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 The Art Academy of Cincinnati for an additional fee.
The program runs from Tuesday, June 10, to Thursday, June 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 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.
Members Opening for our ticketed exhibitions with light bites and a preview of the gallery.
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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.
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
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.
This program will meet in the Schmidlapp Gallery and depart promptly at 11:00 am to tour the galleries. Please arrive 5-10 minutes early to ensure you meet the group.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org.
Bicycles embody a universal purpose: egalitarian, unfettered mobility. They have inspired adventure, urban planning, fashion, design, sport, and even social justice. A century after suffragettes in the US and UK fought for their equal rights on bicycles, Afghan women sparked a revolution on two wheels.
Join speaker Shannon Galpin, former National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and trainer of the first Afghan Women's National Cycling team, for an exploration of social change through cycling. She’ll share her experiences mountain biking in Afghanistan and riding alongside Afghan women who defied gender barriers and taboos. Despite open threats, harassment, and dishonor, these women rode in protest for equality, climate justice, and political action. Their story is one piece of Afghanistan's vibrant and defiant youth culture rarely discussed.
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.
Join us for a lecture by internationally renowned artist Shahzia Sikander co-presented by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cincinnati Asian Art Society in honor of CAM’s exhibition Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior. For more than three decades, the Pakistani-American artist has been animating South Asian visual histories through a contemporary feminist perspective. Her influential work in video, mosaic, glass, and painting reimagines the past for our present moment, proposing new possibilities for the future. The exhibition is the largest presentation of Sikander’s work to date and premiered as a Collateral Event at Venice’s Biennale Arte. After the lecture a conversation with the artist will be moderated by CAM Curator Ainsley M. Cameron
One ticket, two exhibitions!
Cycle Thru! The Art of the Bike
Friday, April 4–Sunday, August 24, 2025
The Thomas R. Schiff Gallery (Gallery 234 & 235)
Gear up to see a cast iron velocipede designed in the mid-1800s, a 1901 Wolff-American Ice Bicycle engineered to traverse a frozen course, a seafoam green 1950s Huffy Radiobike designed so riders could cruise to their tunes of choice, and Pee-Wee Herman’s customized 1953 Schwinn DX Cruiser starring in Tim Burton’s 1985 film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. These are just a few of the highlights waiting for you to discover in Cycle Thru! The Art of the Bike, an exhibition featuring the bicycle as a way to explore intersections of history, popular culture, design, and modern and contemporary art.
Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism
Friday, June 13–Sunday, September 21, 2025
Western & Southern Galleries (Galleries 232 & 233)
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
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.
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
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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.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
Art Museum Members: Please log in using the SIGN IN or CREATE ACCOUNT buttons at the top-right of your screen before adding purchases to your cart. The member discount will apply at checkout.
Having trouble accessing your account? Email membership@cincyart.org or call 513-721-2787 and press option 1.