Wehrle Gallery features exhibits by ODU students and faculty.

The Wehrle Gallery features collections and exhibits by ODU students and faculty, as well as international and local artists. The gallery is open to the public throughout the year. Admission is free.

Upcoming Exhibits

Chrysalis: Meet ODU’s Art Faculty
Aug. 21 – Oct. 22, 2017

This exhibition is a celebration of the new academic year and a welcome to ODU’s 16th president, Dr. Robert Gervasi. The Art and Design faculty, Janna Thompson-Chordas, Janette Knowles, Rebecca Morton, and Eliana Calle Saari, created new works around the idea of the chrysalis and butterfly, a metaphor for the intellectual and spiritual transformation that happens through education.

Opening reception: 5-7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 25, 2017

Artist presentation: 12 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017
Nostalgia and Invisible Racism: A Project by Ann Corley Silverman
Nov. 3, 2017 – Jan. 12, 2018

Twenty years after Ann Corley Silverman exhibited “The Journal Project” in the Wehrle Gallery, she is using the same pulped and shredded journals of her southern grandmother to create pages that support the handwritten text of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” in an examination of family history, southern history and racism.

Opening reception: 5-7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017

Artist presentation: 12 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017
Holiday Art Market
December 6, 2017

Find a unique, handmade gift at this holiday art market! Members of the ODU community will be selling a variety of goods from prints and paintings to handmade paper and pottery.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Wehrle Gallery
Convergence: New Work by Char Norman and Anita Dawson
Jan. 26 – March 31, 2018

Longtime Columbus academic and artistic powerhouses Char Norman and Anita Dawson explore the idea of Convergence through paintings and mixed media pieces. Their works center around the convergence of ideas, cultural influences, the political climate, their lengthy friendship and work/travel partnerships, as well as the fact that both are women artists.

Opening reception: 5-7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 26, 2018

Artist presentation: 12 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018
From the Halls of Wehrle: 2018 Senior Exhibition
April 29 – June 30, 2018

Celebrate with ODU’s graduating seniors. This exhibition is the capstone of Art, Art Education, and Graphic Design students and features a range of content and media.

Opening reception: 1-3:30 p.m.

Previous Exhibits

From the Halls of Wehrle: 2017 Senior Exhibition
April 30 – June 30, 2017

Opening: Sunday, April 30, 1-3:30 p.m.

Celebrate with our graduating seniors! This exhibition is the capstone of Art, Art Education, and Graphic Design students and features a range of content and media.
Editions and Experiences: Eliana Calle-Saari and the Art of the Print
Jan. 20 – March 26, 2017

Opening: 5-7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 20

Colombian transplant Eliana Calle-Saari has spent the last two decades translating life experiences into exquisite prints which exploit the specific expressive tendencies of the chosen technique; be it etching or woodcut.
Todd Camp: New Works in Mixed Media
Nov. 4, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017

Opening: 5-7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4

Todd Camp’s curiosity and sensitivity to a material’s specific attributes gave rise to his newest works in mixed media.
A Tree's Voice: Matt Bliss and the Art of Wood
Aug. 21– Oct. 23, 2016

Gallery reception: 5-7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 26

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Ohio Dominican University Fine Art alum and master woodworker Matt Bliss finds the voice of reclaimed and found wood to create beautiful and elegiac sculptures and wall pieces that defy traditional categorization.

The title of this exhibition comes from Thomas Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree.