We are temporarily closed!
We will close January 3-28 for exhibition switchover and building maintenance. We look forward to seeing you starting January 29 for HINDSIGHT: The Art of Looking Back.
We will be following CDC protocols and state health orders. For the safety of all our visitors and volunteers, face masks are encouraged during your visit to the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio. Social distance will be maintained and visitor numbers monitored. Thank you for helping protect our visitors, volunteers, and staff!
We look forward to seeing you!
We will close January 3-28 for exhibition switchover and building maintenance. We look forward to seeing you starting January 29 for HINDSIGHT: The Art of Looking Back.
We will be following CDC protocols and state health orders. For the safety of all our visitors and volunteers, face masks are encouraged during your visit to the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio. Social distance will be maintained and visitor numbers monitored. Thank you for helping protect our visitors, volunteers, and staff!
We look forward to seeing you!
Current Exhibition
Hindsight: The Art of Looking Back
Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis, Curators
January 29 - April 24, 2022
Hindsight: The Art of Looking Back showcases the nostalgic work of the Ohio folk artists of the 1800s and 1900s, known collectively as the memory painters. These artists captured the simplicity of earlier days in rural Ohio in unassuming lines and bold color palettes. Often compared with the work of the New York-born Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, whose paintings feature nostalgic interpretations of the New England landscape, the Ohio painters in Hindsight offer similarly unassuming visual interpretations of life in the Midwest. Included in the exhibition will be paintings by Leuty McGuffey Manahan, Paul Patton, Harold Everett Bayer, Charles Owens and Tella Kitchen. The exhibition will also include three-dimensional “memory objects,” including photographs of colonial-style interiors and gardens taken by the early 20th-century New England minister Wallace Nutting, as well as some of Nutting’s reproduction of colonial-era furniture
Support for the exhibition provided by The Fox Foundation, Inc., The Johns Family, Clark Insurance, and Kumler Collision & Automotive
Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis, Curators
January 29 - April 24, 2022
Hindsight: The Art of Looking Back showcases the nostalgic work of the Ohio folk artists of the 1800s and 1900s, known collectively as the memory painters. These artists captured the simplicity of earlier days in rural Ohio in unassuming lines and bold color palettes. Often compared with the work of the New York-born Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, whose paintings feature nostalgic interpretations of the New England landscape, the Ohio painters in Hindsight offer similarly unassuming visual interpretations of life in the Midwest. Included in the exhibition will be paintings by Leuty McGuffey Manahan, Paul Patton, Harold Everett Bayer, Charles Owens and Tella Kitchen. The exhibition will also include three-dimensional “memory objects,” including photographs of colonial-style interiors and gardens taken by the early 20th-century New England minister Wallace Nutting, as well as some of Nutting’s reproduction of colonial-era furniture
Support for the exhibition provided by The Fox Foundation, Inc., The Johns Family, Clark Insurance, and Kumler Collision & Automotive
Exhibition Programming
Curators' Talk
Sunday, January 30, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Wendel Center for Art Education
Join Curators Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis as they discuss the works of art selected for Hindsight: The Art of Looking Back.
Sunday, January 30, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Wendel Center for Art Education
Join Curators Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis as they discuss the works of art selected for Hindsight: The Art of Looking Back.
Register for Curators Talk
Drawing from Within
Saturday, March 12
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Ages 14+
$45/$40 members
Explore your memories and free your imagination in this hands-on drawing workshop. Artist Lisa Schorr’s calming, introspective approach will help you reconnect with the inner child who loved the smell of crayons and the pure joy of drawing. No experience necessary, supplies and lunch provided.
Saturday, March 12
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Ages 14+
$45/$40 members
Explore your memories and free your imagination in this hands-on drawing workshop. Artist Lisa Schorr’s calming, introspective approach will help you reconnect with the inner child who loved the smell of crayons and the pure joy of drawing. No experience necessary, supplies and lunch provided.
