Beyond the classroom, Art & Communication faculty members are active and engaged artists, designers, and thinkers. The A&C Faculty Lecture Series presents short talks by Ohio Northern faculty about their work, process, and research. Learn more about the creative work of our faculty at this interesting and ongoing series. The event is free and open to the public.
Emily Jay, assistant professor of art & design
“Utopia”
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, 11a.m.
Wilson Art Center 115
About the lecture: Since the Renaissance, Italian architects, philosophers, and artists’ dreams of better futures have been interwoven in the constructions of “utopian” or “ideal” cities. These dream cities always imagine utopia in ways that are specific to the times in which they were constructed. But as cities that are still extant, they can be moved through, allowing embodied engagement with these previous ideas of “perfect civilization," which I am currently exploring through arts-based and walking research methodologies.
Dr. Jay is an assistant professor of art & design at Ohio Northern. She earned her BFA from Ohio Northern University, her MFA from Bowling Green State University, and her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, where she utilized arts-based research methodologies and new materialist philosophies to uncover the relationship between the city of Palermo and her patron saint, Rosalia. Emily’s scholarship and art practice are centered on engaging with Italy’s past in creative ways so as to disrupt binary ways of thinking while also re-centering female perspectives into historical narratives.
Emily is an artist, curator, and educator from Columbus, Ohio. She has internationally exhibited and has been co-curator/director at The Neon Heater Art Gallery in Findlay, Ohio since October 2016.
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