-portrait of the artist and her partner Racquel Chevremont. Spanning almost two decades of output, the exhibition offered a look at the artist’s sustained engagement with several of her muses—including Chevremont and Thomas’s late mother—all of whom are or were strong
African American women the likes of which she did not see represented in the canonical Western portraiture she studied at Pratt Institute and Yale University. Her remarkable body of work offers a layered, challenging, and timely perspective on art history through a queer, black, female gaze—one that has certainly attracted an increasing amount of attention from dozens of media outlets in the past few months, from Hyperallergic to Vogue. In October, Thomas joined Grammy Award–winning jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington in our Performance Space for the rousing entrepe, a live video and music piece inspired in part by her residency project, for which Carrington composed an original score. While the Wexner Center regularly presents and supports the work of early and mid-career artists, we also often develop relationships with creators that extend over decades and dozens of projects. Filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer offers one prominent, and poignant, example. Known for her pioneering depictions of lesbian life and sexuality, Hammer first came to the Wex in 1993 to screen
her work Nitrate Kisses (1992) and soon returned to the center’s Film/Video Studio, our in-house postproduction facility, to work in residence in 1994. The Wexner Center supported several of her projects over the years, including one of her final works, the Artist Residency Award–supported Evidentiary Bodies (2018), a moving multichannel video installation that interweaves her life as an artist and her life with cancer. That work was the centerpiece of the gallery exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body, which in turn was complemented by Barbara Hammer: The Body in Film, a three-evening series surveying Hammer’s 50year career in experimental cinema. Hammer passed away from cancer in March 2019, but her multiyear Artist Residency Award continues, supporting a series of projects in which noted filmmakers Lynne Sachs, Deborah Stratman, Mark Street, and Dan Veltri are creating new works from her unused footage. Both in our capacity of supporting the creation of original work and as favorite stop for companies traveling the globe, the Wex presents regional and national music, dance, and theater premieres year-round. It’s especially gratifying, however, to present the world premiere of an Artist Residency Award–supported project developed by an artist with deep local connections. Columbus-based drummer, composer, educator, and Ohio State alum Mark Lomax II and fellow musicians premiered selections from his 12-album cycle 400: An Afrikan Epic to a sold-out Lincoln Theatre this past January. The ambitious, nationally acclaimed project charts the story of black America before, during, and after the 400-year period of the Transatlantic slave trade starting in 1619, and it does so not only through brilliantly arranged music, but also through Lomax’s educational endeavors online and throughout the community. Lomax was awarded a 2019 Ohio Arts Council Governor’s Award in recognition of these extraordinary efforts, and the Wex invited him to curate two performances during our 2018–19 season—the world premiere of DJ Krate Digga’s Let the Rhythm Hit ‘em and a chamber concert featuring African American composers performed by Timothy Holley and Karen Walwyn. Continuing to pursue our decades-long commitment while ever-awake to our evolving world, the Wexner Center strives to use the kind of artistic and intellectual activity described above to create an engaged community of patrons and supporters—the forum for participation envisioned by our mission. If initiatives like our Artist Residency
Award offer a liberating space of exploration for our artists, we equally strive to be an inviting place to experience their work. A place to be and belong. A place for patrons to encounter contemporary art and cultural issues in ways that resonate with and are met by their own interests and perspectives. We are also working to extend that sense of place and conversation out into the community at large. In the pages that follow, you’ll see details about dozens of talks, panel discussions, receptions, and workshops where we hope you’ll recognize these impulses at work (and at play). Whether it’s our annual Zoom: Family Film Festival that invites our youngest audiences to experience international cinema in a museum setting for the first time... Our transformative Pages arts and literacy program that this past year put high school students into direct contact with artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and RaMell Ross for nuanced discussions of identity, creative risk-taking, and self-expression… University collaborations as with dance artist André Zachery, who performed at the Wexner Center while serving as guest artist and lecturer at Ohio State’s Department of Dance and Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design… Or perhaps most dramatically, Ann Carlson’s The Symphonic Body/ Food. Developed at the Wex and on campus over the course of six months, the project invited individuals working in Columbus’s food system onto the stage to create a complex portrait of their labor and everyday movements. Involving dozens of area organizations, from the Mid-Ohio Food Bank to Ohio State’s own Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFact), the compelling performance inspired further discussion on the issues of food system resiliency and equity in Columbus—and concluded by offering a vegan meal everyone could share. As that work and all of the programs mentioned above remind us, it is you—our community of members, patrons, funders, trustees, volunteers, and advocates— who complete the circle of creativity and make the dialogue of contemporary art possible.
Johanna Burton
DECEMBER 2019
Exhibitions
“[It’s] seldom that you see the positive messages of two black bodies together, especially two women, two queer women.” —MICKALENE THOMAS IN PRIZM
Our fall exhibition Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me explored the celebrated multidisciplinary artist’s dialogue with authorship, identity, desire, and the historically charged relationship between artist and muse. The artist’s largest survey to date, the exhibition included more than 50 works by Thomas (opposite page, top right) and served as the premiere of her Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project, Je t’aime trois (this page at top). The multichannel video features Thomas and partner Racquel Chevremont and original music by Grammy Award–winning jazz drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington. Thomas and Carrington came together on October 4 to perform entrepe, a live piece inspired by the project. Visitors (right) take in Thomas’s opulent rhinestone-encrusted paintings, collages, and immersive installations, which were reproduced in an accompanying exhibition catalogue that examines her ever-evolving investigation of the female gaze and the representation of women in art and popular culture.
The Wex provides an internationally recognized platform for established and emerging artists working in every conceivable medium with adventurous thematic shows, single-artist surveys, and newly commissioned projects.
“A hallmark of Thomas’s work … is what she describes as ‘recognition and acknowledgement and validation: you see me and I see you.’ It can be difficult to tear yourself away from those gazes. But then, why would you want to?” —NICOLE RUDICK, PARIS REVIEW
“Spectacular show of the photography of Peter Hujar and the weirdly wonderful stuff from John Waters: Indecent Exposure at the Wexner Center for the Arts.” —JIM LEWIS VIA FACEBOOK
Visual artist, filmmaker, and provocateur John Waters (opposite page, top right) engaged with patrons at the opening of John Waters: Indecent Exposure, the most comprehensive retrospective of his gallery-based art to date. Making its only stop outside of The Baltimore Museum of Art, where it was organized, the exhibition highlighted Waters’s fascination with—and wickedly funny observations about— celebrity, class, religion, and taste. Waters presented his first solo museum show at the Wexner Center in 1999. Making its final stop at the Wex on an international tour, the stunning survey Peter Hujar:
Speed of Life (this page at top) collected some 140 works by the long-underappreciated photographer. Now considered one of 20th-century America’s most incisive portraitists, Hujar celebrated individuals as they would prefer to see themselves, his intimate works capturing friends, lovers, performers, and artists (including John Waters and David Wojnarowicz) in timeless compositions. Hujar died of AIDSrelated complications in 1987. Complementing our winter exhibitions, Bay-area artist Alicia McCarthy (at right) installed the vibrantly colorful No Straight Lines in our lower lobby, her first sitespecific work in the Midwest.
Barbara Hammer: In This Body showcased the rich, interdisciplinary practice of artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer, who died in March 2019 after a long battle with ovarian cancer and a nearly 30-year association with the center. The exhibition focused on works dealing with illness, aging, and mortality, as well as the artist’s sustained interest in the female body. Patrons explored the exhibition’s centerpiece, the Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project Evidentiary Bodies (2018)—an immersive,
three-channel video installation accessed by moving through a passageway of X-ray films and projected CT scans of Hammer’s torso (this page top and bottom). The project received special assistance from Film/Video Studio Editor Paul Hill (at right, speaking with Hammer’s life partner Florrie Burke), who traveled to Hammer’s New York studio at the end of her life to help complete the work. The exhibition received glowing national media coverage from Vanity Fair, Artforum, New Yorker, and other outlets.
“Ever radical, ever generous, Hammer faced death and left us the gift of what she saw.” — ARTFORUM ON BARBARA HAMMER: IN THIS BODY
Local musicians activated our galleries during Jason Moran, the world-renowned pianist and visual artist’s first exhibition in a museum context. Organized by the Walker Art Center, the exhibition featured Moran’s mixed-media installations that evoke the architecture of venues pivotal to the evolution of jazz. The Ogún Meji Duo—Artist Residency Award recipient and drummer Mark Lomax II and tenor saxophonist Edwin Bayard—performed at the Summer Exhibitions Preview (top). Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario/The Precarious (at right) featured more than 50 intimately scaled sculptures made from cast-off items by the Chilean-born artist. Carefully tethering together shells, glass, plastic, net, seeds, and stones to create the fragile works—with some materials sourced from locations around the Wex and Columbus— Vicuña offered viewers a transporting spatial poem that commented on colonialism and climate change.
Performing Arts
The Wex features artists from around the world who are transforming dance, music, theater, and cross-disciplinary forms—inviting them to perform as well as interact with local audiences, students, and faculty.
Fusing experimental cinematography, otherworldly set design, and hypnotic choreography, Tesseract (top) offered a spectacular evening of image and movement. A collaboration between video artist Charles Atlas and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener—all three Merce Cunningham Dance Company alums—the evening opened with a mesmerizing 3-D film directed by Atlas, then shifted to a live performance with dancers forming intricate patterns behind a mammoth scrim. In Untamed Space (bottom left), choreographer André M. Zachery and his Renegade Performance Group offered a compelling look at 21st-century
African American identity through the lens of maroon colonies. These independent communities were established in the 17th and 18th centuries by self-liberated Africans who escaped slavery by fleeing to mountains, forests, and other hardto-reach areas after arriving in the Americas. In Paramodernities (middle right), devised by dance artist Netta Yerushalmy, a team of performers deconstructed landmark modern choreographies while guest scholars situated the works within the larger project of modernism. An encyclopedic four-hour presentation tackled such themes as race and feminism through the work of Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and others.
