April 10, 2022 Celebrate the first Octagon Open House of the year with us and enjoy a gallery talk with artist Gerry Lang at the LeFevre Art Gallery with the "Return from Exile: the Mixed-Blood art of Gerry Lang!"
The Octagon State Memorial [external link] is one of the most spectacular surviving remnants of the Newark Earthworks [external link]. The Octagon is connected to a perfectly circular enclosure 1,054 feet in diameter. The architecture of the Octagon Earthworks encodes a sophisticated understanding of geometry and astronomy. It is a National Historical Landmark and is on track to become a World Heritage site! Portions of the Octagon Earthworks is open to the public during daylight hours 365 days a year, but much of the site is used as a private golf course for most of the year, so access is restricted. Four times each year, however, golfing is suspended and the entire site is made available to the general public. The site will be open daylight to dusk.
Please revisit the Ohio History Connection [external link] for more information.
Octagon State Memorial
125 N. 33rd Street
Newark, OH 43055
At 2 p.m. Director of the Newark Earthworks Center Dr. John Low will be giving a guided tour of the Octagon State Memorial Earthworks.
And at 4 p.m. Artist Gerry Lang is giving a Gallery Talk: "Return from Exile: the Mixed-Blood Art of Gerry Lang" at the LeFevre Art Gallery at Ohio State Newark!
Gerry Lang is a multi-medium artist who traces the tangled journey paths between self, community and identity and the ways we can be embraced, rejected, celebrated or dismissed based upon perception and perspective. His award winning art presents a thought provoking panorama of the artist’s own processes of challenge, discovery and resistance to labels of assumption and consumption as a mixed-blood messenger.
LeFevre Art Gallery
1199 University Drive
Newark, OH 43055
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday,
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
This exhibit can be viewed during regular gallery hours throughout the spring semester.
Sponsored by The Ohio State University's Newark Earthworks Center and made possible by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme at The Ohio State University.