Thursday September 5, 2024
A panel discussion featuring the exhibition's curators April Sunami and Marcus Morris in conversation with exhibiting artists Janet George, Nina Wells, Marissa Stewart, and Alexis McCrimmon. Additional Information: The gallery is on the first floor of the Canzani Center and there are automatic doors for wheelchair access.
Wednesday September 18, 2024
Tuesday September 24, 2024
Larry Richmond, Genealogy & Local History Department Manager at Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, and Ashleigh Schieszer, Book and Paper Conservator at the collaborative Cincinnati Preservation Lab, discuss the ways in which specialized knowledge shared across disciplines continues to bring new stories from the 1848 Panorama to light. An open reception with light refreshments…
Thursday October 3, 2024
Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leaders featured in the exhibit, ask questions, share perspectives, and participate in meaningful conversations about the crucial contributions of immigrants in Cincinnati. Additional Information: This educational event will take place on the 4th Floor in the DAAP Cafe.
Friday October 4, 2024
Training for Freedom Summer presents the history and personal stories of those who came together in Oxford, OH, as they prepared to help register Black voters in the Deep South. Additional Information: Limited accessible parking available and wheelchair access available. Closed Captions available on film. If you have accessibility needs, please contact artmuseum@miamioh.edu
Saturday October 5, 2024
Please join exhibiting artist Tony Mendoza & curator Jordanne Renner alongside the German Village Society's Arts Committee for the opening reception of Tony Mendoza: Short Stories. There will be refreshments and light food fare. Additional Information: RSVP required. Please RSVP to arts@germanvillage.com no later than September 23rd. Wheelchair accessible.
The Defend the Sacred opening reception features BIPOC photographers, artist panels, and a Q&A session to gain a deeper understanding of the powerful messages conveyed through their photography. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible with ADA compliant restroom.
Wednesday October 9, 2024
Friday October 11, 2024
Reading Freedom Summer (Andy Rice and partners) is a reflection on Freedom Summer 1964, a documentary featuring letters and songs read and sung by Oxford citizens and Miami University students. Additional Information: Limited accessible parking available and wheelchair access available. If you have accessibility needs, please contact artmuseum@miamioh.edu
Saturday October 12, 2024
Join us for a conversation between Director Alphonso J. Wesson and Social Justice Curator Trudy Gaba, where they will discuss how this project came together and the use of time-based media to reveal new ways of connecting people and histories across temporal boundaries. Additional Information: Registration required. For accessibility assistance/accommodations please direct all inquires to…
Sunday October 13, 2024
During this event, artists will discuss their research and the importance of self-portraiture to their practice. Emily Wiethorn, curator and Assistant Professor of Creative Studies, will facilitate the discussion. Immediately following the panel discussion, the gallery reception will take place across campus. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday October 17, 2024
Short films from up-and-coming filmmakers and established artists working in a dizzy range of documentary forms and tones. Among this year's highlights is Jill, Uncredited (Anthony Ing, 2022), a playful yet profound portrait of the prolific background actor Jill Goldston who has appeared in almost 2000 films and TV programs ranging from Mr. Bean to…
Voyageur Media Group is holding a public screening of the one-hour documentary “Capturing Life” (1839-1869) from 5–7pm on Thursday, October 17 in the George and Ellen Rieveschl Digitorium, Griffin Hall, Northern Kentucky University. A panel discussion follows under the theme “Photography and Education."
This intimate and surprising David vs. Goliath story closely follows a group of current and former Amazon employees who seek to unionize within one of the world's largest and most powerful companies. After the screening, the film's co-director Brett Story will be in conversation with the Ohio filmmaker Steven Bognar, an Oscar-winner for his powerful…
Friday October 18, 2024
Training for Freedom Summer presents the history and personal stories of those who came together in Oxford, OH, as they prepared to help register Black voters in the Deep South. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. Limited accessible parking available. Closed Captions available on film. If you have accessibility needs, please contact artmuseum@miamioh.edu.
