Save the date! Announcing two exhibitions exploring the human face as an expressive form. The first, features Gerard Pottebaum’s color photographs of individuals taken during his travels throughout the world. The second, is a group show of thirty artists investigating the communicative power of the face and includes drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures and mixed media works.

Come cool off after work and bring the whole family to the Cincinnati Art Museum to shop and stroll through the galleries until 9 p.m. every Wednesday evening as part of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s CINCINNATI SUMMER! All of our galleries and the Museum Shop will be open late for special viewing and shopping!

The Weston Art Gallery hosts Seeing Opera, a free lunchtime performance series on Tuesdays at noon in July 2013, with musical performances by Cincinnati Opera’s Young Artist Program and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, alongside an exhibition inspired by the Cincinnati Opera’s Summer 2013 Festival.

Manifest is an internationally recognized Cincinnati-based non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education.

An enormously useful and popular invention, the daguerreotype was at once a science and an art, a documentary tool and an emblem of emotion and memory. Aspinwall will discuss the aesthetics of this earliest form of photography, revealing the surprising variety of subjects recorded. Aspinwall has worked with the Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art since 1999.

Today, conversations about art in Louisville, Kentucky, often center on the East Market Street district, affectionately dubbed NuLu (short for “New Louisville”). NuLu’s rise as an arts district began with visionary investors like Barbara Smith in the late 1980s, buying up buildings the gritty, run down section of downtown.

NYC based photographer Raymond Adams’ new (and first book) AMERICA: WITNESSED is a bibliophiles’ dream—a perfectly designed book. Adams’ photographs are lyrical and narrative in nature, all shot in his home base of NYC and vicinity and on a U.S.A. cross-country trip in his Odyssean quest for home and, explanation of “what America means?”

From my window: buzzinghighway traffic slows as the sunlowers. Head lights and break lightssuck out the last rays, proudlydisplaying their eminence along the road.The screaming red streaks blendwith submissive yellow ones like an operasingers vibrato. Their passinghollows out the nightas would the ocean’s pull a crab hole;a momentary draw, then refillingwith the next wave.

Ai Weiwei’s “According to What?” (currently at the Indianapolis Museum of Art through July 17, 2013) is pure perfection. An Apple-Store consumerist clarity defines and propels the whole enterprise, a clean, polished fetishism that somehow becomes spiritual in its carefulness.

Rob Jefferson was born in 1970 on a naval base in Memphis, Tennessee, and has lived in Cincinnati ever since. A graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati with a BFA degree in painting and drawing (1992), his work has been featured in various publications including 100 Midwest Artists, New American Paintings and Playboy Magazine.

“Photographic Wonders,” a selection of daguerreotypes culled from the extraordinary collection put together by Hallmark and then given in 2005 to Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, is the real deal.

In the first week of June, a gaggle of travelers from the Cincinnati Park Board and Cincinnati Parks Foundation flew to Munich for a special event that neatly closed a circle – a promise made six years ago, 20 feet up in the air in Mt. Airy Forest. As an artist who has coordinated exchanges and supported parks projects for the past 15 years, I happily accompanied them.

Cincinnati Everyday is currently on exhibition at the Cincinnati art Museum. The show pairs two Cincinnati natives, artists Courttney Cooper and Cole Carothers. Cooper is represented by three large ballpoint pen drawings on collaged paper, and Carothers displays five oil on wood paintings. This is local bellwether Matt Distel’s debut show as the new adjunct curator of contemporary art. The show runs until September 22.

As an artist who draws and paints from the figure regularly, I was eager to see the current show Figures and Faces at the Artisan Enterprise Center in Covington curated by Daniel Brown. The work in this exhibition varies greatly giving the viewer an array of visual experiences. Sketches to finished paintings are on view and allow for various types of reading.

The Cincinnati Art Museum has concocted a truly vacation-time exhibition with Eternal Summer: The Art of Edward Henry Potthast. Concoct is the operative word here; the installation, in a manner of speaking, is the show, with a bonus at the end.

School has ended, grades are submitted, and the pink tulips have lost all their cup-shaped petals: it’s that time when academics and teachers alike begin to think about writing and research projects, or that half-finished book. For me, it’s also a time for travel, to refresh my own sagging petals.

Photographs from the archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett, documenting Lexington Cemetery, a roadside memorial, and the archive backyard.

One might say the concept of book as artwork dates back to the 7th to 4th millennium B. C. with the very first examples of text carved into stones. This is especially so when mnemonic symbols were replaced by ideograms or pictographs.

During his tenure as library services director at The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Keith Kuhn compiled an impressive collection of artist books. Each year a Memorial Exhibit honors him with works drawn from that collection. This year it showcases the work of Alice Heyn Balterman, a collagist and “altered book,” which I take to include assemblage, artist.

Science and art have always had a complementary relationship. Ocular perception, linear perspective, and color theory all utilize the rules of science for expressive purposes. Contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell utilize science to create transcendent experiences.

No larger than seven inches in any dimension, scale unifies the works that fill the space at Manifest Gallery. While these small works in Magnitude 7, on exhibit through June 28, are likely easier and more affordable for artists to make, the challenge remains for the small works to stand out.

I visited the exhibited on a late Thursday afternoon. I had the gallery all to myself, which for me is the best time to review a show; plenty of quiet time to let the art speak for itself. The first piece that struck me as soon as I stepped into the door was Kelvin Poore’s It All Makes Sense When You Add a Tramp.

Fifty years in the art business have not made the Solways, Carl or Michael, too satisfied with their status as the region’s premier modern/contemporary gallery. Recently they announced the opening of Findlay Street Project Space, a separate gallery located on the first floor of Solway’s Findlay Street building.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Cincinnati Wing of the Cincinnati Art Museum made history by becoming one of the first art museums in the nation to devote permanent gallery space to a community’s art history. The wing opened on May 17, 2003 to rave reviews and remains as popular today as it was when it opened a decade ago.

Meg Wolitzer, whose often sharp and astute novels about contemporary urban women have brought her to the attention of serious fiction readers, has written her finest novel to date, The Interestings. It’s a very long novel, and follows the lives of six friends and their outer circle throughout their lives, stopping before old age.

We are pleased to let our readers know that the June aeqai is now posted online. This issue rounds out the art season, which we think of as similar to the academic year – approximately from September to June. We will resume our coverage in the summer, with our one July/August issue, and then go back to our regular monthly schedule in September.

Manifest is an internationally recognized Cincinnati-based non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education.

The Miller Gallery is thrilled to announce that the commission to create sixteen 24″ x 60″ panels, for the new Smale Park Carousel has been awarded to local artist Jonathan Queen. This future Cincinnati Landmark will be unveiled just in time for the 2015 All Star Game, right here in Cincinnati.

Ruth Dickey, the founding Executive Director of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, is leaving after five years of service. During her time at the CCAC, Dickey created brand new exhibits, classes, events, and quality programming, all with the idea of fostering a vibrant, creative community. Dickey will be assuming the role of Executive Director of Seattle Arts & Lectures in Seattle, Washington. Her last day is June 28.

Are you an emerging artist? Killer crafter? Badass printmaker? Glass-blowing phenom? Designer extraordinaire? Or creative of some other fantastic sort? Then show us what you’re made of and apply to the Art Off Pike Call To Artists.

Enjoy the beach without leaving Cincinnati! The Cincinnati Art Museum kicks off a CINCINNATI SUMMER this Saturday with an Art Boardwalk. The Art Museum’s landlocked parking lot will be transformed into a beach boardwalk scene, complete with a sand sculpture, a Framester box truck photo booth, an artmaking Midway including Happen, Inc., do-it-yourself screen printing* with Able Projects, food trucks*,...

The Cincinnati Art Museum has acquired its first Georgia O’Keeffe painting. The Art Museum purchased “My Back Yard” at Christie’s Auction House in New York Thursday morning. O’Keeffe (1887-1986), the celebrated American modernist, painted “My Back Yard” in 1943 from her Ghost Ranch home in Abiquiu, about six years after moving to New Mexico.

Shane Hatfield is a senior at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He spoke with AEQAI about his artwork and his artistic methods.

Polyphonic Playground, a solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Cedric Michael Cox, opens July 13 at FiveMyles in Brooklyn. The artist will be at the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, on view through July 27.

One of Robert Schatz’s sculptural pieces has been included in a brand new exhibit, A Time In Arcadia, at Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ. The exhibit is a collaboration between the gallery and the Jersey City Free Public Library, and will be on view in both venues. The exhibit will run through June 23rd. A catalogue will be available.

From the poetic pastels of Degas and Renoir to Modernist jewelry by Art Smith, the Cincinnati Art Museum will take visitors on a journey to experience works of art more delicate in nature for the 2013-2014 Exhibition Season. Modern and contemporary Japanese prints and ceramics, Cincinnati Silver, and new works of fashion and craft showcase the softer side.

The Cincinnati Art Museum opens a brand new exhibition Cincinnati Everyday on Saturday, May 25th. This exhibition by Cincinnati natives, Cole Carothers and Courttney Cooper, will include landscape oil paintings by Carothers and and aerial view maps by Cooper.

There’s a reason why Camp Art Academy was voted, “Best In The City” by Cincinnati Magazine. Our programs teach art fundamentals in addition to tons of fun!