By Appointment Only
1270 Bryden Rd.
Columbus, Ohio 43205
October 26 - October 28 2023
22 Oct 2020 - 21 Feb 2023
February 19, 2024
Obadina purchased the house that would become the gallery from the Columbus, Ohio land bank for only $200, in 1976. Over the next thirteen years, he laboriously restored it making the gallery the first african-american gallery in Columbus.
The gallery's parent organization, the Urban Cultural Arts Foundation (UCAF), was influential in having the surrounding neighborhood unofficially designated as the "African Village," reflecting its connection to local, African-American history and sponsored, for over a decade, an annual community arts event called the African Village Festival.
In 2003, Obadina and the gallery were prominently featured as major subjects in Flag Wars, a critically acclaimed but controversial documentary around the subject of gentrification. The documentary was nominated for an Emmy Award, and won a Peabody Award.
