Kennedy Heights Arts Center

REGISTRATION FOR 2022 Summer Art Camps will open March 1st, 2022!

Call for Summer Camp Instructors!
KHAC is now accepting teaching artist proposals for 2022 Youth Summer Camps.
Application deadline: January 30, 2022  More Details

Call for Summer Art Camp Volunteers!
High school students can earn community service hours, gain leadership experience, and have fun as volunteers in our Summer Art Camps. Application deadline is Friday, April 4, 2022 More Details

Adult and Teen Classes

ADULT/TEEN CLASSES

Nurture your creativity, reconnect with community, and learn from local, professional artists! 

We are thrilled to resume in-person, arts classes this fall! In order to protect everyone’s safety including children who are still unable to be vaccinated and their loved ones, as well as those with underlying health conditions, our COVID Safety Plan for indoor classes includes small group sizes, social distancing, required masking at all times, frequent sanitizing, outdoor settings, and high quality air purifiers for indoor classroom settings. KHAC will also reserve the option to transition classes to an online format if circumstances arise which further threaten our community’s health and safety.

Early Bird Special*
Register & Pay by 11:59pm, January 2nd for 10% off tuition with coupon code: WINTER22

*Early Bird Discount cannot be used in combination with sliding scale rates.

SLIDING SCALE: Kennedy Heights Arts Center strives to make arts accessible to everyone. Sliding scale fees available for those in financial need. Click here to download an application. Submit completed applications in person at the Art Center, or email to bethany@kennedyarts.org

CANCELLATION POLICY: Tuition is non-refundable, but can be transferred to another course if the student withdraws at least five days prior to the beginning of the program.

Tellus Zine 

Tellus Zine is a youth-led digital publication, showcasing art and creative writing by young adults from across Greater Cincinnati. Editorial board members are outside-of-the-box artists and writers, in grades 9-12,  who feel passionate about sharing their voice and the voice of other teens and who want to build a community of creative young leaders in Cincinnati. Tellus Zine’s mission is to provide a platform for young people to express themselves bravely and creatively as a part of our diverse community.  Click here for more information. (free to join!)

Teen Artists for Change

Teen Artists for Change (TAC) is a program for youth artists and writers, in grades 7-9, who want to make an impact on the world around them.  Click here for more information. (free to join!)

2021 Creative Community Artist Residency with Helen Atkins & Will Geusz

HIVE, a ceramic mosaic sculpture

We are excited to announce that ceramic artists Helen Atkins and Will Geusz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) have been selected as our 2021 Artists-in-Residence!

Helen Atkins and Will Geusz are a creative couple who support each other’s individual pursuits, and partner on gallery installations and public works. They met in a mosaic apprenticeship program in 2012, and began collaborating together as a couple in 2019. Independently, they have built respective careers, Geusz as an installation artist and sculptor, and Atkins as an artist, curator and arts administrator. They live in an artist compound in the South Valley of Albuquerque, where they are currently working on a public mosaic for the Fort Logan Mental Health Institute in Colorado. Geusz is represented in galleries in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and Atkins has exhibited her works nationally and internationally in Berlin, Germany.

From April 28 – May 22, these two artists will lead a community art project called HIVE. This community made artwork will be a sculptural mosaic that explores notions of community and identity in response to colony collapse disorder. Participants will create handmade ceramic tiles and mini-mosaics that will be added to a larger hexagonal sculpture installed at on the grounds of Kennedy Heights Arts Center. The series of workshops will cover ceramic mosaic design, carving, glazing, and arranging. Workshop attendees can represent their identities and communities in their mosaics, creating micro-systems that symbolize mutualism in nature and society. Up close HIVE will show the unique personality of each tile and community member that contributed to the project.

Join a WORKSHOP group if you are interested in making your own tile from start to finish, while receiving more dedicated instruction from our artists. These are 2 hours long, and meet 3 times (once a week for 3 weeks). By joining a WORKSHOP group, you are committing to attend all 3 sessions.

Don’t have that much time to commit to the project, but still would like to participate? GREAT! Pop in to one or a few OPEN STUDIO times. You’ll work on some collaborative tile pieces and work with our artists, but the instruction will not be as structured.

Participation is FREE, but registration is REQUIRED. Space is limited, as workshops and open studio times will be in-person. If you register for a table, please commit to attending, as your reserved spot could keep someone else from participating if you decide not to.

There are 10 tables available for each workshop and Open Studio times, with up to 2 spots (MUST be members of the same household) available per table. Great if a couple or a parent and child would like to work together (on their own individual pieces) at the same table.

Workshops will be held outside, under a large tent on the KHAC grounds. Masks are required to be worn the whole time. Each table will have their own dedicated set of tools that will be cleaned between use.

Register below.

Funding for this residency is provided by the Ohio Arts Council, and the Eleanora C. U. Alms Trust, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee.

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Outreach Programs

We believe that the arts are for everyone. Kennedy Heights Arts Center provides a range of outreach programs that bring the arts out into the community. The goal of these programs is to provide access to high-quality arts education for everyone regardless of economic circumstance.

Our experienced team of arts educators offer ongoing classes as well as one-time programs in schools, libraries, community centers, group homes and other community settings. Some locations have included:

• Pleasant Ridge Montessori
• Silverton Paideia Academy
• Woodford Paideia School
• Academy of World Languages
• Talbert House
• Cincinnati Public Libraries

For more information about participating in one of these outreach programs or about how you can bring Kennedy Heights Arts Center to your organization, please contact our Director of Arts Engagement and Learning.

Kennedy Heights Arts Center, in partnership with PAR-Projects, offers a range of classes for adults and youth in digital media creation, including: video, photography, animation, graphic design and web design.