Community Calendar

Please join The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design Thursday September 11th 5:00 - 7:00pm for the reception of Out of Context: Try Not To Take it Personal, a solo exhibition by Misty Thomas-Trout at Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery. 

From the Artist:

This typographic exhibition is an exploration in fragments. A manifesto in bits and pieces. A visualization of cognitive dissonance overloaded by fractured messages that create meanings influenced by chance operation. A space where graphic design transcends function and becomes a vessel for vulnerability.

Externalism: A collection of overheard language—snippets from private whispers and public outbursts—is headlined and layered over collaged fragments of 19th-century newspapers. These posters become visual palimpsests, where the past and present collide, and perception is shaped by noise, bias, and the instability of memory. Language here is dislocated, repurposed, and recontextualized—echoing the way truth fragments in the echo chamber of culture. The body navigates this overwhelming field of print and voice, its presence altering the space as much as the space alters thought and where meaning is always on the verge of distortion.

Internalism: An enclosure formed by scrolls of fabric, each one unfurling into a wall. Layered across their surfaces are sacred texts drawn from my past: love letters exchanged in my former marriage, and handwritten letters from my brother during his time in prison. These fragments of memory—collapsed in time—converge into a belief system that shaped my understanding of love. This room is a constructed architecture of emotion. Listen. Can you hear what he is saying?

To step inside is to enter a heart and mind made visible—yours and mine. Try not to take it personal.

HEALING:
This word was written from the ashes of my marital love letters.

Out of Context: Try Not to Take it Personal will run from August 25th- September 21st with regular hours Monday-Friday 2-7pm and weekend hours during events at RGCA. 

Are you looking for a fun and unique autumn activity? Then come to our Pumpkin Blow! With help from our professional glass artists, you can blow your own pumpkin from hot molten glass. Everyone must be 5 years or older to participate. It's scheduled in 30 minute increments per person and reservations are required. Pumpkins will be ready for pick up in 7 days but shipping is also available. Experience the wonder that is glassblown art this fall season with your loved ones!

The African American Visual Arts Guild’s traveling exhibition, What’s New?, will close out its 2025 Dayton-area run with its final showing at Rosewood Arts Center. The AAVAG was born out of the need to express visually the African American experience through a wide range of styles and subject matter using many diverse approaches and materials with a focus on communicating the artist's own spirituality. Artists in the exhibition include: Nathan Conner, Andrea Walker Cummings, Yvette Walker Dalton, Horace Dozier, Al Harden, Morris Howard, Debora Hurst, Bennie Kelley, Cedric McGhee, Clarice Moore, David Redmon, Debra Richardson Wood, Craig Screven and Beverley Whiteside. The exhibition will be on view in the Kettering Health Art Gallery at Rosewood Arts Center from August 4 to September 13 with a reception to be held on Saturday, September 6 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Please join The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design Thursday September 11th 5:00 - 7:00pm for the reception of Out of Context: Try Not To Take it Personal, a solo exhibition by Misty Thomas-Trout at Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery. 

From the Artist:

This typographic exhibition is an exploration in fragments. A manifesto in bits and pieces. A visualization of cognitive dissonance overloaded by fractured messages that create meanings influenced by chance operation. A space where graphic design transcends function and becomes a vessel for vulnerability.

Externalism: A collection of overheard language—snippets from private whispers and public outbursts—is headlined and layered over collaged fragments of 19th-century newspapers. These posters become visual palimpsests, where the past and present collide, and perception is shaped by noise, bias, and the instability of memory. Language here is dislocated, repurposed, and recontextualized—echoing the way truth fragments in the echo chamber of culture. The body navigates this overwhelming field of print and voice, its presence altering the space as much as the space alters thought and where meaning is always on the verge of distortion.

