Conversations & Coffee

The Cultural Arts Center is proud to host the city’s longest-running series of artist talks – Conversations & Coffee. Attendees have the chance to gain key insight on art from a variety of people from different corners of the art world. Take a look at our upcoming weekly lunchtime art talks below, or feel free to check out our calendar to see everything we have coming up on the schedule!

Casual Talks on Engaging Topics

Our free weekly program, which we have presented for more than 35 years, brings together people who create art and people who appreciate art to discuss it in a relaxed, casual setting. You bring a sack lunch, we’ll provide the coffee and the expertise.

Program Format

Our Conversations & Coffee discussions take place Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m. in the Loft Meeting Room on the third floor. If the speaker is an artist whose work is on display in the Main Gallery, the program will take place there instead. Individuals interested in presenting as part of Conversations & Coffee should contact Ellen O’Shaughnessy at ehoshaughnessy@columbus.gov.

Please note that our current Conversations and Coffee programming takes place virtually and every other Thursday until further notice.

2021 Dates

June 17th @ 12PM:

We’ll be joined by the second half of Loft Gallery artists, Karen Torvik and Patti Sandilands, both of whom will be sharing more with us on their group exhibition Four Visions of Abstraction.

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July 8th @ 12PM:

The Art of Surviving a Pandemic, Main Gallery Exhibit, Leticia Vazquez-Smith, Artist in Cartoneria Creations and Jamie Ceasar, Film Photographer will join us.

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July 22nd @ 12PM:

Katrinka Hagovsky and Linda Coe will be joining us from the Central Ohio Watercolor Society (COWS) to chat recent projects, exhibitions, and more.

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August 5th @ 12PM:

Joseph B. Buehrer – digital artist with a specialty in illustration and 3D design will join us to share more of his practice and work.

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August 12th @ 12PM:

The works of the late Philip Sorensen, sculptor and lawyer, are celebrated in a posthumous exhibition in the Main Gallery “Workscapes: Law, Lumber, Stone” – presented by his daughter, Becky Sorensen Bowers and family. This is a dual exhibition, with Cultural Arts Center Instructor Sharone Putter exhibiting a series of lithographs and mixed media drawings exploring the world of construction. She will have a Conversation and Coffee at a later date.

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August 26th @ 12PM:

We will be joined by Father John Predmore, S.J., an artist hailing from Boston, Massachusetts concentrating in photography, watercolor, and oils.

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