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The long-term and ongoing effects of slavery, colonialism, and environmental harm are intertwined. Histories of botany and medicine are closely connected as enslaved Africans brought botanical and medicinal matter and...

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Learn more about the CAC's new Creativity Center, including the return of the beloved Sara M. and Patricia A. Vance Education Center UnMuseum™, now open and free to all!

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Addressing issues of access, cultural appropriation, and migration

On view through
25 September
2023

Baseera Khan: Weight on History

Baseera Khan shifts seamlessly between media to explore the interconnectedness of capital, politics, and the body. Their work in video, photography, sculpture, and performance creates spaces of reprieve, beauty, and...

Activism, education, and media production in trans, queer, and feminist movements

On view through
12 February
2023

Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s

Through photographic documentation of activism, education, and media production within trans, queer, and feminist grassroots organizing of the 1970s through the 1990s, Images on which to build reveals the technologies...

Poignant meditations on Black history, community, and love

On view through
02 April
2023

Cameron Granger: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Heaven

For his solo project at the CAC, Ohio-based artist and filmmaker Cameron Granger develops a new iteration of The Line (2021) for the CAC lobby that draws from his personal...