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Oklahoma native Kayla Ohlmer has her work displayed inside the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Ohlmer’s exhibit is currently available inside the Pogue Gallery with an artist talk and reception scheduled for Feb. 25 at 4 p.m.

“I have always felt as though I existed between two realities,” Ohlmer said. “This feeling has manifested itself into hours of looking at a mirror and deep self-examination.

“However, the person that I see seems unfamiliar to the person that exists in the real world. As an artist, I am interested in the way one simultaneously exists in two spaces.”

Ohlmer began blowing glass during her high school years in Oklahoma City. She is a 2014 graduate of Centre College in Kentucky and received her MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 2020.

She has served as Studio Assistant at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio in Norfolk Va. and attended institutions such as Pilchuck Glass School and Penland School of Craft. She currently serves as the Program Director at Tulsa Glassblowing School in Oklahoma.

Ohlmer’s exhibit will remain open to the public during ECU operating hours until the artist talks Feb. 25.

East Central University is working on the 70th Annual Student Exhibit that will take place in the Pogue Gallery beginning March 10.

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