April 10th Artist Gerry Lang Gallery Talk & Octagon Open House!

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Celebrate the first Octagon Open House of the year with us and enjoy a gallery talk with artist Gerry Lang at the LeFevre Art Gallery with the "Return from Exile: the Mixed-Blood art of Gerry Lang"!

 

The Octagon State Memorial is one of the most spectacular surviving remnants of the Newark Earthworks. The Octagon is connected to a perfectly circular enclosure 1,054 feet in diameter. The architecture of the Octagon Earthworks encodes a sophisticated understanding of geometry and astronomy. It is a National Historical Landmark and is on track to become a World Heritage site! Portions of the Octagon Earthworks is open to the public during daylight hours 365 days a year, but much of the site is used as a private golf course for most of the year, so access is restricted. Four times each year, however, golfing is suspended and the entire site is made available to the general public.

Take your tour with you!

The site will be open daylight to dusk. 

Please revisit the Ohio History Connection for more information.

Octagon State Memorial

125 N. 33rd Street

Newark, OH 43055

Students who would like transportation from the OSU-Newark to the Octagon Earthworks must complete this form by April 7 at 5 p.m. 

We will contact you on Friday, 4/8/22 to confirm details. 

If you have questions, contact Lesha Farias at  farias.8@osu.edu.

https://go.osu.edu/April10

At 2 PM Director of the Newark Earthworks Center Dr. John Low will be giving a guided tour  of the Octagon State Memorial Earthworks

Dr. Low (left in bright green) giving a tour
to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Elder's Council, 2014.
Image courtesy of Timothy E. Black.

And at 4 PM Artist Gerry Lang is giving a Gallery Talk: "Return from Exile: the Mixed-Blood Art of Gerry Lang" at the LeFevre Art Gallery at OSU Newark!

Gerry Lang is a multi-medium artist who traces the tangled journey paths between self, community and identity and the ways we can be embraced, rejected, celebrated, or dismissed based upon perception and perspective. His award winning art presents a thought provoking panorama of the artist’s own processes of challenge, discovery and resistance to labels of assumption and consumption as a mixed-blood messenger.

LeFevre Art Gallery

1199 University Drive

Newark, OH 43055

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 

8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Learn more about the artist at Gerry Lang Studios.

This exhibit can be viewed during regular gallery hours throughout the spring semester. 

Sponsored by the Ohio State University Newark Earthworks Center and made possible by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme at the Ohio State University.