“What an amazing exp 4 youth from our TEEN prog & I had performing in the world premiere of Symphonic Body/Food w/ Dir Ann Carlson @wexarts! Food Accessibility and Equity advocates from all over #ColumbusOhio participated as well!” —ELLEN MOSS, PRESIDENT & CEO OF GODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION, VIA TWIT TER
An orchestral dance work created and conducted by celebrated choreographer Ann Carlson, The Symphonic Body/ Food was built entirely from the gestures of individuals working in Columbus’s food system. Carlson (middle, seated far left) invited members of that extended community to create evocative portraits onstage constructed from their everyday movements—from sitting in a meeting to teaching a cooking class to pulling
a carrot out of the ground. Part living sculpture and part collective improvisation, the work provided a window into the breadth of labor, passion, and struggle that makes up the complex web of how we nourish each other and ourselves. Carlson was one of our first Artist Residency Award recipients, premiering her work WHITE here in 1992; she completed this new work in residence at the Wex.
“The creative work for me is a catalyst to engage in dialogue and critical conversation. That’s really what I thirst for, to be part of a larger conversation.” —JAAMIL OL AWALE KOSOKO
Multidisciplinary performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (top) took on the racialized body, systemic oppression, and personal loss in Séancers, a viscerally intense journey into the black experience in America. Guest séancers included past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Bebe Miller and Ohio State professors Nadine George-Graves and Crystal Michelle Perkins.
Obie Award–winning performer Mia Barron (bottom) played the lead role in Lars Jan/Early Morning Opera’s Joan Didion’s “The White Album,” a multimedia adaptation of Didion’s groundbreaking essay. Supported by a residency at the Wex, the work connected the cultural unrest of the late 1960s with America’s turmoil today and included appearances by Artist Residency Award recipient Sharon Udoh and Ohio State students.
“Pretty special night seeing @saintseneca_ music at home in Columbus, celebrating the release of their amazing new album and start of their tour.”—GABE ROSENBERG VIA INSTAGRAM The Wex welcomed back critically acclaimed band Saintseneca (right) to celebrate the release of its latest album, Pillar of Na. The energetic show captured the group’s expansive, cross-genre stylings in the intimacy of the Black Box on Mershon Stage. The band returned to activate our galleries during the Jason Moran exhibition. Columbus-based drummer, composer, recording artist, and educator Mark Lomax II (bottom) premiered selections
from his Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project 400: An Afrikan Epic to a sold-out crowd at Lincoln Theatre. The ambitious, Wex-supported, 12-album cycle tells the story of black America stretching from precolonial Afrika, through the 400 years after the start of the Transatlantic slave trade in 1619, and into the Afrofuture. The project is accompanied by a website that serves as a learning platform and community resource.
“I feel it’s a duty and a responsibility I have as an artist to tell the stories of my people that we don’t often see in the mainstream. In order to heal, you have to have an understanding of who your ancestors were before slavery.“ —MARK LOMAX II IN JAZZIZ
Film/Video
The Wex celebrates the art of cinema with up to 200 screenings per year. Programs span contemporary international films, documentaries, and classics, as well as thematic series, festival weekends, and frequent appearances by filmmakers and industry experts.
“With Indiana Jones…you have the sounds printed in big, bold letters.” —BEN BURT T IN THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Oscar-winning effects wizards Ben Burtt and Craig Barron (top, left to right) visited the Wex for a weekend of programs celebrating their contribution to American cinema, including their innovative work on the 1981 blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark (middle left). Sound effects specialist Burtt is the voice of Pixar’s WALL•E and Star Wars’ R2-D2 and the source of both Darth Vader’s heavy breathing and the iconic lightsaber sound. Visual effects specialist
Barron has worked on The Empire Strikes Back and E.T. for George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic, the X-Men and Star Trek franchises, and many other projects. Together they’ve traveled the country delivering engaging presentations that dissect special effects from classic films. Their weekend at the Wex included a free reception and student-only conversation where the pair discussed their careers and the future of the field with fans (at left and middle right).
“I always love bringing my films back to screen at the Wexner Center. I just consider the Wexner part of my DNA.” —FILMMAKER JENNIFER REEDER IN COLUMBUS UNDERGROUND
Every year the Wex welcomes leading filmmakers from around the world to present their work to local audiences—and also to complete projects in our busy Film/Video Studio. Iconoclastic Mexican director Carlos Reygadas visited to introduce Our Time (2018, top) as part of a career retrospective. Past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Penny Lane returned to present her new documentary following The Satanic Temple’s quest for religious freedom—Hail Satan? (2019, middle right)—as part of Columbus’s The Flyover Fest. Kicking off the Wex-hosted opening night of the Columbus Black International Film Festival, filmmaker Rodney Evans introduced his feature Brother to Brother (2004, right), which received postproduction support from our Film/Video Studio and won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. Evans was one of nearly 30 artists working in the studio in 2018–19. Organized by the Wexner Center with The Museum of Modern Art, the touring career retrospective Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film launched in New York this May (middle left) and opened at the Wex in October 2019 with the Academy Award–nominated director in attendance at both venues.
Our popular Unorthodocs festival celebrates the creative possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking—which often spans a dizzying array of forms and salient issues—by inviting directors to present and discuss their work. Associate Curator of Film/Video Chris Stults (top left) spoke with art collective Soda_Jerk, whose deliriously satiric Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts remixes footage from Australian cinematic history. RaMell Ross presented the Midwest premiere of Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, middle top), a visually stunning portrait of
black life in small-town Alabama that won a Special Jury Prize for Creative Vision at Sundance. Robert Greene introduced his award-winning Bisbee ’17 (2018, middle bottom), which explores an Arizona town’s reckoning with the deportation of 1,200 immigrant workers in 1917. The Wexner Center’s free exhibition space for video, The Box often features projects that amplify current exhibitions and film series. Among the works featured this year were Barbara Hammer’s No No Nooky T.V. (1987) and Penny Lane’s Normal Appearances (2018).
The Wexner Center honors its commitment to celebrating traditions of innovation yearround through series highlighting still-relevant classics and the careers of pioneering filmmakers. Presented on the centenary of the late Swedish director’s birth, Ingmar Bergman at 100 offered visitors the opportunity to rediscover 16 of his remarkable films—including Summer with Monika (1953, at top)—most screening in 35mm. Presented in conjunction with her exhibition in our galleries, Barbara Hammer: The Body in Film showcased the artist’s sustained contribution to experimental cinema and queer and feminist filmmaking through such pioneering works as Double Strength (1978, middle left) and Multiple Orgasm (1976, middle right). The series also featured projects created during her decadeslong relationship with our Film/Video Studio. Celebrating its fifth year, our Cinema Revival festival again paired screenings of newly restored classics—including (pictured at bottom from left) David Byrne’s True Stories (1986), Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945), and Taylor Hackford’s White Nights (1985)—with presentations by leading restoration experts.
“Showing them in this context, so people can see them in a theater, gives these films new life.” —DIRECTOR OF FILM/VIDEO DAVID FILIPI ON CINEMA REVIVAL IN COLUMBUS ALIVE
CINEMA REVIVAL A FESTIVAL OF FILM RESTORATION
Education and Public Programs
The Wexner Center offers a wide array of free and low-cost programs for audiences of all ages designed to spark intellectual and cultural connectivity through engagement with contemporary art and global issues.
The annual Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change advances the arts as a catalyst for meaningful discussion of contemporary issues. This year’s event featured journalist Wil Haygood (top), author of The Butler: A Witness to History, and his inspiring new work of social history, Tigerland 1968–1969: A City Divided, A Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing.
Haygood was joined onstage (bottom) by a panel of special guests to discuss Columbus’s East High School and its miracle 1968–69 basketball and baseball seasons; race relations past and present; and Ohio State athletics. This and several other Wex events were held in conjunction with the citywide celebration I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.
“I’m so interested in this idea of being seen and seeing yourself, and how that relationship is developed. We all want to be validated and recognized in some way.” —MICKALENE THOMAS
The opening of Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me featured a lively conversation between the artist and exhibition catalogue contributor Beverly Guy-Sheftall (top right), chair of Spelman College’s Comparative Women’s Studies department and founding director of its Women’s Research and Resource Center. Other featured artist talks included a presentation by Ohio State professor Gina Osterloh (middle left) on the works of Peter Hujar; Denison University professor Hollis Griffin (middle right) on John Waters’s distinctly queer perspective; and Puerto Rico–based choreographer Awilda Rodríguez Lora (bottom) who delivered a thrilling free performance as part of a oneweek residency.
“I’m always making fun of things I love. That’s why I’ve lasted doing this for fifty years.” —JOHN WATERS IN KING KONG MAGAZINE
Visual artist, filmmaker, and provocateur John Waters joined celebrated author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman in conversation at this year’s Lambert Family Lecture (top and middle right), an annual event promoting dialogue around global issues in art and contemporary culture. The pair discussed Waters’s exhibition John Waters: Indecent Exposure and his prolific, 50-year career in film and art with humor and insight. A professor at The University at Albany (SUNY) and New York’s School of Visual Arts, Tillman is a regular contributor to artists’ books and museum catalogues, including the Wexner Center’s own Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room.
“Getting the chance to see a variety of art that has meaning and purpose inspired me to make a difference with my own, to use my voice to its full capacity.” —L AUREN, 2018–19 PAGES STUDENT
Our education programs consistently offer local high school students meaningful opportunities to develop cultural literacy and criticalthinking skills through the lens of art. Led by the Wexner Center’s Associate Director of Education Dionne Custer Edwards (bottom, standing at right), Pages pairs artists and Wex educators with teachers from across central Ohio in the planning of writingbased, experiential learning opportunities, which this
year included an exploration of Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me (top and bottom), RaMell Ross’s documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s performance Séancers. The yearlong program culminated with the publication of a Pages anthology of student writing and visual art and an Open Mic event (middle right) where students shared their work with an audience of family and friends.
