Members opening for the Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior ticketed exhibition 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.
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.
Premiering at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Discovering Ansel Adams provides an unprecedented exploration of the early career of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), demonstrating how, between 1916 and the 1940s, Adams developed from a 14-year-old tourist with a camera into America’s most celebrated photographer. Drawn from the definitive Adams collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, the exhibition brings together approximately 80 virtuosic photographs with unique ephemera, including the artist’s handwritten correspondence, snapshots, personal possessions, and photographic working materials. Featured works range from small, one-of-a-kind photographs from Adams’s teenage years to jaw-dropping mural-sized prints of his most iconic mature views. Join the artist on his journey from teenage musician to young mountaineer, as he makes his first pictures at Yosemite, experiences the American Southwest, learns how to communicate with a broad national audience, and undertakes an epic quest to photograph America’s national parks. Along the way, discover how Ansel Adams became Ansel Adams.
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Please note: tickets for this program are non-refundable.
True American Landscapes: Ansel Adams and Civil Rights
Sunday, January 5, 2025 from 2–3 p.m.
Registration required
$15, children 12 and under free
Join the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Curator of Photography, Nathaniel M. Stein, as he explores the relationships between Ansel Adams’s belief in civil rights, his ideas about American landscape and identity, and his photography.
Arrive early or stay after to view the exhibition Discovering Ansel Adams (ticketed separately).
This lecture is organized by the Donald P. Sowell Endowment Committee, an affiliate group of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Ticket proceeds support the Sowell Committee’s work to promote greater interaction and involvement of the African American community with the museum, including professional development opportunities, the acquisition and display of artwork by African American artists, programs, exhibitions, and other forms of creativity of interest to the African American community.
If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org or fill out the accessibility request form.
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.
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.
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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.
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.