• Children

    Funhouse

    Sundays March 16 & 30, 2013 1:00-4:00pm Grades 4-8 limit 6 students Instructor: Ryan Stingel Cost: $45 ($40 for friends) ask about our scholarships Oxford Dictionary definition of FUNHOUSE |ˈfənˌhous| noun (in an amusement park) a building equipped with trick mirrors, shifting floors, and other devices designed to scare or amuse people as they walk through. The Pomerene Center invites a group of 6 young animators to work with Ryan Stingel to create a very very very short stop motion animation. After developing a simple story as a team, everyone will create their own 3 dimensional character. Then in small groups…. the team will create a musical score, construct a model funhouse,  design the lighting,…

  • Rent Parties

    Wayfarers Perform New “Old Music” + some of their old favorites

    THE WAYFARERS Friday, March. 7, 7pm @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table | 740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com We had a request for Irish music for the March Rent Party–obviously made in honor of St Patty’s Day–and thought of THE WAYFARERS. Admittedly we made the mistake of over-emphasizing the effect of Irish Traditional Music on American Mountain Music which like so much of what is truly American is a total mashup, in this case of Anglo – African – German – Scotch-Irish and maybe a little Irish music.  (Read about the Scotch-Irish  here.) Though not Irish, the high energy mountain music as interpreted by the Wayfarer’s will draw a…

  • Exhibits

    Little Personal Stories

    opening party FRIDAY FEB. 21 | 5:30-7pm with artist Julian Dassai the exhibit runs through March 16 also showing: Andy Scott BANNED TO OBSCURITY This one room exhibit features 5 original ink drawings featured in  (614) Magazine‘s illustrated interview cartoon, THE COLUMBUSONIAN. The drawings will hang alongside their matching full-color print pages.  The exhibition coincides with our cartooning workshop LITTLE SOCIAL HISTORIES led by the artist. Julian Dassai is a cartoonist, illustrator, and musician who was raised in Athens, Greece. He currently writes and draws The Columbusonian, an interview comic featured in 614 Magazine, a local Columbus, Ohio publication. Since 2008, Julian has taught workshops in comic book writing and drawing for the Wexner…