Feb 26, 2022 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
TEDxOhioStateUniversity is returning both in-person and in a virtual format for our 2022 main event, Bloom!
Featuring 12 amazing speakers and an incredible performance group, TEDx is in full bloom for our 11th annual main event. The event will be from 12-4 pm on Saturday, February 26th at the Mershon Auditorium. Doors for the in-person event open at 11:00 AM, with program beginning at 12:00PM. Our building is open, masks are required indoors.
If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688–3890.
You have the option to purchase in-person or virtual (livestream) tickets. In the event that the program goes fully virtual, all tickets will become a virtual ticket and attendees will be contacted with more information.
Mershon Auditorium, Wexner Center
1871 N High Street,
Columbus, OH 43210
Get your tickets today!
- Students $15
- Other $20
- Livestream $10
The Newark Earthworks Center's Director Dr. John Low is one of the featured speakers! He will discuss the importance of Native perspectives for a fuller understanding of the Newark Earthworks. Dr. Low will also recognize the global significance of these sites and their nomination to be World Heritage Sites with UNESCO.
Meet our speakers:
- Scott Gaudi
- An astronomer by training, Scott works with NASA, industry, the astronomical community, and the public to help develop the next generation of great space observatories designed to answer some of humanity's most profound questions.
- Umit Ozkan
- Umit Ozkan teaches Chemical Engineering at Ohio State. Her research focuses on catalysis and electrocatalysis, with applications relevant to energy, environment and sustainability.
- Iman Ansari
- Iman Ansari’s work focuses on the historical and contemporary relationship between architecture and medicine. He is interested in how various things—gases, fluids, particles, humans, and non-humans—move and interact with and within buildings, and how architecture can provide a better framework to rethink and reimagine those interactions.
- Morgan Podraza
- From comics and movies to toys and memes, Morgan Podraza's work explores how we play with media and how those experiences shape our relationships with ourselves and one another.
- Richard Giang
- The way that Richard best communicates is through a shared meal. Being born of Vietnamese immigrant refugee parents, he seeks to share in his food culture and others in creative and innovative ways with the goal of producing a level of interconnectedness and understanding throughout the community.
- Douglas Crews
- Dr. Crews is a biological anthropologist specializing in evolutionary biology and human adaptability, as illustrated by senescence, frailty, stressor responses, and allostatic load within and across ecological and sociocultural settings, including Samoa, Japan, Kuwait, Poland, and the United States.
- Lauren Pond
- Lauren Pond is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on religion in the United States. She uses her camera to share the nuanced stories of communities across the country and to illustrate how religion intersects with everyday human experience.
- Meta Brown
- Meta Brown is a member of OSU’s economics department faculty; her previous posts include the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the University of Wisconsin, and Stony Brook University. Meta’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and OSU’s own Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
- Bart Elmore
- Bart first became passionate about environmental justice while trekking and paddling through the woods and streams of North Georgia. He soon discovered he wanted to be an educator when teaching in Savannah, Georgia, and then went north to study environmental history, which he now teaches with an eye towards finding lessons from the past that can create a more ecologically sustainable future.
- Elena Foulis
- Elena Foulis is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is an oral historian who is committed to amplifying the voices of the Latine Community in Ohio.
- Carter Phillips
- Carter Phillips, an OSU alum, has argued more cases in private practice before the US Supreme Court than anyone in history. He clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger, argued his first Supreme Court case in January 1982 and has argued a total of 88 times before the Court.
- John Low
- Dr. John Low is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, an associate professor at Ohio State University - Newark, and the Director of the Newark Earthworks Center. His talk will discuss the importance of Native perspectives for a fuller understanding of the Newark Earthworks. He will also recognize the global significance of these sites and their nomination to be World Heritage Sites with UNESCO.
- Chinese Folk Music Orchestra
- This years Bloom performance group is the wonderful Chinese Folk Music Orchestra!🎶 Chinese culture has evolved and been passed down for thousands of years, and folk music is one of the most important representations of Chinese culture. Chinese Folk Music Orchestra uses music to express Chinese culture and belief, with traditional Chinese instruments combined with some western instruments.
Wexner Center of the Arts Know Before You Go:
Visiting the Wex.
Updated January 10, 2022With the surge in COVID cases, we have updated our safety protocols to be as responsive as possible to this ever-changing situation and to keep the health and safety of our guests, artists, and staff at top of mind.
VisitingFacial coverings are required in all areas of the center, regardless of vaccination status, when you visit.
We have reduced the capacity in our theater, galleries, performance spaces, café, and store to ensure as much safe physical distancing as possible.
With reduced capacities and to ensure as safe a visit as possible, we encourage you to buy your
tickets for programs online, ahead of time. This will save time at the front desk and minimize your contact with others so you have more time to enjoy the exhibition, performance, talk, or film (and remember: a ticket to a film or performance gets you free admission to our galleries) You can also purchase a ticket by calling our ticket desk at (614) 292-3535.
Heirloom Café has reopened with limited seating. Heirloom offers online ordering for pickup to help save time in line. You can also order Heirloom through
DoorDash [external link] and
GrubHub [external link].
Cleaning Procedures and Protocols
We are continuing with our extensive cleaning procedures.
We disinfect and sanitize throughout the day and overnight when we close the doors for the day.
Speaking of sanitizing: we've increased the number of hand sanitizing stations around our building.
Restrooms will be open and cleaned throughout the day.
Our air circulation and filtration throughout the building has been formally assessed and enhancements have been made by engineers to provide safe, clean air.
We encourage practicing physical distancing in the galleries, store, and theater.
Shields remain installed at our ticket desk and in the Store to protect both staff and you.
If you’ve any questions about these protocols, please email the
Wexner Center of Arts.
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