The Richard M. Ross Art Museum received a $15,000 Learning and Engagement Grant from the Art Bridges Foundation. The grant will be used to support OWU’s First Year Seminar Course with a specially curated First Nation’s film series and an art exhibit at the museum that builds on the theme of “Migration, Mobility, and Belonging.” Additionally, the grant will fund local K-6 students’ visits to the exhibit. OWU’s Ross Art Museum enriches the community, the university, and the lives of our students by mounting exhibitions of artists from around the world. Through this grant-funded initiative, the Ross provides both pedagogical enrichment for OWU students and meaningful engagement with the greater community. How to Change Your World is OWU’s interdisciplinary seminar course for first-year students. How to Change Your World provides a launching pad for students as they explore their academic journey and begin to design their futures. The first-year seminar explores the many complex challenges facing the world today. The course:
- brings together faculty from across the university to investigate how different academic disciplines tackle issues of immediate concern to life in the 21st century.
- challenges students to discover the questions that drive them and explore how they might contribute to change.
- develops the critical reading, information literacy, and problem-solving skills that students will need to thrive both at OWU and beyond.
Chris Yates, director of the Ross Art Museum, said, “We are excited to bring this meaningful and engaging series of events to the OWU community and are equally excited to provide an avenue of community connection through the Strand Theater and our local K-6 students.”
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Richard M. Ross Art Museum
Contact: Susan Zimmerman at ramuseum@owu.edu