
Self 2012 : Standard Entry Deadline is Thursday May 31, 2012 11:59pm EST Within each work you create is a story of who you are as an artist. You’re invited to join the 3rd annual Self 2012 creative competition, a juried, international open call for creative works with the goal of launching the story of one artist on the world stage.

parProjects presents Symphonic Stylings: Art, Fashion & Live Music at the Electric Warehouse On June 23rd, parProjects — the group that brought last October’s Factory Square Fine Arts Festival to Cincinnati — will be hosting one of its most important collaborations to date, “Symphonic Stylings.” In conjunction with ARTAYA (Washington, DC), The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, “concert:nova”, NVISION (Northside)...

Key Dates: June 1, 6-9p.m. (opening of Rites of Passage – opportunity to meet the artist) July 13, 6-9p.m. (inaugural reception for the Residency program) Manifest is very pleased to introduce the recipient of the first Manifest Artist Residency Award: Tyler Wilkinson Manifest Artist in Residence 2012/13 Earlier this year Manifest announced the establishment of its residency program (the M.A.R. award).

EXHIBIT PROPOSALS SEASON 9 – 2012/2013 Exhibit Dates: Manifest’s 9th Exhibition Season (Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013) Types of proposals -Solo exhibits -Two person exhibits -Group shows -Curatorial project (call for entries proposal by curator) On average one-third of Manifest’s exhibits are dedicated to solo or proposed exhibits.

I’m the Venue Manager at the Aronoff for The World Choir Games, which consists of 23 Categories with 8,000 singers. Bunches of them will be in & out of the Aronoff for rehearsals and performances, and here’s why I thought of YOU. Choirs enter via the 5/3 Theatre Lobby on Main Street, move to one of the Warm Up Rooms (5/3 Theatre or the basement Rehearsal Hall), then through the loading dock (where the stagehand picnic table...

A community art show and event of creative expressions for Peace and Justice June 1 – 10 at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St, downtown Cincinnati. Program of Events (FREE and Open to the Public).

French sociologist Pierre Bordieu contended that all art functions as coded meaning for his study on art museums and their visitors in The Love of Art (1990). Differentiating between lower level of meanings – “superficial [and] fragmentary” – and higher level of meanings – which “incorporate and transform” – Bordieu maintained that both responses created some ascertainable and bodily sense of pleasure. Ultimately, he advocated...

In the current exhibition of Land of Tomorrow, E.V. Day’s Pollinator Series features pink-purple grid-like projections of the flowers from Giverny onto etched glass. They were constructed using digital scans of original flower pressings. So too was Serkan Ozkaya’s David (inspired by Michelangelo), a giant gold-painted, fiberglass double-sized reproduction of Michelangelo’s David, recently acquired by 21C...

We are happy to bring you the May 2012 issue of ÆQAI, your journal of the visual arts in Greater Cincinnati. Although we are nearing the end of the art season, which runs parallel to the school calendar, there is no lessening of interesting shows or of a richness in the overall tapestry constituting the visual arts scene in our region.