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.
All college education majors are invited to attend this program for Future Educators. Explore how CAM can be a resource for you as both a student and a future educator. Learn more about our teacher professional development programs, how you can get involved and meet other area college students.
For more information, email schoolandteachers@cincyart.org.
Join us for a gallery chat and yoga flow in Gallery 229. This class is accessible to participants of all levels and abilities, and various modifications will be offered.
This program happens on the last Thursday of the month from 6:30-8:00pm.
$7 members, $15 non-members. Reservations Required. Capacity is limited.
Guests must bring their own yoga mats and water bottles are not allowed in the galleries.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact 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.
Summer Camp at the Cincinnati Art Museum!
Camp Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Summer Camp 2025 Weeks
Nature Makers
Connect with the natural world through art! Campers will create their own masterpieces inspired by plants, animals, landscapes, and natural textures, fostering a deeper appreciation for both art and the environment. Through nature walks and garden discoveries, paired with hands-on art activities, kids can connect with their environment and unleash their creativity.
June 9–13
June 16–20
Future Foodies
Join us for a creative culinary adventure inspired by the Farm to Table exhibition. This camp celebrates the stories of what we eat through food-inspired art activities and exploration. Campers can make miniature foods, design their own restaurant, and dream up their own pizza recipe. It’s a fun and flavorful way to spark curiosity and creativity!
June 23–27
July 7–11
Messy Fun Weird
Explore the messy world of artistic innovation by combining unusual techniques, materials, and tools. This week’s campers will dive into a variety of media—paints, fabrics, clay, collage, and more—blending them in unique ways to create imaginative artwork. It may get messy, and it may seem weird, but it’s sure to be a fun time!
July 14–18
July 21–25
Enchanted Worlds
Step into a realm of imagination and magic, where young adventurers can journey through the worlds of fairytales and mythology. Campers will make art inspired by mythical creatures, enchanted landscapes, and magical stories as we explore the fantastical art found in the museum's collection.
July 28–August 1
August 4–8
Art in Bloom
April 24 - 27, 2025
From festival dancers to Kabuki, Japan has a rich tradition of street performance. Explore this world through artworks in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s collection and a colorful performance from Bentenya, a Japanese Chindon music troupe from Nagoya, Japan. Learn about the ways that street performance is reflected in Japanese art with a brief talk from Helen Rindsberg, president of the Cincinnati Asian Art Society. Then, enjoy the sounds of Bentenya as they perform live. You may even get to join in!
About Bentenya and Chindon:
Chindon is a Japanese form of advertisement where eye-catching performers march through the streets playing unique musical instruments. Bentenya brings nostalgia as well as modernity to the art form, playing Japanese folksongs alongside J-Pop and anime music. Donning glamorous kimonos and brightly colored wigs, their unique, electricity-free, and sustainable art form involves only voices and live instruments. Betenya has traveled internationally to six countries, been featured in television shows and magazine articles, and in 2020, its performers were appointed as Nagoya Tourism Ambassadors.
https://www.bentenya66usa.com/
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. Your member discount will apply at checkout.
Having trouble accessing your account? Email membership@cincyart.org or call 513-721-2787 and press option 1
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org
Explore the galleries by stopping at different artworks for a hands-on learning activity and a related story. Young families are invited to meet museum staff on the yellow couches in the Schmidlapp Gallery. Staff will then lead families to see three or four art objects related to a particular theme. Each stop includes an interactive experience that can be enjoyed by families along with a storytime by a Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Librarian.
Free. Reservations Required. One reservation per family.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org.
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 and be led on a guided tour. 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.
This program is for Museum Members only. Interested in membership? Learn more here!
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 and be led on a guided tour. 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.
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.
Designed for multigenerational families—spanning ages 8 through 88—this monthly gallery walk includes a twist of fun! Family members play an art-based game together, taking them on an impromptu adventure through the galleries.
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.
Save $2 when purchasing tickets online! Discount will apply at checkout.
This exhibition is not timed. Ticket holders can enter the exhibition anytime between 11:00 am and 5:00 pm.
The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, a career-spanning exhibition of the internationally renowned, New York-based artist. For more than three decades, Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, Lahore, Pakistan) has been reframing South Asian visual histories through a contemporary feminist perspective. Working in a variety of mediums—painting, drawing, print, digital animation, mosaic, sculpture, and glass—she reimagines the past for our present moment. Throughout her practice, she considers diasporic experiences, histories of colonialism, and Western relations with the global south and the wider Islamic world, often through the lens of gender and body politics.
Rather than proceeding chronologically, Collective Behavior follows Sikander’s primary ideas and inquiries throughout her work, rooted as they are in a recurring lexicon of forms, figures, and ideas. The exhibition explores Sikander’s role as an American artist, a Pakistani artist, a Muslim artist, a feminist artist, and—perhaps most significantly—as a global citizen engaging with a disrupted historical narrative.
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.
Having trouble accessing your member account? Email membership@cincyart.org or call us at 513-721-2787.
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 8:30 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
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s birth, join Angie Marchese, Vice President of Archives and Exhibits at Graceland, as she reveals the stories behind the design of one of the most recognizable homes in America. Purchased by Elvis in 1957 and inhabited by the Presley family into the 1970s, Graceland’s interiors represent the lifestyle, taste, and legacy of a music legend. Discover more about their creation, evolution, and preservation.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org
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, along with a museum docent, for this bi-monthly book club. See the Story combines works from around the world (both fiction & non-fiction) with artwork on view in the museum's galleries. Visitors will meet in the Library, discuss the book of the month, and then take a tour of related artworks. Join us and see the story!
If you need accessibility accommodations for any programs or events, please email access@cincyart.org.
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!
Discover what your young artist can create in this semi-structured, hands-on art studio class designed for early artists ages 3–5. Before the class, visit the museum galleries with a museum educator to learn about an artwork or an artist, together as a family. Each session provides a themed range of activities and materials to grow your child’s motor skills and creativity.
Each registration is per child.
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.
Learn fun art-making techniques related to an artwork or exhibition and create a unique work of art in this studio class designed for families with children ages 6–12. Each session provides a new theme and guided activities for families to create together or make solo artworks. Before the class, visit the museum with a museum educator to learn about an artwork or an artist, together as a family, and gain inspiration for the studio project.
Each registration is per child.
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.
Registration opens one month before the class date.
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.
Learn about the inner workings of the museum! Meet a staff member on the yellow couches in the Schmidlapp gallery and then take a tour to learn what happens before, after, and during the installation of art. Depending on accessibility of workspaces, this program may take place behind the scenes or in the galleries.
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.