Calling all Warhol fans, iMovie jockeys, and aspiring video directors! Here's your chance to show off your skills and get in on the excitement and spirit of our upcoming exhibition, Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms. Just create a short :15 second commercial for the exhibition (there are a few stipulations below), post it to YouTube, and send the address of your creation to us–that's it.

The winning clip (as selected by our staff) will become instant members of our Warhol Club, meaning, among other benefits, free admission to the exhibition for its entire run, as well as a $250 gift certificate from the Wexner Center Store. What's more, your clip will run on broadcast TV throughout the fall promoting the Warhol exhibition.

Full details of the contest: http://www.wexarts.org/youtube

We've put together a page highlighting all the Ohio area artists and companies that we carry in our store..... It's growing every day, check it out:

http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/ohio.html

NEW:


http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/ohio.html

Form and function unite in stylish new ecologically friendly Wexner Center messenger bags by Columbus-based designer Seagull Bags. These bags are handmade from banners used to promote previous Wexner Center exhibitions and are all one of a kind.

Click here to see all of them:
http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/bags.html

Here's a few:

Wexner Center partnered up with Seagull Bags in Columbus to create a line of one of a kind messenger bags! The material of the bags come from previous banners used to promote exhibitions here at the center.

Visit the Wexner Center store or buy them online! http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/bags.html

Call for Volunteers

Have you ever wanted to perform at the Wexner Center? Here's your chance. New York–based Nature Theater of Oklahoma is looking for both men and women to perform in Poetics: a ballet brut in February. No experience is necessary and we hope to see you on stage!

Get the details and find out how to volunteer here.

More about the production here.

Interview with the Nature Theater of Oklahoma in the New York Times. Click to read.

We've just stocked the store with a bunch of Ohio t-shirts, made by Chop Chop Gallery and Alison Rose (both designers are from Columbus).

Click here to buy and for more info: http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/accessories-clothing.html

Last fall we invited Ohio artists to enter State Fare, our first juried exhibition. After weeks of debate and discussion, and examining nearly 500 entries, we've reached a verdict: come May you'll get the chance to explore the "living room fort constructions" by Tracy Featherstone of Hamilton, videos by Mark Harris of Cincinnati, and a site-specific installation of porcelain sculpture by Rain Harris of Columbus.

State Fare opens officially on May 12, but on the evening of May 11 we'll celebrate the opening of this exhibition, and our three other summer shows, with a party. Keep watching www.wexarts.org for more details.

Tickets for the latest round of Next @ Wex shows are onsale now at the Wexner Center Ticket Office (or by calling 614.292.3535).

Get tickets for the following:

Scott Amendola Band/ Feb. 2 / 8 pm / $14 public, $12 members and students

Girl Talk w/ Times New Viking/ Feb. 3 / 9 pm / $9 all audiences (CD signing in the Wexner Center Store from 8-9 pm)

Rjd2 w/ Busdriver, AntiMC, and Happy Chichester/ March 9 / 9 pm / $18 all audiences

Under Byen with Frida Hyvonen / March 11 / 9 pm / $12 all audiences

Tickets are also onsale for Bill Frisell(March 3) and Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra(March 24). And keeping watching this space for onsale dates for Andrew Bird (April 13 at the Southern Theatre).

More info at wexarts.org

We are no longer accepting entries for State Fare.

...three to be exact.

Know an artist?
Are you an artist?

Then take a gander at State Fare: Three Ohio Artists, a juried exhibition hosted by the Wex. We're looking for artists, 18 or older, in any media from throughout Ohio to submit their work for this juried exhibition, which opens in May 2007 in the Wexner Center Galleries. Go to wexarts.org/statefare to download an application and get the complete rules. We want to see your work, so get painting, photographing, video-ing, sculpting, and, well, you get the point.

The Wexner Center now has podcasts available for download. Find out about upcoming film screenings, concerts, exhibitions, lectures and more here