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This body of work is a culmination of Rachael Strittmatter’s undergraduate education completed at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY in 2020. Over a year after the pandemic brought the world to a stand-still, Rachael is proud, excited, and more than ready to share her work in her very first solo exhibition. Her work quietly reveals extraordinary moments in the seemingly mundane aspects of daily life. By exposing this impermanence through an impermanent material, glass, it is ultimately a contemplation on being present.
Everything in life is impermanent and always changing. Instead of denying this impermanence, I work alongside it and embrace it within my art practice. Drawing from personal experiences, I am interested in this transience in relation to notions of memory and everyday life. My current work thinks through questions about transformation and presence through various projects that depend upon the materiality of the glass, the glass-working process, and glass-working phenomena. I want to know how to capture a fleeting moment. By utilizing glass and its inherent material characteristics, I create new methods to document and expose the impermanence of life.
– Artist Statement

Rachael Strittmatter grew up in the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where she obtained her Associate of Arts degree from Harrisburg Area Community College in 2016. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and she has had international residencies in Japan and the Czech Republic. She has held teaching assistant positions at Corning Museum of Glass as well as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Rachael completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in May 2020 and is currently a Tech Apprentice at the Pittsburgh Glass Center.

This show opens Friday, Oct.8 from 6-8pm and runs through Saturday, Nov.20 at Glass Axis Galleries.
630 W Town St. Columbus OH, 43215
(614) 291 – 4240
[email protected]
https://www.glassaxis.org/

The box of tissues can wait this fall — what you really need are vitamins and a little self care. As flu season approaches, it is important to start thinking about ways to prevent getting sick.
And now is the perfect time to stock up on all your favorite essentials, as Fresh Thyme is hosting its popular Vitamin and Body Care Sale! From October 13 to 19, all Fresh Thyme locations will have 25% off all body care products and vitamins. From CV Sciences (plus CBD products) and Vital Proteins to Tom’s of Maine and Navitas, Fresh Thyme carries more than 3,000 natural and organic hair and body care products, as well as over 5,000 vitamins and supplements to support consumers’ individual health and wellness needs. For more information, visit freshthyme.com.

–About the Film–
What would you do if your only child died mysteriously in another country and was buried in your absence? The World Is Bright follows the epic 10-year journey of an elderly Chinese couple searching for the truth behind their son’s death in Canada. What starts out looking like a murder mystery becomes something else entirely—a rare revelation about immigration, mental health, and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy at the heart of global migration.

Directed by Ying Wang
Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Streaming online: October 13-17
Access: Open Captions and Audio Description

Registration: Free and required. Donations till be accepted. This year’s virtual festival is being distributed via a new website! To register click the following link: https://filmfestplus.com/films/?festival=RAFFC73ERL8T

Need assistance? Contact Megan(at)artpossibleohio.org

Fall evenings during Pumpkins Aglow offer delights and surprises. These family friendly events occur from 5-9pm on select dates: October 13-17, 20-24 & 27-31. 

Hundreds of glowing jack-o-lanterns fill the botanical gardens and Grand Mallway, along with gourds, mums, and brassicas. Enchanting decorations throughout the gardens include larger than life spiders created by Tork Collaborative Arts, Inc., a foggy creek and skeletons and ghosts. Two Pumpkin Houses stand ready to welcome guests this year. 

Website address providing more information for viewers: 

https://www.fpconservatory.org/exhibitions/pumpkins-aglow/h

Old fashioned Outdoor Haunted Woods ¾ mi trail, Fri & Sat 10/15-10/31 7-10pm, Handicap accessible. Sensory and accessible-friendlier event on 10/15 6-7pm. No-scare Trick or Treat on 10/31, 5-7pm. Charity haunt benefits Adaptive Sports Connection. Potties available. Outdoor. Free Parking. Recommended age 12+ Online ticketing and virtual queue, hand sanitizer available. Masks are encouraged for all.
The Haunted Woods at Shawnee Hills 6000 Harriott Drive, Powell, OH 43065
https://www.facebook.com/thehauntedwoodssh/

Willow Wood Event Park, in Johnstown OH, is excited to welcome you to it’s first annual “Fall Fantasy Walk Through”!

Step through our pumpkin tunnel and be transformed into a fall fantasy realm, where nothing is quite as it seems and everything is more magical than you know.

The fae will guide along a path of adventure and although they stay far out of sight, their foolery can be appreciated all along the way.

As you stroll around the majestic pond you will weave in and out of a candy corn forest, stand before the “Great Pumpkin,” encounter doors to other realms and experience enchantments of all kinds.

You will pass by a hobbits home, and although not home this time of year, you can sit upon his garden mushrooms for a magical photo opportunity.

Oh, and do be sure to avoid poison mushroom rings and watch for spiders – you never know where a maze of webs just might appear. We also caution to keep a wide birth around the enchanted cemetery – you wouldn’t want any apparitions following you home. In addition, I must warn against the pond witch – she is notorious for spells going amiss. It is quit evident when her witchery is on the fritz, often you can find she has shrunk her own little cottage and its best to sneak past, as you don’t want to be added to the cauldron boil.

Before you leave please visit the “Petrified Pumpkin Patch” and pick a pumpkin at your own peril.

Willow Wood’s Fall Fantasy Walk Through will begin Friday October 15th and will run though to October 31st. The park will be open weekdays from 2-6pm and weekends 11-6.pm. Location 3117 Johnstown Utica Rd Johnstown OH.

This is a COVID safe, family event for all to enjoy. The walk though is outside and is a hands-off visual exhibit for sanitation. Social distancing will be encouraged with staggered start times, along with mask wearing at the welcome tent.

Willow Wood welcomes you!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WillowWoodJohnstown
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willowwoodeventpark/

The Paul Busse Garden Railway is making a second stop in the Grand Mallway of the Conservatory, this year for three additional months! 

Guests can once again travel to their favorite destinations-Fairytale Land, Wild West Town, European Travels and the animal-themed Who Lives Here-alongside 9 g-scale model trains. The trains travel across over 1,000 feet of track that run high and low, creating an immersive world to explore. 

Guests can wind their way through a miniature world of 51 botanical models made from all-natural plant material as the trains whirl around you. Special elements to search for include an enchanted tree hollow, two waterfalls, a bubbling brook, and plantings specific to each theme. 

https://www.fpconservatory.org/exhibitions/paul-busse-garden-railway/