Cincinnati Art Museum

Hear from artist and Cincinnati Art Museum Art Museum Board of Trustees President Bruce Petrie Jr. in our new series #SketchCAM by clicking the link below! The quick sketch series highlights the connection between the museum's mission and its artwork. Let’s kick things off with our beloved outdoor sculpture by Cincinnati artist Jim Dine. #CAMBlog #CAMCollection

Last chance! Rodin | Response: FIELD family secrets on view in Galleries 124 & 125 through this Sun. Sept. 8! This exhibition is the culmination of an academic research project by Indian artist Supermrin. Informed by her decolonial bioart practice, titled FIELD, the exhibition develops both as a provocation and an artistic response to a group of bronze statues by Auguste Rodin hosted this year at the museum. This spring, Supermrin collaborated with her undergraduate students at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Art, mining art history, art theory, and the museum’s collection to cast narratives across time and space that investigate the materiality and hybridity within and beyond Rodin’s sculpture. We encourage you to adopt a student’s approach and look at the artworks and ideas in this exhibition from several perspectives. As an assistant in Auguste Rodin’s studio might have during the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris, you can look at a moment in time—a subjective and partial view of Europe’s effects on the world at the turn of the century. You can also look back across time at Rodin’s modernism, the new possibilities for the monument he pioneered, and the impact and afterlife of his art on how artists and the public have conceived sculpture in the 1900s and 2000s. And you can look to the burning present, to contemporary sculpture as inheritances—the “family secrets” embedded within the fragmented legacies of colonialism and modernism. Free admission! Learn more -> https://bit.ly/47cEiQE #CincyArts

👷♂️ Construction update! We are nearing the completion of our construction project on our ground level which will house many of our public programs and annual summer camp. Learn more about this amazing project and check out our first progress video–previewing our NEW Marek Family Commons and classrooms, courtesy of Triversity Construction → https://bit.ly/CAManewview #CincyArts

Now on view—The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century From the street to the runway, the artist’s studio to the museum gallery, and countless sites in between, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century explores hip hop’s profound impact on contemporary art and culture. One of the most vital movements of the 20th century, hip hop is now a global industry and way of life. In the 21st century, hip hop practitioners have harnessed digital technologies to gain unparalleled economic, social, and cultural capital. Hip hop emerged in the 1970s in the Bronx as a form of celebration expressed by Black and Latinx youth through emceeing (rapping), deejaying, graffiti-writing, and breakdancing. Over the past 50 years, these creative practices have produced new forms of power as they critique, celebrate, and refuse dominant ones. Hip hop has deeply informed ‘’The Culture,” an expression of Black Diasporic culture that has largely defined itself against white dominance. In the art museum, however, ‘’culture’’ has historically meant a Europe-focused set of aesthetics, values, and traditions sustained through gatekeeping. The works in our galleries explore where ‘’culture’’ and ‘’The Culture’’ collide through six themes: Language, Brand, Adornment, Tribute, Pose, and Ascension. Language, whether in words, music, or graffiti, explores hip hop’s strategies of subversion. Brand highlights the icons born from hip hop and the seduction of success. Adornment exuberantly challenges white ideas of taste with alternate notions of beauty, while Tribute testifies to hip hop’s development of a visual canon. Pose celebrates how hip hop speaks through the body and its gestures. Ascension explores mortality, spirituality, and the transcendent. Endlessly inventive and multi-faceted, hip hop, and the art it inspires, will continue to dazzle and empower. See the exhibition on view through September 29! Save $2 when you purchase tickets online. See the exhibition for free on Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m. and during Art After Dark on August 30 and September 27 from 5–9 p.m. CAM members—see the exhibition for FREE! Not a member? Join today and get 15% off your membership using promo code JOIN15. Learn more -> http://bit.ly/4e0D25q

