Ellen O’Connell Bazzoli’s “Spring 1104″

CCAD alumni and faculty will show their work in the Ohio Art League Curated Exhibition, presented by the Ohio Arts Council at the Riffe Gallery, Jan. 31–April 14.

The Ohio Art League Curated Exhibition contains work from 18 artists chosen by curator Dennis Harrington, director of the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH. The work in the exhibition features seasoned and emerging artists, and explores a dialogue of visual connections created by assembling a group of eclectic and inspired works in one place.

CCAD artists include associate alumna Ellen O’Connell Bazzoli (CCAD 1983), MFA alumni Alex Conrad and Nicole Crock (CCAD 2012), Assistant Professor Steven Elbert, associate alumnus Paul Emory (CCAD 1978), adjunct faculty and MFA alumna Virginia Kistler (CCAD 2012), and coordinator of printmaking Kathy McGhee.

There will be an opening reception Jan. 31, 5–7 p.m., and a tour with the curator Feb. 1, noon–1 p.m.

The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.

The Individual Excellence Award program recognizes outstanding accomplishments of artists in a variety of disciplines. Submissions to the OAC undergo an open panel review conducted by nationally recognized professionals. Jenike’s Individual Excellence Award will include a grant for $5,000.

Jenike’s poems have been published in Gulf Coast, Verse, POOL, Washington Square, Sou’wester Magazine, Sonora Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Her chapbook, I Dreamed Last Night I Got on the Boat to Heaven and By Some Chance I Had Brought My Dice Along, won the 2006 Susan Blalock Chapbook Contest from the Permafrost Literary Journal of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her book of poems, Ghost of Fashion, was published by CustomWords in May 2009.

from the series Everyday People by Chun Arthur Wang

Chun Arthur Wang, associate professor, Fine Arts, is one of 14 artists who created portraits for an Ohio Arts Council (OAC) exhibition through April 17.

Here’s Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio is on display in OAC’s Riffe Gallery. Participating artists stretch the idea of what a portrait can be and use a variety of mediums—from photography to charcoal to stoneware to acrylic painting—to create unforgettable portraits.

Admission to the gallery, located in the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, 77 S. High St., Columbus, OH, is free. Hours are Tuesday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, noon–4 p.m. Phone 614.644.9624 for more information.