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Adena Griffith
Adena Griffith started her clay journey in the early 2000’s at Otterbein University while persuing a degree in Biology. Her path was lead down a different road and dove headfirst into a new career of a potter and figurative sculptor after taking all of the ceramic and art history classes. Many of those early classes and the iconography still influence her work today. While at Otterbein she had the privilege to work under many of the visiting artist of The Otterbein Ceramic Institute. These two week intensive classes helped solidify her path into her career. After graduating, she was the first to be apart of The Otterbein Artist In Residence. Following her residency she was hired by Mayco Colors, one of the leading glaze companies here in the US, as a Designer. Her time was spent creating work for publications, lesson plans for teachers, and working with the marketing team as an artist. During that time she would lead hand building workshops for local art teachers. This brought her to teach at The Columbus Cultural Art Center leading both hand building and throwing on the wheel classes for adult students. She now teaches 6 classes a week and is the ceramic studio manager to over 200 students.
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Current Exhibitions
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7th Annual Juried High School Art Exhibition
Miller GalleryNovember 23 – December 5, 2025The purpose of Otterbein’s Annual Juried High School Exhibition is to learn about and to support High School artists in Ohio and the contiguous states. -
Ukiyoe’s Living Legacy: The Yoshida Family Prints
Frank Museum of ArtAugust 20 – December 5, 2025From the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present day, the Yoshida family has carried forward a printmaking tradition rooted in the aesthetics of ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art that flourished during the Edo period (1603-1867) and that depicted transient pleasures and everyday life of the urban population. Beginning with work by the patriarch Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), this exhibition samples the Yoshida family’s artistic re-imagining of ukiyo-e through modern and contemporary periods. The works on view from the Flaten Art Museum demonstrate technical mastery and an ongoing negotiation between past and present, tradition and innovation, place and personhood. -
URUSHI: exploring the chromacosm
NHAT TRANFisher GalleryAugust 20 – December 5, 2025EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND! This exhibition features work by Vietnamese-born urushi artist Nhat Tran. It showcases the artist’s creative arc that began with a mastery of prehistoric Japanese lacquer techniques and evolved through bold experimentation with varied materials, such as wood, ceramic, plexiglass, animal skulls, and antlers.