Wex classes and workshops offer area youth free opportunities to engage with local and visiting artists as well as pressing contemporary issues. Visiting choreographer André M. Zachery (top) led a movement workshop in our Performance Space, and a special drumming event organized by the Cinnamon Suites Collective drew enthusiastic visitors for an afternoon of invigorating music and fun (middle). Our Art & Ecology: Youth program provides high school students the chance to explore the intersections of art and environmental issues at Ohio State while earning high school credit. Blending extensive online course work and diverse field trips (bottom right), the annual program wraps up with an exhibition of the students’ eco-conscious art at the Wex (bottom left).
“I am so happy that I took this course. I was able to experience many things that I probably would not and will not experience anywhere else.” —2018 ART & ECOLOGY STUDENT
Zoom: Family Film Festival is Columbus’s only annual celebration of family entertainment from around the world. For more than a decade, the weekend fest has offered fresh and fascinating films and lively, animated shorts that focus on kids’ unique interests and perspectives, plus free all-ages activities like our morning cereal and pajama party, ice cream social, and hands-on crafts and activities (top and middle). This past spring, the center’s Mershon Stage was transformed into a magical fairytale kingdom when Australia’s Slingsby Theatre Company returned to the Wex to perform The Young King, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short story about a prince who must decide the human cost of great riches. The event included audience participation and charming shadow puppetry that engaged children’s natural curiosity and sense of social justice.
Exhibitions
*Inherent Structure May 19–August 12, 2018
Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Michael Goodson, Senior Curator of Exhibitions. Gallery guide published by the Wexner Center.
*Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me September 14–December 30, 2018
+ entrepe performance by Mickalene Thomas and Terri Lyne Carrington. Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project. Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Michael Goodson, Senior Curator of Exhibitions, and Lucy I. Zimmerman, Assistant Curator. Presented in conjunction with I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100. Catalogue published by the Wexner Center.
*John Waters: Indecent Exposure February 2–April 28, 2019
Organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and curated by Kristen Hileman, Senior Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art. The Wexner Center for the Arts’ presentation coordinated by Bill Horrigan, Curator at Large.
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life February 2–April 28, 2019
Organized by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, and curated by Joel Smith, Richard L. Menschel Curator and Department Head at The Morgan Library & Museum. The Wexner Center for the Arts’ presentation coordinated by Bill Horrigan, Curator at Large, and Lucy I. Zimmerman, Assistant Curator.
*Jason Moran June 1–August 11, 2019
+ In-gallery musical performances by Ogún Meji Duo, Tommy Jay’s Latest Freak Show, and Saintseneca. Organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and curated by Adrienne Edwards, former Walker Art Center Curator at Large, Visual Arts, with Danielle Jackson, former Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellow, Visual Arts. The Wexner Center’s presentation coordinated by Michael Goodson, Senior Curator of Exhibitions, and Megan Cavanaugh, Director of Exhibitions Management.
*Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario/ The Precarious June 1–August 11, 2019
Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Michael Goodson, Senior Curator of Exhibitions, and Lucy I. Zimmerman, Assistant Curator.
*Barbara Hammer: In This Body June 1–August 11, 2019
+ In-gallery performance by N. Scott Johnson. Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project. Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Jennifer Lange, Film/ Video Studio Curator. Gallery guide published by the Wexner Center.
*Featured artists, curators, or other creative professionals associated with these exhibitions participated in artist talks, discussion sessions, and other events for Ohio State students and the public.
*Alicia McCarthy: No Straight Lines February 2–August 1, 2019
Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Lucy I. Zimmerman, Assistant Curator.
Programs from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
Performing Arts
Saintseneca Album Release with Black Belt Eagle Scout August 31 Josh Fox The Truth Has Changed September 14 *André M. Zachery | Renegade Performance Group Untamed Space September 27–30 Copresented with King Arts Complex.
Träd, Gräs och Stenar with Endless Boogie
Mark Lomax II 400: An Afrikan Epic January 26
Wexner Center Artist Residency Award project. World premiere. The Wexner Center for the Arts was lead commissioner of this project.
*Netta Yerushalmy Paramodernities February 7–9 *DJ Krate Digga Let the Rhythm Hit’em February 21–23
World premiere. Curated by Mark Lomax II, Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient.
+ Book signing.
*Verdensteatret HANNAH 28–31 Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers Ensemble March US premiere. featuring Hamid Al-Saadi October 10 Timothy Holley and Karen Walwyn April 7 *Charles Atlas | Rashaun Mitchell | Curated by Mark Lomax II, Wexner Center Artist Silas Riener Residency Award recipient. Tesseract Ann Carlson November 1 The Symphonic Body/Food + Light vegan meal prepared by Willowbeez *Lars Jan/Early Morning Opera Soulveg. Joan Didion’s “The White Album” + Film produced by the Wexner Center’s Film/ November 16–17 October 3
Co-commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Center Theatre Group, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Center for the Art of Performance at University of California, Los Angeles. Developed in a residency supported by the Wexner Center.
*Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Séancers December 6–8 Berlin Zvizdal: [Chernobyl - so far so close] January 11–12 US premiere.
Video Studio and directed by Alexis McCrimmon, Studio Editor.
April 12–14
Developed in residency supported by the Wexner Center.
WEXNER CENTER ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD RECIPIENT Mark Lomax II *The featured artists or representatives of these companies participated in discussion sessions, masterclasses, or other programs with Ohio State students.
Film/Video
SERIES
In the White City (Dans la ville blanche, 1983)
Ingmar Bergman at 100
Charles, Dead or Alive (Charles mort ou vif, 1969)
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället, 1957)
The Middle of the World (Le milieu du monde, 1974)
Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika, 1953)
Light Years Away (Les années lumière, 1981)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende, 1955)
September 5–October 10
Brink of Life (Nära livet, 1958) The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet, 1957) The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan, 1960) Persona (1966) Shame (Skammen, 1968) Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen, 1968) The Touch (Beröringen, 1971) Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander, 1982)
All 35mm prints Organized by Metrograph, New York City, and the UW Cinematheque, University of Wisconsin–Madison, with support from the Embassy of Switzerland.
Unorthodocs Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass with Yance Ford Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.
Shakedown (Leilah Weinraub, 2017)
+ Leilah Weinraub in person + Q&A with Rooney Elmi Supported by a Wexner Center Film/Video Studio residency. Midwest premiere. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.
Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts (Soda_Jerk, 2018)
+ Soda_Jerk in person Columbus premiere. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.
The Trial (Maria Augusta Ramos, 2018) Midwest premiere
October 25–29 Zoom: Family Film Festival Kid Flix Mix Liyana (Aaron and Amanda Kopp, 2017, Qatar/Swaziland/United States) Purple Dreams (Joanne Hock, 2017, United States) Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924, United States) + Live music by Sue Harshe + Cereal and Pajama Party (hosted by Heirloom Café) + Hands-on Crafts and Activities + Ice Cream Social (featuring Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams)
December 8
Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel, 1961)
Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah, 1986)
Early Visconti (1943–63)
Shorts
Ossessione (Obsession, 1943)
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna, 1963)
Bisbee ‘17 (Robert Greene, 2018)
La terra trema (The Earth Trembles, 1948)
The Silence (Tystnaden, 1963) Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop, 1972) Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten, 1978) Most films screened in 35mm prints
+ Robert Greene in person Columbus premiere
Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979)
Restored in 2015 by the Academy Film Archive. Restoration funding provided by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Film Foundation.
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
July 5—August 15
+ Bing Liu in person Columbus premiere
Wex Drive-In
América (Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside, 2018)
Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) July 19 The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) August 14 Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) June 18 All 35mm prints
Retrospective: Alain Tanner Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000, 1976)
+ Diego Alvarez Serrano, Erick Stoll, and Chase Whiteside in person Supported by a Wexner Center Film/Video Studio residency. Midwest premiere.
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli, 1960) 4K restoration
Bellissima (Beautiful, 1951) 35mm print
Senso (1954) The Leopard (Il gattopardo, 1963) 4K restoration
White Nights (Le notti bianche, 1957) January 10–30 Series originally organized as a full retrospective by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York. Touring series organized by Luce Cinecittà, Rome.
Reception with the filmmakers
Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, 2018)
The War at Home (Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown, 1979)
+ RaMell Ross in person + Q&A moderated by Jared Thorne, Assistant Professor in Ohio State’s Department of Art Midwest premiere
Blue Velvet Revisited (Peter Braatz, 2016)
The Salamander (La salamandre, 1971)
Ohio premiere
Messidor (1979)
Wild Relatives (Jumana Manna, 2018) Midwest premiere
Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy? (Kidlat Tahimik, 1979)
4K restoration by IndieCollect
Filibus (Mario Roncoroni, 1915)
+ Introduced by Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, Co-owners, Milestone Films US premiere of new restoration by EYE Filmmuseum, produced by Milestone Films.
From Sunrise to Die Hard: The History of 20th Century Fox
+ Presented by Schawn Belston, Executive Vice President, Library and Technical Services, 20th Century Fox
True Stories (David Byrne, 1986)
+ Introduced by Lee Kline, Technical Director, The Criterion Collection 4K restoration by The Criterion Collection.
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
+ Introduced by Eric Luszcz, Digital Restoration Artist, The Criterion Collection World premiere of the 4K restoration by The Criterion Collection.
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
Burtt and Barron: Revolutionary FX
Heather Lenz
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
Kusama–Infinity (2018)
A Conversation with Craig Barron and Ben Burtt Student-only event
Reception with the filmmakers
Retrospective: Carlos Reygadas
Natalia Almada
Japón (Japan, 2002)
Everything Else (Todo lo demás, 2016)
Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo, 2005)
November 9
Prisoners of the Earth (Prisioneros de la tierra, Mario Soffici, 1939)
35mm print
Silent Light (Stellet licht, 2007)
Our Time (Nuestro tiempo, 2018)
November 14
+ Carlos Reygadas in person + Q&A moderated by Laura Podalsky, Chair of Ohio State’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese
March 8–30
White Nights (Taylor Hackford, 1985)
Mortal Bodies (Barbara Hammer) June 6
Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, 1926)
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.
Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie
Barbara Hammer: The Body in Film
+ Part of Zoom Family Programming Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
+ Natalia Almada in person
Post tenebras lux (Light after Darkness, 2012)
Cinema Revival Reception
Laurel and Hardy X 4
Ojoboca October 2
March 1–2
+ Craig Barron and Ben Burtt in person
+ Introduced by Rita Belda, Vice President of Asset Management, Film Restoration and Digital Mastering, Sony Pictures World premiere of the 4K restoration by Sony Pictures.
September 20
Presented in conjunction with Cinema, Expanded, an exhibition curated by Roger Beebe, Professor in Ohio State’s Department of Art, and on view at Ohio State’s Hopkins Hall Gallery October 15– November 29, 2018.
The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark
+ Introduced by John Polito, Founder and Chief Engineer, Audio Mechanics Sound restoration by Audio Mechanics. Film restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Cinémathèque Française with the support of George Lucas Family Foundation.
+ Introduced by Margaret Bodde, Executive Director, The Film Foundation Restored by Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in association with the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken with elements provided by the Cinémathèque Française and the Národní Filmový Archiv. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
+ Heather Lenz in person
Sensual Bodies (Barbara Hammer) June 13 Political Bodies (Barbara Hammer) June 20
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body. Film prints courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
+ Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie in person Presented in conjunction with Cinema, Expanded, an exhibition curated by Roger Beebe, Professor in Ohio State’s Department of Art, and on view at Ohio State’s Hopkins Hall Gallery October 15– November 29, 2018.
Roberta Grossman Who Will Write Our History? (2018) + Roberta Grossman in person
November 15
Presented in conjunction with the Columbus Jewish Film Festival.
Gary Hustwit Rams (2018)
+ Gary Hustwit in person
November 27
+ Introduced by Tim Lanza, Vice President and Archivist, Cohen Film Collection + Part of Zoom Family Programming 4K restoration by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection.
Rodney Evans
+ Irene Lusztig in person
That Brennan Girl (Alfred Santell, 1946)
Brother to Brother (2004)
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.
VISITING FILMMAKERS
New restoration by Paramount Pictures.
+ Rodney Evans in person
Les rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
August 23
Irene Lusztig Yours in Sisterhood (2018) January 26
Presented in conjunction with the opening night of the Columbus Black International Film Festival.
Jodie Mack
New restoration by Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
Tamer El Said
+ Jodie Mack in person
Claudine (John Berry, 1974)
In the Last Days of the City (2016)
+ Postscreening conversation with Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of African American and African Studies at Ohio State. Restored by 20th Century Fox. Cosponsored by the Columbus Black International Film Festival.
February 21–26
+ Tamer El Said in person
September 17
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Middle East Studies Center.
The Grand Bizarre (2018) March 7
Laura Parnes Tour Without End (2018) + Laura Parnes in person
March 21
Penny Lane x 2 Hail Satan? (2019) The Pain of Others (2018) + Penny Lane in person
May 10–11
Presented in conjunction with The Flyover Fest.
Rafiki (Wanuri Kahiu, 2018) January 31 & February 2 Dance@30FPS February 12
Copresented with Ohio State’s Department of Dance.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman x 2 Paragraph 175 (2000) New restoration
February 3
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) 16mm print
The Foreigner’s Home (2018)
Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2018) + Valentine’s Day screening
May 16
February 14
Black Mother (Khalik Allah, 2018) April 5
CONTEMPORARY SCREEN
DigiEYE March 20
Inquiring Nuns (Gordon Quinn, 1968)
3 Faces (Se rokh, Jafar Panahi, 2018) March 22–23
El desencanto (The Disenchantment, Jaime Chávarri, 1976) April 25
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Di qiu zui hou de ye wan, Bi Gan, 2018) April 18–19
Zen for Nothing (Werner Penzel, 2016) May 23–24
Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham, 2018) May 17–18
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
Rian Brown and Geoff Pingree + Rian Brown and Geoff Pingree in person
Ava (Sadaf Foroughi, 2017) July 20–21 Araby (Arábia, João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa, 2017) July 24 Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeanette: L’enfance de Jeanne d’Arc, Bruno Dumont, 2017) July 27–28
Curated by Janet Parrott, Chair and Associate Professor in Ohio State’s Department of Theatre.
I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017) August 3–4
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, 2018) June 14–15
The Third Murder (Sandome no satsuji, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2017) August 10–11
DOCUMENTARIES
The Skin I’m In: Queer Black Shorts August 23
Presented in conjunction with the Columbus Black International Film Festival.
Sundance Shorts 2018 September 4 Nico, 1988 (Susanna Nicchiarelli, 2017) September 6–7 Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, 2017) October 11–12 The Best of the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival November 8 Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018) January 18 & 20
Liv & Ingmar (Dheeraj Akolkar, 2012) July 13 Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi, 2017) October 19 Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman, 2018) November 16–17 Studio 54 (Matt Tyrnauer, 2018) December 6–8 The Great Buster (Peter Bogdanovich, 2018) January 24–25 The Image Book (Le livre d’image, Jean-Luc Godard, 2018) February 7–8 The Gospel of Eureka (Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri, 2018) February 15–16
February 28
New 16mm restoration
April 11
Columbus premiere
June 11
Say Amen, Somebody (George T. Nierenberg, 1983) New 4K restoration
June 21–22
The Cancer Journals Revisited (Lana Lin, 2018) June 27–28
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body and the series Barbara Hammer: The Body in Film.
CLASSICS Personal Problems (Bill Gunn, 1980) August 17–18 The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971)
New 4K restoration + Preceded by The Letter (Bill Morrison, 2018), Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient.
August 24–25
Les carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 35mm print
August 28
Print courtesy of the Institut français.
Le corbeau (The Raven, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943) 4K restoration
Damn Yankees (George Abbot and Stanley Donen, 1958)
August 30
+ Part of Zoom Family Programming 35mm print
The Atomic Cafe (Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, and Pierce Rafferty, 1982)
Print courtesy of University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Moving Image Archives.
4K restoration
September 14 Duke Ellington & Friends: Jazz Greats on Film September 23
Presented in conjunction with Columbus’s yearlong celebration I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda, 1977)
April 12–13
John Waters x 2 Pecker (1998) Female Trouble (1974) 35mm prints
April 28
The Juniper Tree (Nietzchka Keene, 1990) New 4K restoration
May 2–3
October 4
Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver, 1977)
Jiří Trnka
May 14
Jiří Trnka: Five Animated Shorts (1946–65) November 2
Audrey Hepburn x 2
New restoration
The Emperor’s Nightingale (Císařův slavík, Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec, 1949) + Part of Zoom Family Programming
New restoration
Robin and Marian (Richard Lester, 1976) New 4K restoration
Secret People (Thorold Dickinson, 1952) 35mm print
December 1
May 22
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) November 7
Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980) June 7–8
New restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The Smallest Show on Earth (Basil Dearden, 1957) 35mm print
November 23
Screened in conjunction with Cinevent 51.
CARTOON CROSSROADS COLUMBUS Artist Talk: Kelly Gallagher Artist Talk: Sally Cruikshank
None Shall Escape (André De Toth, 1944)
Prints courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
November 29–30
Artist Talk: Jim Woodring On Poochytown
New 4K restoration
Restoration by Sony Pictures.
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, Wim Wenders, 1987)
+ CXC keynote 2018 + Reception
New 4K restoration
Artist Talk: Lynn Johnston On For Better or For Worse
Restoration with 5.1 sound mix provided by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by Wim and Donata Wenders.
September 27–28
December 13–14
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (Allan Arkush, 1979) 35mm print
March 15
SPECIAL EVENTS Coeur fidèle (The Faithful Heart, Jean Epstein, 1923) + Live music by Alloy Orchestra
October 16
Animation Action Analysis: John Canemaker on Golden Age Disney Masters Vladimir Tytla and Milt Kahl + Followed by Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, 1940) Restored by Disney Studios. + Book signing
October 18
Dragnet Girl (Hijôsen no onna, Yasujiro Ozu, 1933) + Live music by Coupler
March 26
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour April 2–4 Out There (Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill, 2019)
+ Concept video album and live performance by Princess
April 10
Ohio Shorts + Reception
April 27
No Evil Eye
+ Microcinema + Zine fair
May 9
Curated by Rooney Elmi and Ingrid Raphael. Presented in conjunction with The Flyover Fest.
THE BOX Terremoto Santo (Holy Tremor) (Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, 2017) July
+ Book signing Organized by Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Persistence of Vision (Rodney Evans, 2016) August
Other participating organizations in this year’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus include Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Museum of Art, and Columbus Metropolitan Library.
one is too few and two is only one possibility (Emma Levesque-Schaefer, 2017) September
Astro Black (Soda_Jerk, 2007–ongoing) October
Crystal Griffith and H.L.T. Quan (work in progress)
Cinétracts ’68 (1968) November
Lisa Katzman, 9/11’s Unsettled Dust (2019)
Mix Tape (from Tape Number One) (Tommy Becker, 2013–16) December
Lana Lin, The Cancer Journals Revisited (2018)
The Ague (Pilar Mata Dupont, 2018) January
April Martin (work in progress)
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid (Yvonne Rainer, 2002) February
Dani and Sheilah ReStack, Come Coyote (2019)
Hoarders Without Borders 1.0 (Jodie Mack, 2018) March Bethel (Bobby T Luck, 2018) April Normal Appearances (Penny Lane, 2018) May No No Nooky T.V. (Barbara Hammer, 1987) June
Erik Levine, Scenario (2019)
Bobby T Luck, Bethel (2018) Xan Palay (work in progress)
Lynne Sachs, A Month of Single Frames (2019) J.P. Sniadecki and Lisa Marie Malloy, A Shape of Things to Come (2019) Andrew Stanley, Flowers of the Field (2018) Deborah Stratman, Vever (for Barbara) (2019) Pacho Velez and Courtney Stephens (work in progress) Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, RISE (2018) Amy Yoes, Mobile Animation Unit (2019)
WEXNER CENTER ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD RECIPIENTS Barbara Hammer Natasha Mendonca Bill Morrison FILM/VIDEO STUDIO PROGRAM ARTISTS Mary Jo Bole (work in progress) Naomi Brito (work in progress) Ann Carlson, Symphonic Stories | Food (2019) Malcolm Cochran, Documentation of “Requiem” (2019) Pilar Mata Dupont, The Ague (2018) and Shuffle (2017/18) Rodney Evans, Vision Portraits (2019) and Interior/Exterior, 2019 Jeanne Finley, Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome (2019) Hope Ginsburg, Swirling (2019)
Rodney Evans’s Vision Portraits premiered at SXSW. Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s RISE premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Audi Short Film Award.
