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step across this line

September 2 – November 8, 2025

Reception | September 4, 2025

Curator | Karen Greenwalt, Assistant Professor, Art History, OSU

step across this line brings together artists exploring how borders shape lives, identities, and histories. Through powerful imagery, the exhibition reflects on migration as both a personal journey and a global condition, highlighting stories of movement, displacement, and resilience from around the world. It asks us to consider how crossing a border, whether physical or emotional, can transform both people and places.

 

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Robert Cottingham: An American Alphabet

November 18, 2025 – February 14, 2026

Curator | Carla Shelton, Associate Director, Museum Collection and Chief Registrar, OSU Museum of Art

Robert Cottingham (American, b. 1935) is renowned for his depictions of American life through his work featuring building facades, neon signs, movie marquees, and storefronts. In 1974, supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Cottingham traveled by Greyhound across the Northeast, photographing 27 cities and collecting thousands of slides. These images became the foundation for An American Alphabet, a 15-year project exploring the beauty of disappearing signage and American typography. 

 

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