📣 Calling all local artists! The Rosenthal Education Center (REC) is now accepting proposals for our 2024 Artist in Residence Program! Submit proposals by Sunday, October 1 → https://bit.ly/45WV7OQ From May through October of each year, the REC features an exhibition of interactive work by a local artist and five interactive wall stations highlighting artwork in the museum’s collection selected by the REC Artist in Residence. Find more information on the residency, compensation, and application guidelines → https://bit.ly/45WV7OQ Featured here is our current REC Artist in Residence John Lanzador and his interactive, multisensory art installation, A Pig-ment of Your Imagination. John reimagines Hunt Slonem’s Bunny Wall (located in the Terrace Café) and Joan Miró’s renowned Mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel, tying in iconic pig symbols of Cincinnati and inspiring visitors to create works of their favorite things. See the installation on view through October 27, 2024. #CincyArts

🚙 ❤️ Vroom! Vroom! Cincinnati Art Museum is on the move! Say hello to our new CAM Cruiser—an “art studio on wheels” providing creative experiences and engagement for all ages. Traveling to Tri-State area festivals and outdoor events, libraries and nonprofit organizations, the Cruiser will provide an array of staff-guided, educational, and fun art-making activities while introducing new audiences to the museum. Importantly, the Cruiser will bring art to rural areas and underserved neighborhoods and offer workshops, lectures and activities. Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program Learn more about the CAM Cruiser—including how to request it for your event! https://bit.ly/CAMCruiser

It’s your last chance to explore the immersive exhibition Whitfield Lovell: Passages featuring more than 80 works by the artist, including installations and drawings in conté crayon that explore the African American experience. The exhibition also brings together two of Lovell’s installations Deep River (featured here) and Visitation: The Richmond Project for the first time. Closing May 26! Whitfield Lovell: Passages is organized by the American Federation of Arts in collaboration with Whitfield Lovell. Major support for the national tour and exhibition catalogue are provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Terra Foundation for American Art. In Cincinnati, this exhibition was financially assisted by The Patricia Kisker Foundation. See the exhibition for FREE Thursday evenings from 5–8 p.m. Did you recently visit the exhibition? Please share your feedback in this short survey → https://bit.ly/4dFTVCL

❤️ Access to art helps to educate and create compassion The National Commission for Black Arts & Entertainment launched the "Family Heritage Hop: A Black Arts & Culture Museum Tour," in Spring of 2024 to offer free bus tours to families that may not have the financial means to visit local museums. One of the stops on the tour is our very own Cincinnati Art Museum! Programs like these would not be possible without the generous funding from ArtsWave—who donated a $10,000 grant to help make this project possible! Consider donating to ArtsWave today at artswave.org to support further expanding the arts in the Cincinnati Region. #CincyArts #StrongerArtsForAStrongerRegion Learn more -> https://bit.ly/3UyzRtu

#ICYMI The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century opens June 28! Read more about the exhibition from Movers & Makers Magazine below.

NOW OPEN in galleries 234 & 235—From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung Free admission Woo Chong Yung 吳仲熊 (1898–1989), also known in the United States as C.Y. Woo, was a highly accomplished painter, calligrapher, and poet from Shanghai. From the 1920s to 1949, Woo was at the center of China’s cultural world, recognized in the art circles of both Shanghai and Beijing. Faced with political persecution in the 1960s, Woo migrated to Columbus, Ohio right before the Cultural Revolution. Once in the United States, Woo became an active presence in the local community, teaching classes in Chinese painting and martial arts and contributing his talents to local arts councils and ethnic festivals in Columbus and central Ohio. By the end of his life, he had essentially become a living legend in Columbus. From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung (1898–1989) features nearly 100 works, including painting and calligraphy, carved seals, and a Taiji sword drawn from the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum and The Frank Museum of Art at Otterbein University. Few of these paintings have ever been published or publicly displayed. Woo’s lifetime body of work illustrates how his remarkable experiences of emigrating from China and becoming an American utterly transformed and reshaped both his life and painting. From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung (1898–1989) is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Exhibition support is provided by Fuyao Glass Corporation of America with additional support provided by the JEANANN GRAY DUNLAP FOUNDATION and the Stockman Family Foundation. Learn more about the exhibition here -> https://bit.ly/3UGVzvi