News and Events

  • Announcing our 2019 Artists-in-Residence

    • 8 February 2019
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    We are excited to announce that poet Wendy McVicker (Athens, OH) and artist Nancy Gamon (Cincinnati, OH) have been selected as our 2019 Artists-in-Residence.  Wendy has been an Ohio Arts Council Teaching Artist since 2000, and loves bringing people together to discover..

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  • Creating a Home

    • 26 November 2018
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    It’s probably no coincidence that the Kennedy Mansion began its life in 1875 as a home—the home of neighborhood founder Lewis Kennedy. Today, Kennedy Heights Arts Center is still creating a home. Although it no longer houses a single family, the center..

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  • We are the Other

    • 26 September 2018
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    I first learned about photographer Wing Young Huie from my sister Amy Muse who lives in St. Paul, MN, when she told me about his University Avenue Project. For three years, Wing photographed the dizzying diversity in the St. Paul neighborhoods connected..

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  • CPS International Jazz Festival

    • Saturday, March 8 at 7pm
    • Aronoff Center for the Arts

    Jazz-loving Cincinnatians are invited to the 5th annual CPS International Jazz Festival, hosted by Activities Beyond the Classroom on March 8, 2025. The festival will feature 140 Cincinnati Jazz Academy student musicians as well as nationally acclaimed jazz artists Camille Thurman (tenor..

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  • Accessibility Focus Groups

    • In-person at KHAC Annex: March 4 Online: March 13

    At Kennedy Heights Arts Center, we believe that art should be accessible to everyone. That’s why we’re inviting community members to participate in an important conversation about accessibility and inclusion. We invite adults who live or work within the disability community to..

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  • Fusion of Hope – Voices of Freedom

    • Saturday, March 15 at 7:30pm (doors at 7pm)
    • KHAC Annex, 6620 Montgomery Road

    Immerse yourself in a bold expression of hope through the raw, experimental sounds of the inner city. This event brings together a stellar lineup of artists who blur genre boundaries: guitarist KAE Savage, poets Camille Jones and Kim “Duwaup” Bolden, multi-instrumentalist Jay..

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