Education and Public Programs PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOLS Expanded Classroom: Contemporary Art in Practice (Grades 4–12) Tours for School Groups Call & Response (Grades 7–12) August–May Art & Ecology (Grades 10–12) + Reception: December 13 + Exhibition: December 13–30
August–January
Pages: An Arts, Literacy, and Writing Program (Grades 9–12)
WexLab Workshops Drop-in Studio for Youth (Ages 12–20) November 15 WexLab Extra (Ages 13+) April 7 Zoom: Family Film Festival (see complete program list in the film/video section) December 8 Ohio Shorts + Reception
April 27
August–May
SELECTED ADULT PUBLIC PROGRAMS
WorldView: Cultural Intersections in Contemporary Art (Grades 8–12)
Exhibition and Artist Talks, Panel Discussions, and Endowed Programs
Screening of All This Panic (Jenny Gage, 2016) and discussion December 14
The Politics of Sports: A Conversation with The Nation’s Dave Zirin
Free Performance for School Groups (Grades K–12)
September 10
+ Open Mic Reading and Reception: May 7
Slingsby Theatre Company The Young King
+ Book signing
Artist Talk: Amy Fusselman Idiophone + Book signing
+ Part of Zoom Performing Arts for Kids
September 12
PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATORS AND DOCENTS
Artist Talk: Mickalene Thomas and Beverly Guy-Sheftall in Conversation September 13
Docent brainstorming sessions
Paul Major in Conversation with Ron House
May 15–17
Docent fun day Docent gallery learning Docent training course In-service programs and networking/outreach with educators and teachers in training PROGRAMS FOR FAMILY, YOUTH, AND TEENS Outreach programs with youth and families citywide, in partnerships with Ohio History Center and Dublin High Schools Media Advisory Group.
Curator Tour: Lucy I. Zimmerman Breaking and Making Space: Collage and the Art of Mickalene Thomas November 29 Gallery Talk: Alex Da Corte on John Waters Tasteless March 7 Lambert Family Lecture: John Waters and Lynne Tillman in Conversation + Book signing
March 18
Writer’s Reading: Paloma Martinez-Cruz Food Fight! + Book signing
March 28
Writer’s Reading: William E. Jones I’m Open to Anything + Book signing
April 16
Writer’s Reading: Carlos Gabriel Kelly Wounds Fragments Derelict + Book signing
April 25
Curator Tour: Jennifer Lange and Paul Hill on Barbara Hammer June 6 Curator Tour: Michael Goodson on Jason Moran and Cecilia Vicuña June 27
+ Book signing
Gallery Events
Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change Tigerland: Columbus at the Intersection of Sports and Race with special guest Wil Haygood
Art & Resilience A series of art-based programs designed to support people recovering from brain injuries, PTSD, and other trauma including substance abuse, human trafficking, and incarceration.
October 3
+ Moderated by Chris Bournea + Panelists included Alice Flowers, Jack Gibbs Jr., Paul Pennell, and William Shkurti. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Athletics with additional support from Ohio State’s Sports and Society Initiative, the Ohio History Connection, and members of the Ohio State student group Redefining Athletic Standards (RAS). Presented in conjunction with I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.
October 8
Art on the Brain September–November On Pause September–June Vets at the Wex September–November February–April Art Unlocked February–April June 30
Faculty Gallery Talks Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me Simone C. Drake Muses, Funk, and Creative Legacies in the Art of Mickalene Thomas September 27 Tosha Stimage The Self-Aware Subjects and Spaces of Mickalene Thomas November 15
Both talks presented in conjunction with I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life Gina Osterloh The Slow Practice of Looking March 20 John Waters: Indecent Exposure Hollis Griffin For the Love of Trash: John Waters, Low Theory, and the Art of Queer Curation April 3 Walk-In Tours Selected Cosponsored Events Artist Talk: Charles Gaines September 20
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art’s Living Culture Initiative and the Cultural Events Committee.
Kenneth Frampton and Jeff Kipnis in Conversation October 1 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture.
Ohio Prison Arts Connection Second Annual Statewide Gathering + Panelists included Piper Kerman, Warden Ronette Burkes, Mark Crawford, and Gwendolyn Garth.
October 12
Cosponsored by OPAC.
Artist Talk and Performance: Carlyle Brown Acting Black: Demystifying Racism October 15
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Theatre, Office of Outreach and Engagement, College of Education and Human Ecology, College of Social Work, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Government Affairs, Office of the President, Office of Student Life, and University Libraries; the King Arts Complex; the Greater Columbus Arts Council; and the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network. Presented in conjunction with I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.
HISS Magazine Issue 3 Launch Party October 18 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.
Lynne Cooke Boundary Trouble: Outliers and American Vanguard Art October 30
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art’s Living Culture Initiative and Visiting Artist Program and History of Art Department.
A Conversation with Joe Sacco + Modernist Studies Association 2018 keynote event
November 8
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Libraries, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, and Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
COMPAS Conference The Pleasures and Perils of Personal Technology February 15
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Conversations on Morality, Politics and Society.
David Shields Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump + Book signing
February 18
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of English and Project Narrative.
Artist Talk: Zoe Leonard February 28
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art’s Living Culture Initiative and Visiting Artists Committee.
Artist Talk: Awilda Rodríguez Lora March 5
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Latino/a Studies Program; Center for Ethnic Studies; Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Department of Dance; Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy; and Department of African American and African Studies. Rodríguez Lora’s 2019 residency at the Wex made possible through a partnership with Theresa Delgadillo and Ramón Rivera-Servera.
Artist Talk: Suné Woods The Making of Aragonite Stars and Other Obsessions March 22
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art’s Living Culture Initiative and the Visiting Artists Committee.
CogFest 2019 Screening and Panel Discussion
+ Featuring The Final Cut (Omar Naim, 2004) + Panelists included Julie Golomb, Lydia Kwong, Aleix Martinez, and Gaurav Sharma.
March 24
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Cognitive Science Club.
Artist Talk: Peter Halley Narratives in Abstract Art April 4
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art and the Public Narrative Collaborative Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme.
Selected Community, University, and Member Events First Sundays Free Thursdays (after 4 pm) Featuring free gallery admission
Member Appreciation Days December 1–3 Valentine’s Day at the Wex
Presented in conjunction with I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.
+ Gallery tour + Poetry reading: Kent Grosswiler’s Beauty Found in Darkness on Valentine’s Day + Book signing + Wex hour + Film screening: Asako I & II
The Big Explore
GenWex Presents
December 29
DIG IN with DJ Krate Digga
Super Sundays Art Studio with Cinnamon Suites October 7
Featuring free gallery admission
February 14
Presented in conjunction with The Columbus Foundation’s 75th anniversary celebration, the Big Explore.
