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Annual Fall Choral Concert set for Sunday, Oct. 24
ASHLAND, Ohio – This Sunday afternoon, Oct. 24, marks the return of choral concerts at Ashland University, as the Fall Choral Concert will take place at Jack and Deb Miller Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, and it will be the first indoor choral concert on campus since the onset of the COVID pandemic. “The singers are excited to share their music with an audience after a long hiatus,” stated Rowland Blackley, director of choral activities and…
AU alumna Chapman brings ceramic sculpture exhibition to Coburn gallery
ASHLAND, Ohio -- The Coburn Art Gallery and the Ashland University Department of Art + Design will host Hush II, a ceramic sculpture exhibition featuring Ashland University alumna Kimberly Chapman. The exhibition opens Thursday, Oct. 7 with a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibition pulls from three groupings of ceramic works by Chapman: Bridled Women, Elsie’s Arsenal and the Refugee Series. The sculptures…
AU offers its first Institute for International Insight
05/27/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio -- This summer, Ashland University is offering its first Institute for International Insight. Attendees will experience languages, customs, courtesies, and perspectives from other cultures, while cultivating people skills across international boundaries and discovering the motivations behind multiple points of view. Sponsored by the Ashland University ACCESS Program, sessions will be held July 12-16 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Each session…
Osborn, Gregory are Art + Design Department honorees
04/12/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio -- Hannah Osborn of Chatham has been chosen as the Senior Exhibition Award recipient by the Ashland University Art + Design Department faculty. The awards were presented April 8 at the Coburn Art Gallery opening reception by Art + Design Department chair Daniel McDonald.. Osborn will graduate from Ashland with a Bachelor of Arts in Commercial Art with a concentration in Graphic Design and a minor in Religion. The daughter of Steve…
Coburn Art Gallery hosts Summer Art Camp
04/12/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio -- Join the Coburn Art Gallery on the Ashland University campus for Summer Art Camp, an intensive, creative one-week session June 21-25 for young artists ages 9-14. Students will explore how to use many techniques in the sculpture and ceramics areas and they will develop a cultural appreciation and aesthetic awareness as they learn different art forms, as well as developing their own talent for self expression. “Through the Lens of…
Jian, Appleton exhibition to open Oct. 15 at the Coburn Gallery at Ashland University
10/11/2020 ASHLAND, Ohio -- The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University will host a two-person exhibition featuring works created by Texas artists Dan Jian and Kalee Appleton. The exhibition will run from Oct. 15 through Nov. 24 at the gallery, which is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and is free and open to the public. COVID-19 safety protocols limit the maximum number of visitors to 15 visiting the…
AU Art and Design, Coburn Gallery to open “Women of Resilience” exhibition Aug. 31
08/26/20 ASHLAND, Ohio -- The Ashland University Coburn Art Gallery and the Department of Art and Design announce the opening of Women of Resilience: An invitational exhibition projecting aspects of women’s resilience through visual art, on view from Aug. 31- Oct. 1. The exhibition was curated by Priscilla Roggenkamp, Patricia O’Neill Sacha and Judith Sterling and includes the works of 22 women artists: Clare Murray Adams, Ruthie Akuchie, Kathleen Browne,…
AU Senior Art + Design Exhibition switches to an online format
04/20/20 ASHLAND, Ohio -- The Ashland University Coburn Gallery will again host the Senior Art + Design Exhibition, though the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated moving the show to an online format. The exhibition, featuring artworks created by graduating seniors in the Department of Art and Design, will open April 30 via the Gallery’s Facebook page. “While the 2020 Senior Art + Design Exhibition provides the capstone experience for graduating art and design…
