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The Art of Yoga

This noon Vinyasa Flow class is scheduled with your lunch hour in mind. Not too hot, not too cool, just the right practice to recharge your midday. All levels of yogis welcome. Bring your mat, some water and your intention to be healthier, calmer and more joyous. These classes are offered...

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no...

Thursday Art Play: Happy Fourth-ish

FREE for members, $5 for non members. Let’s celebrate the Fourth of July with some firework painting, star spangled necklaces and flag making! Stop by to join in on all the fun! Stick around for kid-friendly yoga in the UnMuseum following each Art Play session.

Young Adult Lab: Glow Art

Stop by the UnMuseum for a free drop-in art making program for young adults. Join us as we learn about simple circuits and experiment with LED lights and found objects. We'll design light up wearable art and glowing paper lanterns. All art supplies will be provided by the CAC.

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no...

CAC@21C

Join CAC docents for a half-hour guided tour of the 21C galleries followed by a half-hour tour of the Contemporary Arts Center exhibitions. After the tour, explore the CAC on your own since your tour includes free museum admission. Meet in the lobby of the 21C. Free.

Double Talk: Bilingual Tour

Want to strengthen your Spanish or English language skills? Explore Chris Larson’s exhibition with a bilingual guide who will encourage dialogue amongst the group. Tours will be conducted in both English and Spanish so speakers of all levels are welcome. Arrive early and enjoy a delicious lunch at CAC’s Melt...

The Art of Yoga

This noon Vinyasa Flow class is scheduled with your lunch hour in mind. Not too hot, not too cool, just the right practice to recharge your midday. All levels of yogis welcome. Bring your mat, some water and your intention to be healthier, calmer and more joyous. These classes are offered...

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no...

One Night One Craft: Fluid Identity- Watercolor Portraits

Like artist Firelei Baez, local artist and designer Joya Logue lives between different worlds. Joya will explore the experimental techniques of Baez to help you create an abstracted portrait from explosive color –perfect for framing. Fee: $20 non-members/ $15 members Purchase tickets here: https://www.showclix.com/event/one-night-one-craft-fluid-identity Be sure to stop by the bar for drinks...

Thursday Art Play: Ice Cream Party!

Who’s excited for National Ice Cream Day!?! Stop by the UnMuseum for all things sweet and cold. We’ll make our own ice cream from scratch, construct crazy sundae sculptures and paint with some yummy foam dough. Afterwards we’ll work the sugar out of our system with some playful yoga poses.

Young Adult Lab: Body Painting

Looking for an excuse to perfect your body painting skills? Join us as we experiment with washable, skin friendly paint to create temporary art on our hands, arms and face! All art supplies will be provided by the CAC.

Drink and Draw: Art Trivia!

Join us for our first ever trivia night in the Black Box. Scott Holzman and Lindsay Nehls will be our trivia masters. The bar will be open with some tasty treats and batched cocktails. Free with café purchase.

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no matter what...

CAC@21C

Join CAC docents for a half-hour guided tour of the 21C galleries followed by a half-hour tour of the Contemporary Arts Center exhibitions. After the tour, explore the CAC on your own since your tour includes free museum admission. Meet in the lobby of the 21C. Free.

Makerspace: Color Explosion

Join us for an afternoon of science and fun at our drop-in makerspace festival in our 6thfloor Learning Center – The UnMuseum. Our team of science and art educators are inspired by the vivid colors of artist Firelei Baez, and will teach you about the science of color. What are we...

The Art of Yoga

This noon Vinyasa Flow class is scheduled with your lunch hour in mind. Not too hot, not too cool, just the right practice to recharge your midday. All levels of yogis welcome. Bring your mat, some water and your intention to be healthier, calmer and more joyous. These classes are offered...

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no...

Thursday Art Play: Color Blast

Join us for a color themed Art Play inspired by the artist Firelei Báez's beautiful portraits. We’ll set off some brightly colored paint bombs, decorate our light table with neon drawings and sculptures and create a collage of color. Stick around for kid-friendly yoga in the UnMuseum following each Art...

