Ohio Wesleyan University Announces February 2015 Public Events
DELAWARE, OH – Ohio Wesleyan University today announced its February 2015 lineup of public events. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free. For the latest OWU event information, including schedule changes, visit Events @ OWU. For Battling Bishop athletics schedules, visit BattlingBishops.com. For webstreaming, visit StreamOWU.
Now through Feb. 15 – “Covering Ground,” an exhibition of installation drawings by Larry Cressman, and “One Way or the Other,” an exhibition of works from the Ross Art Museum’s permanent collection. Cressman, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design, has spent years exploring the line and translating it into a three-dimensional form of expression. His current artwork uses daylily stalks, raspberry cane, dogbane, and other plant materials. Learn more at larrycressman.com. Ohio Wesleyan’s Richard M. Ross Art Museum is located at 60 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. During the academic year, the museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is handicap-accessible and admission is always free. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit https://www.owu.edu/about/offices-services/richard-m-ross-art-museum/ for more information.
Now through Feb. 22 – “reservoir … a collection of emotional truths,” featuring paintings by Adam Kiger, in Gallery 2001 inside Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Kiger’s work has been described as seeming to have “dark, almost Gothic overtones. A closer look, however, reveals the emotional underpinnings of these works, which are about the journey of the human spirit in the search for truth.” Learn more at www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/adam_kiger.aspx. Gallery hours coincide with library hours, posted online at library.owu.edu. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit https://www.owu.edu/about/offices-services/richard-m-ross-art-museum/ for more information.
3:10 p.m. Feb. 2 – Barb Girson, sales strategist, trainer, and registered corporate coach, discussing “What is Working with Networking (and What is Not-working)?” in the Bayley Room on the second floor of OWU’s Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. She is the CEO and president of Columbus-based My Sales Tactics, a professional skill development, sales training, and business coaching/consulting company. This event is sponsored by the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship. Learn more at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-economics/the-woltemade-center/.
7 p.m. Feb. 4 – OWU Women’s Basketball vs. Wooster, in Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
8 p.m. Feb. 6, 13, 20, and 27 – Evening programs at Ohio Wesleyan’s Perkins Observatory, 3199 Columbus Pike (U.S. 23), Delaware. Content varies based on sky conditions, but may include a planetarium show, observatory tours, and star gazing with the 32-inch Schottland Telescope. Advance tickets are $8 for adults, and $6 for children and senior citizens. Reserve tickets by calling (740) 363-1257. Learn more at perkins.owu.edu.
1 p.m. Feb. 7 – OWU Women’s Basketball vs. Kenyon, in Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
3 p.m. Feb. 7 – OWU Men’s Basketball vs. Kenyon, in Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
8 p.m. Feb. 10 – OWU faculty and guest recital featuring Mary Fetherston, cello, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-music/.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 – OWU Men’s Basketball vs. Wabash, in Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
All day Feb. 13 – OWU Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams host the OWU Open, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
10 a.m. Feb. 14 – OWU Men’s Tennis vs. John Carroll, at Gordon Field House, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
1 p.m. Feb. 14 – OWU Women’s Tennis vs. John Carroll, at Gordon Field House, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
1 p.m. Feb. 14 – OWU Men’s Lacrosse vs. Augustana (Illinois), at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
3:15 p.m. Feb. 15 – “Dreaming in Colours,” an OWU faculty and guest recital with music and visuals, featuring HyeKyung Lee, composer; Christian Faur, media artist; David Niwa, violin; Kenichiro Matsuda, viola; Pei-An Chao, cello; Jena Huebner, double bass; and Mariko Kaneda, piano, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Learn more at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-music/.
6 p.m. Feb. 18 – OWU Women’s Basketball vs. Oberlin, in Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 – The 2015 Environmental and Natural Resources Symposium – “A Tax on Carbon: Would It Work for Business, Consumers, and the Environment?” – in Benes Rooms A and B of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Panelists will include Scott Nystrom, M.A., senior economic associate for Regional Economic Models Inc., and Ian Sheldon, Ph.D., the Andersons Professor of International Trade at The Ohio State University. The discussion will be moderated by Laurie Anderson, Ph.D., OWU professor of botany and microbiology, and is sponsored by the OWU Department of Economics; Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship; and Delaware Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based organization focused on policies to address climate change. Learn more at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-economics/the-woltemade-center/.
8 p.m. Feb. 18 – OWU Men’s Basketball vs. Oberlin, in Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
8 p.m. Feb. 18, 19, 20, and 21, and 2 p.m. Feb. 22 – “Kindertransport” by Diane Samuels, an award-winning contemporary look at the rescue operation that sent Jewish children to England in 1938. Four decades later, one of those girls, with a daughter of her own, experiences the collision of past and present, the true cost of survival, and the future that grows out of a traumatized past. This play will be directed by professor D. Glen Vanderbilt Jr. and performed in the Studio Theatre inside Chappelear Drama Center, 45 Rowland Ave., Delaware. This strongly emotional play is not intended for young audiences. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for senior citizens, Ohio Wesleyan employees, and non-Ohio Wesleyan students. Admission is free for Ohio Wesleyan students with a valid OWU ID. To reserve tickets, call the Theatre Box Office at (740) 368-3855. For more information, visit https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-theatre-dance/.
Feb. 24 through April 5 – Paintings by Edmund Kuehn and an exhibition of works from the Ross Art Museum’s permanent collection. During his career, Kuehn served as director of the Columbus Museum of Art and taught at the Columbus Arts School (now CCAD) and The Ohio State University. Of his paintings, Kuehn (now deceased) had said his search was “to find [in the] building blocks of design and color a cool analytic means to tame a given shape to an abundant flow of emotions and creative intent.” Learn more at www.kenygalleries.com/images/ac-kuehn2/kuehn-bio.html. Ohio Wesleyan’s Richard M. Ross Art Museum is located at 60 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. During the academic year, the museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is handicap-accessible and admission is always free. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit https://www.owu.edu/about/offices-services/richard-m-ross-art-museum/ for more information.
7 p.m. Feb. 25 – OWU Men’s Lacrosse vs. Otterbein, at Selby Stadium, 45 S. Henry St., Delaware. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for students, and free for anyone under age 5 or with an Ohio Wesleyan ID. The game will be streamed live at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 – Ben Kiernan, Ph.D., author of “Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur” and professor of history at Yale University, presenting an illustrated lecture on the history of genocide, in Benes Rooms A and B of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Kiernan’s presentation is Ohio Wesleyan’s 2015 Robert Kragalott Lecture on Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Human Rights. Learn more at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-history/.
Feb. 28 through April 9 – All Student Spring Show, featuring juried artworks created by Ohio Wesleyan students from all academic disciplines. Gallery 2001 is located inside Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Gallery hours coincide with library hours, posted online at library.owu.edu. Call (740) 368-3606 or visit https://www.owu.edu/about/offices-services/richard-m-ross-art-museum/ for more information.
9 a.m. Feb. 28 – OWU Men’s Tennis vs. Wabash, at Gordon Field House, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
Noon Feb. 28 – OWU Men’s Tennis vs. Franciscan, at Gordon Field House, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Learn more at www.battlingbishops.com.
Founded in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts universities. Located in Delaware, Ohio, the private university offers 86 undergraduate majors and competes in 23 NCAA Division III varsity sports. Ohio Wesleyan combines a challenging, internationally focused curriculum with off-campus learning and leadership opportunities to connect classroom theory with real-world experience. OWU’s 1,750 students represent 46 U.S. states and territories and 43 countries. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives,” listed on the latest President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, and included in the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review “best colleges” lists. Learn more at www.owu.edu.