Events
Upcoming Exhibitions
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2025 Exhibitions and Events
2024 Exhibitions and Events
2023 Exhibitions and Events
2022 Exhibitions and Events
2021 Exhibitions and Events
2020 Exhibitions and Events
2019 Exhibitions and Events
This year, the Blockfort tenant annual exhibition has us on all fours. We Are All Animals is a fun exhibition that has tenants and past tenants all making work based on an animal of their choosing, created in their style. Come see this wild exhibition.
Blockfort invites you to Lip Body Foot : A Cup Shaped Thing, a “cup show” featuring 43 ceramic artists from across the country.
Artist Double feature showcasing the work of Brian Gonnella (Pittsburgh) and Adam Hernandez.
Artist Cassidy Rae Marietta’s intricate and detailed drawings are like emotional, dizzying dreams.
Blockfort is visited by The Moon, a Grand Rapids, MI transdisciplinary art space. Creative leaders Natalie Wetzel and Mark Andrus bring their dreamlike and multifaceted creations to Columbus.
Blockfort welcomes artist Lauren Mitro to our flex space to create a site specific installation.
Devil's Mirage is a whimsical performance of dancers, sculptural installation and painting, creating illusions in space and form by artist Audrey Galat.
The Great Portrait Show showcases 101 selections from 486 entries that display a variety of styles and mediums, all with the focus on portraiture.
Blockfort is happy to present the work of 5 students from the Columbus State Community College.
Tech art group OBLSK brings their biometric sculptural installation that uses EEG technology to create the visuals.
Paper Sounds and Feels is a pop-up exhibition by artist Trulie Scruptious that explores the comfortable discomfort of ephemera through sound and movement.
Artists Paul Giovis and Patrick Wayner combine forces for this artist double feature that references the Wes Anderson film “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”.
An exhibition partnering Goodwill Arts, Open Door Studio, and Art Outside the Lines, organizations working to empower adult artists with disabilities.
2018 Exhibitions and Events
'Something in the Woods' is an exhibition glorifying the haunted hollows of the forest, the quiet, resilient inhabitants of forgotten thickets, and the bones and fur left behind by those that feed the forest floor.
PRICE: Adult - $10 Child - $5 (10 and under)
COURSE TIMES:
September 14 + 21 5-10pm
September 15, 16, 22, + 23 noon-6pm
Come play 18 holes of artist created miniature-golf!
Reception: August 10, 6-10pm
A solo exhibition featuring the work of artist Adena Griffith.
RECEPTION: June 2, 5-7 PM
An exhibition using augmented reality to unlock hidden layers within the artwork.
EVENT TIMES: Noon to Midnight
Alley Islands is a small street festival that brings art, music, food and drinks to the Discovery District downtown.
Reception: May 4, 6-9 PM
Curated by Celia Peters, Futures for the Rest of us envisions the future from the perspective of minority minds.
Reception: April 5, 7-10pm
Blockfort Gallery and Columbus Society of Communicating Arts (CSCA) are hosting an all-digital exhibition, “Odds Are.” The event features dozens of looping .GIFs created by artists and designers from around the country.
Reception: March 9, 6-10pm
Blockfort invites you to Benchwarmers, an exhibition celebrating sports nostalgia.
2017 Exhibitions and Events
Reception: Oct 12, 6–9pm
Blockfort is working in partnership with Roy G Biv Gallery for the Emerging Arts to bring you New School 3
Reception: September 8, 7-10pm
This exhibition brings together Black artists from across Central Ohio displaying works in response to themes from The Black Creatives Manifesto.
Reception: August 5, 6-10pm
Blockfort is pleased to host the exhibition "a gilding denial", featuring the work of artist Brian Reaume.
In "Ask Me No Questions" Dan explores the current social landscape, un-turning every stone and examining issues with the same irreverent conversation he has been creating for the last 20 years.
Reception: May 11, 6-9pm
Join Blockfort Gallery for FRUIT: An Exhibition of Themed Variety.
Reception: April 4th, 6-9pm
Join us for a juried show of local designers and artists taking “word art” to the next level – creating literal pictures with quotes that inspire, provoke, and express passionate meaning.