Holiday Workshops for Kids

Friday and Saturday nights 6-9pm
December

5th, 6th,

12th, 13th,

19th, 20th
$30
Students spend an evening making multiple artistic creations ranging from painting to collage to sculpture.  Several of the projects will relate to the artwork in the gallery just outside the classroom.  Students will leave with all of their creations, ready to share them with friends and family.  Whatever the project being worked on, there will be lots of fun!
While students are creating, parents have time to relax during the busy holiday season or catch up on some shopping.
Sign up today to reserve your spot!  Space is limited!

Agency by Marcella Hackbardt

Our November show is our first ever Photography show. The show features five local photographers, Brian Baby, Brian Blough, Marcella Hackbardt, Ted Rice, and Dan Younger.  The show will be up until November 26th so come in and check it out.

November 6 - 8, 2008

The Root Art Center is proud to announce The Kenyon Review Literary Festival taking place November 6 - 8 in Gambier, Ohio.  One part of the festival we are especially excited about is a workshop on book arts presented by local artist Ellen Sheffield.  The sign up for the workshop is here, as well as some other valuable information about the Literary Festival.

The Root Art Center currently has three artist studios available for rent. If you have been aching to get back to doing what you love, making art that is, then come in and check out what we have to offer.

Loop: Brandy Wolfe and Jill Gallenstein

Columbus artists Brandy Wolfe and Jill Gallestein collaborate in an installation based project, Loop, featured at Root Art Gallery for the month of Oct. with an artist reception Fri., Oct. 3rd from 6-9pm.  Using handmade fabric animals, they explore and challenge the ideas of preservation, memory, evolution, beauty, and nostalgia.

Change is something society tries to move towards, but also turns to run from.  Wolfe and Gallenstein use their work to examine this relationship and ask questions about it.   Loop is a dialog between the artists, the viewer, and the society that shapes each.

Wolfe places familiar objects and images in strange and new situations. This is meant to bring forth memories these objects hold for the viewer and urge the viewer to see these objects in a new light.  Gallenstein’s work looks at the passage of time through the process of growth and evolution.  Familiar objects and images are repeated, showing the variations of each individual object and the movement from one adaptation to the next.

Brandy Wolfe was born in San Antonio, TX.  She received her BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and her MA in art history from Ohio State University in 2005. Over the past few years, her work has been included in many exhibitions in Columbus, OH, as well as nationally.  Wolfe will be moving to Boston, MA in the near future.

Jill Gallenstein is a multimedia artist from Columbus, OH whose most recent bodies of work include drawings and sculpture.  She received her MFA from New York University in 2003, and her BFA from The Columbus College of Art and Design in 1999.  In the past few years, Gallenstein has been featured in numerous galleries and been chosen for artist residencies all over the country.

Brandy Wolfe and Jill Gallenstein will be present at an opening reception Fri., Oct. 3rd from 6-9pm at Root Art Center, 212 S. Main St. in downtown Mount Vernon.  Loop will be on display from Oct. 3rd through the 26th