Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
The CAC is dedicated to showing contemporary art that inspires thought, action, and creativity
Started
21
March
2023
Ended
26
March
2023
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
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
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
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
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
A group exhibition examining the complex relationship between humans and nature
Started
18
October
2022
Ended
08
January
2023
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 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&)
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
A convening of independent arts organizations, nonprofits, and collectives throughout Ohio and northern Kentucky. Discover more than ten boundary-pushing communities of art makers.