Virtual Art Makes Columbus

Virtual Arts Experiences (Scheduled)

• Discover a list of virtual arts events, updated daily, at ColumbusMakesArt.com

Virtual Arts Experiences (Ongoing)

• CD102.5 Big Room Recordings: Enjoy recorded performances by national acts from the history of the CD102.5 Big Room.
• Columbus Children's Theatre offers CCT at Home, a collection of video performances and study guides
• The Columbus Museum of Art and Pizzuti Collection have started their Stay Connected initiative. They are also offering a social media version of their Open Studio, #MYCMASTUDIO; read more info here. Thursdays they will have virtual meditation at noon and virtual yoga at 6 p.m. More details on how to access those programs to come.
• Request a curbside concert for someone who needs a little live music in their lives!
• Dublin Arts Council's Public Art Mobile Tour and geocaching for riverboxes
• Watch the Best of CatVideoFest through the Drexel Theatre
• Franklin Park Conservatory is offering virtual tours and exhibitions, gardening classes and plant care tips
• Jazz Arts Group hosts Offstage LIVE conversations and music every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday through their Facebook page
• Keep up with more ways to support Short North businesses through the Short North Arts District page. (Most North Market vendors remain open for carryout and curbside pickup.)
• The Gateway Film Center is offering a variety of new releases for streaming through their website
• Listen to the McConnell Arts Center orchestra's Voices of Hope concert, recorded in early February
• Public Art around Columbus. Outdoors and all around, use our database to find murals, sculptures and more in your neighborhood and others.
• ProMusica Chamber Orchestra hosts a Virtual Family Concert online.
• Ohio Designer Craftsmen offers two virtual exhibitions: Functional Ceramics and Found Again: Juried Quilt Exhibition
• Take a virtual tour of the Ohio Theatre with CAPA's Jason Gay.
• OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection: An interactive website that documents, preserves and historicizes dance history and practice within the state of Ohio, with over 100 videos, histories, milestones, over 400 images, and full written transcripts.
• ROY G BIV offers a virtual tour of their latest exhibition: Kena Ramirez Dillon, Blobby Dude Bares It All and posts more videos on their YouTube channel.
• Songs at the Center is listing full episodes online.
• Drive or walk by Melissa Vogley Woods' art installation Always at 964 Neil Ave., best viewed in the evening. Activate the full installation by using the flash on your camera. For more details, visit melissavogleywoods.com/always
• The Wexner Center for the Arts has begun streaming some of its film exhibitions: Agnes Varda retrospective, Vitalina Varela, and more streaming resources on the blog.

Columbus Virtual Education Resources & Projects

• Take art classes through The Arts Castle in Delaware, Ohio
• Tune to The Artmobile's Facebook page for a growing list of resources for art lessons and projects.
• BalletMet is streaming dance classes and workshops on YouTube
• Columbus Metropolitan Libraries: Digital library resources – including eBooks, eAudiobooks, magazines, movies and music plus research and learning tools available at columbuslibrary.org.
• The Columbus Museum of Art offers free resources for at-home arts education
• The Columbus Zoo offers digital learning opportunities, including Columbus Zoo School lessons posted weekly
• COSI is showcasing science videos on COSI Connects.
• Daily Flux and Flow Dance and Movement Classes On-Line
• Take Drawing With Mr. J classes through WOSU
• Artist Hilary Frambes offers online art classes with instructional videos and printable PDFs
• GROOVE U began a new project this week called The Woodshed, offering online instruction in songwriting, mixing and more a daily series of curated and original content for musicians, engineers, videographers and designers.
• Ohio History Connection's Learn at Home classes.
• Studio614 is offering virtual canvas painting classes
• The Urban Arts Space offers virtual Crafternoons, home studio suggestions, and DIY art supplies on their website
• Working in conjunction with PBS KIDS, WOSU Classroom has launched a daily e-newsletter packed with ideas for in-home learning. Sign up for free at wosu.org/classroom/learningathome. Parents can also livestream the WOSU Kids channel at wosu.org or on channel 34.4, Spectrum channel 993, and YouTube TV.
• You can also record your experiences during the COVID-19 crisis for WOSU's Letters From Home project
• Get inspiration by joining the Quarantine Creative Outlet Facebook group
• The City of Worthington offers daily remote education

National and International Virtual Experiences

• CincyUSA and ArtsWave in Cincinnati have both compiled resources for virtual events
• The Cleveland International Film Festival will begin offering its events virtually.
• The Great Lakes Science Center offers resources and videos for at-home projects
• Literary Cleveland is hosting online classes and workshops
• Author and illustrator Mo Willems leads a 15-part Lunch Doodles session on the Kennedy Center's YouTube channel
• The National Gallery of Art has begun virtual guided tours, a new one each day, posted on their Facebook page.
• The National Theatre in London is showing past productions every Thursday on their YouTube channel
• Philadelphia's Koresh Dance Company is offering dance and yoga instruction online
• SMART Art School offers classes online
• Stay at Home Fest. Virtual festival of live music performances.
• Travel & Leisure posted 12 other museums from around the world offering virtual tours.
• Sir Patrick Stewart is giving daily readings of Shakespeare's sonnets on his Facebook page
• You Can Play That in Richland County offers video music classes on their Facebook page