“New Works, Old Works, Borrowed Works and Blue Works,” a new art exhibit at the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor, shows how creative and diverse the visual arts faculty is at Ohio State.Prudence Gill, Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor curator, said the title of the show was reached after a little expanding on names and concepts – and a visit to a wedding.The diversity of the art faculty’s works is very visible at this exhibit, which is important especially for students to recognize, said Kenneth Rinaldo, a professor in the Department of Arts.”Students have so many options to choose from,” he said. “From courses in ceramics to various styles of painting, students can study in any area.”Rinaldo’s work, “Autopoiesis,” is a very impressive example of his interest in art and technology.”Autopoiesis” was originally a 15-part exhibit, but for this show, there are only two parts. All 15 pieces can be viewed on a video being played just outside the gallery. “Autopoiesis” has two robotic-like arms attached to the ceiling made of grape vines, molded plastic for the joints and custom electronics which allow the arms to move from a from a central network.Rinaldo’s work, just like many of the other art faculty’s works, has been on display outside the United States.Another interesting piece is by Malcolm Cochran, professor of sculpture titled, “Unrealized Projects.”This piece consists of studies, plans, presentation boards, proposal narratives for two public art commissions that Cochran proposed but won’t ever be built. This is a curious piece since the result is not visible. Instead, one has to use their imagination to visualize what the finished product might have looked like.One of the proposed constructions was to be in Charlotte, N.C. This was going to be a set of 11 models of the primary government buildings cut and carved out of limestone and installed in front of the Old Courthouse building in Charlotte, each one varying in size.This proposal was rejected by selection committee because lack of funding.The second project was to be in Athens, Ohio at an area on the Ohio University campus known as the Ridges, the site of a former state psychiatric hospital which has been converted into many campus buildings. Cochran’s proposal was to construct eight to 10 large bronze brain models, styled from pictures of brains with abnormalities, and install them on various hospital ground sites, since the hospital was famous for performing lobotomies.This proposal was rejected by the university committee because it was trying to get away from that part of history, according to the artist’s thesis.Charles Massey Jr., professor of printmaking, uses mixed media for his work titled “Secrets.” The piece consists of two lithograph- and colored-pencils works of buttons and popsicle sticks. Massey likes to take things out of their original context and present them in a new sense so they can be looked at differently.”Popsicle sticks are no longer just ice cream holders,” said Massey about “Secrets.”Another piece by Massey is more of a collection. In two glass cases, Massey is showing his accumulation of antique electric fans. This is another example of Massey taking something out of its context, making something not functional, which is what art could be defined as. Rebecca Harvey, professor of ceramics, has a ceramic piece called “Cow Pile” displayed in the exhibit. This work consists of several blue cow figures piled on top of each other to create two vases.Harvey’s other work, “Scheme of Classification” appears to be a combination of a cup, saucer and other dinnerware piled on top of each other creating a small tower.Steve Thurston’s work is a part of his “Adamanatine’ series, called “Composition Nine Morality.” Thurston, a professor of ceramics, said this piece represents how we see ourselves in space and how it can be interrupted.This huge piece, 18 feet by 2 feet and weighing 3,000 pounds, is made entirely out of ceramics. It’s a giant ball on a path that could move back and forth, but Thurston said it’s more of an implied action piece. Mary Jo Bole is another professor of ceramics with some works in the show. “Penal Institution Sanitation” consists of three small ceramic toilets with historical prison toilet pictures and descriptions, which Bole calls “a sad and sordid past.”Another work by Bole is a colorful ceramic gun and an Ohio souvenir plate which she modeled, glazed and named “Welcome to Ohio.”Harvey said she likes to transform common objects, particularly dinnerware, and create alternative uses for them.”New Works, Old Works, Borrowed Works and Blue Works” is running until Dec. 1 at Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor. Admission is free.