Walking up the stairs of the YWCA, 898 Walnut St., a visitor is immediately struck by a large abstract, acrylic, colorful painting entitled “Marrakesh Express” by Jolie Harris. This is merely an enticing introduction to the rest of the “Field of Possibilities” exhibit in conjunction with sculptor Paige Wideman at the YWCA Women’s Art Gallery running from February 1 – April 4, 2013.

The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS) will hold its 38th Annual Meeting in Cincinnati May 15th-18th. This august group of 450 collectors, dealers and curators was formed to “encourage collection, preservation, study of original historical American prints that are 100 or more years old”.

The acclaim surrounding Joyce Carol Oates‘ newest novel, The Accursed, is much deserved: it is the best novel of 2013 to date and replete with complexities yet utterly readable–it is actually a keep-you-up-at-night page-turner, and at nearly 675 pages, that’s a lot of pages to turn.

Noticing the cellulite clouds moving south, the match stung me and I dropped it. Grasses, the size of corn stalks, sizzled quietly at first releasing a silky stream of gray smoke; black came within a minute.

The April issue of aeqai contains a good number of reviews of shows in this region, but also a few more essays and letters.

Slow Art Day returns on Saturday, April 27, 2013, with 252 venues around the world, and Cincinnati’s DAAP Gallery has just joined the list. Participants register at a local museum or gallery, look slowly at five works of art for five to ten minutes each, and then meet over lunch to talk about the experience.

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center calls for entries for Magnitude 7, its 9th annual exhibit of small works. Every year Manifest calls for little works of art from around the world; the deadline for submissions is April 22, 2013.

Get you paint clothes on and lets get busy! In Conjunction with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s special exhibition Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad (on view April 27-Sept. 2), I will create an interactive work of art in the form of a paint by numbers mural for museum goers to paint.

Enter our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The competition is international, open to all geographical locations. Registration fee is $30US (three images).