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Art Exhibits

The Miami Valley has a vibrant arts community and is filled with exhibits and gallery showings.  We’ve done our best to share upcoming events here, but if we’ve missed one, please send us an email with details so we can include.

R. Darden Bradshaw Exhibit

November 3 through December 4th
Woodbourne Library (6060 Far Hills Avenue)


View the work of R. Darden Bradshaw. Bradshaw is Associate Professor of Art Education and Area Coordinator for Art Education at the University of Dayton. She holds both a Ph.D. in Art History and Education and an M.F.A. in Fiber Art from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Bradshaw works primarily with the historically rich and labor-intensive processes of wet and needle-felting, quilting, and weaving. Her abstract felted landscape works physically and metaphorically bind together experiences of place, walking, and the literature of place to examine cultural and social constructs.

Rosario Parker Gordon: Object Drag

Nov 11 – 24
The Blue House Gallery

Object Drag: Mancrafts in the Garage, features objects that are conventionally associated with regional masculine activities in the North American Midwest. During my personal exploration into the perceived space of gendered craft, I coined the term ‘mancraft’, a call back to the “mancave”, to describe these regional masculine activities. Aspects of mancrafts such as making fishing lures, woodwork and taxidermy require a level of craft and attention to detail that, removed from their culturally specific context, would otherwise be coded as feminine. This creates friction between the perceived gendering of mancrafts- masculine within feminine, feminine within masculine; the boundaries are blurred.  

Join Julie Riley  at the Gem City Catfé in St. Anne’s Hill Historic District – Dayton, Ohio and let’s explore the world of art together.

How did thinkers of the late 1800s, including writers like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, envision the future? Visitors of all ages are invited to find out at this new special exhibition.
Imagine a futuristic world powered by old technology. Imagine an alternative history that was inspired by Victorian ideals where steam power drove innovation. Imagine these possibilities, and you have steampunk. Steampunk is a movement and an aesthetic as varied as the individuals within it. It has become a form of artistic expression and an educational tool that teaches ingenuity, collaboration, and self-reliance, and above it all, it truly embraces the concept of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics). In this dynamic Exhibition, steampunk is explored and explained through the stories behind iconic 19th century visionaries and steampunk-inspired exhibits.
The Exhibition is divided into eight galleries, each focused around a different historical visionary and how that visionary’s art, innovations, and ideas have shaped our modern world. The Exhibition offers a wide array of learning across many STEAM subjects such as creative expression, interchangeable parts, photography, automation, and much more.
Discover Steampunk is free and open daily from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sept. 24 – Dec. 10. (We will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23)
Are you an educator or group leader? Visit our website to download the free Educator’s Guide to learn more about how this exhibit aligns with your curriculum. It’s never too early to plan your field trip!

National Museum of the United States Air Force

1100 Spaatz Street
Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio 45433(937) 255-3286
9 a.m. – 5 p.m daily

Arts and Crafts Pottery of Marblehead

September 30, 2023 – January 7, 2024 Gallery 119

The Arts and Crafts Movement, which flourished around the turn of the 20th century, emphasized quality, beautiful designs and objects made by hand rather than machines. Marblehead Pottery (1904–1936), from Marblehead, Massachusetts, was an exemplary American manufacturer of arts and crafts pottery of the period. They produced restrained ceramic vases in velvety matte glazes in soothing colors of blue, gray, green, brown, salmon and yellow. Decorations are inspired by nature and feature stylized trees, vines and flowers, as well as sailing ships, which Marblehead used as the company’s icon. The colors and designs emphasize the universal appeal of harmony of line, shape and color. This exhibition features more than 70 exceptional works of Marblehead Pottery drawn from a local private collection.

 456 Belmonte Park North
Dayton, OH 45405–4700

937-223-4ART (4278)

Hours

Wednesday 11 AM – 5 PM
Thursday 11 AM – 8 PM
Friday 11 AM – 5 PM
Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM – 5 PM

Brukner Nature Center
Autumn Art Exhibit by J.C. Wheaton
Runs through Sunday, December 17, 2023

Monday – Saturday, 9:00am – 4:00pm/Sunday, 12:30 – 4:00pm

We invite you to come see our new art exhibit featuring the art of JC Wheaton who has been drawing and painting for roughly 13 years.  Working mostly in acrylics, colored pencils, and fabric markers, his work is usually comprised of creatures of the natural world, surrounded by atmospheric design work.  Most, or all, of his work also combines elements and iconography that pay tribute to his Northern California Native American heritage (Concow/Nomlaki), using patterns found in traditional basket weaving.  J.C.’s art will be on sale through Sunday, December 17 and will be ready for pick-up at the end of the show.  Proceeds from our seasonal art gallery support the awe-inspiring Wildlife Ambassador program at BNC.

Brukner Nature Center

5995 Horseshoe Bend Rd.
Troy, OH 45373
Contact: 937-698-6493
or: [email protected]

The Marian Library at University of Dayton
East Meets West: Halyna Nykolyshyn’s Ukrainian Marian Legacy
Through Nov. 10, 2023

This section of the exhibit demonstrates the many facets of the Marian Library’s Ukrainian Marian Collection and the librarian, Halyna Nykolyshyn (Helen) who started the collection. It discusses the timely importance of the collection and displays newly acquired pieces that display the active Marian devotion in Ukraine today.

University of Dayton’s Roesch Library – Marian Library Gallery300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469
937-229-1000

Pop-Up Art at the Edward A. Dixon Gallery

Check out the line-up of Pop-Up Art Exhibitions happening at the Edward A. Dixon Gallery in November and December including Common Threads in November and a Vintage Show in December. In addition to the Pop-Up Exhibitions happening in Suite B, there will be rotating artwork throughout the gallery’s main space with works from Cynthia Kukla, Kris Billhorn, Julio Antonio Pino Varens and more. The gallery is Free and Open to the Public with street parking and limited parking at the Opal Building lot.
Timothy Wells has put together this directory of venues. If there’s one he’s missed please email Tim at [email protected]

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