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April 22, 2025

Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel installs 3-channel visual art installation

Assistant Professor Kym McDaniel installed her 3-channel visual art installation, “Gutted”, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Off The Screen! The installation ran from March 25 to March 30 in…

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April 17, 2025

Ohio State Dance seeks Production and Stage Specialist

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April 16, 2025

Graduate Students Win Fellowships

Graduate Fellow Montë Murphy won a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for pursuing a course of study which requires advanced foreign language and area studies training. An…

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April 2, 2025

Dance Preservation Fund 2025-2026

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The Dance Preservation Fund was established in 1994 to further the recording of dance, supporting projects dealing with Labanotation or other notation systems, movement analysis,…

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Andrew Shelton

Interim Chair, Professor of History of Art

shelton.85@osu.edu

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Digital Dance and Tech Lecturer, Media Coordinator and Integrated Designer, and ACCAD Liaison

clark-stilianos.2@osu.edu

Candace Feck

Emerita Associate Professor

Karen Eliot

Emerita Professor

eliot.4@osu.edu