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a strand of black hair on white background
Wed, February 18, 2026
6:11 pm - 8:41 pm
Hopkins Hall Ceramic Department Corridor

128 N Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210

this begins when the sun is about to set and ends a while after it is dark. 
you can curate your own beginning and ending, a suggested minimal experience duration is the time it takes for a candy (or someone suggests two!!) to melt in your mouth without chewing it 🍬, or the time it takes for you to let some thing in the space disintegrate 🕸️, or {other options that arise for you during your experience}, lingering longer is more than welcome.
(candies will be around  if you find it  please take the candies and leave the wrappers thanks :))
you are invited to touch (and be touched by) things in the space - some may be fragile, so calibrate your force, tuning your tone of touch; but you don't have to be too careful, things will disassemble and or disintegrate anyway. you may also hold, carry, move, rearrange, disassemble, {or any other action that occurs to you}...playing with your senses and with other things and bodies. 

Location: the ceramic corridor is in the basement of Hopkins Hall. You can enter the building via the door facing oval, or the one by Annie and John Glenn Ave...see those two tiny arrows on the map - those are the two doors closest to the corridor, if you happen to end up somewhere else, little signs may be around inside to help you find your way, or just enjoy getting lost and wandering for a while ~ 

a campus map

For her capstone experience, MFA Candidate jiara sha completes and present a substantial MFA project demonstrating a synthesis of craft, artistic vision and conceptual rigor, as well as professional competence in her selected research area. 

Students document the project with disc and written documentation, presenting one copy to the Department of Dance for the Music and Dance Library. The MFA oral examination includes a discussion and defense of the synthesis of craft, artistic vision and conceptual rigor as demonstrated in the project.

The event is free and open to the public.