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  • Jazz in the Heights 2019

    • 15 May 2019
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    Kennedy Heights Arts Center pleased to present the third annual Jazz in the Heights, a summer concert series featuring world-class jazz performers. Jazz in the Heights 2019 will include three concerts: WonderJazz: Stevie Wonder Reimagined on June 9; The Dixie Karas Group..

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  • 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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  • Summer Art Camps 2026

    • 28 February 2023
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    Unleash your creativity and imagination this summer at Kennedy Heights Arts Center! We offer a variety of one-week camps..

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  • Call for Summer Camp Volunteers!

    • 1 January 2022
    • Posted By Ellen Muse

    Are you a high school student (ages 14 – 18) who is helpful, creative, models leadership, and likes working..

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  • PORGY & BESS – REMIXED

    • Thursday, April 23 7:00 pm
    • Kennedy Heights Arts Center Lindner Annex

    Experience an intimate evening of music inspired by Porgy and Bess, reimagined through the lens of Cincinnati’s vibrant jazz community. Featuring Cincinnati Jazz Hall of Fame vocalist Kathy Wade, May Festival chorus member and dynamic soloist Robert Lomax, the Cincinnati Jazz Academy..

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  • Opening Reception – Coming of Age | New Works of the HAIRitage Series by Erin Smith Glenn

    • Saturday, April 25 from 6-8pm
    • Lindner Gallery, 6620 Montgomery Road

    Since her graduate school experience at the University of Cincinnati D.A.A.P. (Design, Architecture, Art & Planning) program in 2008, Erin Smith Glenn has been constantly examining, understanding, and developing what HAIRitage means to her, and how she can use it as a..

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  • Cincinnati Jazz Academy Presents Jazz Saxophonist Bill Pierce

    • Friday, May 8 at 7:30 pm
    • KHAC Lindner Annex, 6620 Montgomery Rd

    The Cincinnati Jazz Academy and Jim Anderson presents jazz tenor saxophonist Bill Pierce and The Semaj’ A Consort. A former member and musical director of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and longtime collaborator with the Tony Williams Quintet, Bill Pierce has spent decades..

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