NEWSLETTER

January 2026

Call for Art

Mindful: The Art of Compassion

Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, February 8th at Midnight

OPENING RECEPTION

Feb. 19th 5-7pm

Broad Street Presbyterian is located at:

760 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43205

Gallery Hours: 

The Color of Hope is currently on display at Broad Street Presbyterian and will be on display until January 30th.

More information and the online store can be viewed here

OAL Artist Meetup

Wednesday, January 21st

Paul Kroner

Artist of the Month

Bailey Ryan Hammond

Bailey was one of our award winners in the 2025 Fall Juried Competition.

Learn more about her artwork on the Artist of the Month page.

Matt swift at the

fuse factory

On the evening of Thursday, December 11, The Fuse Factory Electronic + Digital Arts Lab hosted digital artist/electronic musician Franck Vigroux (FR), who performed his audiovisual project “Cascades”. Joining him on the bill were experimental electronic musician David Reed’s (CMH) solo project Envenomist, and experimental electronic musician/video artist and Ohio Art League Secretary, Matt Swift (CMH). 

Matt's performance titled Immersion was the third part in his ongoing Eschato Saga of audio visuals works focusing on a dystopian mirror of the world that changed as of March 2020. Watch his performance on YouTube and check out the Fuse Factory channel for audio visual arts performances.

Tour of Tacita Dean

Blind Folly exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art 

with Docent, Gisela Josenhans, on Tuesday, January 27th at 11:30. Limited to 11 OAL members. RSVP: oal@oal.org.

Fee: General Admission to CMA

Tacita Dean: Blind Folly is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking. Blind Folly, the show’s title, reflects Dean’s desire to let the behavior of her mediums dictate the results of her work. For the artist, the playful and old-fashioned phrase connoting foolishness, “blind folly,” represents the role chance and fate play in the creative act.
Blind Folly brings together several of Dean’s monumental blackboard drawings along with rarely shown drawings from her studio on paper, found postcards, albumen photographs, and 16mm films. This selection includes several newly created works, some of which were inspired by Dean’s residency at the Menil Collection’s Cy Twombly Gallery, a Renzo Piano-designed building devoted to the work of late American artist Cy Twombly (1928–2011).

President's corner

We closed 2025 off with a bang! The 2025 Thumb Box Exhibition was larger than last year, very well attended, and had lots of sales. The final day is January, 15th.

The new year is always a great time to begin planning for upcoming exhibition opportunities with Ohio Art League! Not only our Spring and Fall Juried Exhibitions, but the Gateway for the Arts at John Glenn Columbus International Airport and more. As we look forward to even bigger year!

-Julian Cennamo

Artist Opportunities

Central Wellness Outreach Columbus Mural 

Westerville Music & Arts Festival 

Ohio Shorts Call for Entries

Labor Day Arts Festival

Studios on High Hit the Hop