Register for Drawing from Within
Illustrate Your Dreams
Sunday, March 20 and March 27, 1:30-3:00 pm
Ages 14+
$30/$25 member
Join Art Therapist Harriet Donaldson and explore the world of dreams as they relate to the world of memory, real or imagined. Works from the current exhibition will be explored as the background for this session. Participants will reflect on their dreams and use them as inspiration to create their own memory drawings with techniques commonly used by memory artists.
Sunday, March 20 and March 27, 1:30-3:00 pm
Ages 14+
$30/$25 member
Join Art Therapist Harriet Donaldson and explore the world of dreams as they relate to the world of memory, real or imagined. Works from the current exhibition will be explored as the background for this session. Participants will reflect on their dreams and use them as inspiration to create their own memory drawings with techniques commonly used by memory artists.
Register for Illustrate Your Dreams
Haiku Rocks
Sunday, April 3, 2:00-3:00 pm
Ages 9-12
$18/$15 members
In this fun hands-on workshop, award-winning poet and Ohio Arts Council Teaching Artist Jennifer Hambrick will guide participants to connect their memories with the magic of nature and the seasons to write original haiku-traditional Japanese short poems that pack a punch. Each participant will also write a haiku with colored permanent markers onto a rock, and illustrate it if they wish, to keep as a souvenir or to leave out in the community for others to discover and enjoy.
Sunday, April 3, 2:00-3:00 pm
Ages 9-12
$18/$15 members
In this fun hands-on workshop, award-winning poet and Ohio Arts Council Teaching Artist Jennifer Hambrick will guide participants to connect their memories with the magic of nature and the seasons to write original haiku-traditional Japanese short poems that pack a punch. Each participant will also write a haiku with colored permanent markers onto a rock, and illustrate it if they wish, to keep as a souvenir or to leave out in the community for others to discover and enjoy.
Register for Haiku Rocks
What Is Haiku?
Sunday, April 10, Noon-1:30 pm
Ages 12-18
$18/$15 members
Summer vacation road trips. Thanksgiving dinner with the family. Taking a walk in the woods with a friend. Baking cookies at home on a cold winter day. Memories are made with people as nature changes with the seasons. Participants in this fun interactive workshop with award-winning poet Jennifer Hambrick will learn how to write haiku in English inspired by their unique memories in connection with the seasons of nature. Participants are invited to share their haiku in the Poetry Reading right after the workshop.
Sunday, April 10, Noon-1:30 pm
Ages 12-18
$18/$15 members
Summer vacation road trips. Thanksgiving dinner with the family. Taking a walk in the woods with a friend. Baking cookies at home on a cold winter day. Memories are made with people as nature changes with the seasons. Participants in this fun interactive workshop with award-winning poet Jennifer Hambrick will learn how to write haiku in English inspired by their unique memories in connection with the seasons of nature. Participants are invited to share their haiku in the Poetry Reading right after the workshop.
Register for What Is Haiku?
Poetry Reading
Sunday, April 10, 2:00-3:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Four award-winning poets from Central Ohio, Jennifer Hambrick, Chiquita Mullins-Lee, Pat Snyder Hurley, and Linda Fuller-Smith, will read and discuss poems inspired by the Hindsight exhibition.
Sunday, April 10, 2:00-3:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Four award-winning poets from Central Ohio, Jennifer Hambrick, Chiquita Mullins-Lee, Pat Snyder Hurley, and Linda Fuller-Smith, will read and discuss poems inspired by the Hindsight exhibition.
Register for Poetry Reading
Valentines: Tokens of Love from the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
Dr George and Jeanne Johnson, Curators
January 29 - February 27, 2022
George and Jeanne Johnson will display several hundred valentine cards and mementos from their collection. With cards ranging from the late 1700s to the 1950s, the exhibition reflects nearly 150 years of valentines.
Curator's Talk
Sunday, February 13, Noon or 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Curator George Johnson will hold two Curator’s Talks on the history, customs and traditions of valentine cards and demonstrate some of the unique pieces on display. Space is limited.
Dr George and Jeanne Johnson, Curators
January 29 - February 27, 2022
George and Jeanne Johnson will display several hundred valentine cards and mementos from their collection. With cards ranging from the late 1700s to the 1950s, the exhibition reflects nearly 150 years of valentines.
