The Columbus Museum of Art will host “Greater Columbus: The 2026 Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition” from April 15 through September 20 in the museum’s Lower Level Walter Wing. A member preview event is scheduled for April 14 from 5 to 8 p.m.
The biennial exhibition, presented in partnership with the Greater Columbus Arts Council, features six Central Ohio artists selected through a blind jury process: Malcolm Cochran, Yusef Ferguson, Dana Lynn Harper, Marcus Jackson, Michelle Stitzlein, and Bradley Weyandt. The jurors were Anthony Graham, senior curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Maddie Klett, associate director at Ortuzar gallery in New York; and Antoinette Roberts, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
The artists work across a range of media and approaches. Harper and Ferguson explore intergenerational memory through family objects and video. Weyandt and Stitzlein combine fiber traditions with unconventional materials in large-scale wall pieces. Jackson creates street portraits documenting everyday life in communities of color, and Cochran develops sculptures addressing themes of loss. The exhibition is curated by Rae Root, the museum’s Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow. Admission is included with the cost of general entry; museum members enter free.
Source: Columbus Museum of Art