Young Adult Lab: Notebook Collage

Join us every Thursday in the UnMuseum for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program for young adults! Artists and educators will be here to show us book art, collage and design techniques. All supplies will be provided by the CAC.

Cinema at the Center: House and Home

The CAC and Mini Microcinema have teamed up to present House and Home: A Series of Short Films About Architecture and Place. The screening is curated by The Mini’s Director C. Jacqueline Wood. The program includes short films of varying genres that examine architecture's relationship to the meaning of home....

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no...

CAC@21C

Join CAC docents for a half-hour guided tour of the 21C galleries followed by a half-hour tour of the Contemporary Arts Center exhibitions. After the tour, explore the CAC on your own since your tour includes free museum admission. Meet in the lobby of the 21C. Free.

The Art of Yoga

This noon Vinyasa Flow class is scheduled with your lunch hour in mind. Not too hot, not too cool, just the right practice to recharge your midday. All levels of yogis welcome. Bring your mat, some water and your intention to be healthier, calmer and more joyous. These classes are offered...

A Circus of One (Act II)

Be one of the lucky ones to see this in gallery performance by artist Alison Crocetta. Her exhibition will come to life with this 30 minute event followed by a brief Q&A. This performance runs the gamut from absurd to trance-inducing as she interacts with a large, shape-shifting wooden horse...

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no...

One Night One Craft: Contemporary Jewelry

Join Ombré Gallery curator and owner to create the perfect summer accessory. This session includes all the supplies you will need to make this fabric and wood beaded necklace. Jenna will enlighten us on contemporary jewelry design to inspire our techniques. Our café will be open that evening selling an...

Thursday Art Play: Night Sky Campout

Let’s camp out under the manmade “stars” found in the installation, From Any Point. We’ll pitch a tent, set up a campfire and get to work making night sky inspired art. Design a star necklace, read some night time stories and experiment with glow in the dark materials. Stick around...

Young Adult Lab: Newspaper Art

Join us every Thursday in the UnMuseum for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program for young adults! Artists and educators will be here to show us how to make collage and sculptures from newspaper and mixed media art materials. All supplies will be provided by the CAC.

Art Lab Nights

The CAC has long been a laboratory for artists offering the unique opportunity to explore new techniques and concepts within our gallery walls and the city. In this tradition, we have invited contemporary artists to setup shop in our 6th floor Art Lab. This is your chance, no matter what...

Family Festival: UnMuseum Block Party

Stop by the CAC for a giant block party inspired by the UnMuseum’s interactive artwork!

CAC@21C

Join CAC docents for a half-hour guided tour of the 21C galleries followed by a half-hour tour of the Contemporary Arts Center exhibitions. After the tour, explore the CAC on your own since your tour includes free museum admission. Meet in the lobby of the 21C. Free.

The Art of Yoga

This noon Vinyasa Flow class is scheduled with your lunch hour in mind. Not too hot, not too cool, just the right practice to recharge your midday. All levels of yogis welcome. Bring your mat, some water and your intention to be healthier, calmer and more joyous. These classes are offered...

Graham MacIndoe

Through his iconic images, Scottish photographer Graham MacIndoe explores the Cincinnati rock band, The National.

Firelei Báez

Caribbean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Firelei Báez navigates a broad spectrum of color, race, and identity in her first Ohio exhibition.

Alison Crocetta

Alison Crocetta celebrates the delicate resonance of her voice in both song and action as well as the unique marriage between objects and their shared lives as subjects and performance supports.

Mark de Jong

Mark deJong’s Swing House welcomes adventurous renters into a three-story structure where all floors and walls have been removed to allow the flight of a swing from the front of the house to the back.

Chris Larson

Using humble materials and pioneer techniques to fabricate unexpectedly fantastical worlds that are simultaneously spartan and psychedelic, Chris Larson employs a workman’s approach to archaic looking machines that recast their surroundings, and inhabitants, in a newfound light.