+ Documentary screening + Q&A + DJing basics workshop
Back to School: Performing Arts 2018–19 Season Preview August 17
Off the Grid March 9
Exhibition Previews and Receptions Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me
+ Artist Talk: Mickalene Thomas in Conversation with Beverly Guy-Sheftall
September 13
John Waters: Indecent Exposure Peter Hujar: Speed of Life Alicia McCarthy: No Straight Lines February 1 Jason Moran Barbara Hammer: In This Body Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario/The Precarious + Performances by Ogún Meji Duo and N. Scott Johnson
May 31
Fall Student Party
+ Screening of Kusana-Infinity
September 21
Anniversary Party November 10
February 16
Coffee Talk with Mary St. Jaymes April 6 Private exhibition and building tours Private receptions before or after selected event
Thanks to You— Our Donors The Wexner Center for the Arts thanks all our contributors and members for their generosity. We are proud to receive support from The Ohio State University and from individuals, foundations, corporations, and public agencies in this community, across the nation, and around the world. This public/private collaboration enables the center to pursue and strengthen our mission to serve as a creative laboratory, a place where diverse audiences can discover the arts of our time, and where artists can realize and share their work and vision. If you are interested in supporting the work of the Wexner Center, please call the development office at (614) 688-0980 or send an email to kstevelt@wexarts.org. ENDOWMENT GIFTS The following endowments have been established to support the Wexner Center and our programs. Endowed funds may be created through direct donations or as part of your estate plan. The Wexner Center for the Arts Building Fund Leslie H. Wexner in memory of Harry L. Wexner Permanent Endowment Su Au Arnold Preservation and Maintenance Fund for the Wexner Center and Mershon Auditorium The Louise and David A. Braver Fund for the Arts The Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change Endowment The Doris Duke Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts William Fung Family Endowment Fund Sherri Geldin Innovation Fund DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Program Fund The Anita and Michael Goldberg—Rite Rug Company and its founder, Duke Goldberg Endowment for Wexner Center Children and Family Programs Carl E. Haas Trust Ali Hagedorn Fund for the Performing Arts The Lambert Family Lecture Series Endowment L Brands Real Estate Division Fund for Architecture and Design Programs Ethel Manley Long Fund The John McKitrick Family Fund for Mershon Auditorium The Lawrence and Jean Mervis Education Endowment Fund The Ohio State University Class of 1985 Endowment Fund The Jean E. Parish Endowment Shumate Family Endowment Fund The Mark T. Tappen Fund Tuckerman Family Endowment for Children’s Programs Wexner Center Foundation Trustees Endowment Fund Wexner Center Program Endowment Fund Harrison Koppel Wexner Endowment for Children’s Programs
PLANNED GIFTS The following donors have made contributions through bequests or other types of deferred gifts. Adrienne and Sidney Chafetz Patricia Howard* Jean Parish Ric Wanetik and David Hagans OPERATING AND UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT The following donors have supported the Wexner Center with unrestricted gifts and grants for general operations. The Columbus Foundation James W. Overstreet Fund Adam R. Flatto Greater Columbus Arts Council Kaufman Development C. Robert Kidder and Mary G. Kidder Bill and Sheila Lambert Ohio Arts Council Orange Barrel Media Nationwide Foundation Joyce and Charles Shenk Abigail and Leslie Wexner PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS The following donors have made contributions to support specific Wexner Center programs, initiatives, and/or capital projects. American Electric Power Foundation Dave and Carol Aronowitz Art4Moore Fund Arts Midwest Touring Fund Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Big Lots Foundation Cardinal Health and Cardinal Health Foundation Crane Family Foundation CoverMyMeds Easton Town Center Equitas Health Huntington Bank Ingram-White Castle Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Martha Holden Jennings Foundation L Brands Foundation Richard M. Mershad National Endowment for the Arts National Performance Network New England Foundation for the Arts Ohio Arts Council The Ohio State University Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT) Rohauer Collection Foundation, Inc. Alex and Renée Shumate
PROMOTIONAL AND MEDIA SUPPORT Dispatch Media Group Experience Columbus Mills James The Ohio State University Orange Barrel Media (614) Magazine WCBE 90.5 FM WOSU Public Media COMMUNITY PARTNERS Alvis House American Institute of Architects-Columbus Ash+Em BalletMet Bartha Best Food Forward The Blackwell Cameron Mitchell Premier Events Cancer Support Community Central Ohio Cartoon Crossroads Columbus The Center for Architecture and Design Center of Science and Industry (COSI) Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden at the Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith Cherbourg Bakery City of Columbus CivitasNow Columbia Gas of Ohio Inc. Columbus Black International Film Festival Columbus City Schools Columbus College of Art & Design Columbus Idea Foundry Columbus International Film + Animation Festival Columbus Landmarks Foundation Columbus Metropolitan Club Columbus Metropolitan Library Columbus Museum of Art Columbus State Community College Columbus Symphony Columbus Urban League Columbus Young Professionals Club Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Franklin County Creative Control Fest Dough Mama Café + Bakery Dublin Arts Council ECLIPSECORP Elizabeth’s Records Equality Ohio Equitas Health Event Source Experience Columbus Foraged & Sown Fotofocus 400 West Rich Franklin County CATCH Court Program Franklin County Reentry Coalition Franklin Park Conservatory Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District Freedom a la Cart
Freshtown Farm Giant Eagle Market District–Upper Arlington Godman Guild Association Greater Columbus Film Commission Hai Poke Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil Harriet Gardens Healing Broken Circles Heidelberg Distributing Heirloom Café Hiss Magazine Hopkins Printing Human Rights Campaign Jazz Arts Group Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus Juvenile Justice Coalition King Arts Complex Local Matters Lost Weekend Records Lower Lights Christian Health Center McConnell Arts Center Mid-Ohio Foodbank Mikey’s Late Night Slice Milo Arts Mount Carmel’s Crime & Trauma Assistance Program The Nature Conservancy Ohio 934 Gallery NNEMAP Food Pantry Ohio Art League Ohio Craft Museum Ohio Dance Ohio Designer Craftsmen Ohio Dominican University Ohio History Connection Ohio Innocence Project Ohio Justice and Policy Center The Ohio State University Alumni Association Ohio Water Resources Center Parsons Avenue Merchants Association The Pizzuti Collection Polka Dot Cupcakery ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Radio 614 Redbird Books to Prisoners Refigural Replenish Spa Rowe Boutique Seventh Son Brewing Co. Short North Alliance South Side Fruit Park Spoonful Records Stonewall Columbus Studio 35 Thurber House Transit Arts Weinland Park Community Civic Association Wild Goose Creative Willowbeez Soulveg Women’s Fund of Central Ohio YWCA Columbus
CORPORATE COUNCIL The following corporations have made unrestricted gifts to the Wexner Center for the Arts and/or the Wexner Center Foundation and receive benefits as corporate members of the center. International Council: $100,000+ National Council: $50,000–$99,999 Trustees Council: $25,000–$49,999 Benefactors Council: $10,000–$24,999 Chairman’s Council: $5,000–$9,999 Investors Council: $2,500–$4,999 Advocates Council: $1,000–$2,499 International Council L Brands Foundation National Council American Electric Power Brookfield Properties Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Live Technologies LLC Vornado Realty Trust Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP Trustees Council Alliance Data Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp Axium Plastics Bocchi Laboratories CBRE, Inc. CCL Label Inc. FactGem Fenwick & West LLP Firmenich The Forbes Company Georgetown Co. Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. Ivanhoé Cambridge KDC/ONE Columbus LT Custom Furnishings Inc. MACERICH M/I Homes Paramount Group, Inc. PREIT Regina Miracle International (Holdings) Ltd. Simon Property Group Taubman Vee Pak, LLC Benefactors Council Aeron Lifestyle Technology Alene Candles, LLC Anomatic Corporation Arent Fox LLP Aronov Realty Management Inc. Bogart Lingerie Cahill Construction, Inc. CenterCal Properties Clover Group International Ltd.
Cosmetic Laboratories of America E.C. Provini Co., Inc. Fontheim Partners PC Fred Olivieri Construction Company Fuel Transport Inc. Geometric Results, Inc. Hansoll Textile Ltd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lombardi Design & Mfg. MAS Holdings (Private) Limited Matrix Psychological Services, Inc. New England Development Novatech Industries LTD Patriot Place and The Kraft Group Pioneer Elastic (Hong Kong) Ltd. RED Development, LLC Rieke Packaging Schwarz Paper Company LLC SL Green Realty Corporation Starwood Retail Partners Steiner + Associates The Superior Group Symrise Toshiba America Business Solutions TriMas Corporation Vestar W S Trading LTD. Washington Prime Group Chairman’s Council Accel Inc. Acloché LLC Acme Plastics, Inc. Alberta Development Partners APL Logistics Autumn Harp, Inc. Balance Inc. Ballard Spahr LLP BrightView Landscape B.S.T. Co. Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum Business Furniture Installations The Cafaro Foundation CASTO CBRE Centennial Real Estate Commercial Contractors, Inc. Cosmetic Essence Innovations Creative Palette Inc. Cushman & Wakefield Asset Services Debs Textile Corporation Eckinger Construction Co. Fortner Upholstering Garlock Printing Givaudan Fragrance Corp. Hanes Erie, Inc. The Howard Hughes Corporation Jack Resnick & Sons Jim Wilson & Associates Jones Day Lambert Sheet Metal, Inc.
Lee Hecht Harrison Management Resource Systems, Inc. MCP Group International Inc. M-Engineering MJB Electric Morguard Nelson’s Seasonal Decor, LLC NorthPark Management O’Neil Langan Architects, PC O’Rourke & Nappi LLP Our Country Home, Inc. Kevin Parks/Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. Perez & Morris Performance Team Pinnacle Construction Inc. PJ Mechanical Service & Maintenance Corp. Premier Candle Corp. Primaris Management Inc ProAmpac Pyramid Controls/Matthews International Robert B. Aikens & Associates Robin Enterprises Co. Rochester Malls, LLC Schimenti Construction Shremshock Architects, Inc. South Asia Textiles Limited South Coast Plaza Squire Patton Boggs LLP Textile Printing Company (dba TPC Printing & Packaging) Trademark Property Co. Vista Industrial Packaging World Wide Packaging, LLC Anonymous Investors Council Acock Associates Architects ASI - Architectural Systems, Inc. Brant InStore Commercial Cutting & Graphics Dancor Solutions Dawson Empire Express Inc. Heartland Retail Construction, Inc. Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Karen Pearse Global Direct Kite Realty Group Trust Adam and Stephanie Lewin/Hamilton Parker The Loeb Electric Company Minden Gross LLP Moondog Edit LLP Permit Resources, Inc. RCS Logistics Inc. Ruggles Sign SG360° Starr Digital Solutions Stevens Transport, Inc. Stikeman Elliott Strategic Design Consulting, LLC Trinity Logistics USA Inc.
