A new exhibition, Fossils and Halos, will open at the Richard M. Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University on October 15, 2024. This exhibition, which features new work by members of OWU’s Fine Arts Department (Kristina Bogdanov, Frank Hobbs, and Jeff Nilan) was inspired by rediscovery of an extraordinarily preserved, 370-million-year-old chondrichthyan (“shark”) from the Devonian of Ohio in the OWU collections by scientists at the Orton Geological Museum of The Ohio State University (Loren Babcock) and the Department of Environment and Sustainability at Ohio Wesleyan University (John Krygier). The exhibition, organized by OWU art historian Camilla Querin, explains the paleobiology of this early chondrichthyan and the fascinating conditions leading to its fossilization. It also highlights new artistic work prompted by the fossil. The exhibition will be on view through December 13, 2024.