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Artist in Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

Bespoken Live

Bespoken Live uses storytelling and story-listening to spark contagious hope and belonging. Bespoken facilitates story exchanges, both in person and digitally, with mindfulness techniques, trauma-informed activities, and tailored story crafting approaches. Bespoken believes we discover who we are by knowing each others' stories. We move toward healing when we tell...

Thursday Art Play: Construct and Create

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 artists from the CAC exhibition A rehearsal on legacy and create artwork inspired by their work. Stick around for some...

Young Adult Lab: DIY Stickers

Join us every Thursday in the Creative Learning Center at the CAC for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program! This week, we'll be designing our own stickers! We'll have stickers of varying shapes and sizes for anyone participating! Artist’s and educators will be on hand to assist....

Opening Reception for Tai Shani: MBR

Join us as we commemorate the opening of the first U.S. solo exhibition for British artist Tai Shani, featuring a newly commissioned feature-length film. 7PM CAC Member Reception (Become a member today) 8PM Public Opening The reception will feature a cash bar, light bites, and the opportunity to come together in community. The public...

Artist-In-Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

Art Play Hike: Mt Airy Treehouse

Art Play Hike is an outdoor series in partnership with the Cincinnati Parks. Join us this month as we explore Mt Airy Treehouse and take part in hands-on art making. Bundle up! These monthly hikes will take place rain or shine. Come explore the great outdoors with your little one. This...

Artist in Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

Thursday Art Play: Set the Stage

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 artist Tai Shani and create artwork inspired by their work. Stick around for some kid-friendly yoga following each Art Play...

Young Adult Lab: Character Design (Holmes School Takeover)

Join us every Thursday in the Creative Learning Center at the CAC for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program! This week, we'll be crafting characters through mixed media. The idea and planning for this week's YAL was made by Holmes High School art students! Snacks and supplies...

Opening Reception for Wounded Healers

Wounded Healers is a collaborative community exhibition between the Contemporary Arts Center and Zonta Club of Cincinnati. This exhibition will feature two-dimensional works that depict the personal and painful journey of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse leading to healing, hope, and wholeness. Featured works range from drawing, painting, photography, and print....

Artist-In-Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

Artist in Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

With Art in Mind

With Art in Mind programs are a comfortable gathering that allow people living with dementia and their care partners to socialize and engage in activities in a safe, welcoming environment. Free for all. Reserve your spot by emailing Shannon Braun, or call 513-979-2302.

Homeschool Wednesday: Creative Building Tour

Join us for a second private tour of the CAC exhibition inspired by the museum's architect, Zaha Hadid. Following the tour students will create their own creative project inspired by the artwork they explored in the gallery. This program is designed for children ages 6-12 and their parents or caregiver. Tickets...

Women in Architecture Panel

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art was designed by the most famous female architect in history, Zaha Hadid. Her success, however, is unique. In America, women make up 50% of architect students, but only 23% of registered architects are women. Panelists Neena Jud, AIA (Harmony Architecture), Emily...

Thursday Art Play: Creative Collages

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 use collage, and some collaboration, to create unique works for art inspired by our Creativity Center! Stick around for some kid-friendly yoga...

Young Adult Lab: Special Edition w/ Julia Lipovsky

Join us every Thursday in the Creative Learning Center at the CAC for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program! This week, we have a special drop in visit from an artist who's work is featured at the CAC and CAM, Julia Lipovsky! Come on out for a...

Artist-In-Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

Co-LAB: Architectural Abstractions II

Architectural Abstractions II: Conceptual Models Architects and designers use models to study and understand their designs in three dimensions. Models can be used to study form, construction techniques, build-ability, materiality, details, lighting, and more. They can be abstract or realistic and everything in between. Massing models are conceptual models that study...

CAC@21c

Join a CAC docent for a half-hour guided tour of the 21c exhibitions followed by a half-hour tour of the Contemporary Arts Center exhibitions. Come early to Metropole to enjoy a complimentary cocktail and tour will meet in the lobby of the 21c. Event is free and meets on the...

Artist-In-Residence: Jamie-Lee Elizabeth

Join Jamie-Lee Elizabeth, our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall, every Wednesday from 4-6PM and every Saturday from 11am-1pm in our Creativity Center for free collaborative art making and discussion! Jamie-Lee's residency will be focusing on the themes of vulnerability and human connection by exploring love and heartbreak, friendship and family, black womanhood,...

Closing Reception for Artist-In Residence: Jamie Lee Elizabeth

Jamie-Lee Elizabeth has our Artist-In-Residence for this Fall. To celebrate her stellar residency, we're having a closing reception which will include live poetry readings, snacks and drinks, and creative writing prompts for you to join in on the fun privately, with friends, or maybe even having the chance to read...

Thursday Art Play: Let's Experiment!

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. Bring your little ones to Art Play as we experiment with different painting materials. Stick around for some kid-friendly yoga following each Art...

Young Adult Lab: DIY Magnets

Join us every Thursday in the Creative Learning Center at the CAC for Young Adult Lab, a free drop-in art making program! This week, we'll be designing our own magnets! We'll have magnets of varying shapes and sizes for anyone participating! Artist’s and educators will be on hand to assist....

Art Academy Student Show Reception

Reception for the student show, Dimensional, in the Community Gallery, 5-7pm. Students from the Art Academy of Cincinnati respond to the artists, materials, architecture, and themes presented in A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure.

One Night One Craft: Familial Tapestries

Join us for a special workshop where art and family memories intertwine. Led by Keith Wallick, a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California, this workshop uses the process of sublimation to transfer images onto fabric. Wallick’s uses this technique in his own art practice to memorialize moments with his family....

Underworld Black Arts Festival and Rush Arts Foundation

In coordination with The Underworld Black Arts Festival, a selection of prints from Rush Arts 25thAnniversary Print Portfolio are featured in the CAC’s P&G Gallery.

Community Gallery Growing Roots

This exhibition invites the viewer to learn more about local BIPOC farming and growing initiatives. Photographs and a short film document the experiences of several of these individuals, as well as their reflections on some of the themes explored by the work in Ecologies of Elsewhere.

Wounded Healers

Artists finding healing from abuse through artistic expression

Dimensional

Students from the Art Academy of Cincinnati respond to the artists, materials, architecture, and themes presented in A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure.

Participating students:

Dominique Braxton
Maddy Degyanksy
Gavin Dessauer
Mina Gomez
Erick Guzman
Li hurdle
Echo Joy
Shay Lane
Daisy Lorenz
Derek Sally
Kaylee Sgouris
Mar Silvers
Elizabeth Zajkowski

A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure

A view of Zaha Hadid's legacy not as a conclusive overview, but rather as a point of departure full of possibilities and reflections

Tai Shani: MBR

Drawing on queer and feminist theory, and political ideologies of collectivism, to ponder love as a device for healing and resistance.

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.