To conclude the Spring semester, please join us for a very special discussion with artist, curator, and writer Betty Collings. As Director of The Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art from 1974-1980, Collings developed an ambitious program of contemporary art acquisitions and exhibitions, bringing to campus landmark works by Frank Stella, Agnes Denes, Robert Smithson, Dorothea Rockburne, and Eva Hesse, among others. Collings’ vision for an intellectually rigorous, interdisciplinary contemporary art program put Columbus on the map of the international art world; it also furnished a template for the future Wexner Center for the Arts, which now houses the former University Gallery collection.
Collings’s legacy as both a curator and artist is celebrated in the current Wexner Center exhibition, To Begin, Again: A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968-89. This conversation with the exhibition’s curator Daniel Marcus will offer a first-person account of Collings’s experience during her years at the university.
This event is co-sponsored by the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Image credit: Betty Collings (right) with artist Richard Tuttle (left) in Hopkins Hall, The Ohio State University, 1977. Courtesy of The Ohio State University Archives.
