Rosewood Arts Center will be closed from March 20 - April 9. Kettering Children's Theatre performances will still be held during this time. Rosewood Gallery will be open by appointment only. Learn more
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Rosewood Gallery

Established in 1986, Rosewood Gallery is a program of Rosewood Arts Center, a division of the City of Kettering’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department. The gallery specializes in the exhibition of contemporary art by local, regional and national artists. It is dedicated to promoting the visual arts to audiences in the Kettering and Dayton, Ohio region. Rosewood Gallery has a total of 1,800 square feet of exhibition space, offering four group exhibitions and eight solo exhibitions annually.

CURRENT  EXHIBITION

Earth Transformed 2023
Muscle Memory Collective, The View from Here
On view March 6 - April 15, 2023

Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce two new exhibitions: Muscle Memory Collective, The View from Here, and Earth Transformed 2023. Both exhibitions will be on view from March 6 through April 15, 2023. Please note that Rosewood will be closed to the public from March 20 - April 9 due to renovations. Rosewood Gallery will be open by appointment only. Reserve an appointment time

Current Exhibition

Previous Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibition

Artist Entry Information

Contact Us:

Rosewood Gallery
2655 Olson Drive
Kettering, OH 45420

Phone: 937-296-0294
Fax: 937-296-3289
Email the Gallery Coordinator

Rosewood Building Hours

Winter 2023 Hours
Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Sundays Closed

*Rosewood will be closed to the public from March 20 - April 9 due to renovations. Rosewood Gallery will be open by appointment only.

Meet the Gallery Coordinator

paula krausPaula Willmot Kraus is an artist, an educator, and now Rosewood Gallery Coordinator – all the paths of her 30-plus professional years coming together in one place. During those years, she has been a fine art photographer and plans on continuing that vocation/addiction while working at Rosewood Arts Centre.

Rosewood’s Works on Paper exhibition was one of the first local shows she submitted work to after arriving in Dayton in 1995. Paula was amazed by the quality of the art in the area and so happy to be a part of it. Since then, Rosewood has always been her go-to gallery for interesting local art; not many municipalities the size of Kettering have such a gem.

She began her career in photojournalism and moved into fine art photography, where she could begin to tell her own visual stories.

While her subject matter and materials change to reflect the story she seeks to tell, the stories unfold from very personal beginnings. She draws largely from her immediate surroundings, often using nature and natural forms to explore memory, emotions and formal aesthetics.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally, including the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Fort Wayne Museum, Tiffin University, Antioch College and Eastern Washington University. Paula’s work can be found in many private collections, as well as in such corporate collections as the Savannah College of Art & Design and Antioch University. She has been awarded two Montgomery County Individual Artist Fellowships and one Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.

She holds an MA in Photography from Antioch University and a BS from Pennsylvania State University. She lives in Kettering, Ohio, with her husband, Fred.

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