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Creative Café

The Creative Café is a space where creatives come together to form a familiar community with one another. In addition to art-making and conversation, vendors are invited to display their goods. Come expecting a diverse group of young creatives looking to form connections in the Cincinnati area. Performance for the Café starts...

The Creative Writing Project: Fall

The Creative Writing Project is a series of workshops designed to provide adult writers of all levels with opportunities to explore the art of creative writing. Each month-long series puts participants amongst a community of writers and educators, offering instruction and guidance from a diverse group of local and published...

Artist in Residence at the CAC: Orion Inez

"I may be small, but I am mightier than I appear" Join us Saturdays at the CAC from 1-3PM and Wednesdays at the Downtown Public Library from 4-6PM for our Artist-in-Residence program with artist Orion Inez! "Pocket-Sized" is a residency about character design and comic making, inspired by Orion's original Star Guy...

Cardboard Architects

Join us every Sunday in the CAC Studio for this hands-on creative construction club. Tinker and explore using repurposed materials and handy kid-friendly tools for building. These open-ended studio hours encourage problem-solving and creative thinking. Drop by the CAC for these engaging STEAM-focused events and let your imagination grow! Free with...

Artist in Residence at the Library: Orion Inez

"I may be small, but I am mightier than I appear" Join us Saturdays at the CAC from 1-3PM and Wednesdays at the Downtown Public Library from 4-6PM for our Artist-in-Residence program with artist Orion Inez! "Pocket-Sized" is a residency about character design and comic making, inspired by Orion's original Star Guy...

Thursday Art Play: Indigenous Artists

Join us Thursday mornings for creative playtime at the CAC. This family program uses hands-on art making activities and yoga to excite and educate our youngest visitors. Learn about the Indigenous artist featured in the Urban Native Collective exhibition and create artwork inspired by their work Stick around for some...

Young Adult Lab: Blackout Poetry with Gabriel Thacker

Join us every Thursday in the CAC Creativity Center for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program for teens and young adults! This week, we will be joined by artist Gabriel Thacker for a blackout poetry workshop. Artists and educators will be on hand for assistance! Young Adult Lab is...

In the Interest of Horror - A Film Screening

Join us for a chilling evening as we showcase Titane, a 2021 French-Belgian body horror and psychological drama that dives into themes of queerness and self-acceptance amidst horrifying bodily transformations. This event is great for horror enthusiasts and those looking to explore cinema in a unique way. This special film screening...

The Creative Writing Project: Fall

The Creative Writing Project is a series of workshops designed to provide adult writers of all levels with opportunities to explore the art of creative writing. Each month-long series puts participants amongst a community of writers and educators, offering instruction and guidance from a diverse group of local and published...

Artist in Residence at the CAC: Orion Inez

"I may be small, but I am mightier than I appear" Join us Saturdays at the CAC from 1-3PM and Wednesdays at the Downtown Public Library from 4-6PM for our Artist-in-Residence program with artist Orion Inez! "Pocket-Sized" is a residency about character design and comic making, inspired by Orion's original Star Guy...

Cardboard Architects

Join us every Sunday in the CAC Studio for this hands-on creative construction club. Tinker and explore using repurposed materials and handy kid-friendly tools for building. These open-ended studio hours encourage problem-solving and creative thinking. Drop by the CAC for these engaging STEAM-focused events and let your imagination grow! Free with...

Artist in Residence at the Library: Orion Inez

"I may be small, but I am mightier than I appear" Join us Saturdays at the CAC from 1-3PM and Wednesdays at the Downtown Public Library from 4-6PM for our Artist-in-Residence program with artist Orion Inez! "Pocket-Sized" is a residency about character design and comic making, inspired by Orion's original Star Guy...

Thursday Art Play: Halloween Party!

Join us for a super spooky Halloween-themed Art Play and trick-or-treat throughout the museum offices! Costumes are welcome as we create art inspired by this eerie day. Stop by the CAC to create some “scary” artwork, then go trick-or-treating in the CAC galleries and offices. Stick around for some spine-tingling...

Young Adult Lab: Zombie Dolls

Join us every Thursday in the CAC Creativity Center for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program for teens and young adults! This week, we will be transforming dolls into zombies with paint, fabric, and other supplies. Artists and educators will be on hand for assistance! Young Adult Lab is...

In the Interest of Time: Storytelling Through Photography

Come join us as we use photography from the Fotofocus and CAC exhibition, In the Interest of Time, for storytelling and story-listening to spark creative conversation around personal histories. Participants are encouraged to submit 1-2 photos they would like to share stories from through the registration link below. RSVP This program is...

Family Festival: A Haunting Halloween

Family Festival: A Haunting Halloween Spend Halloween at CAC celebrating the spooky season with eerie art making, haunting music from Creep It Real, and an atmospheric polaroid photo booth with artist Nikita Gross. All inspired by current CAC artists. Create unique works of art to celebrate this ghostly day and trick...

Sarah Rodriguez: Homespun

Artist Sarah Rodriguez’s work is an archive of tangible memories. Analyzing concepts of kinship and womanhood through discarded objects. Once reclaimed, objects are adorned and preserved, reflecting the intricacies of our lives, suspended between times of joy and sorrow.

SOFTlab: Gravity's Rainbow

This installation, suspended from the ceiling of the CAC’s Dr. Stanley & Mickey Kaplan Hall Lobby, takes something invisible

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Convergence exhibition

The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Convergence exhibition brings together contemporary artists to highlight that Indigenous expression is not a recover of what was lost, but an explosive celebration of what has always survived.

Leonard Harmon - People of the Good River

Indigenous culture is too often trapped in history books or reduced to outdated stereotypes. People of the Good River challenges these misconceptions by capturing the vibrant, everyday realities of Indigenous people living in Cincinnati today.

Widline Cadet: Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance)

CAC hosts the second presentation of artist Widline Cadet’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition explores Black diasporic life through Cadet's deeply personal examination of emigrating from Haiti to the United States, family, memory, and belonging.

In the Interest of Time

In the Interest of Time presents work by seven artists with ties to Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky who investigate the relationship of their subject matter to time, moving beyond the conventional wisdom that a photograph captures a single moment of truth.

Kahlil Robert Irving: Ground Water from screen Falls [(Collaged media) + Midwest] Street

For the lobby carpet installation, Kahlil Robert Irving integrates imagery of asphalt with pop culture references, news headlines, and digital ephemera. The artist asks viewers to reconsider their daily engagement with social media, civic community life, and the urban landscape.