Dayton Spotlight Weekend (10/25–10/27)
Posted on October 23, 2024
As part of the 2024 Biennial, FotoFocus features Participating Venues in Spotlight Weekends: Opportunities to visit multiple Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators are more likely to be on site for talks, tours, special events, and featured programming. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the FotoFocus Biennial and map out a plan to get to as many Venues as possible.
Featured here: Dayton; Friday, October 25 – Sunday, October 27, 2024
Sometimes you need to get out of town to see something fresh. And sometimes, that can mean just a short ride up I-75. If you’ve got the itch to get out of town, you’re in luck—FotoFocus has a road trip to Dayton mapped out that allows you to delve into a fascinating array of photography and lens-based Biennial exhibitions. View the Dayton Spotlight Itinerary as a PDF.
EVENTS THIS WEEKEND, OCTOBER 25 – 27, AT OUR DAYTON AND YELLOW SPRINGS VENUES
Blue House Gallery
October 25, 4–7pm Immersive Culinary Experience with Glenna Jennings
Crome Architecture
October 27, 11am–3pm Closing Reception for SHEM Schutte: Thinking Positive, Capturing Negatives
Contemporary Dayton
October 26, 2:15–2:45pm Artists Talk with Curtis Mann and Sean Wilkinson
Dayton Art Institute
October 26, 3:20–3:40pm Gallery Talk with Mariah Postlewait, Kettering Curator of Photography and Special Projects
Dayton Society of Artists
October 26, 12:15–12:45pm Gallery Talk with Juror Francis Schanberger
Left: Shem Schutte, One Way, 2022. Black and white photograph, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Middle: Sean Wilkinson, China 4, 2023. Archival print, 15 x 15 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Right: Curtis Mann, Apertures, 2015. Synthetic polymer varnish on bleached C-print, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Rosewood Arts Center
October 26, 10am–12pm Camera-less Photo Workshop with Cara Lee Wade
October 26, 1–3pm Alternative Photo Process Workshop with Michael Reese
October 26, 5–6pm Reception for Cara Lee Wade: Fossil Poetry and Michael Reese: Decoding Polaris
Stivers School for the Arts: Fifth Street Gallery
October 25, 6–8pm Closing Reception for Labyrinth
October 26, 11:30am–12pm Labyrinth Gallery Tour by Leah Stahl
University of Dayton: Index Gallery
October 26, 2:45–3pm Staff Tour with Nicholaus Arnold
University of Dayton: Roger Glass Center for the Arts
October 26, 4–4:30pm Gallery Talk with Curator Nicholaus Arnold
Wright State University: Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries
October 26, 10–11am Gallery Tour and Artist Talk
Left: Zora J Murff, everybody want to be a nigga but nobody want to be a nigga, 2024. Digital pigment print. Courtesy of the artist; Middle: Daniel McInnis, Woodland Elementary Library (two weeks before classes began), Perrysburg, Ohio, 2022. Digital inkjet print, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Right: Cara Lee Wade, Lumen Manor Quarantine 1, 2022. Lumen print, 16 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist
ALL DAYTON AND YELLOW SPRINGS PARTICIPATING VENUES
*Please check regular venue hours before planning your visit.
Antioch College: Herndon Gallery (1 Morgan Pl, South Hall 1st Floor, Yellow Springs, OH)
Juan-Si González: Looking for Cuba Inside
Blue House Gallery (3325 Catalpa Dr, Dayton, OH)
Glenna Jennings: Sit Down!
Contemporary Dayton (25 W 4th St, Dayton, OH)
Curtis Mann: Precious Blood
Sean Wilkinson: Flora
Crome Architecture (604 Xenia Ave, Yellow Springs, OH)
SHEM Schutte: Thinking Positive, Capturing Negatives
Dana L. Wiley Gallery (1001 E 2nd St, Dayton, OH)
Gary Beeber: Michael Malone, Portrait of An American Organic Farmer
Tracy Longley-Cook: Paths of the Ecliptic
Dayton Art Institute (456 Belmonte Park North, Dayton, OH)
Devil’s Promenade
Dayton Society of Artists (48 High St, Dayton, OH)
Midwest Americana
Edward A. Dixon Gallery (222 N Saint Clair St, Dayton, OH)
Images from Storytellers
Rosewood Arts Center (2655 Olson Dr, Kettering, OH)
Cara Lee Wade: Fossil Poetry
Michael Reese: Decoding Polaris
Sinclair Community College Art Galleries (Corner of W 5th St and S Perry St, Building 13, 4th Floor, Dayton, OH)
Deborah Orloff: Elusive Memory
Cara Lee Wade: Alzheimer’s Stories
Stivers School for the Arts: Fifth Street Gallery (1313 E Fifth St, Dayton, OH)
Labyrinth: A Paula Kraus Retrospective
University of Dayton: Index Gallery (31 S Main St, Dayton, OH)
On Location & Care – Two Person Exhibition – Stephanie Cuyubama Kong & Emmaline K. Carter
University of Dayton: Roger Glass Center for the Arts (29 E Creative Way, Dayton, OH)
The Devil Hiding in Plain Sight
Wright State University: Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries (3640 Colonel Glen Hwy, 160 Creative Arts Center, Dayton, OH)
Daniel McInnis: Elementary
Rewritten: Photographers Reshaping the Narrative