Shot entirely within the notoriously violent world of Grand Theft Auto, this film charts the ridiculous, hilarious and moving adventure of Sam and Mark as they attempt to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game. Winner of the 2024 South by Southwest Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary (89 minutes, DCP). Additional Information:…
Saturday October 19, 2024
Following an unlikely collaboration between a Palestinian filmmaker and an Israeli journalist, this is a powerful record of life in Occupied Palestine. Bearing witness to the everyday horrors of life under occupation, and the stark inequality it gives rise to, this is a welcome and urgent act of witness and testimony (96 minutes, DCP). In…
Artist Daniel McInnis will give a talk from 1–2pm on the exhibition, Elementary. A reception will be held from 2–3pm, followed by a panel discussion including elementary teachers and administrators. Additional Information: Sign language interpreter available upon request. Building access is ADA compliant.
Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed attempts to piece together a portrait of her mother, an avant-garde journalist and a woman she never knew. Through techniques that Variety calls “ingenious,” A Photographic Memory is a poignant exploration of memory, legacy and stories left untold (87 minutes, DCP). After the screening, Rachel Elizabeth Seed with be in conversation…
Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the unique history of Yellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents in comical scenes. Through interacting with their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling. Sound Spring was supported by the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio and…
This tribute to the late and beloved Oscar-winning Ohio documentarian Julia Reichert by her long-term partner celebrates her legacy and spirit through never-seen-before footage of her life and work. This program will bring Julia’s inspirational spirit to the Wexner Center with three short films by Bognar that highlight the incredible woman who was so often…
Sunday October 20, 2024
DRIVER follows three years in the life of long-haul trucker Desiree Wood and her community of women drivers, presenting a snapshot of a quickly-disappearing labor landscape, told through the women who are living it every day. Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers are fueled by a sense of gallows humor and a fiery outrage as…
When Mats Steen was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and increasingly lost control of his body, he fell into the world of computer games with the aid of specially built chairs. His parents had worried about the isolation of the last years of his life but after his death at the age…
The filmmaker Matthew Shelton will give a more lengthy presentation regarding the work, with demonstrations of technique, discussion of the film's themes, and a retrospective look at the artist's previous work in both art and music. Light refreshments and foods will be offered starting at 6pm. Additional Information: Not wheelchair accessible.
Monday October 21, 2024
Anand Partwardhan is known for his brave documentaries that question his country’s dominant Hindu nationalist ideology. In The World Is Family (an old Sanskrit phrase), Anand looks at his family’s elders who had fought for India’s Independence alongside Mahatma Gandhi in the first half of the 20th century. Today self-confessed supremacists whose ideology once inspired…
Thursday October 24, 2024
A symposium led by Flavia Bastos and Doug Blandy that will facilitate a conversation about how universities and educational institutions can be more intentional in sustaining democracy through the arts. Additional Information: This educational program will be held in the UC Digital Futures Building, Rm TBD.
Friday October 25, 2024
Reading Freedom Summer (Andy Rice and partners) is a reflection on Freedom Summer 1964, a documentary featuring letters and songs read and sung by Oxford citizens and Miami University students. Additional Information: Limited accessible parking available and wheelchair access available. Closed Captions available on film. If you have accessibility needs, please contact artmuseum@miamioh.edu
Monday October 28, 2024
Tuesday October 29, 2024
Saturday November 2, 2024
Join us in the KHAC Lindner Annex for the screening of the short film created by Gee Horton and Shay Nartker from 1–2pm, followed by Artist Talk with Gee Horton & Shay Nartker from 2–3pm. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible gallery space and accessible parking available. Restrooms are not ADA compliant.
Thursday November 14, 2024
Guests will be invited to participate in a discussion held in the newly-opened Carl M. Jacobs Center featuring photographs from CAM’s collection, followed by a live in-gallery performance. Additional Information: Registration required. Check cincinnatiartmuseum.org for more information. Accessibility accommodations available upon request, including ASL interpreters, listening devices, accessible seating, etc.
Saturday January 11, 2025
Panel Discussion moderated by Matt Distel with Adam Denney (co-writer, Queer Diaspora: Existence and Erasure in Appalachia), Robert Gipe (author, illustrated novel: Trampoline), David La Spina (co-founder, ROMAN NVMERALS Press). Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. Full list of accessibility accommodations can be found on the Carnegie website.