Internalism: An enclosure formed by scrolls of fabric, each one unfurling into a wall. Layered across their surfaces are sacred texts drawn from my past: love letters exchanged in my former marriage, and handwritten letters from my brother during his time in prison. These fragments of memory—collapsed in time—converge into a belief system that shaped my understanding of love. This room is a constructed architecture of emotion. Listen. Can you hear what he is saying?

To step inside is to enter a heart and mind made visible—yours and mine. Try not to take it personal.

HEALING:
This word was written from the ashes of my marital love letters.

Out of Context: Try Not to Take it Personal will run from August 25th- September 21st with regular hours Monday-Friday 2-7pm and weekend hours during events at RGCA. 

Are you looking for a fun and unique autumn activity? Then come to our Pumpkin Blow! With help from our professional glass artists, you can blow your own pumpkin from hot molten glass. Everyone must be 5 years or older to participate. It's scheduled in 30 minute increments per person and reservations are required. Pumpkins will be ready for pick up in 7 days but shipping is also available. Experience the wonder that is glassblown art this fall season with your loved ones!

Please join The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design Thursday September 11th 5:00 - 7:00pm for the reception of Out of Context: Try Not To Take it Personal, a solo exhibition by Misty Thomas-Trout at Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery. 

From the Artist:

This typographic exhibition is an exploration in fragments. A manifesto in bits and pieces. A visualization of cognitive dissonance overloaded by fractured messages that create meanings influenced by chance operation. A space where graphic design transcends function and becomes a vessel for vulnerability.

Externalism: A collection of overheard language—snippets from private whispers and public outbursts—is headlined and layered over collaged fragments of 19th-century newspapers. These posters become visual palimpsests, where the past and present collide, and perception is shaped by noise, bias, and the instability of memory. Language here is dislocated, repurposed, and recontextualized—echoing the way truth fragments in the echo chamber of culture. The body navigates this overwhelming field of print and voice, its presence altering the space as much as the space alters thought and where meaning is always on the verge of distortion.

Internalism: An enclosure formed by scrolls of fabric, each one unfurling into a wall. Layered across their surfaces are sacred texts drawn from my past: love letters exchanged in my former marriage, and handwritten letters from my brother during his time in prison. These fragments of memory—collapsed in time—converge into a belief system that shaped my understanding of love. This room is a constructed architecture of emotion. Listen. Can you hear what he is saying?

To step inside is to enter a heart and mind made visible—yours and mine. Try not to take it personal.

HEALING:
This word was written from the ashes of my marital love letters.

Out of Context: Try Not to Take it Personal will run from August 25th- September 21st with regular hours Monday-Friday 2-7pm and weekend hours during events at RGCA. 

Please join The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design Thursday September 11th 5:00 - 7:00pm for the reception of Out of Context: Try Not To Take it Personal, a solo exhibition by Misty Thomas-Trout at Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery. 

From the Artist:

This typographic exhibition is an exploration in fragments. A manifesto in bits and pieces. A visualization of cognitive dissonance overloaded by fractured messages that create meanings influenced by chance operation. A space where graphic design transcends function and becomes a vessel for vulnerability.

Externalism: A collection of overheard language—snippets from private whispers and public outbursts—is headlined and layered over collaged fragments of 19th-century newspapers. These posters become visual palimpsests, where the past and present collide, and perception is shaped by noise, bias, and the instability of memory. Language here is dislocated, repurposed, and recontextualized—echoing the way truth fragments in the echo chamber of culture. The body navigates this overwhelming field of print and voice, its presence altering the space as much as the space alters thought and where meaning is always on the verge of distortion.

Internalism: An enclosure formed by scrolls of fabric, each one unfurling into a wall. Layered across their surfaces are sacred texts drawn from my past: love letters exchanged in my former marriage, and handwritten letters from my brother during his time in prison. These fragments of memory—collapsed in time—converge into a belief system that shaped my understanding of love. This room is a constructed architecture of emotion. Listen. Can you hear what he is saying?

