WexCast

Zoom Family Film Festival, the flagship event in the Wex's program of cultural offerings for all ages, takes place on Saturday, December 8, offering a full morning and afternoon of fun events and international films for kids of all ages. Sue Harshe, Columbus musician and cofounder of the seminal band Scrawl, has been a regular Zoom collaborator on live, original soundtracks for silent films. The m...

For this Wexcast, multimedia artist and Ohio State Department of Dance visiting faculty member André M. Zachery speaks with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, creator of Séancers, coming to the Wexner Center December 6-8, 2018. In this bold, radical performance work, Kosoko takes on the racialized body, systemic oppression, and personal loss, conjuring a viscerally intense journey into the black experience. J...

For this WexCast, we’ve turned interviewing duties over to recent visiting artist André M. Zachery, who’s spending the fall as an artist in residence at Ohio State’s Department of Dance. The following is a conversation between André and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, about process, experimenting in different mediums, and the questions that drive their work. Tesseract, the show R...

For this WexCast, we share audio of the recent conversation between Dave Zirin, author and sports editor for the Nation, and Wex Film/Video Director Dave Filipi about the intersection of sports, politics, and activism. The event took place at the Wex on September 10, 2018.

Dr. Hannah Kosstrin, dance historian and assistant professor of dance at The Ohio State University, moderates a discussion with Renegade Performance Group artistic director André M. Zachery following the performance of RPG's "Untamed Space" at the Wexner Center for the Arts on September 28, 2018. Renegade Performance Group photo: Richard Louissaint.

For this WexCast, Performing Arts Director Lane Czaplinski talks to jazz artist Amir ElSaffar about his collaboration with Hamid Al-Saadi, practitioner of maqam, the classical vocal tradition of Iraq. Amir's Two Rivers Ensemble with Hamid as guest vocalist will perform at the Lincoln Theatre on October 10, 2018. Go to wexarts.org for more info.

For this WexCast, Renegade Performance Group Director and multidisciplinary artist André M. Zachery discusses his residency at Ohio State this fall, along with the work "Untamed Space" and its connections to the Afrofuturism movement with Director of Performing Arts Lane Czaplinski. "Untamed Space" will be performed at the Wexner Center for the Arts Sept. 27-30.

As Film/Video Studio Curator Jennifer Lange notes, August 2018 has been "the month of Rodney" at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Filmmaker Rodney Evans has been the featured artist in the Box this month and his documentary short, Persistence of Vision, remains on view through August 31. This week, Rodney's also the opening night filmmaker for the Columbus Black International Film Festival, which w...

Carmen Herrera on Lines of Sight at the Wexner Center for the Arts [Spanish] by Wexner Center for the Arts

Carmen Herrera on Lines of Sight at the Wexner Center for the Arts [English] by Wexner Center for the Arts

Our Film/Video Studio recently had a visit from Brazilian artist Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, an Irish-born artist working in Germany. Bárbara comes from a documentary background and Benjamin’s focused on visual art and collage in his solo practice. But together, the collaborators have built a small body of video work with a growing international following. Film/Video Studio Program Curat...

For this episode of the podcast of the Wexner Center for the Arts, curatorial assistant Marisa Espe speaks with Rebecca Morris, one of the 16 artists featured in the original exhibition "Inherent Structure." They discuss Morris's 2006 work "Manifesto for Abstractionists and friends of the non-objective," which was published in Artforum as an ad for a gallery show, as well as her response to presen...

Recently, the Wex had the pleasure of visits from two filmmakers with prior connections to our Film/Video Studio program and strong creative ties to their respective hometowns: Guy Maddin of Winnipeg and Matt Porterfield of Baltimore. Nonetheless, both filmmakers have recent work connected to a city that’s not their own, and each of these projects has been seen at the Wex. For this WexCast, Film/V...

