Exhibitions

Members of the Kennedy Artist Collective are proud to present their annual exhibition, Emerge. The show features new and previously unseen works in all media by local artists, including paintings, illustrations, sculptures, fiber, and more.

The opening reception will be on Saturday, November 16 from 6 – 8 pm. In addition, an artist talk will take place on Saturday, December 14 at 1 pm.

Get your holiday shopping done early by browsing our Holiday Art Market with local artist-made goods. The exhibition also features Off the Wall: a collection of smaller works by Collective members (for $50 each) with half the proceeds going to support Kennedy Heights Arts Center. 

Emerge features work by Jereena Ameen, Amy Bogard, Susan Carlson, Mike Conaway, Christine Cravens, Lee DeRhodes, Harold Dreibelbis, Wendy Henehan, Michael Hensley, Thomas Kinsel, Robert Kling, Josh Koppen, Judith Larson, Angela Mascolino, Delores Massey Thomas, June Pfaff Daley, Linda Price, Diane Roketenetz, Lara Roketenetz, Kate Spencer, Mike Streff, Joanie Weidner, and Elaine York.

Image designed by Tom Kinsel.

Curated by Saad Ghosn of SOS ART, Voices from Lebanon: Social and Cultural Reflections features prints by 19 contemporary printmakers from Lebanon and Arab artists living in Lebanon. These artists use artwork as their voice and communication tool to reflect on the cultural, social, and political issues they face. 

In addition to its own social and political problems, Lebanon is a country which reflects the social and political upheavals of the entire Middle East, including crises in the neighboring countries. One third of the population of Lebanon currently consists of non-Lebanese Arab emigrants/refugees who have fled their country because of war and other violence, and among them are many Arab artists. 

A printed book of all the works from the exhibition will be given free to visitors (while supplies last).

Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, September 21 from 6 to 8 pm.

A one day, free Lebanese & Arab Festival will be held at KHAC on Saturday, October 5th from 11am – 6pm, to share Lebanese/Arab culture with the Cincinnati community.

Curator talk with Saad Ghosn: Saturday, October 19 at 1 pm

Poems for Human Rights poetry reading: Saturday, October 26 at 1 pm

Sponsored by: The George and Margaret McLane Foundation

Image: “Daiira wa woujouh” by Imad Fakhry 

The members of Tiger Lily Press, Cincinnati’s only public printmaking studio, celebrate 40 years of making prints with an exhibition of work from the studio’s past and the present. Learn more about the process of printmaking and the history of the studio via this special exhibit, artist talks, classes, and more.

Read the article in Soapbox Cincinnati.

Opening reception: Saturday, August 3, 6 to 8 pm
Artist Talks: Saturdays, August 10 and September 7 at 2 pm
Printmaking lecture by Louann Elliot, President of Tiger Lily Press Board of Directors: Saturday, August 17 at 1 pm

Printmaking classes for adults and teens (13+):
Linoleum Matrix Printmaking – August 24, 12 to 3pm
Play and Color Layering with Gelli Plates – September 7, 1 to 3:30 pm

Exhibition continues through September 14, 2019. Galley hours are Tuesdays-Fridays, 10am to 5pm, Saturdays, 11am – 4pm.

Cincinnati photographer Michael E. Keating displays photographs from two ongoing projects which reflect the passage of time on structures, objects and landscapes impacted by forces natural and otherwise.

This exhibition is sponsored by The Clyde N Day Foundation.

Michael E. Keating and his wife Sarah live in Greater Cincinnati and have two grown children.  Keating left the Cincinnati Enquirer in 2012 and is presently a Co-trustee of the Clyde N. Day Foundation in Newport, Kentucky. 

Keating is a partner in The Hoosier Hardwood Photo Project documenting Indiana High School Gymnasiums. Photographs from that project are part of a permanent display at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.

Cincinnati Shadow & Light was published by Keating in 2013.

There will be a short presentation about the Field Studies starting at 6pm, followed by a program of solo and group strings performances by Woodford student musicians under the direction of the 4-Way Strings Project.

Each year, Kennedy Heights Arts Center celebrates our talented students with an exhibition featuring original artworks in all media created by youth and adult students in KHAC classes, as well as selected students from our local partner schools including: Pleasant Ridge Montessori, Woodford Paideia, and Nativity School.

This show is sure to inspire artists of all ages!

All are invited to a free Opening Reception on Saturday, March 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm with light refreshments.

Teen and Adult artists include: Mike Baker, Cynthia Barr, Mikah Beach, Lynn Bodenberg, Lynn Conaway, Sophia Craver, Hilarie Crowell, Jill Duebber, Claire Ernst, Veronica Hannaway, Orbie Harris, Wendy Henehan, William Jenkins, Tepu Juula-Potticary, Sandy Kalman, Stephannie Kennedy, Stan Ladrick, Judith Larsen, Monica Lira, Hannah Lowry, John McCready, Maggie Nelson, Linda Price, Elie Prues, Diane Roketenetz, Benny Stormer, Emily Underwood, Debora van Gils, Marianne Williams, Ann Wilmers, and Chris Wright.

