Wehrle Gallery

Eliana Calle-Saari: A Life in Printmaking
Aug. 20 – Sept. 29, 2023
Opening reception: 1-3:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023
A native of Colombia and ODU’s newest faculty member in its Art and Design department, Eliana Calle-Saari is one of the Midwest’s most important printmakers.

Oasis of Escapism – New Work by Susanna Harris
Oct. 22, 2023 – Jan. 14, 2024
Opening reception: 1-3:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Susanna Harris is an interdisciplinary artist who works in print media and installation. She uses her own personal and collective experiences with loss, disease and grief to explore the interconnectedness of ecological destruction, human fragility and resilience. 

22nd Annual Wehrle Holiday Art Market
Nov. 29, 2023, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Now in its 22nd year, the Wehrle Holiday Art Market is a place where ODU students, faculty, and staff sell their handmade goods to the community at college prices and support the Buy Local movement!

From the Halls of Wehrle: 2024 Senior Exhibition
On display until July 10, 2024

Celebrate with ODU’s graduating seniors. This exhibition is the capstone of Art, Art Education, and Graphic Design students, and features a range of content and media.

Featuring the art of:

Lillyanna Dimel
Hayden Garland
Kimberly Jasiewicz
Alexis Hillman
Deena Patete
McCoy Taylor

Nature’s Underside: Of Bones, Beasts, and Breath-Taking – Work by Martha G. Michael

Aug. 28 – Oct. 15, 2022

Martha Michael uses details from the natural world as the starting point for the meditative process of materials-intensive image-making in media as varied as encaustic, painting, metals and photography.

Homecoming: New Works by Amy Haggard
Oct. 30, 2022 – Jan. 15, 2023

Amy Haggard, also known as The Makist, is a 2001 graduate of Ohio Dominican University. Her vibrantly colored works depicting graphic patterns and organic shapes evoke comparison with late Matisse in both appearance and in the pursuit of the creation of joy for the viewer. For Amy, art is play, constant experimentation, and an unending curiosity that she wants to share with the viewer.  

21st Annual Wehrle Holiday Art Market
Nov. 30, 2022, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Now in its 21st year, the Wehrle Holiday Art Market is a place where ODU students, faculty, and staff sell their handmade goods to the community at college prices and support the Buy Local movement!

Looking Inside the Classroom Studio: Fall Work from ODU Faculty, Staff and Students
Feb. 1 – 14, 2023

Featuring the work of ODU students from a variety of art and design classes from Academic Drawing to Digital Image and Text.

Path:Making | The Work of Krista Benedetti and Karen Albanese Campbell
Feb. 26 – April 7, 2023

Kirsta Benedetti and Karen Albanese Campbell explore the world of the immigrant and refugee. Benedetti, a painter and mixed media artist, and Campbell, a printmaker, address this important topic as women, mothers and artists.

From the Halls of Wehrle: 2023 Senior Exhibition
April 30 – July 10, 2023

Celebrate with ODU’s graduating seniors. This exhibition is the capstone of Art, Art Education, and Graphic Design students, and features a range of content and media.

• My Story; My Song: New Work by Creative Women of Color 
  Oct. 31, 2021 – Jan. 17, 2022
  
  Opening reception: 1-3:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021
  
  Formed in 2006 in Columbus, Ohio, Creative Women of Color consists of a group of African American women artists whose styles range from folk to abstract, and from fiber and textiles to working with metals and acrylic resins. This exhibit celebrates the artists’ commonalities and reflects their vast experiences as African American women representing different personal and professional backgrounds.
  
  
• 20th Annual Wehrle Holiday Art Market
  Dec. 1, 2021
  10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  
  Now in its 20th year, the Wehrle Holiday Art Market is a place where ODU students, faculty, and staff sell their handmade goods to the Columbus community at budget-friendly prices to support the buy local movement.
  
  
• Featured Student Work
  Jan. 30 – Feb. 19, 2022
  Take advantage of this informal salon exhibition that features the work of current ODU students and faculty.
  
  
• Women Carry the Weight of the World: Pandemic Work by Eliana Calle-Saari
  Feb. 27 – April 17, 2022
  
  Opening reception: 1-1:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022
  Artist talk: Noon, Tuesday, March 1, 2022
  
  An instructor at ODU, Saari is one of the region’s most important and recognized printmakers. In March 2020, she traveled to Antiga to move her daughter home from medical school; however, she remained unable to leave the island for nearly 90 days after it closed its borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst food shortages and electrical outages, Saari drew and created woodcuts of Antigan women carrying food, bags, children and animals. She saw this as a metaphor for women carrying the weight of the world.
  
  
• From the Halls of Wehrle: Senior Exhibition
  May 1 – June 20, 2022
  Opening reception and awards ceremony: 1-3:30 p.m., Sunday, May 1
  
  Celebrate with ODU’s graduating seniors. This exhibition is the capstone of Art, Art Education, and Graphic Design students, and features a range of content and media.

Just as Life Itself: New Work by Julie Abijanac
Feb. 14 – April 5, 2020
Opening reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 14, 2020
Artist talk: Noon, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020

Julie Abijanac is a highly acclaimed sculptor whose work deals with her personal struggle with cancer. She creates digital drawings and paper or fiber sculptures that explore the systematic development of cancer cell metastasis in the human body. These meticulous studies become three-dimensional forms in space, safely removed from the human body.

Have You Got a Pulse? A ceramic sculpture installation by Terri Maloney-Houston
Nov. 15, 2019 – Jan. 25, 2020
Opening reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 15, 2019
Artist talk: Noon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019

Terri Maloney-Houston is a nationally recognized and award-winning ceramist and community educator. The works in this exhibition were created after the artist experienced the unexpected loss of a loved one. The pieces became meditations on the physical human body in various states—whole, broken and pieced together, and abstracted.

I AM: Exploring Spiritual Connectivity through Fiber - An installation by Celeste Malvar-Stewart
Sept. 6 – Oct. 25, 2019
Opening reception: 7-9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
Artist talk: Noon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019

Celeste Malvar-Stewart is an internationally recognized independent sustainable fashion and textiles designer whose work for the gallery features various pieces of hand-felted and naturally dyed garments, as well as hand-spun wall hangings that utilize fiber as a way to explore and create a visual representation of God's presence in our daily lives, and to interpret the constant guidance present in the universe.

Celeste Malvar-Stewart on Good Day Marketplace

Good Day Marketplace recently interviewed Celeste Malvar-Stewart about her upcoming exhibition at Wehrle Gallery. This segment was sponsored by Columbus Makes Art.

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With Careful Scrutiny: Anne Cushman and the Art of the Print
Feb. 3 – April 7, 2019

Opening reception: 2-4:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019
Artist talk: Noon, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019

Anne Cushman is a prolific and technically-masterful printmaker and educator, and a co-founder of Columbus’s nationally-recognized Phoenix Rising Print Cooperative. Cushman’s recent work focuses on designs and patterns in nature, and how our presence imposes itself on the environment.

Delhi to Jaipur: Recent Work by Nicholas Hill
Nov. 11, 2018 – Jan. 13, 2019

Opening reception: 2-4:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018
Artist talk: Noon, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018

An internationally-recognized printmaker and curator, and 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, Nicholas Hill’s work explores history, other cultures, and the creative processes of artists in those cultures.