To step inside is to enter a heart and mind made visible—yours and mine. Try not to take it personal.

HEALING:
This word was written from the ashes of my marital love letters.

Out of Context: Try Not to Take it Personal will run from August 25th- September 21st with regular hours Monday-Friday 2-7pm and weekend hours during events at RGCA. 

Please join The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design Thursday September 11th 5:00 - 7:00pm for the reception of Out of Context: Try Not To Take it Personal, a solo exhibition by Misty Thomas-Trout at Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery. 

From the Artist:

This typographic exhibition is an exploration in fragments. A manifesto in bits and pieces. A visualization of cognitive dissonance overloaded by fractured messages that create meanings influenced by chance operation. A space where graphic design transcends function and becomes a vessel for vulnerability.

Externalism: A collection of overheard language—snippets from private whispers and public outbursts—is headlined and layered over collaged fragments of 19th-century newspapers. These posters become visual palimpsests, where the past and present collide, and perception is shaped by noise, bias, and the instability of memory. Language here is dislocated, repurposed, and recontextualized—echoing the way truth fragments in the echo chamber of culture. The body navigates this overwhelming field of print and voice, its presence altering the space as much as the space alters thought and where meaning is always on the verge of distortion.

Internalism: An enclosure formed by scrolls of fabric, each one unfurling into a wall. Layered across their surfaces are sacred texts drawn from my past: love letters exchanged in my former marriage, and handwritten letters from my brother during his time in prison. These fragments of memory—collapsed in time—converge into a belief system that shaped my understanding of love. This room is a constructed architecture of emotion. Listen. Can you hear what he is saying?

To step inside is to enter a heart and mind made visible—yours and mine. Try not to take it personal.

HEALING:
This word was written from the ashes of my marital love letters.

Out of Context: Try Not to Take it Personal will run from August 25th- September 21st with regular hours Monday-Friday 2-7pm and weekend hours during events at RGCA. 

Are you looking for a fun and unique autumn activity? Then come to our Pumpkin Blow! With help from our professional glass artists, you can blow your own pumpkin from hot molten glass. Everyone must be 5 years or older to participate. It's scheduled in 30 minute increments per person and reservations are required. Pumpkins will be ready for pick up in 7 days but shipping is also available. Experience the wonder that is glassblown art this fall season with your loved ones!

Please join The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design Thursday September 11th 5:00 - 7:00pm for the reception of Out of Context: Try Not To Take it Personal, a solo exhibition by Misty Thomas-Trout at Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery. 

From the Artist:

This typographic exhibition is an exploration in fragments. A manifesto in bits and pieces. A visualization of cognitive dissonance overloaded by fractured messages that create meanings influenced by chance operation. A space where graphic design transcends function and becomes a vessel for vulnerability.

Externalism: A collection of overheard language—snippets from private whispers and public outbursts—is headlined and layered over collaged fragments of 19th-century newspapers. These posters become visual palimpsests, where the past and present collide, and perception is shaped by noise, bias, and the instability of memory. Language here is dislocated, repurposed, and recontextualized—echoing the way truth fragments in the echo chamber of culture. The body navigates this overwhelming field of print and voice, its presence altering the space as much as the space alters thought and where meaning is always on the verge of distortion.

Internalism: An enclosure formed by scrolls of fabric, each one unfurling into a wall. Layered across their surfaces are sacred texts drawn from my past: love letters exchanged in my former marriage, and handwritten letters from my brother during his time in prison. These fragments of memory—collapsed in time—converge into a belief system that shaped my understanding of love. This room is a constructed architecture of emotion. Listen. Can you hear what he is saying?

To step inside is to enter a heart and mind made visible—yours and mine. Try not to take it personal.

HEALING:
This word was written from the ashes of my marital love letters.

Out of Context: Try Not to Take it Personal will run from August 25th- September 21st with regular hours Monday-Friday 2-7pm and weekend hours during events at RGCA.