Donny Monaco and Jacoti Sommes from Columbus' Hugs and Kisses chat with their longtime friend, Wexner Center lighting supervisor Sonia Baidya, about their unique mix of music, comedy, and performance art. The band plays the Bicentennial Stage at the Columbus Arts Fest on Saturday, June 9 as part of Wex at the Fest. Image, Sylvie Mix, Maika Carter, Donny Monaco and Jacoti Sommes of Hugs and Kisses;...

Now in its 12th year, the Wex's Pages program connects high school students with art and artists and has kids create original work from the experience, which is collected each year in a Pages book. The program's a huge hit with participants but little known beyond that. For this edition of the Wexner Center podcast, Educator Dionne Custer Edwards, Publications Editor Ryan Shafer and this year's le...

For this edition of the Wexner Center's podcast series, we share an enthralling and inspirational artist talk by the legendary multimedia artist Carrie Mae Weems. It took place at Mershon Auditorium at the Wexner Center for the Arts on April 5, 2018. Her talk was presented in partnership with Ohio State’s Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme pilot project Contemporary Art and Its Publics, and the D...

For this edition of WexCast, we’re sharing the spirited panel discussion Expanding the Field: Sports and Culture, which took place at the Wexner Center for the Arts on March 22, 2018 and focused on the intersection of sports, art, and culture. Moderated by our own Director of Film/Video, Dave Filipi, the talk included input from Ohio State Department of Human Sciences Professor Samuel Hodge and tw...

As Columbus' Alternative Fashion Mob gears up for its annual Alternative Fashion Week, fashion designer and Mob cofounder Kelli Martin stopped in for a visit to discuss her latest work, the local fashion scene, and the influence of designer Todd Oldham, subject of the current Wex exhibition, All of Everything: Todd Oldham Fashion. Kelli Martin photo: Troy Mueller.

For this edition of WexCast, Film/Video curators Dave Filipi, Jennifer Lange, and Chris Stults share memories and clips from a few of the many visiting filmmaker events in 2017. Featured clips: Lili Taylor (pictured), Sam Pollard, Dani and Sheilah Restack, comic artist John "Derf" Backderf, Tony Buba, Charles Burnett, and Chinonye Chukwu and the women of the Pens to Pictures project. (Photo: Maddi...

Caitlin McGurk, Associate Curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University, sits down with award-winning cartoonist and "Monograph" author Chris Ware for a discussion about his remarkable, genre-stretching career. Recorded at the Wexner Center for the Arts on September 29, 2017 as part of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. More information about the annual festival of c...

Listen in on the discussion that took place following the Wex's premiere screening of the documentary QUEST, between filmmaker Jonathan Olshefski, editor Lindsay Utz, and Wexner Center Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults. In it, the filmmakers share how Jonathan’s simple photo project about a hip hop recording studio owner spiraled into a 10-year odyssey and was eventually shaped into one of...

A funny, candid conversation between Next@Wex artist Counterfeit Madison, aka Sharon Udoh, and her best friend and frequent collaborator, Joe Camerlengo. Advisory: this podcast contains adult language.

Pens to Pictures is an innovative program created by filmmaker and Wright State University professor Chinonye Chukwu that offers a chance for incarcerated women to share their stories through film, with control over the process from script to screen. For the 2017 Director's Dialogue on Art and Social Change, the Wexner Center for the Arts presented the films, a short documentary about the project,...

For this episode of Wexcast, the podcast series that delves into the multidisciplinary work of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Wex PR & Content Manager Melissa Starker sits down with Director of Film/Video David Filipi and Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults to discuss the 2017 summer film series, "The New Hollywood: Deep Cuts 1967-78." The 16-film program, scree...

For this edition of WexCast, the podcast series that delves into the multidisciplinary work of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, the Wex's Melissa Starker speaks with Michelle Grabner and Carmen Winant, two of the 37 contemporary women artists featured in the world premiere exhibition Gray Matters. The discussion covers the connections between the two artists' practices,...