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The Blue House is a non-profit alternative artist-run exhibition and community space that provides a welcoming place for folks to engage and share ideas while supporting artists and highlighting visual art as a vehicle for connection and empathy.

04/17/2026

Zachary Collopy’s art practice grows out of a creative collaboration with the ecosystems, beings, and phenomena that animate the land in and around Dayton, Ohio. Zachary works with his non-human neighbors to create installations, interactive sculptures, and ceramic objects. These artworks use symbolic and tactile experiences to offer alternative ways of perceiving and cherishing nature in our immediate surroundings.

04/10/2026

The Blue House Gallery is excited to present “Walking in Circles” by Zachary Collopy.

Opening Saturday April 25th 6-9pm at The Blue House Gallery!

From the Artist:

Walking in Circles is an exhibition of Dayton-based Zachary Collopy’s recent work in ceramics and sculpture. The exhibition pairs objects and an ephemeral natural installation, both inspired by processes and forms found in mosaics and quilts, mediums realized through joining of discrete parts into interdependent wholes. Across these works, repetition is used as both a method and metaphor to visualize the experience of returning to a particular landscape again and again. Parallels are drawn between forms created through patient accumulation and the way repeated visits to the natural world gradually reveal the vibrant tapestry of creatures, phenomena and cycles animating the more than human world.
At its core Walking in Circles considers how perception is deepened through sustained encounters with nature. Too often our attention and senses are captured by the tyrannical rapid-smooth-sterile-sameness of daily life. By giving a natural place sustained time and attention, the transformative power of repetition is revealed. Each visit to the same location allows for another fragment of the more than human world to enter our awareness: the conditions that cause birds to sing, allow ice to cover a river or awaken fungi in a fallen log become perceivable. Through patience and dedication, a world built on collaboration, interdependence and reciprocity comes into view.
The processes and form of the work mirror this experience. Like the mosaics, quilts and ecosystems that inspire them these works are created through the careful joining of many individual pieces. Discrete elements lean on, support and complete each other. The works describe both the act of entangling oneself in a landscape and the condition of the natural world itself, an interdependent enmeshment in which life is wholly dependent on connection. When we “walk in circles,” we do not simply revisit a place. We weave ourselves more fully into this living tapestry.

03/07/2026

Still from The 40th Trimester (video), by Hannah Kasper, featuring Jennifer Sydor. Come see! Opening Reception March 14th, 6 - 9pm

02/28/2026

Hannah Kasper (b. 1981 in Ossining, New York), holds a BFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia and Rome) and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Hannah’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows in locations including Exit Art and Lucky Gallery (NYC), Tramway (Glasgow), Artnews Projects (Berlin), Gil Artist Gallery (Iceland), and The Contemporary Dayton. She has worked for publications including Cabinet Magazine, New York Magazine, and Food & Wine, and her art & culture writing appears regularly in the Dayton Daily News. She is an experienced children’s art educator, having taught in Los Angeles, New York City, and the Midwest US. Hannah is an artistic collaborator with Dayton Dance Initiative, contributing backdrops and costumes to the contemporary dance company. Hannah moved from Brooklyn, NYC to the quiet life in Dayton, Ohio during the Covid pandemic and lives with her husband and two children. She keeps a studio in the Davis Linden building in East Dayton.

11/14/2025

Join us 4-8pm on November 21st for TWO EVENTS!

FALL of FREEDOM and Closing Reception for A Hundred Moving Targets.
(Plus donation collection for Gem City Action’s Food Solidarity Program!)

FALL OF FREEDOM is a nation-wide call to the arts community to unite in creative resistance. And Blue House is taking part! Ink & Loom will be performing ‘The Clackophony’, an interactive poetry showcase. We will have supplies available for participation in ‘Wear it on the Outside’, a collaborative art project that relates to expressions of freedom. Plus.....button making! what?!?

COME PARTICIPATE! Don’t forget your nonperishable food donations for Gem City Action🍲🥞🥧

03/14/2025

Opening tomorrow! 6-9pm
➰Ancient Surprises➰
by Elena Dahl
Come see! We love this work so much!

03/10/2025

This Saturday! 6-9pm at The Blue House Gallery come check out .fan ‘s newest works and come hang out!

11/21/2024

Hey folks! We won’t be open tomorrow 4-6, but we’re doing extended hours Black Friday 11/ 29 3-6:30pm for our print sale! Sean has been very generous giving us a cut of sales to help us out! We hope to see you out getting some sweet gig posters on Black Friday! If you’d like to check out the work another time please message and we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

10/10/2024

Opening Reception this Saturday ya’ll!
October 12, 6-9pm.
SIT DOWN, work by
Additional gallery hours October 18th and 25th 4-7pm.

Join us at The Blue House to ponder the intersections of the 20th century American TV sitcom and cultural histories around food, culture and togetherness. Through family photographs, wallpaper design, still life and documentary imagery, Sit Down! presents a backstory to Glenna Jennings’ ongoing photographic series At Table, which has documented ‘tablescapes’ around the globe for well over a decade, revealing aspects of the human condition that collide and converge in a shared, familiar place – the table.

Thank you

09/28/2024

Join us at The Blue House to ponder the intersections of the 20th century American TV sitcom and cultural histories around food, culture and togetherness. Through family photographs, wallpaper design, still life and documentary imagery, Sit Down! presents a backstory to Glenna Jennings’ ongoing photographic series At Table, which has documented ‘tablescapes’ around the globe for well over a decade, revealing aspects of the human condition that collide and converge in a shared, familiar place – the table.
This event is made possible thanks to the contributions of Fotofocus, Culture Works, The Blue House Arts and The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design.
Additional hours will be October 18th and 25th 4-7pm.

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3325 Catalpa Drive
Dayton, OH
45405

Opening Hours

4pm - 6pm

Telephone

+19378298016

Website

http://thebluehousearts.org/

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