Art has been my passion and I always wanted to paint nature on a canvas since the beauty of nature makes me wonder and be grateful to the creator. When we got this opportunity to represent our country, Bangladesh, under the guidance of Bangladeshi artist, Dina Zaman, I did not want to miss this […]
Brittoney J. Roane is a freelance photographer specializing in portraiture and family photography. Originally from Mansfield, Roane has lived in greater Columbus since 2013. Her love for photography is generational, starting early on with her mother being her first real inspiration as a photographer. My work is an outward expression of the inherited strength that […]
Ngabo Mutenda is a Columbus -based photographer whose work has been featured in (614) Magazine. He grew up in the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda, and had an interest in photography from early on in life, eventually buying his first camera when he moved to the U.S. in 2017. I'm African (Rwandese) by […]
John Landry is a self -taught photographer who first picked up the joy of photography during high school, turning that interest into a serious hobby in 2006. He owns Top5ive Photography, capturing sports, lifestyle images and life's most precious moments such as weddings, babies and early childhood sessions. Nationwide unrest erupted after the death […]
[…] crowd was small with only a handful of people in attendance. In the year 2020 I stood in the same spot overlooking an enormous crowd of mask -wearing, sign-holding Black women ready for their voices to be heard. I can’t help but to compare the two events. Within an eight-year time span, countless Black […]
Asia Glenn is a Columbus -based photographer whose experience includes portrait, real estate, event, sports, food and wedding photography. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions, with the most recent being Midwest Photo’s Migration Mania in 2019. The provided photos are a subset of images that I captured during the Black Lives Matter […]
Staci Friedman is an award -winning artist, best known for her loose, floral watercolor and mixed-media paintings. As a child, she enjoyed drawing and painting and loved spending time in her mother’s in-home art studio. Friedman earned a bachelor’s in fine arts with a concentration in graphic design, and entered the world of publishing […]
[…] planner/architect in Columbus. While practicing architecture, he became more interested in the artistic aspects of architecture and began adding materials over his architectural renderings to create three -dimensional images. Since 2010, he has exhibited his artwork in different galleries and art shows throughout central Ohio, including the Columbus Art Festival, Worthington Arts Festival, Upper […]
[…] and Palace Theaters were still movie houses, and the Southern Theater was a venue for live performances of country music. The Columbus skyline consisted of the Leveque -Lincoln Tower. In that year, an organization known as the Columbus Arts Council was formed by the Downtown Action Committee and the Columbus Junior League for the […]
I’m being driven by a longing for justice, a need to make something come from my/your/our trauma, and to be (perhaps) released in the making. I use a variety of materials, but my first interest is in the surface. Through working things over, sometimes furiously, almost always over long stretches of time, I create […]
[…] center is my hand is seeing a brighter future where peace of mind is through music. MP 2: I find peace of mind through placing the center -ness of love and peace and me being connected. Focusing on me, myself, and I. MP 3: It is the sunshine, the growth of flowers, the moonlight, […]
[…] I created in my 70th year! I based it on this excerpt from Khalil Gibran’s On Time: But if in your thought you must measure times in to seasons, Let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance And the future with longing. Changing Me: God granted […]
