The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise was created with the purpose of educating and preparing students for successful careers in the arts and related entrepreneurial fields.
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The cohort of 12 undergraduate students for the pilot program Creatives @ the Barnett has been selected! This year-long program supports the 12 “creatives” as they craft collaborative artistic expressions tied to an identified social theme. In addition to a project budget, each pair of creatives will be supported by the presence of an experienced mentor selected from the Ohio State Arts Community. The program will culminate with a public exhibition of the collaborative creative expressions in April 2024. Meet the cohort members and mentors of this exciting pilot program at the Barnett Center.
Part chamber music, part media art, part theater, this shape-shifting work owns as many haunting identities as its host-muse, Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904). Created and performed by Hearn's Great-Great-Grand Nice, Jean Laurenz, composer Maria Finkelmeier, and percussionist Greg Jukes, the work explores the turbulent undertones and uncanny narratives of Hearn's celebrated 19th-century macabre stories, his magnetic pull in his contributions to American journalism, his interpretation of Japanese ghost stories, and his documentation of underrepresented American cultures. Through this multi-media performance, audiences will create their own sensory entrance into life's deepest questions; questions whose fibers weave into every ghost story, spiritual mantra, and subliminal experience - questions whose answers lie just beyond the grasp of cognition, discoverable only through a transformative portal beyond human touch.
The cohort of 12 undergraduate students for the pilot program Creatives @ the Barnett has been selected! This year-long program supports the 12 “creatives” as they craft collaborative artistic expressions tied to an identified social theme. In addition to a project budget, each pair of creatives will be supported by the presence of an experienced mentor selected from the Ohio State Arts Community. The program will culminate with a public exhibition of the collaborative creative expressions in April 2024. Meet the cohort members and mentors of this exciting pilot program at the Barnett Center.
Part chamber music, part media art, part theater, this shape-shifting work owns as many haunting identities as its host-muse, Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904). Created and performed by Hearn's Great-Great-Grand Nice, Jean Laurenz, composer Maria Finkelmeier, and percussionist Greg Jukes, the work explores the turbulent undertones and uncanny narratives of Hearn's celebrated 19th-century macabre stories, his magnetic pull in his contributions to American journalism, his interpretation of Japanese ghost stories, and his documentation of underrepresented American cultures. Through this multi-media performance, audiences will create their own sensory entrance into life's deepest questions; questions whose fibers weave into every ghost story, spiritual mantra, and subliminal experience - questions whose answers lie just beyond the grasp of cognition, discoverable only through a transformative portal beyond human touch.