Nativity School student artists include: Adele Broadburger, Molly Cronin, Charlotte Lay, Ella McFarland, Liam Sackenheim, Finn Simpson, Meghan Thompson, Haven Van Harn, Zaniya Webster, and Wes.

Pleasant Ridge Montessori student artists include: Azeena Achoe, Jack Barone, Aiden Childress, Brooke Coy, Alana Emory, Ethan Ernst, Jeriyah Harrell, Aiden Johnson, Gabe Kemper, Josh Kimble, Lily Oalhover, Anna Quellhorst, Geneva Rayburn, Katherine Rayburn, Alisiana Shumacher, Aniyah Thomas, and Samaya Wilkins.

Woodford Paideia student artists include: King Bartlett, Kylah Bell, Jayda Benton, Javier Buschard, Rayshya Coker, Roosevelt Donalson, Victoria Harmon, Eryn Hill, Shalina Holmes, Raven Stallworth, and Reagan Stallworth.

The show runs from March 16 to April 6, 2019. Gallery hours are: Tuesday – Friday 10 AM to 5 PM, Saturday 11 AM to 4 PM.

Image above by Diane Roketenetz, Open Studio

Because I Said So… an exhibition encompassing the range of experiences that occur when growing up with parents or parental figures.

Everyone has a story about their parents; good, bad, funny, or sad. This show includes work by local artists in a range of mediums that explore memories, reflections, and anecdotes about their parents. Personal stories reveal universal truths.

Curated by Robin Kusten Hartmann and Kim Margaret Watling. Exhibiting artists include: Mindy Burger, Meili Corbin, Paula Hatcher Cordes, Jan Brown Checco, LaTausha Cox, Susan Crew, Gwen Davis, Linda Franklin, Judy Folkenberg, Carole Staples, Vincent Gray, Robin Hartmann, Michael W. Hensley, Samuel Jones, Kathleen Karshner, Stephannie Kennedy, Jeni Kling, Mary Barr Rhodes, Diane Roketenetz, and Kim Watling.

All are invited to an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 13 from 6 to 8 pm.

Artist Talk on Saturday, April 27 starting at 1 pm (free and open to the public).

Show continues through June 8. Gallery Hours are Tuesday – Friday, 10am to 5pm; and Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm.

Image: “Big Daddy” by Gwen Davis

“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.” – Kenneth Clark, Art Historian

Photographs by Michael A. Kearns & Matt Steffen reveal the complex and dramatic productions of The Cincinnati Opera – highlighting the multitudes of components, teams, and details that all have to coordinate for success. Rhinoceroses Fly: Opera’s Improbable Beauty gives viewers an up-close and personal look at the color, magic, and passion inherent in each performance.

Photographed productions include La Traviata; The Coronation of Popea; Another Brick In The Wall; The Magic Flute, Fidelio, Tosca and Turandot.

All are invited to an Opening Reception on Saturday, June 15 from 6 to 8 pm. Artist Talk – TBD (free and open to the public).

Curated by fiber artist Carole Gary Staples, “You Are My Sister” is an exhibit celebrating the diversity and solidarity of women of all different races, ethnicities, cultures, religions, nationalities, education and socioeconomic levels. Commenting on many social injustices that women face, this show is a visual representation of the empowerment and strength that can come from unifying voices. 

Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, September 7 from 6 to 8 pm in our Lindner Gallery at the corner of Kennedy and Montgomery Rd.

There will be an Artists Talk on Sunday, November 10 at 2 pm.

In conjunction with this exhibit, Carole Gary Staples will be leading two workshops where you can “Create a Community Quilt Block” that will then be sewn together to make a community quilt promoting social change, diversity, inclusion, unity and community cohesion. The workshops are free, but registration is required – see links below for more info:

Create a Community Quilt Block – Saturday, Oct. 12th workshop

Create a Community Quilt Block – Sunday, Oct. 13th workshop

This exhibition is Sponsored By: Kumon of Springdale, the Gary Family, the Staples Family, and Fly & Flourishing.

The exhibition What Was/What Is explores the “reality by proxy” world of “what was” as it had existed in T.V. and movies of the past, and finding the meaning that connects it to the “what is” of small town America. 

Much like how marionette players control the shadows being cast on a screen, television and old movies behaved very much in the same manner by controlling the viewer’s perceptions and paradigms of the world –  through the hyperreality world they created. Through a series of contrasted photographs and still images from television and movies, Cincinnati photographer Will Jones allows viewers to explore this hyperreality.