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Lancaster’s Decorative Arts Center Spotlights ‘Russian Decorative Arts from the Tsars to the USSR’
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WOUB Digital · Russian Decorative Arts from the Tsars to the USSR Through February 28, 2021, the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio (145 East Main Street, Lancaster) will showcase an… Read More
New Decorative Arts Center Director Emphasizes the Importance of Human Stories
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WOUB Digital · New Decorative Arts Center Director Emphasizes the Importance of Human Stories The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio welcomed Jason Crabill as their new executive director earlier this… Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio Showcases Life and Art of Barbara Shermund
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Through April 26, the Decorative Arts Center (145 East Main Street, Lancaster) will showcase the work of Barbara Shermund, one of the first women to work for The New Yorker…. Read More
Spotlight on Mid-century Tea at Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
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The tradition of serving tiny pastries, little cookies, and miniature sandwiches alongside warm tea (and perhaps hotter gossip) in an elegant display in the afternoon among a collected group of… Read More
200 Years of Valentines at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
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Among the vast collection of holiday associated decorative art that makes up the collection of George and Jeannie Johnson is a 175-year-old Valentine that could have been penned by a… Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio Holds Festive Fall Art Classes
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This month the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio will hold two especially festive autumnal art classes. They will take place Saturday October 19 (a mini scarecrow workshop taking place from… Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio’s ‘Ohio Presidents: Surprising Legacies’
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Eight U.S. Presidents hailed from the Buckeye State: Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, William Henry Harrison, and Warren G. Harding. September 21, 2019… Read More
Decorative Arts Center Holds New Poetry Program July 14
Join the Decorative Arts Center for a poetry reading inspired by Selections from the Pizzuti Collection and featuring award-winning Ohio poets Jennifer Hambrick; Linda Fuller-Smith; Kathleen Burgess; Rikki Santer and… Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio to Feature Pizzuti Collection Through Aug. 18
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May 25 through August 18, the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio will feature “Selections from the Pizzuti Collection.” The exhibition is broken up into portraiture, abstract art, landscape, and still… Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio to Spotlight Tella Kitchen’s Art March 17
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On Sunday, March 17, starting at 2 p.m., the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio (145 East Main Street, Lancaster, OH) will feature a special presentation by Ed Kitchen, the grandson… Read More
Speak With Lilly Martin Spencer in Lancaster March 3
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On Sunday, March 3, visitors to the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio will have the opportunity to “speak” to artist Lilly Martin Spencer, who is the subject of the museum’s… Read More
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio Examines Everyday Beauty With ‘Lilly’s World’
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Lilly Martin Spencer’s works were among some of the most popular of the mid-19th Century. She was a genre painter, meaning that the works she created depicted scenes from everyday… Read More
‘Christmas On the Homefront’ On Display In Lancaster Through Dec. 30
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On Friday, November 23 the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio opened their 2018 holiday exhibition, curated once again by regional historian and retired history teacher Dr. George Johnson and his… Read More
‘Imagining a Better World: the Artwork of Nelly Toll’ at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
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From 1943 to 1945, young artist Nelly Toll was in hiding from Nazis occupying Lwow, Poland with her mother, the two of them often sharing but a small, bare room…. Read More
Now I Obsessively Count the Words: Speaking With Writer Larry Smith
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Writer Larry Smith has always believed that the most interesting things are other people. Even before social media made it possible to keep tabs on everything your ex-best friends eat for lunch,… Read More
PHOTOS: DACO’s Creating the Illusion Exhibition
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Costumes within the context of film and theater are more than just pretty to look at. They imply nuances to the characters they cover, and have the potential to create… Read More
DACO Opens ‘Creating the Illusion’ Exhibition May 19
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Opening on May 19, the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio will showcase some of the most impressive and culturally relevant costumes from films of the past 30 years in their… Read More
Yan Sun to Perform Live Portraiture at DACO March 11
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On Sunday, March 11, Yan Sun, the Distinguished Professor of Fine Art, Chairman of the Art Department and Director of the Gallery at Muskingum University, will paint a portrait of… Read More
DACO to Host Acclaimed Artist for Live Portraiture Event March 11
Yan Sun, Distinguished Professor of Fine Art, Chairman of the Art Department and Director of the Gallery at Muskingum University, will paint the Ohio Teacher of the Year, Jonathan Juravich,… Read More
‘Artists of the Winding Road’ at DACO Jan. 20 – April 15
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What does it mean to be an Appalachian artist? This is one of the primary questions explored by the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio’s first exhibition of 2018, entitled Artists of… Read More
DACO to Host Vibrant Mix of Exhibitions in 2018
The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio is proud to bring three innovative exhibitions to Lancaster, Ohio in 2018, on themes including Appalachian Ohio, costumes from the Paramount Pictures’ archives and… Read More
Heritage, Tradition, Memory: the Emotional Significance of a Christmas Tree
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Nearly over a hundred years ago in the midst of December, a boy in America found a cardboard banjo atop a pile of trash in an alley. Delighted, he brought… Read More
Weekend Flash Sale at Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
The holidays have officially kicked off, and that can only mean one thing: holiday shopping must soon commence. If you’re looking for items made in the region that also happen… Read More
The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio to Host Celebration Nov. 11
The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio (DACO) is pleased to host a community Veterans Day celebration featuring a tintype portrait event and a children’s art project from 11 a.m. to… Read More
Create Your Own Pinhole Camera at DACO With Artist Daniel King
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Pinhole cameras have been around for thousands of years – some of the earliest examples found in Chinese Mozi writings, dating back to around 500 BC. The process for capturing… Read More