Advocates Council Capital City Awning Capitol Light CBX Global De Jager Construction Inc. Delta Air Lines DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express Expeditors International of Washington Moody Nolan National Delivery Systems, Inc. ODW Logistics, Inc PIPP Mobile Storage Systems SMBH, Inc. Sovereign Logistics Inc. Verizon VFP Fire Systems VTL Transport Waste Management
Armory Circle Julie and Jeffrey Barnes Beth Crane and Richard McKee Paige and Mike Crane Sam and Gigi Fried DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Donna and Larry James Liza Kessler and Greg Henchel John S. and Catherine Chapin Kobacker Katherine Kuck and James Henderson Kelly Mooney and Scott Henningsen Mark A. Morrow and Jeffery D. Chaddock Lou Ann and Buss Ransom The Skestos Family Jenny and Tim Smucker Joy and Bruce Soll Susan Tomasky and Ron Ungvarsky Michael and Arlene Weiss
DONOR CIRCLES MEMBERS
Producers Circle Carol and Dave Aronowitz Jamie Bersani Dr. Brian and Teresa Biernat Shelley Bird and Jerry Wiese Elizabeth Boster and Sheila Clark Trish and John Cadwallader Jerry and Jill Dannemiller Dr. Robert E. Falcone David and Tracy Harrison Jack Jackson and Robert Storbeck Mary and Tom Katzenmeyer Robert Klaffky Lindsay Cooper Martin Allison and Andrew Meslow Mo and David Meuse Cynthia Mushrush and Randall Walters Janet and Vikram Rajadhyaksha Ram Rajadhyaksha and Shyam Rajadhyaksha David Renner and Jordanne Renner Susan and Jerome Scott Amber and Jason Shonk Patti and Steve Steinour Una Yuhua Tsou and Ken Hunter Judy and Steve Tuckerman
Donor Circles members belong to our highest categories of individual annual giving. They provide essential funding for all Wexner Center programs, while enjoying special member privileges and access year-round, including private donor events with artists in all fields, generous discounts, priority ticket assistance, and more. Trustees Circle: $25,000+ Benefactors Circle: $10,000–$24,999 Armory Circle: $5,000–$9,999 Producers Circle: $3,000–$4,999 Director’s Circle: $1,500–2,999 Trustees Circle Lisa and Christopher Barton David and Beci Campisi Brett and Katie Kaufman Bob and Mary Kidder Megan and Mark Kvamme Bill and Sheila Lambert Ann and Ron Pizzuti Joyce and Charles Shenk Abigail and Leslie Wexner Benefactors Circle George Barrett Loann W. Crane Sherri Geldin Nancy and Dave Gill Nancy Kramer and Christopher Celeste Christy Lorton James McFate Debbie Neimeth Meara and Matt Scantland
Director’s Circle Dana and Brent Adler John G. Alexander Lori Barreras and Alex Fischer Jeni Britton Bauer and Charly Bauer Kate and Ted Bauer Ashley Bersani Katharine Bowman and Kimberly Seibert Mrs. Andrew Broekema Yvette McGee and Anthony L. Brown Casey and Maresa Campbell Alessandro Ciaffoncini J. Briggs Cormier
Steven Cox and Kerry Thompson David Crane and Elizabeth Dang Rebecca and Fred Damsen Roxana and Bill Deadman Barbara and Philip Derrow Melanie Dheel and Scott Rhodes Janet and Sidney Druen Sarah Eagleson and Bill Diffenderffer Dave Filipi and Laura Larson Bonny and James Fowler Kate and Scott Gaines Dareth Gerlach Russell and Joyce Gertmenian Amy Goldstein and Marc Sigal Babette Gorman and Jack Buckingham Linda and Bob Gorman Dedrea and Paul Gray Mary Gray Robert and Mary Guiher Kim and Todd Helvie Dr. Robert and Marcia Hershfield Cindy and Larry Hilsheimer Char Hinson Lisa and Alan Hinson Celeste Holschuh David G. Horn and Victoria E. Powers Vijaya Iyer and Jeff Smith Jessica and Mac Joseph Ben Justice and Karim Ali Linda and Frank Kass Charlotte and Jack Kessler Megan Kilgore Nancy Kingsley Mark and Java Kitrick Betty Lambert Mark and Jane Landon Jacqueline Lantz Mary Lazarus Jeffrey and Kathy Lipps Yung-Chen and Katherine Lu Nancy and Thomas Lurie Cara Mangini and Tom Bauer Lisa Marmon Barb and Doug Martin Melinda McClimans Jennifer McNally and Michael Flamm Angela and David Meleca AJ Montero and Amanda Wildman D. Scott Owens and Kevin J. Kowalski Ishan Patel and Kirstie Flint Julie and Tracy Peters Heidi Popadych and Craig White Mr. Douglas J. Preisse Cordelia Robinson Neil Rosenberg Janice Roth* Leigh Schmid and Karin Lunau Christy Schoedinger and John Coleman
Patti Shorr Susan Simms and Robert Palmer Richelle Simonson The Singer Family Catherine Strauss and John Lowe Chris Streeter and Nick Weitzel Clark and Sandra Swanson Linda B. and J. Scott Taylor Maureen Thomas Connie and Craig Tuckerman Doug and Amy Grace Ulman Susan and Matthew Ungar Anne Valentine and Kent Thompson Drs. John Wakelin and Anu Chauhan Rodney Wasserstrom Dave Whitaker and R. Glenn Barker Amber and Christopher Williams David and Margie Williams Ed Wolf Janice and Herbert Wolman Bill and Jeannie Zox GENERAL MEMBERSHIP Support from Wexner Center members is crucial to our success; they are an integral part of the center’s vitality and enjoy generous benefits. Becoming a valued part of our member family is easy—just visit wexarts.org/join or call the membership office at (614) 292-1777. Memberships are also available at the Fellow ($500+), Patron ($250+), Household ($150+), and Friend ($75+) levels. Vanguard: $1,000–$1,499 Vanguard Joel and Jody Altschule Dan and Christina Crane Johanna DeStefano Miriam Freimer and Edward Levine Raminder and Amardeep Gill J. Ronald and Louisa Green Noel Mayo Gyongyi and Tibor Nadasdy Kristina Paulsen and Ryland Wharton Linda Jackson Roth Christos and Alexandra Yessios We have made every effort to recognize all of our generous donors in this listing. If we have failed to acknowledge a gift accurately, please accept our apologies and call (614) 688-4129 so that we may include more accurate information in the future. All lists reflect gifts in the past year and are current as of June 30, 2019. *Deceased
Wexner Center Staff DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Johanna Burton, Director Sherri Geldin, Director Lindsay Cooper Martin, Deputy Director James Petsche, Administrative Associate
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING Holly Brubach, Director Zach Skinner, Director Tim Steele, Building Services Coordinator
ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS Peg Fochtman, Human Resources Manager Kevin Hathaway, Senior Accountant Valerie Kohlwey, Business Systems Analyst Maureen Thomas, Director
FILM/VIDEO Adam Elliott, Administrative Assistant David Filipi, Director Paul Hill, Editor, Film/Video Studio Program Jennifer Lange, Curator, Film/Video Studio Program Debra Lemak, Administrative Associate Alexis McCrimmon, Editor, Film/Video Studio Program Chris Stults, Associate Curator, Film/Video
CREATIVE SERVICES Erica Anderson, Director Brandon Ballog, Interim Director EJ Josephat, Web Developer Kendall Markley, Graphic Designer DEVELOPMENT Sarah Ball, Development Coordinator Lindsey Beetem, Individual Giving Manager Scott Lawski, Membership Coordinator Jamila M.Zawadi, Development Assistant Christy Schoedinger, Director Karen Simonian, Advancement Projects Manager Michelle Sipes, Graduate Associate Kelly Stevelt, Director Lisa Wente, Senior Development Officer, Proposal Services EDUCATION Shelly Casto, Director Dionne Custer Edwards, Educator and Manager, School Partnerships Jo Anne Jenkins, Purchasing Assistant Maria Joranko, Program Assistant Tracie McCambridge, Manager, Gallery Teaching and Engagement Jean Pitman, Manager, Youth and Community Programs Alana Ryder, Manager, Public and University Programs EXHIBITIONS Allison Buenger, Assistant Registrar Megan Cavanaugh, Director of Exhibitions Management David Dickas, Installation Manager Marisa Espe, Curatorial Assistant Michael Goodson, Senior Curator Kristin Helmick-Brunet, Curatorial Assistant Bill Horrigan, Curator at Large Kim Kollman, Registrar Debra Lemak, Administrative Associate James-David Mericle, Preparator Nick Stull, Preparator Theresa Touma, Administrative Associate Mary VanWassenhove, Assistant Registrar Lucy Zimmerman, Assistant Curator
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Mary Abowd, Associate Editor Sydney Cologie, Social Media Coordinator Kelsey Givens, Digital Content Editor Laura Hooks, Analysis and Data Coordinator Sylke Krell, Assistant Director Josh Leavitt, Graduate Administrative Assistant Kellie Morgan Lutzko, Community Outreach and Marketing Manager Densil Porteous, Director Ryan Shafer, Publications Editor Melissa Starker, Creative Content and Public Relations Manager PATRON SERVICES Lindsay Acker, House Management Coordinator Megan Chalfant, Special Events Manager Valerie Glenn, House Management Coordinator Joanna Hammer, Ticketing Manager Marlin Hauff, Assistant Store Manager Miranda Inscho, Assistant Ticketing Manager Katie Laux, Director Helyn Marshall, House Management Manager Matt Reber, Store Manager HOUSE MANAGEMENT PART-TIME EVENT STAFF Md Ashique Tim Bachelor Erin Brubaker Crystal Ceballos Anne Courtney Pamela Denius Gillam Jennie DeStephano Lindsey Ehrman Ken Eppstein Amy Flowers Júlia Franceschi Guerra Susan Gregorek Dorian Ham Scott Hartman Susan Hyde
Alison Kennedy Kristi Kloss Meagan McGowan Michelle Meier Constance Mengel Deven Pompey-Lomax Stephanie Poole Jim Prater Jo-Ann Prater Danielle Rennick Jennifer Roessler Samina Shaw Beau Simmons Alli Sweeney Katherine Tedesco Jennifer Trawinski Joel Treadway Linda Watts Adrian Willis Armond Wimberly Keith Yoder PERFORMING ARTS Lane Czaplinski, Director Adam Elliott, Administrative Associate Ashley Stanton, Program Manager TECHNICAL SERVICES Scott Austin, Design Engineer Sonia Baidya, Lighting Designer Bill Barto, Stage Manager, Mershon Bruce Bartoo, Projectionist Andy Hensler, Stage Manager, Performance Space Steve Jones, Design Engineer John Smith, Technical Services Manager Mike Sullivan, Design Engineer PAID INTERNS Ebony Bailey Jacklyn Brickman Maddie Conway Carlisle Cundiff Abbey Diaz Michael Fletcher Malu Marzarotto Brynne McGregor Ava Morgan Miriam Nordine Sonya Rayka Lindsay Sweet Ember Zaahir Zoë Zwegat
