Support the hands-on, multidisciplinary arts experiences that shape contemporary art in Columbus.
Featured Fund for Day of Giving
This Day of Giving, your support strengthens the Wexner Center for the Arts’ mission to ignite curiosity and inspire creative thinking across Ohio State. Your support provides essential, flexible funding that sustains groundbreaking arts programming and ensures students, faculty, and the public can experience the power of contemporary art. When you give today, you’re fueling the work that brings world class exhibitions, films, performances, and artist residencies to campus—and making those experiences accessible to all Buckeyes.
Why Your Gift Matters
Your generosity directly supports the Wex’s impact across Ohio State and the broader community:
- Sustaining groundbreaking programming that brings bold filmmakers, performers, and visual artists to Columbus.
- Keeping the Wex accessible with free or low-cost admission so students, families, and visitors can engage with art without barriers.
- Empowering artists through commissions, residencies, and opportunities to create new work.
- Enriching the Ohio State student experience by funding free access to exhibitions, screenings, and performances that deepen learning across disciplines.
- Connecting the university to global culture by bringing internationally recognized artists, thinkers, and creative leaders to campus.
- Advancing student wellbeing through creative workshops, mindful making, and restorative spaces during the academic year.
- Supporting faculty teaching and research with curriculum connected programs, artist talks, and class engagements that expand academic inquiry.
A gift to the Wex helps ensure that creativity, exploration, and inspiration remain at the heart of the Ohio State experience.
Impact in Action
Your support makes a tangible difference every day. Because of donors like you, Ohio State students and the Columbus enjoy free admission to exhibitions, performances, and screenings that broaden perspectives and give them new ways to think, learn, and create.
Your support helps the Wex commission new works and host artists from across the world, giving them space to experiment while bringing students into direct conversation with leading creative voices. Funding from donors powers collaborations with faculty, allowing the Wex to serve as a dynamic classroom where contemporary art intersects with disciplines across campus.
And through your generosity, the Wex continues to offer inclusive, restorative programs that support student wellness and a sense of belonging.
Your gift doesn’t just support a building or a program—it supports a more connected and creative Ohio State and Columbus.
About the Wexner Center for the Arts
The Wex is a multidisciplinary resource for contemporary culture based on The Ohio State University’s main campus. Since its founding in 1989, it has evolved into a cultural force with both citywide impact and global recognition. Its mission is to ignite and cultivate creative curiosity that fuels artistic inquiry.
Through exhibitions, film screenings, performances, learning programs, talks, moving image residencies, and the preservation of our collections, the Wex sparks ideas and cultivates critical dialogue. While its iconic Peter Eisenman– and Richard Trott–designed building is its home, the Wex’s influence extends across and beyond the city, acting as a platform for artistic exploration and community connection.
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| 1 | AE | 0 |
