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July | 2012

Interior of the William Schickel Gallery in Loveland, Ohio, venue for the Nicholas Pfarr exhibition.
July 29th, 2012 | By Kenn Day

Review for Nicholas Pfarr Exhibit, William Schickel Gallery

Most galleries I visit are very professional. By this I mean that great attention has been paid to everything from the lighting and framing and placement to the carpet and the color of the walls. The art viewed in these places has been created to compete in a world in which the quality of the art is judged less by the capacity of the artist than by the response of critics, collectors and the social set...

Daniel Brown, editor of ÆQAI, during an interview with Barbara Kellar. Video still, PBS/CET, 2021.
July 29th, 2012 | By Daniel Brown

Letter from the Editor

Greater Cincinnati continues to manifest enormous diversity in the offerings from its visual arts practitioners, and the venues which present them. Aeqai is pleased to bring you our annual double summer issue (July/August), which reflects the richness and variety of our visual culture...

Jennifer Purdum, Domestic Mori II, 2012
July 29th, 2012 | By Fran Watson

All Around Us

As hard as it is to imagine, not many years ago the word “environment” was seldom used at all in ordinary conversation, and even less in conjunction with art. Now it’s almost a standard inclusion in everything, including paper towel commercials. One of the best, and most interesting, forays into the field is on display at AEC through September 14...

Third Thursday Benefit Wine Walk event flyer, O'Bryonville, July 19, 2012
July 18th, 2012 | By AEQAI Staff

Third Thursday Benefit Wine Walk

Each month, O’Bryonville will host a benefit for local groups and organizations who make a difference in our community. They will receive a percentage of the neighborhood sales from participating merchants. This month’s benefit is for: National Night Out with Cincinnati Police District 2. Stop by and enjoy the party, the shopping and the giving!

Artist Rita Blitt honored at the 2012 Artist Tribute and Benefit Dinner by the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen
July 18th, 2012 | By AEQAI Staff

The Red Brick Council for the Arts 2012 Artist Tribute & Benefit Dinner Honoring: Rita Blitt

The Red Brick Council for the Arts invites you to join us at our 2012 Artist Tribute and Benefit Dinner, this year honoring internationally acclaimed Rita Blitt. The event will take place on July 24 at the Red Brick Center for the Arts, 110 E. Hallam, in Aspen. Join us for cocktails, or stay for dinner!

The Fitton Center for Creative Arts exterior, Hamilton, Ohio. Photograph from the Fitton Center's own website. Related image located during this archive's reconstruction.
July 18th, 2012 | By AEQAI Staff

Gallery Geeks! Featured Artists: Amy Kollar Anderson, Leslie Getz, and Susan Byrnes

Join former art educator, Penny Brooks and Fitton Center for Creative Arts Director of Exhibitions, Cathy Mayhugh for an informal conversation about the artwork on display in our galleries on Wednesday, July 25 from 11am-12:30pm with Gallery Geeks!
Gallery Geeks is a forum to get together to talk about work at the Fitton Center...

Provence landscape with lavender field, distant hills and chateau.
July 18th, 2012 | By AEQAI Staff

Dinner, Wine, and Art at the Taft Museum of Art: August 2

Thursday, August 2, 5–8 p.m.
Enjoy an evening of dinner, wine, and art at the Taft Museum of Art inspired by the beauty and flavors of Provence!
Stroll through the exhibition Old Masters to Impressionists: Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum...

Singer-songwriter and composer David Poe
July 18th, 2012 | By AEQAI Staff

David Poe to Perform Special Benefit Concert for the Dayton Art Institute on July 20

(DAYTON, OHIO) – July 9, 2012 – Singer-songwriter David Poe will return to his native Dayton for a special benefit concert to support The Dayton Art Institute, on Friday, July 20, at 8 p.m. in the museum’s NCR Renaissance Auditorium. Poe, the son of Doris and David Ponitz, is a songwriter, singer, producer, performing musician and composer for film, theater and dance.

Visionaries + Voices studio and gallery exhibition space, Northside, Cincinnati. Photograph from the organization's own website. Related image located during this archive's reconstruction.
July 18th, 2012 | By AEQAI Staff

Current Exhibit: Visionaries and Voices: Urban Express

Visionaries + Voices is a nonprofit organization working to provide artistic and cultural opportunities for artists with disabilities. We value a world in which artists with disabilities not only create and share their works of art, but also are able to learn, work, collaborate, exhibit, teach, and celebrate with other community members...