Wexner Center Volunteers COMMUNITY DOCENTS Sonia Bazán Mary Bauer Joy Benatar Suzanne Cavazos Carol Collier Annamarie Dang Diane Driessen Monica Dunn Jillian Farley Joan Folpe Susie Gerald Dave Giveler Mary Hockenbery Andy Hudson Aubrey Jenkins Gisela Josenhans Joyce Komadina Britta Krell Sue Levin Becky Lowther Carrie Narcelles Caryn Neumann Eugene O’Connor Pat Pound Cundy Puckett Neil Rector Devon Reich Sasha Ribic Steve Ryan Kris Skarupa Jo Synder Shannon Thacker Debbie Verona Gisela Vitt Jody Wallace Pete Wray DONOR CIRCLES COUNCIL Joyce Shenk, Cochair Judy Tuckerman, Cochair Ashley Bersani Trish Cadwallader Alessandro Ciaffoncini Sheila Clark Paige Crane Nancy Gill Jessica Joseph Ben Justice Angela Meleca Jordanne Renner Janice Roth* Patti Shorr Renée Shumate Nick Weitzel
GENWEX ADVISORY COMMITTEE Isabel Andrews Sonia Baidya Sarah Ball Lindsey Beetem Emily Bessell AJ Burt Jessica Burton Jessica Cáceres Megan Chalfant Laura Cianca Sydney Cologie Carlisle Cundiff Ambrose DuPree Sandra Enimil Amy Fleenor Kirsten Fraser Diana Gerber Sarah Grosh Kyle Hatfield Laura Hooks Miranda Inscho Maria Joranko Haley Kidder Valerie Kohlwey Cathy Kujala Katie Laux Elaine McLoughlin-Overholt Kelly McNicholas Rian Medina Kellie Morgan Lutzko Michaela Nardo Michael Paitoo Rue Payne Densil Porteous Daniel Rodriguez Alana Ryder Lydia Simon Yogi Terrell Kaylyn Thomas Adam Vincent Tracey Walterbusch Matthew Wovrosh Lucy Zimmerman STUDENT ENGAGEMENT GROUP Alexandra Adcock Diego Arellano Egeman Atak Ronnie Carlson Clara Davidson Jillian Davis Rachael Farber Drew Halford Rebecca Irmen Kathleen Jajko Alexander Paquet Genevieve Wagner
SHUMATE ENDOWMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL Alex Shumate Renée Shumate Joni Acuff Ebony Bailey Jennifer A. Beard Kimberly D. Brazwell Edward Calloway Melissa R. Crum Anita Davis Simone Drake Sandra Enimil Susan Fredson-Cole Kent Harris Rachel Howard Mark Lomax II Steven S. Moore Sharbreon Plummer Sherita Roundtree Toni Shorter Smith Maurice E. Stevens VOLUNTEER USHERS Leanna Abele Lisa Anfang Rachel Barnes Rebekah Bass Joachim Bean Bita Bell Cyndy Birchfield Timothy Black Christy Brand Gary Brown Jeanne Budde Vicki Chay-Wilkins Esther Connors Jim Crowley Mariann Crowley Barb Dittoe Diane Drotleff Jill Dutton Lori Fang Jennifer Farmer Susan Fernandez Sam Folmar Sherry Forster Jayce Fryman Carla Fuller Granger Sandra Furman Kathryn Goldsmith Marty Goldsmith Bill Gresham TradeMark Gunderson Brian Herreman Carol Hines Jessica Jackson
Samantha Jones Ellen Joodi Pete Joodi Carol Kirwin Michael Kirwin Natalia Krutovskaya Cara Laviola Siqi Li Holly Longfellow Jean Lubker Margaret “Marge” Lynd Kiki Mackaman-Lofland Megan McGlone Erin McGovern Keira Mihu Marina Mogilevsky David Nassau Caryn Neumann Nancy Nixon Inessa Ostrova Marquetta Peavy Cindy Poehlmann Molly Rapp Jamie Rhein Connie Riegel Tammy Roberts Ellen Romer Reid Romer Melinda Rosenberg Philip Sarsany Hilary Sasso-Schleh John Sather Susan Sather Bill Schott Azin Sharifi Jian Shi Sarah Spaulding Sue Stright Chunchun Tao Jorge Torres Kirsten Tychonievich Michael Uetrecht Amjad Waheed Richard Warren Mike Wilkins Lisa Wiltshire Piao Xing Sofia Zinkovskaya
Photo/Image Credits WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES Leslie H. Wexner, Chair Michael V. Drake, MD, Vice Chair Bill Lambert, President
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Jaamil Olawale Kosoko performing Séancers, photo: Katie Gentry.
TRUSTEES David M. Aronowitz Lisa M. Barton Jeni Britton Bauer Shelley Bird David J. Campisi Brenda J. Drake Adam Flatto Sherri Geldin Russell M. Gertmenian Michael Glimcher Brett Kaufman Elizabeth P. Kessler C. Robert Kidder Nancy Kramer Mark D. Kvamme James Lyski Ronald A. Pizzuti Janet B. Reid Joyce Shenk Alex Shumate Abigail S. Wexner Sue Zazon
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Wil Haygood at this year’s Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change; with fans at the reception following the event; and with panelists Alice Flowers, Jack Gibbs, Jr., Paul Pennell, William Shkuri, Chris Bournea, photos: Katie Gentry. Mickalene Thomas on stage with Beverly Guy-Sheftall, photo: Katie Gentry. Gina Osterloh, photo: Calista Lyon. Hollis Griffin, photo: TJ Thomson. Awilda Rodríguez Lora with audience members, photo: Sylke Krell. John Waters and Lynne Tillman on stage and a view of the audience at this year’s Lambert Family Lecture, photos: Brooke LaValley. Pages participants touring Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me; this year’s Pages publication; and Open Mic event, photos: Katie Gentry. André M. Zachery leads a movement workshop, photo: Sylke Krell. Visitors participate in a drum session with Cinnamon Suites Collective, photos: Katie Gentry. An Art & Ecology student at the exhibition reception, photo: Katie Gentry. Art & Ecology students gardening, photo: Shelly Casto. Families enjoy films and activities during the Zoom: Family Film Festival, photos: Katie Gentry. Slingsby Theatre Company’s the Young King, photo: Andy Ellis.
EX OFFICIO Peter L. Hahn Bruce A. McPheron Bruce A. Soll Mark E. Vannatta
Inside Covers Installation view of Barbara Hammer’s Artist Residency Award project Evidentiary Bodies (2018) in the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body.
Johanna Burton, photo: Katie Gentry. Exhibitions Installation view of Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me. Patrons at the exhibition preview for Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me, photos: Katie Gentry. Patron at the exhibition preview for John Waters: Indecent Exposure, photo: Brandon Ballog. John Waters with patrons at the exhibition preview for John Waters: Indecent Exposure, photo: Brooke LaValley. Installation view of John Waters: Indecent Exposure at the Baltimore Museum of Art, photo: Baltimore Museum of Art, and at the Wexner Center, photo: Brandon Ballog. Installation view of Peter Hujar: Speed of Life. Installation view of Alicia McCarthy’s No Straight Lines in the lower lobby. Artist Alicia McCarthy (right) and Oliver Hawk Holden installing No Straight Lines, photo: Lucy Zimmerman. Installation view of Barbara Hammer: In This Body, photo: Katie Gentry. Film/Video Studio Editor Paul Hill with Florrie Burke, photo: Katie Gentry. The Ogún Meji Duo performs in Jason Moran’s mixed-media installation at the exhibition preview for Jason Moran, photo: Katie Gentry. Installation view of Jason Moran. Patrons discuss Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario/The Precarious, photo: Katie Gentry. Installation view of Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario/The Precarious. Performing Arts Rashaun Mitchell, Cori Kresge, Melissa Toogood, Silas Riener, Kristen Foote, David Rafael Botana in Tesseract, photo © Mick Bello / EMPAC. André Zachery | Renegade Performance Group, Untamed Space, photo: Richard Louissaint. Netta Yerushalmy, Paramodernities, photo: Arnaud Falchier. Choreographer Ann Carlson rehearses with participants, photos: Alexis McCrimmon. Ann Carlson, The Symphonic Body, photo: Toni Gauthier, courtesy of Stanford Arts Institute. Jaamil Olawale Kosoko performing Séancers, photo: Katie Gentry. Mia Barron in Lars Jan/Early Morning Opera’s Joan Didion’s “The White Album”, image courtesy of the artist. Saintseneca performs at the release party for their album Pillar of Na, photo: EJ Josephat. Mark Lomax II performs selections from 400: An African Epic at Columbus’s Lincoln Theatre, photo: Maddie McGarvey. Film/Video Ben Burtt and Craig Barron in conversation, photo: Nathan Ward. Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark, image courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Craig Barron visits with patrons, Ben Burtt signing a fan’s book, photos: Nathan Ward. Carlos Reygadas, Our Time, image courtesy of Monument Releasing. Wexner Center Director of Film/Video David Filipi, Julia Reichert, and Steven Bognar onstage at The Museum of Modern Art. Penny Lane, Hail Satan?, image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Rodney Evans, Brother to Brother, photo: Constanze Mirre, image courtesy of the artist. Curator of Film/Video Chris Stults with art collective Soda_Jerk, photo: Brynne McGregor. Ramell Ross, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, image courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Robert Greene, Bisbee ’17, image courtesy of the artist. Barbara Hammer, No No Nooky T.V., image courtesy of The Barbara Hammer Estate and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Penny Lane, Normal Appearances, image courtesy of the artist. Ingmar Bergman, Summer with Monika, image courtesy of Janus Films. Barbara Hammer, stills from Double Strength and Multiple Orgasm, images courtesy of The Barbara Hammer Estate and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Images of Barbara Hammer from the Film/Video Studio’s “Polaroid Wall” created while Hammer was in residence at the Wexner Center. David Byrne, True Stories, image courtesy of Warner Bros. Edgar Ulmer, Detour, image courtesy of Janus Films. Taylor Hackford, White Nights, image courtesy of Sony Pictures.