Arts Creation Grants advance the mission and goals of the Global Arts + Humanities by engaging artists and designers across the university in the creation of new, impactful, arts-led research and creative work. These grants are available to all arts practitioners across the university working in all mediums, including (but not limited to) conceptual, installation, music, video, performance, dance, theater, drawing, painting, prints, text, sculpture, glass, mixed media, new media, data science, advanced and emerging technologies (robotics, AI, augmented reality, high-performance computing) and photography.
Selected Grants
- Exhibition and Education Lab at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019)
Kris Paulsen (History of Art) - Into the Void (2019)
Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Paul Sutter (Columbus-based Composer) - Learning Lichens: A Symbiotic Co-Creation (2024)
Amy Youngs (Art) • Emma Kline (Art and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology) • Doo-Sung Yoo (Art) - #MentalHealthDance2U (2019)
Nena Couch (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance) - Monuments of Scioto Valley (2022)
Beth Blostein (Architecture) • Jacob Boswell (Architecture) • John Low (Comparative Studies) • Bart Overly (Architecture) • Justin Parscher (Architecture)
Centers + Institutes Grants advance the mission and goals of the Global Arts + Humanities by enhancing the capacity of centers and institutes for cross-disciplinary collaborations that foreground humanistic methods and practices in addressing critical societal challenges. There are three types of Centers + Institutes Grants: Center Grants, Collaborative Center Grants and Summer Institute Grants.
Selected Grants | Center Grants + Collaborative Center Grants
- Advancing Instructional Redesign on-Demand (2020)
Joy Balta (Medicine) • Dir. Kay Halasek (Michael V. Drake Institute) • Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo (Michael V. Drake Institute) • David Sovic (Michael V. Drake Institute) - Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment and Stages of Being (2020)
Adélékè Adéèko (African and African-American Studies Community Extension Center) • Crystal Perkins (Dance) • Valarie Williams (Dance) • Dir. Larry Williamsom Jr. (Hale Black Cultural Center) - Armed Conflicts and Im/Mobility (2023)
Dir., Angela Brintlinger (Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) • Yana Hashamova (Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Dir., Dorothy Noyes (Mershon Center for International Security Studies) - Asian Futures: A Collaborative Proposal (2019)
Dir. Katherine Borland (Center for Folklore Studies) • Dir. Pranav Jani (South Asian Studies) • Dir., Namiko Kunimoto (Center for Ethnic Studies) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir. Harvey Miller (Center for Urban and Regional Analysis) • Mytheli Sreenivas (History) • Dir. Hugh Urban (Center for the Study of Religion) • Max Woodworth (Geography) - Building Capacity for the Internship Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2020)
Dionne Custer-Edwards (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Karen Simonian (Wexner Center for the Arts) co-Interim Executive Dir., Kelly Stevelt (Wexner Center for the Arts) - Toward a Digital Humanities Support Network (2020)
Leigh Bonds (OSU Libraries) • Matt Lewis (Translational Data Analytics Institute) • Dir., Maria Palazzi (ACCAD) • David Staley (Humanities Collaboratory) - Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Present-Day Indigenous Peoples in Ohio (2020)
Asso. Dir., Marti Chaatsmith (Newark Earthworks Center) • Stephen Gavazzi (Human Sciences) • Asst. Dir., Rick Livingston (Humanities Collaboratory) • Dir., John N. Low (Newark Earthworks Center) • Brian Snyder (InFACT)
Selected Grants | Summer Institute Grants
- GAHDT Fellows at the DMAC Institute (2020)
Scott DeWitt (English) • John Jones (English) • Liz Miller (English) - Global and Popular Music Summer Youth Camp (2020)
Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Music) • Richard Palese (Music) - Ohio State to Community Dance-Intensive Pipeline (2020)
Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance) - Summer Translation Collaborative (2023)
Dir., Patricia Sieber (T&I Program) • Dir., Ying Zhang (Institute for Chinese Studies) - Voices of Franklinton (2020)
Susan Melsop (Design) • Sébastien Proulx (Design)
Community-Engaged Grants support public-facing, community-partner-engaged projects. These grants provide substantial, strategic investment for two years to seed new projects and one-to-two years to sustain existing community engagement projects committed to strengthening the university’s capacity for transformative, community-engaged partnerships that emphasize cross-disciplinarity and integrate arts and humanities orientations, methods and practices.
Selected Grants
- ¡Aquí se Habla Español! Public Outreach at COSI in Spanish (2019)
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Linguistics) • Leslie C. Moore (Linguistics) • Laura Wagner (Psychology) - Be the Street (2019)
Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies) • Moriah Flagler (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) - Drug Prevention at High Schools in the Epicenter of the Opiate Epidemic (2019)
Linda Mizejewski (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Alina Sharafutidinova (City of Columbus Department of Public Safety / Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services) - Public Narrative Collaborative (2019)
Lisa Florman (History of Art) • Sarah Iles Johnston (Classics) • Jim Phelan (English) • George Rush (Art)
Graduate Professional Development grants advance the mission and goals of the Global Arts + Humanities by enhancing the professional development of graduate students (PhD and MFA) through their collaboration in cross-disciplinary research, educational programming and community-engagement initiatives in the arts and humanities. These positions aim to embed graduate students in humanities and arts MFA or PhD programs in university entities or initiatives involved in cross-disciplinary research/creative work to facilitate the student’s professional development; and establish a mentoring framework that will guide the student’s engagement, illustrate best practices and thresholds for achievement and hone praxis-based skills.
Selected Grants
- Creatives at Barnett Center (2023)
Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise • Award term: Two semesters - Environmental History Center (2023 & 2024)
Department of History • Award term: Three semesters each cycle - Lord Denney’s Players (2023 & 2024)
Department of English • Award term: (2023) Two semesters (2024) One semester - Ohio Prison Education Exchange (2022)
Departments of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African and African American Studies • Award term: Three semesters - Promusica Columbus (2021, 2022, 2023)
School of Music • Award term: Two semesters per award - Publishing Industry Apprenticeship (2024)
The Ohio State University Press • Award term: Three semesters
Open Grants advance the mission and goals of the Global Arts + Humanities by broadening faculty involvement in cross-disciplinary research and creative practice across the university. These grants support a broad range of projects, content areas, methods, etc.
Selected Grants
- Collaboration for Humane Technologies (2019)
Peter K. Chan (Design) • Norah Zuniga Shaw (ACCAD / Dance) - Collaborative Gaming Platform for Disabled Children and Their Families (2019)
Asimina Kiourti (Electrical Engineering) • Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design) • Scott Swearingen (Design) Susan Thrane (Nursing) - The Global Mediterranean (2019)
Bob Holub (Germanic Languages and Literatures) • Dana Renga (French and Italian) • Barry Shank (Comparative Studies) - How the Arts and Humanities Can Benefit Our Wellbeing (2019)
Elizabeth B. -N Sanders (Design) • Paul Reitter (German) • Yvette Shen (Design) - Migration, Mobility and Immobility (2019)
Theodora Dragostinova (History) • Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Music) • Yana Hashamova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures) • Robin Judd (History) • Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Spanish and Portuguese) • Ryan Skinner (Music)
