The perfect date night awaits at FYR Short North! Join us for our Dinner for Two special, available Monday through Wednesday beginning April 6. Three courses are available for $75.

The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) will host Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, a collection of original paintings by former President George W. Bush. The exhibition opens to the public on August 8, 2026.

The exhibition features more than 60 portraits of post-9/11 service members and Veterans, each one hand painted by President Bush and paired with a personal story of service, sacrifice, and resilience written by the former president.

The NVMM is open Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Death is a Dialogue between / The Spirit and the Dust,” writes poet Emily Dickinson. Living is a daily conversation with death, and through art, we continue that dialogue with mortality, loss, and our own humanity. In Spirit & Dust, artists working across various disciplines—from photography and sculpture to poetry and dance—seek to create space for care and connection in confronting questions of death and dying. What do we gather from our grief? How is this knowledge embodied, and what can art provide for this relationship? What can death teach us about what it means to be alive?

The process of creating art serves as a mirror for thinking about dying as a verb, where time is experienced as cyclical rather than linear. Each artist’s medium of choice in Spirit & Dust experiments with how we can deepen our relationship with the process of dying, such as through abstraction in photography, blank space in poetry, the ephemerality of dance, and the fallibility of materials in sculpture.

Spirit & Dust is on view concurrently with Experiencing Veterans and Artists Collaborations (EVAC) in the corridor space, which pairs veterans’ stories with original printmaking.

Curated by Diane Callahan and Michelle Burdine

Participating Artists: Kristina Arnold, Mary Jo Bole, Michelle Burdine, Diane Callahan, Elvira Clayton, Barbara Fant, Ton’nea Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dana Lynn Harper, Ian Hersko, Gee Horton, Laura Larson, Tracy Longley-Cook, Michael J. Morris, Christian O’Keeffe, Paul O’Keeffe, Chantal Wnuk, Melissa Vogley Woods

Support for this project comes from the Mellon Foundation through The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs.

Promo Image Art by Michelle Burdine. Promo Design by Nancy Hohl.

Stop by to learn more about the Rich/Broad St. Station. We’re hosting an informal pop-up session at this future Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station. View renderings, ask our team how the project may affect traffic near you and share your feedback.

We all carry stories. Some we tell often. Some we have never said out loud. Some we are still learning how to understand.

Stories We Carry is a community storytelling circle created by The Grief Club in partnership with Urban Arts Space, inviting participants to slow down and share a story that has stayed with them.

Through guided prompts and intentional conversation, we’ll create space for personal narratives, memories, reflections, poetry, spoken word, and the experiences that have shaped us.

This is not a performance. It is not an open mic.

It is an invitation to share, listen, witness, and connect.

Come with a story. Come with a memory. Come simply to listen.

Whatever you carry or are curious about, there is room for it here.

Stories can be about:

Grief & loss
Love & relationships
Family
Motherhood
Identity
Joy
Becoming
Life transitions
Resilience
A person who changed you
A moment you will never forget
Something you’re still learning to understand
A story you’ve never had the space to tell

Participants do not have to share to participate.

The Grief Club is a community-centered organization creating intentional spaces for people to explore grief, loss, healing, and the many emotions that accompany change.

Founded by Cortland Mullins following the loss of her mother, The Grief Club creates experiences that make room for honest conversations around grief while recognizing that grief is not limited to death. Through gatherings, storytelling experiences, workshops, and community conversations, The Grief Club invites people to connect, reflect, and feel less alone in what they carry.

We all carry stories. Some we tell often. Some we have never said out loud. Some we are still learning how to understand.

This event is part of Spirit & Dust, an exhibition on death and dying curated by Diane Callahan and Michelle Burdine.

Stories We Carry is a community storytelling circle created by The Grief Club in partnership with Urban Arts Space, inviting participants to slow down and share a story that has stayed with them.

Through guided prompts and intentional conversation, we’ll create space for personal narratives, memories, reflections, poetry, spoken word, and the experiences that have shaped us.

This is not a performance. It is not an open mic.

It is an invitation to share, listen, witness, and connect.

Come with a story. Come with a memory. Come simply to listen.

Whatever you carry or are curious about, there is room for it here.

Stories can be about:

Grief & loss
Love & relationships
Family
Motherhood
Identity
Joy
Becoming
Life transitions
Resilience
A person who changed you
A moment you will never forget
Something you’re still learning to understand
A story you’ve never had the space to tell
Participants do not have to share to participate.

The Grief Club is a community-centered organization creating intentional spaces for people to explore grief, loss, healing, and the many emotions that accompany change.

Founded by Cortland Mullins following the loss of her mother, The Grief Club creates experiences that make room for honest conversations around grief while recognizing that grief is not limited to death. Through gatherings, storytelling experiences, workshops, and community conversations, The Grief Club invites people to connect, reflect, and feel less alone in what they carry.

Visiting Urban Arts Space
50 W. Town St., Ste. 130Columbus, OH 43215Located in the historic Lazarus Building in downtown Columbus.

Admission to our exhibitions and programs is free!

View this map for parking garage options, with street parking on Rich, Front, and Wall Street, or go to our Accessibility page for bike or bus directions.

Columbus Commons Parking Garage (Always has ample parking on the upper floors)
Ohio Statehouse Parking Garage (Enter from westbound Broad Street or Third Street—we recommend this garage when accessibility is a concern)
Riffe Center Parking Garage (Enter from Front Street)

Every Thursday in October, you can enjoy a free Halloween-themed outdoor movie at at this spin on the CAPA Summer Movie series. 

We invite you to bring a chair or a blanket to take in a movie under the stars. The bar and food truck open at 6pm to give you time to grab a drink and a bite to eat before showtime. Make sure to visit the non-profit partner tent for complimentary popcorn while supplies last. This week’s featured non-profit is LinkUS. Enjoy the movie!

The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) will host Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, a collection of original paintings by former President George W. Bush. The exhibition opens to the public on August 8, 2026.

The exhibition features more than 60 portraits of post-9/11 service members and Veterans, each one hand painted by President Bush and paired with a personal story of service, sacrifice, and resilience written by the former president.

The NVMM is open Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Death is a Dialogue between / The Spirit and the Dust,” writes poet Emily Dickinson. Living is a daily conversation with death, and through art, we continue that dialogue with mortality, loss, and our own humanity. In Spirit & Dust, artists working across various disciplines—from photography and sculpture to poetry and dance—seek to create space for care and connection in confronting questions of death and dying. What do we gather from our grief? How is this knowledge embodied, and what can art provide for this relationship? What can death teach us about what it means to be alive?

The process of creating art serves as a mirror for thinking about dying as a verb, where time is experienced as cyclical rather than linear. Each artist’s medium of choice in Spirit & Dust experiments with how we can deepen our relationship with the process of dying, such as through abstraction in photography, blank space in poetry, the ephemerality of dance, and the fallibility of materials in sculpture.

Spirit & Dust is on view concurrently with Experiencing Veterans and Artists Collaborations (EVAC) in the corridor space, which pairs veterans’ stories with original printmaking.

Curated by Diane Callahan and Michelle Burdine

Participating Artists: Kristina Arnold, Mary Jo Bole, Michelle Burdine, Diane Callahan, Elvira Clayton, Barbara Fant, Ton’nea Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dana Lynn Harper, Ian Hersko, Gee Horton, Laura Larson, Tracy Longley-Cook, Michael J. Morris, Christian O’Keeffe, Paul O’Keeffe, Chantal Wnuk, Melissa Vogley Woods

Support for this project comes from the Mellon Foundation through The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs.

Promo Image Art by Michelle Burdine. Promo Design by Nancy Hohl.