Register now for Summer Art Camps!

10 Weeks, 23 Camps
June 6 – August 12
9:00am to 3:00pm daily

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

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

Registration is open for the Fall 2022 Term. Register by September 1 to receive 10% off with our Early Bird Discount! Use promo code Fall2022 at checkout.  

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 classes@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.

2022 Creative Community
Artist-in-Residence
Jennifer Cox

Kennedy Heights Arts Center is pleased to welcome our second 2022 artist-in-residence, Jennifer Cox.

Jennifer Cox owns and operates Make.Do., a community-focused creative retail space offering yarn, fabric and textiles for purchase, and providing classes onsite and at the Cincinnati Public Library, Civic Garden Center and Kennedy Heights Arts Center. She has 15+ years’ experience as knitter, crocheter, textile artist and quilter, and uses that to deliver an engaging and inspiring experience for clients and drive connections among makers of color in and around the Cincinnati greater metropolitan area.

Her creative passion coupled with her background in marketing and communications (she holds an MBA & JD from the University of Virginia), and deep experience helping brands to engage the hardest to reach/marginalized communities have been crucial to her work with Make.Do. to build the means for conversation and connection among local BIPOC fiber artists. She regularly hosts BIPOC fiber artists in her space for trunk shows, educational/training programs and networking. Her own work as a fiber artist has been featured in Sweet Paul Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, and in a collaborative quilt piece at The Victoria & Albert Museum. She is a member of The Knitting Guild of America, The Needle Arts Association of America, and is currently working towards certification from the Crafts Council as a Certified Master Knitter & Crocheter.

From May 2-28, Jennifer will be co-creating and installing a series of outdoor installations that provide space for convening, creating and connecting. We envision that space as being community-designed, using local Black artists to fashion the palettes, the materials, and the flow of the space.

“There is a real difference between being welcoming and being humble enough to offer an invitation,” remarked Jennifer. “That humility is a signal to the community that you are invited and that you will be valued and appreciated in a space that exists to celebrate and support your creative pursuits.”

This space will be presented to the community at a special Community Day celebration on Saturday, May 28 from 11am – 3pm. (Rain date is Sunday, May 29).

You are invited to be a part of the project!

Jennifer will be offering a series of free workshops for adults and youth ages 8+ to create seating and décor for our welcoming community spaces. Participants will learn various art techniques and materials including block printing, stenciling and stamping on fabric and linoleum, and making flags, wind chimes and herb gardens. No experience necessary.

It is free to participate, but registration is required and space is limited. See workshop descriptions and registration links below.

Funding for this program is provided by 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 Education.