Curator's Talk
Sunday, February 13, Noon or 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Curator George Johnson will hold two Curator’s Talks on the history, customs and traditions of valentine cards and demonstrate some of the unique pieces on display. Space is limited.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Chronicles: The Great Depression and the Pandemic
Christine Fowler Shearer and Arnold Tunstall, Curators
May 21 - August 28, 2022
Ohio: The Start of It All, September 24 - December 30, 2022
Previous Exhibitions
Distinctly Paramount: Fashion & Costume from the Paramount Pictures Archive
June 5, 2021 - January 2, 2022
- Nov. 21, 2020 - February 28, 2021 -- Russian Decorative Arts from the Tsars to the USSR
- July 18 - October 25, 2020 -- 2 + 3 x 18: Diptychs and Triptychs by 18 Contemporary Ohio Artists
- Jan. 25 - April 26, 2020 -- Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund
- Sept. 21 - Dec. 29, 2019 -- The Ohio Presidents: Surprising Legacies
- May 25 - Aug. 18, 2019 -- Selections from the Pizzuti Collection
- Jan. 26 - April 28, 2019 -- Lilly's World: Decorative Arts & the Art of Lilly Martin Spencer, 1840-1900
- Sept. 15 - Dec. 30, 2018 -- Imagining a Better World: The Artwork of Nelly Toll
- May 19 - Aug. 19, 2018 -- Creating the Illusion: Costumes & Characters from the Paramount Pictures Archive
- Jan. 20 - April 15, 2018 -- Artists of the Winding Road A-Z
- Sept. 9- Dec. 31, 2017 -- In Our Own Image: The Genesis of Photography and the Contemporary Eye
- May 20 - Aug. 13, 2017 -- Three Voices: Conversations on Life and Conflict
- Feb. 4 - April 23, 2017 -- Circular Abstractions: Bull's Eye Quilts
- Sept. 10 - Dec. 31, 2016 -- An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up
- May 21- Aug. 14, 2016 -- Edith Head and Company: Costumes and Jewelry, 1924-2015
- Jan 23 - April 24, 2016 -- Blue Walk: The Art of William Kortlander
- Sept. 12 – Dec. 31, 2015 -- Early Visions of Ohio - 1765-1865
- June 20 – Aug. 23, 2015 -- Persistence of Nature: Featuring the works of James Mason and Karen Rumora
- February 7 - May 17, 2015 -- A Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts 1860-1945
- Oct. 25 - Dec. 31, 2014 -- Campana Brothers: Brazilian Design Now
- June 7 - Aug. 24, 2014 -- Designing Woman: Edith Head at Paramount 1924-1967
- Jan. 25 - April 13, 2014 -- My Best Friends are Potters: Ceramics from the Tim Frederich Collection
- Oct. 26 - Dec. 29, 2013 -- Joseph O'Sickey: Unifying Art, Life and Love
- May 4 - Sept. 1, 2013 -- Gorgeous Threads: A World of Textiles
- Jan. 26 - April 7, 2013 -- A Remarkable Menagerie: Animals in Art
- Oct. 20 - Dec. 30, 2012 -- Outcault/Stahler
- June 23 – Sept. 9, 2012 -- Appalachian Strings
- Jan. 21 – May 20, 2012 -- Looking Forward
- Oct. 22, 2011 – Dec. 31, 2011 -- Once Upon a Page
- June 26 – Sept. 4, 2011 -- David Hostetler Unabridged
- Jan. 29 - June 5, 2011 -- Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts
- Oct. 23, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 -- The Creative Spirit
- May 22 - Sept. 5, 2010 -- Paul Hamilton: Poetry of Place
- Jan. 30 - April 18, 2010 -- Artful Paper: Cut, Folded and Fabulous
- Oct. 3, 2009 - Jan. 3, 2010 -- The Shakers: Abiding Inspiration in Faith and Design
- June 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 -- Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
- April 4 - June 7, 2009 -- Nancy Miller: An Artist's Creative Journey
