Amy Youngs & Ken Rinaldo, National Artists
Participatory Performance and Sculpture Project: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 2 – 4 p.m. in Friday Annex Room 152
Public Artist Talk: Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. in the Cultural Arts Building Room 2033.
www.hypernatural.com
www.kenrinaldo.com
Amy Youngs & Ken Rinaldo are faculty at the Ohio State University Department of Art and Artists exploring Bio & Eco Art, Interactive systems, time-based media and digital culture.
Amy M. Youngs creates eco art, interactive sculptures, and digital media works that explore interdependencies between technology, plants and animals. Her research involves entanglements with the non-human, constructing ecosystems, and seeing through the eyes of machines. She has created installations that amplify the sounds of living worms, indoor ecosystems powered by a rocking chair, an interactive museum for live insects, and an augmented reality tour of real nature.
Emeritus Professor Rinaldo headed the Art and Technology area in the Department of Art for 22 years in tandem with Professor Amy Youngs. Rinaldo is internationally recognized for interactive robotic art installations, bio-art, and 3D animations developing hybrid ecologies with animals, algorithms, plants, and bacterial cultures. His art/science practice serves as a platform for hacking complex social, biological, and machine symbionts.
Steed Taylor, Regional Artist 
Public Artist Talk: Monday March 28, 2022 from 6 p.m. -7:30 p.m. in Cultural Arts Building, Room 2033
www.steedtaylor.com
Born near Fayetteville, North Carolina and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA in English and Studio Art concentrating in intaglio etching), and American University in Washington, DC (MBA in Marketing) and the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Steed Taylor's art practice includes public artwork as well as work for gallery settings.
Taylor's art has been shown around the country including the Bronx Museum, the Mint Museum, the San Bernardino County Museum, and the Neuberger Museum of Art's 2001 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art. Besides extensive showings in the New York metropolitan area, his solo shows include The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Ambrosino Gallery in Miami, Florida and Il Ponte Contemporanea in Rome, Italy.
Recent commissions for his public artwork include the cities of Chicago, IL, Washington, DC, Arlington, VA and New Orleans, LA, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Duke University, Riverside Park in New York City, Florida State University and Columbus College of Art & Design. Recent lectures include the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His art has been discussed in publications as varied as Art In America to Playboy Magazine.
An activist for many years, he has worked with a wide variety of both arts and AIDS organizations including the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Artists Board of Artists Space, Brio Awards Panelist for the Bronx Council on the Arts, Board of Directors for Visual AIDS 1995-1998 and 2010 to present, Co-Chair of the 21st Century Committee for the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 1999-2005, Board of Directors of Cannabis Cares from 1999 to present and Curator for HIV Law Project Silent Auction 2010 and 2012.
Kathryn Baczeski, Regional Artist
CAB Art Gallery Exhibition Dates: October 1- November 11, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 5:30 - 7 p.m.
Public Artist Talk: Thursday, October 27, at 5 p.m. in Cultural Arts Building Room 2033
www.kathrynagnesbaczeski.com
Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a visual artist from Southbury Connecticut. She received her BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Connecticut in 2009. She earned her MFA from Indiana University - Bloomington in 2016. Baczeski is currently a resident an instructor of art living and working in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Ella Weber, National Artist
Public Zoom Artist Talk: Spring 2022
www.ellaweber.com
Ella Weber is a basement based artist working across image, text, comedy and video. Searching for love, laughter and a well-balanced lunch inside a transactional world, Weber slices meat in a grocery store deli. Through the labor of an 8-hour shift, her work explores identity within a performance-based consumer culture, asking “Is good, good enough?” Across the counter, Weber blurs lines between art and life, performance and reality, employee and customer.
Trained in printmaking, Weber received an MFA with distinction from the University of Kansas in 2015. Since then she has attended residencies at MASS MoCA, The NARS Foundation, Rogers Art Loft, PrattMWP, Ox-Bow School of Art, The Wassaic Project, and Anderson Ranch to name a few. She is the recipient of a 2019 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council and voted best new media artist at the Omaha Entertainment Art Awards. The artist has exhibited widely in recent group exhibitions at IPCNY (New York, NY), Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), and The NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY). Recent solo shows include exhibitions at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute (Utica, NY), The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), and Rogers Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV).