The goal of the Summer Teacher Institute is to empower educators to try new concepts and recharge their creative energy before the new school year begins. By attending this program, teachers will receive a CEU certificate for 18 contact hours. Teachers must attend all three days to receive their CEUs. One graduate credit is available through Ashland University for an additional fee.
The program runs from Tuesday, July 16, through Thursday, July 18, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. each day. All registered teachers will receive an email with the agenda for each day. Please provide an email address you check during the summer. Registration is limited to 30. Teachers of all grade levels and disciplines, homeschool teachers, art advocates, art appreciation volunteers, pre-service education majors and teaching artists, as well as community and museum educators, are encouraged to attend.
The program investigates diverse teaching strategies for object-based learning as well as STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math) connections for Pre-K through 12th-grade classrooms.
If you need accessibility accommodations for any programs or events, please email access@cincyart.org.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or REGISTER buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this event at checkout.
Evenings for Educators is the Cincinnati Art Museum’s monthly teacher professional development program. Through the lens of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions, Evenings for Educators supports all subjects taught in the classroom. We encourage a STREAM approach as well as Twenty-First Century Learning strategies in the museum and classroom. This program is offered for teachers of all grade levels and disciplines, art appreciation volunteers, pre-service education majors, teaching artists as well as community and museum educators.
This program happens on the third Thursday of the month from 4-7 pm at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Participating teachers will receive CEU certificates in May. Graduate credit is available for an additional fee through Ashland University. For more information, email schoolandteachers@cincyart.org.
If you need accessibility accommodations for any programs or events, please email access@cincyart.org. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or REGISTER buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this event at checkout.
Reservations are available for docent-led tours of the floral arrangements on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 at 11 a.m.; 1 p.m.; and 2:30 p.m. Book your tour below.
Registering a group tour of 10 or more people? Contact our Tour Coordinator at 513-639-2975 to book your group.
Cincinnati Art Museum Docent Spring Social
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
5-7:30pm
$30 per person
If you have not RSVP'd, please do so here.
June 28–September 29, 2024
See the exhibition for free on Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m.; during Art After Dark on June 28, July 26, August 30, and September 27 from 5–9 p.m.; during the Cincinnati Music Festival weekend from July 25–27; and on CAM Kids Day on Saturday, August 3.
In the wake of hip hop’s 50th anniversary, the Cincinnati Art Museum is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition exploring the genre’s extraordinary influence on contemporary society over the past two decades.
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century showcases more than 90 works of art by some of today’s most important and celebrated artists —such as Roberto Lugo, Carrie Mae Weems, William Cordova, Hassan Hajjaj, Hank Willis Thomas—and fashion brands, with looks from Gucci, Cross Colours and Vivienne Westwood. A range of music ephemera will also be on display.
The exhibition is guest curated by Jason Rawls, EdD, originally a Cincinnatian, who is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of African American & African Studies and the School of Music, a DJ himself (aka J. Rawls), an author, and a prolific record producer.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or CREATE ACCOUNT buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this event at checkout.
This 40-minute experience will introduce you and your infant (ages 0-2) to the world of art with a tour designed to stimulate their developing minds. We will explain the positive effects of visual stimulation with masterpieces that will mesmerize the Art Museum's youngest visitors. Visitors will meet in the Schmiddlapp Gallery, be lead on a guided tour, then will do a baby safe artmaking activity in the Rosenthal Education Center. Strollers are discouraged so that you and your child can better experience the art together. FREE. Reservations Required.
Please reserve one ticket per family - includes up to four people including children.
Summer Camp at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Camp Hours: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Jump into your favorite stories and create literature-themed artworks. Explore different book genres each day, read stories and gain inspiration. You will make your own art inspired by your favorite stories, places, and characters. Learn techniques in book binding, illustration and drawing, painting, and sculpting to make your stories come to life.
Ages 6–8: June 10–June 14
Ages 9–12: June 17–June 21
If you can think it, you can make it…mini! Tinker with small objects to create mini sculptures or machines. This week we will create small animals with recycled materials, and mold tiny food out of clay.
Ages 6–8: June 24–June 28
Ages 9–12: July 8–July 12
Travel through time to learn the techniques of the masters. Explore the museum to learn about a new time period of art each day and gain art making skills inspired by artists of that time. Engage in hands-on activities to grow your techniques and knowledge in painting, drawing, sculpting, and printmaking.
Ages 6–8: July 15–July 19
Ages 9–12: July 22–July 26
Explore architecture in the museum and from the Cincinnati skyline to create projects of your own design. Collaborate with your fellow ARTchitects to design a city and use STEM learning to design structures, buildings and sculptures out of recycled materials.
Ages 6–8: July 29–August 2
Ages 9–12: August 5–August 9
Link to register for before- and after-care will be sent after confirmed registration.
*Please note themes and activities will repeat once for each age group with learning modifications made for the age group of the week. Please register your child for the appropriate age group.
Convenient Before and After Care available for confirmed Summer Camp registrants!
$60 per child (includes both before- and after-care for one week; No after-care on Friday)
Before Care (Monday-Friday) is available at 8 a.m. until camp starts at 9 a.m.
After Care (Monday-Thursday) is available from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
For additional information, please contact CAMsummercamp@cincyart.org
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the start of camp.
March 1, 2024-May 26, 2024
Admission is Free on Tuesdays in March & April!
Whitfield Lovell: Passages urges viewers to contemplate the ordinary lives and extraordinary journeys of the African American experience, while raising universal questions about identity, memory, and America’s collective heritage. More than 80 evocative multisensory installations, conté crayon drawings, and assemblages comprise this most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date.
Born in the Bronx, Lovell, a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, creates exquisite drawings, finding inspiration in photographs of unidentified African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Movement. He creates assemblages by pairing his drawings—on paper or salvaged wood boards—with found objects, many weathered by the passage of time. Some of Lovell’s assemblages appear in his larger installations, while others he presents as symbolic and enigmatic stand-alone tableaux. Works from his acclaimed Kin series evolve into his more recent productions, The Reds and Card Pieces.
Save $2 when purchasing tickets online! Discount will apply at checkout.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or CREATE ACCOUNT buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this event at checkout.
This program is designed for college students and teachers interested in meeting local working artists and educators. Hear from a local artist or educator, enjoy a sampling of their work to view, and have time to ask questions.
Free for College Students, Teachers, and Museum Members. $5 for general public.
For accessibility accommodations, please email us in advance at access@cincyart.org
Join Curator of Decorative Arts and Design Amy Dehan for a conversation with ceramic artist Michelle Erickson who will discuss her practice as a studio potter in the fields of contemporary art, historical archaeology, and studio ceramics. Renowned for her depth of historical reference, technological virtuosity, and incisive commentary, Erickson will illustrate how she brings the dynamic legacy of ceramics as a form of social expression into the present. Erikson’s ceramic artworks speak to twenty-first-century issues by referencing how makers and users have deployed ceramics to advocate for political change, decry social injustice, and document epic events in human experience. The artist will highlight her recent solo exhibitions Wild Porcelain at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor (2021–2023) and Recasting Colonialism at the Baltimore Museum of Art (May–October 2023).
Please join for tea and light bites following the talk in the Great Hall and Terrace Café.
*Please note: Museum lectures will take place in Gallery 105 during the renovation of the lower level.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email us in advance at access@cincyart.org.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or REGISTER buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this event at checkout.
FREE. Registration required.
This is a comedy stand-up show featuring stories from Cincinnati History. Registered visitors will be checked off on a list near the Great Hall, then be able to take a seat where they wish. Any open seats at the 6:10 start of the show will be up for grabs for drop-ins. Visitors are encouraged to buy wine or beer from the Terrace Cafe and bring it to the Great Hall.
Since 2017, an unruly gang of feral raconteurs and defrocked historians known as the Mixchevious Jongleurs have mounted regular assaults on the canned history foisted upon us by the minions of the myth-making machinery through an entertaining and often hilarious series called Stand-Up History.. An evening of Stand-Up History dares to shatter fragile factoids and lob cream pies into the fawning faces of moldy old legends. Stand-Up History will brighten any occasion with wit, jollity, and the authentic inside dope on historical curiosities.
This program is specifically designed for adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. Each month, meet art educators in the Great Hall to explore the galleries on a multisensory tour, then create an artwork inspired by the tour.
Each Registration is good for up to five people.
If you need accessibility accommodations for any programs or events, please email access@cincyart.org. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.
Do you love to read? Love art? Join librarians from the Hamilton County Public Library and a museum docent for this bi-monthly book club. See the Story combines works of fiction & non-fiction by authors from around the world with work from the Art Museum’s permanent collection. Visitors will meet in Gallery 205, discuss the book of the month, then be lead on a tour of connecting artworks. Join us and see the story.
If you need accessibility accommodations for any programs or events, please email access@cincyart.org. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or REGISTER buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this program at checkout.
Thank you for your submission. Please keep in mind that your requested date has not been officially booked.
Fill out this form so the tour coordinator can learn more about your group and your desired tour topic.
The tour coordinator will reach out to you after you have filled out the form to confirm your dates, tour size and topic. Once we have found a time and date that works best, the tour coordinator will reach out to you a month from your tour date with your tour confirmation, officially booking your tour with us.
We are looking forward to having you at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Have a great day!
Try your hand at a new art technique in this studio-based program designed for adult audiences. Each themed class will begin with discussion in a current museum exhibition led by an artist or educator to gain inspiration and understanding for the art form. Then, learn from skilled artists to take your artmaking practice to the next level.
If you need accessibility accommodations for any programs or events, please email access@cincyart.org. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.
Art Museum Members: Please use the SIGN IN or REGISTER buttons at the top-right of your screen to login prior to adding purchases to your cart. Once signed in, you will receive your Member discount for this program at checkout.