Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202

513 345 8400

Started
21 March
2023

Ended
26 March
2023

Elsewhere Within: Xavier Student Response Show

Elsewhere Within: Xavier Student Response Show

Student members of the Xavier Art Society present their responses to the themes in Ecologies of Elsewhere through their own artmaking practice.

Started
15 March
2023

Ended
17 March
2023

Clay Holds Water, Water Holds Memory

Clay Holds Water, Water Holds Memory

A celebration, like electrical current moving from negative to positive, of the work that has been brought about by the perseverance of the Black women and Black non-binary artists working in clay.

Started
01 February
2023

Ended
05 March
2023

Under the Canopy

Under the Canopy

This installation by interdisciplinary and summer 2022 Co-LAB artist Julia Orquera Bianco uses Burnet Woods and our relationships to it as its subjects. Manipulating light through entrancing canopy banners, the exhibit invites the public to deepen their connection to nature through art.

Started
14 December
2022

Ended
27 February
2023

A Community Gallery Installation by DUMPTRUCK

A Community Gallery Installation by DUMPTRUCK

Spaghetti Midwestern is a cityscape installation meant to remind the viewer of the types of skylines and highway memorabilia found in middle America. The work will be a combination of a site-specific installation where the artists will drape fibers on the Community Gallery walls to create city-like structures and a lovingly rendered tapestry portrait of home.

Started
30 September
2022

Ended
12 February
2023

Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s

Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s

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

Started
09 September
2022

Ended
15 January
2023

On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith

On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith

A group exhibition examining the complex relationship between humans and nature

Started
18 October
2022

Ended
08 January
2023

Napoleon Maddox: What You Holdin'?

Napoleon Maddox: What You Holdin'?

Director, MC, multimedia artist, and Cincinnati-native Napoleon Maddox will host our October-January CoLAB series and exhibition titled What You Holdin’?. Inspired by the resourcefulness of the Black Arts tradition, this program is centered around the notion of ‘designing your future and life, using your own blueprint with the materials on hand.’

Started
30 November
2022

Ended
04 December
2022

Unraveling

Unraveling

Unraveling is a popup exhibition created in response to the show Baseera Khan: Weight on History and is hosted by the Contemporary Arts Center.

Started
06 May
2022

Ended
11 September
2022

Center of Unfinished Business by Contemporary And (C&)

Center of Unfinished Business by Contemporary And (C&)

A roving reading room and discussion-based program organized by the multimedia platform Contemporary And (C&) and conceived by C& co-founders and artistic directors Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba. Through the selection of significant and at times unsettling texts, the installation highlights the ubiquitous traces of colonialism that extend throughout all facets of life.

Started
27 May
2022

Ended
11 September
2022

Artist-Run Spaces

Artist-Run Spaces

A convening of independent arts organizations, nonprofits, and collectives throughout Ohio and northern Kentucky. Discover more than ten boundary-pushing communities of art makers.

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