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Thursday Art Play: Repurposed Sculptures

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. This week we'll be experimenting with recycled and repurposed materials, using them to create sculptures and collages. Stick around for some kid-friendly yoga...

Young Adult Lab: Jewelry Making

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'll making earrings and bracelets with beads and other jewelry findings. Artists and educators will be on hand for assistance! Young Adult Lab is supported by...

JAZZ at CAC

Join us for an unforgettable evening of live jazz featuring Michael “Maddog” Mavridioglou & Friends! A Cincinnati-based trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, vocalist, and educator, Michael has toured nationally with the Jazz Mandolin Project and performed alongside some of the biggest names in jazz, jam, and progressive music. His diverse musical voice...

Thursday Art Play: Rainbows All Around

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 Gravity's Rainbow by SOFTlab, hanging in the CAC lobby, and create some colorful sculptures inspired by this unique piece. Stick around...

Young Adult Lab: Art Journaling

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 create art in journals with collage materials, drawing, and other art supplies. Artists and educators will be on hand for assistance! Young Adult Lab...

DIY Screen Printing

Working with Native artist Lenny Harmon, we are pleased to introduce our fall Co-LAB artist. Leonard “Lenny” Harmon comes from a long line of artists and craftsmen, marshaling inspiration from his ancestors and Tribe, but is self-taught. He has always been involved in creative endeavors celebrating his culture through traditional crafts...

Thursday Art Play: Great Outdoors

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. Let's celebrate the first day of fall and create artwork inspired by the great outdoors and the changing seasons. Stick around for...

Young Adult Lab: Button Making

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'll make custom buttons with a button maker. Artists and educators will be on hand for assistance! Young Adult Lab is supported by the Institute of...

Documenting Indigenous People Through Photography

Come learn about the history of anthropologist and indigenous people through photos and listen to a podcast entitled " The People In the Photo, provided by The Smithsonian of American Indian and Sidedoor podcast about the history of anthropologist and indigenous communities. Through this session we encourage open minds and vulnerable...

Talk Low Music Fest: Horse Lords / Fruit LoOops / Devils Cross Country

Thursday 09.24 - Contemporary Arts Center - Doors Open 7pm - All Ages Are Welcome Ticket Registration Horse LordsFruit LoOopsDevils Cross Country Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner,...

Talk Low Music Fest: Croz Boyce / More Eaze / Pomme Pom

Saturday 09.26 - Contemporary Arts Center - Doors Open at 7pm - All Ages are Welcome Croz Boyce (Avey Tare + Geologist of Animal Collective)More EazePomme Pom Ticket Registration Croz Boyce (pronounced Croz Boys) is Animal Collective’s Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) new instrumental duo. Talk Low Music Festival is...

Talk Low Music Fest: Elori Saxl & Henry Soloman / Kalia Vandever

Sunday 09.27 - Contemporary Arts Center - FREE - Doors open at 2pm - All ages are welcome Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon / Seeing Is ForgettingKalia Vandever Seeing is Forgetting combines analog synths (Elori Saxl) with baritone saxophone + bass clarinet (Henry Solomon). Drawing equal parts from American jazz abstraction, New...

2026 Truth & Inspiration Showcase

Original artwork of 24 artists commissioned through ArtsWave’s Inspire Artist Grant program.

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