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- A familiar Columbus art gallery is returning under new ownership in the arts district on High Street.
- The gallery will feature a mix of new and returning artists, with a focus on those from central Ohio.
- The grand reopening will take place the first weekend of April with special events.
An art gallery known to Columbus’ historical Downtown will reopen this month, featuring local talent.
Hammond Harkins Galleries, 103 N. High St., Columbus’ foundational selection of work featuring local emerging artists, will reopen to the public following last year’s gallery from noon to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
This year, the gallery will be under the ownership of the new arts district on High Street, according to a press release.
More than half of the roughly 40 artists being featured in the gallery are of the nearly half-a-century-old Hammond Harkins Gallery and are native to central Ohio. Also paying homage to Aminah Robinson, the new collection will include one of her rare pieces and a portrait of grocer Charles J. Hood.
“Hammond Harkins was around for 50 years before I bought it, and I feel like it’s taken a little break, but it never left,” said owner Tiffany Burton Duncan in the press release.
“A lot of this last year and a half has been hurry up and wait. People are anxious for it to be back. So, I’m hoping that when we reopen, it will be like we didn’t even miss a beat.”
The art gallery will reopen with the first of two shows featuring new and returning artists during the first weekend of April, with special wine and cheese hours from 5 to 8 p.m. More information is available at hammondharkins.com.
A longtime arts supporter who specializes in nonprofit work, Duncan purchased Hammond Harkins last year after Marlana Hammond Keynes announced the closure of the Short North gallery two years ago, giving the gallery and artists proper representation.
“Columbus is a vibrant, booming arts community, and there are so many artists here who never even get a chance. So, I really want to support and highlight some emerging artists, as well as established artists. And I really want to give those folks a chance to show what they can do,” Duncan said.
New artists in the gallery include a Columbus College of Art & Design professor, David Butler; Glenn Doell, a sculptor who has shown at the Smithsonian; and Kentucky artist Stephen Dorsett, who creates sculptures of miniature landscapes from consumer waste and photographs them.
Trending features reporter Amani Bayo can be reached at abayo@dispatch.com.
