Spotlight Weekends highlight FotoFocus Biennial Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators will 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, exploring art within the communities that create and present it.

To RSVP, please email pass@fotofocus.org. Seating is limited. Biennial Pass required.

9:00am Meet at FotoFocus Center / Ziegler Garage

11:30am Wexner Center for the Arts

Sammy Baloji: When Extraction Becomes Form It Speaks In Borrowed Tongues. Uncovers how colonial extraction shaped the flow of people, materials, forms, and culture across Africa, Europe, and the Atlantic world through photography, film, and sculpture.

Gallery tour led by Sarah Robison, Curator of Teaching, Learning, and Interpretation, and Rebecca Lowery, Curator of Exhibitions. Interim Executive Director & Head of Advancement hope to join as well.

12:30pm Lunch in the Performance Space / Black Box

1:30pm Columbus Museum of Art

Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection. Traces artistic lineage and identity through photographs by and about queer artists, illustrating how photographers across generations shape histories and create visibility.

Gallery tour led by Kaitlin Booher, Associate Curator of Photography.

2:30pm Columbus College of Art & Design: Beeler Gallery

Haunting. Examines time as a haunting force, reaching across burial grounds, pandemics, atomic history, gun violence, and ecological loss to reveal what the visible image cannot hold.

Gallery tour led by new Executive Director Kyle Herrington and Registrar Melissa Vogley.

3:15pm Shot Tower Gallery

One Shot. Alumni exhibition highlighting the impact of the Photography Career Program at Fort Hayes, an incubator for emerging image-makers to explore photography as a form of artistic expression and storytelling.

Gallery tour led by Stephen Takacs, Career-Technical Education (CTE) Photography Instructor.

4:00pm ROY G BIV Gallery

Franklinton Across Time: The Floodplain Imagination. A living archive examining the history of one of Columbus’ oldest neighborhoods through contemporary lens-based work, archival materials, interviews, and site-responsive installations, reflecting on collective memory and urban change.

Gallery tour with Executive Gallery Director, Bethani Blake.

Reception & light bites.

5:00pm Depart ROY G BIV Gallery

7:00pm Arrive back in Cincinnati

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