Member Appreciation Week: Behind-the-scenes Tours
Want to take an adventure behind-the scenes and learn more about your museum? On this tour, we will go to two different labs and meet the Conservation team. In 1935, the Cincinnati Art Museum decided to establish “a department for the study and care of paintings of which Cincinnati… is urgently in need,” making the Conservation Department at the museum one of the oldest in America.
Advanced registration is required. Members will meet near the front desk at the front entrance of the museum to start the tour.
Learn more about the team: https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/conservation/
See conservation blog posts: https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/about/blog/
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
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 be able to sign up for this event as a Member.
Member Appreciation Week: Tour with Curator Kristin Spangenberg
Yearning to tour a gallery with a curator that composed the space? Curator of Prints, Kristin Spangenberg, will take members on a special tour of our Mexican Printmakers 1920s-1950s in Gallery 213.
To start the tour, members will meet near the front desk at the front entry of the museum and be taken to the gallery space.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
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 be able to sign up for this event as a Member.
This tour is currently SOLD OUT.
Member Appreciation Week: Behind-the-scenes tour in Fashion Archives with Cynthia Amnéus, Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles
Want to take an adventure behind-the-scenes and learn more about your museum? On this tour, we will go behind-the-scenes in the Fashion Archives with Cynthia Amnéus, Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles.
To start the tour, members will meet near the front desk at the front entry of the museum and be taken to the space.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
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 be able to sign up for this event as a Member.
The art form that we call the “oriental carpet” has transcended the limits of periods, places, religions, genders and cultures for seven hundred years. In this illustrated lecture, Walter Denny, University Distinguished Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst, will focus on the ways, both traditional and modern, that art museums In the United States, Europe, and the Middle East store, study, exhibit, and explain this art form.
If you need accessibility accommodations for this program or event, please email access@cincyart.org. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.
Jewish American Artists and the Gilded Age: Samantha Baskind, Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University
This lecture will look at Henry Mosler and Moses Jacob Ezekiel, one-time Cincinnatians who went on to achieve great fame in their day, and their vital contributions to Jewish American art.
If you need accessibility accommodations for this program or event, please email access@cincyart.org. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.
Madcap Puppets: The Story Quest
Performed at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Join us for performance of The Story Quest by Madcap Puppets. The Story Quest performances will take place on Saturday at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Below is a description of the performance by Jerry Handorf and Dylan Shelton:
Royal storyteller, Everett Hickenbottom, has spun 999 tales in as many nights for the queen. Now with one story left to tell he has no stories left! He recounts two adventurous tales, The Stolen Crown and Feet Water, before getting help from the audience to imagine one final wondrous story. Loads of audience participation and hilarious puppets fill this charming production.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
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.
Member Appreciation Week: Special Tours
Desire a more in-depth experience for art at your museum? Our amazing docents will take our members on special tours. Advanced registration is required.
Docents will meet members near the front desk at the front entry of the museum.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
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 be able to sign up for this event as a Member.
Finding Your Flow through Art & Activism
If you are not familiar with Corita Kent, she was an artist, an activist, nun, educator and a pioneer. Working primarily as a print-maker, she taught elementary and college in Los Angeles for 20 years. “Consider everything an experiment,” was one of her guiding principles. Not only did she produce her own work, but she also collaborated on large scale works with her students. Her artwork was a reflection of the times. Inspired by billboards, advertisements, spiritual texts, current events, and newspapers she created colorful, multi-layered pieces with deep meaning. Kent encouraged and embodied experimentation, close-looking and social justice throughout her career and in her life.
Kent used a series of 10 Rules in her classroom. Each day of the Summer Teacher Institute, we will focus on one of the following rules as a theme for that day’s activities:
Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.
Rule 6: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.
Rule 8: Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.
In addition to learning more about the life and art of Corita Kent, you will enjoy a variety of art-making sessions, workshops, docent guided tours and presentations.
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.
Each month, we will explore different themes relating art to yoga during this 30-minute gallery talk and 60-minute yoga class. Guests must bring their own mats.
Events and programs are subject to change or cancel at any time. We reserve the right to make any changes or cancel for any reason without notice.
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 exhibition at checkout.
Learn about techniques and materials used by professional artists in these fun, educational and hands-on workshops. Children must be at least 6 years old to participate. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Events and programs are subject to change or cancel at any time. We reserve the right to make any changes or cancel for any reason without notice.
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 exhibition 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 not permitted so that you and your child can better experience the art together.
Please reserve one ticket per family- includes up to four people including children. FREE. Reservations Required.
This program is specifically designed for adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. Each month, we will explore different parts of the museum on a multisensory tour, then create art related to what we see. Visitors will meet in the Great Hall then be led on a tour through the galleries.
Please reserve one ticket per family - includes up to five people. FREE. Reservations required.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is the place for summer fun and creativity. Jump into art with eight weeks of exciting projects, gallery games, and more! Explore a different theme each week with activities taught by skilled museum educators. Designed for children ages 6–12. Convenient before- and after-care is available.
Registration begins February 1 at 11 a.m.
Register online or call (513) 721-ARTS. If you are registering for multiple weeks, we recommend registering over the phone.
Summer Camp will follow any CDC and Ohio guidelines for COVID-19 prevention. This may include mask-wearing, vaccination, or other precautions. We will notify parents of specific precautions once those guidelines are released.
To request accessibility accommodations, please email access@cincyart.org at least two weeks before the event.
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.