This celebration of creativity featured a wide range of artistic experiences and collaborative performances including live music, dance, visual art, cuisine, fashion and more. Save the date for next year: January 25, 2025 Wonderball 2024 raised nearly $312,000! Funds raised at Wonderball support the Museum’s effort to nurture creativity and lifelong learning with inspired programming that foster play, imagination, and curiosity to encourage us all to think like an artist. Check out tons of fun images from the unforgettable evening below! Thank you to our photographers Megan Leigh Barnard, JTol ..read more

This celebration of creativity featured a wide range of artistic experiences and collaborative performances including live music, dance, visual art, cuisine, fashion and more. Wonderball 2023 raised nearly $240,000 to support the Museum’s efforts to provide inspired and creative programs for the community all year long. Check out tons of fun images from the unforgettable evening below ..read more

Celebrating the work of Black artists is not simply for a month, but a lifetime. While we will continue to uplift Black art and creativity all year long, here’s a list of programming celebrating this year’s Black History Month along with opportunities to reconnect with Black artists on view now in our permanent collection.   1. Film Screening and Community Discussion: Still Waters Never Crash February 2, 5:30–8:00 PM Attend a film screening for “Still Waters Never Crash,” a riveting story that follows Dr. Sharrica Miller as she visits motels she used to call home and reflects on her firs ..read more

In August of 2022, The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) awarded the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Artist Residency to Anthony Peyton Young, a Boston-based artist who specializes in drawing, bleaching, ceramics and collage. Since then, Young has been hard at work in the home of the late Aminah Robinson. For the young artist, this experience has been a challenge and blessing he will never forget. The residency program, founded in the name of Robinson’s legacy at the Columbus Museum of Art and generously supported by Greater Columbus Arts Council and CoverMyMeds, supports African American visual artis ..read more

We asked artist Cat Ramos to tell us more about the origins of Día de los Muertos. Listen in on a lively conversation between artist Cat Ramos and community member Adriana Ernst, as they discuss the origins of Día de Los Muertos, the traditions that come with the celebrations, when it is celebrated, and how it should be celebrated. They also discuss the importance of appreciation versus appropriation of these indigenous celebrations ..read more

  In preparation for our upcoming exhibition, Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak, we asked Columbus Museum of Art staff members to share what they are most excited about.   “I’m most excited to see visitors reconnect with beloved childhood art and characters.” — Olivia T., Visitor Experience Supervisor   “I distinctly remember picking out ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ one day at my school library in the 3rd grade and curling up to read it. It’s exciting to have an exhibition that so many people can relate to.” — Kacey Murphy, Visitor Experience Lead Associate ..read more

  History-mapping draws the wide and narrow, the known and unknown past to the present. During my residency at the Aminah Robinson house, I examined the impulses behind my prose poem “Blood on a Blackberry” and found a kinship with the textile artist and writer who made her home a creative safe space. I crafted narratives through a mixed media application of vintage buttons, antique laces and fabrics, and text on cloth-like paper. The starting point for “Blood on a Blackberry” and the writing during this project was a photograph taken more than a century ago that I found in a family album ..read more

This celebration of creativity featured a wide range of artistic experiences and collaborative performances including live music, dance, visual art, poetry, calligraphy, video and fashion. Wonderball raised more than $225,000 to support the Museum’s efforts to provide inspired and creative programs for the community all year long.  Check out tons of fun images from the unforgettable evening below! If you have any you would like to share with the Museum please email amber.wacker@cmaohio.org ..read more

If you’ve ever taken a selfie at Easton Town Center, chances are you’ve posed with one of Grace Korandovich’s luscious flower valances. The artist finds it hard to contain her creativity, her bold and beautiful art displays and installations scale walls and fill rooms for clients including the Diamond Cellar, The Athletic Club of Columbus, Flowers & Bread, Stile Salon and other area small businesses. “A lot of what I create is inspired by the environment, organic shapes, movement and the theory of flow. Sometimes, I’m just connecting with the material. I am an airy light feel of an artist ..read more

Tracy Powell once had a thriving career in real estate for 15 years, but her childhood interest in fashion remained alive in her heart. Everyone thought I was going crazy because I was very good at what I did. I made a lot of money selling real estate, but the call to create fashion and art was so great,” says Powell, who stopped selling houses and decided to study fashion at The Columbus College of Art & Design as a nontraditional student in her 40s. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Powell now leads The House of IsA and her avant garde designs are inspired by comic books, movies and hip ho ..read more