Thursday October 10, 2024
Join us for an exclusive members’ opening reception for two shows. Be one of the first to explore the Taft’s newest exhibitions, Posing Beauty and Resilience. Additional Information: RSVP required. Please register at taftmuseum.org/tickets. For a complete list of accessibility accommodations, please visit the Taft Museum website.
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
Opening reception of Casey LeClair's solo exhibition, Moving Parts, which documents a Chilean family circus over several weeks, capturing their routines, artistic roles, and family dynamics. Additional Information: To RSVP, please visit the Opening Reception event page on Facebook.
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…
Artist talk with Silas Long and opening reception for interior ruin. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. Accommodations available upon request include ASL interpretation, large print materials, and assistive listening devices. Contact our accessibility staff at (513) 850-1435 or visit our webpage for details.
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.
Curator William Messer will discuss the exhibition Afterwords: 50 Years in Words and Images by Arno Rafael Minkkinen, including his own nearly 40-year relationship with the artist. Guests can order food and drink and partake in a free vegetable platter during a brief reception prior to the curator's talk. Additional Information: There is a step…
Monday October 14, 2024
Tuesday October 15, 2024
Act III: Thing examines the symbols and objects that hold meaning within the vibrant Walnut Hills neighborhood. Light refreshments will provided. Guests will be invited to be in conversation with the artist. Additional Information: Accessibility accommodations available upon request.
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."
Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal, the artists behind Devil's Promenade, discuss the exhibition, their working process, and the region that inspired it. Reception of light refreshments to follow. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. For other accessibility accommodations, please contact: 937-223-4ART (4278) or email info@daytonart.org
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…
Meet the artists revealing backstories of Hamilton, Ohio’s 17 neighborhoods. Featured artists speak about their artmaking processes and engagement with specific communities, ending with a Q & A session. Featured artists are present to engage with the public in the galleries during a free opening reception, 5–7:30pm. Cash bar. Additional Information: Mobility aid access/seating 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
Join artist Eric Hatch for the opening of Hard Times for These Times. View poignant urban and rural landscapes, hear the artist discuss his work, and engage in Q&A. Refreshments provided. Additional Information: Live streaming to ADA area can be available if requested.
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…
Tuesday October 22, 2024
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
During the closing reception for Labyrinth, attendees will have the opportunity to make a cloth cyanotype of their hand, a project started in 2016 by Paula Kraus and Leah Stahl as a response to the divisive rhetoric of that election. A student show developed in response to the artist's diverse collection will also be on…
Sunday October 27, 2024
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Tuesday October 29, 2024
Friday November 1, 2024
A conversation with artist Amber N. Ford to discuss her deconstructed portraits of hairstyles as personal and cultural history, framed within the Century Design Workshop gallery, formerly a Walnut Hills beauty shop. Artist talk begins at 6:30pm. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. Large print available.
Saturday November 2, 2024
Join us in the KHAC Lindner Annex (located at 6620 Montgomery Road) for the screening of the 9 minute short film created by Gee Horton and Shay Nartker starting promptly at 1:00pm. Immediately following the film will be a short Artist Talk with Gee Horton & Shay Nartker. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible gallery space and…
Manifest Drawing Center will host a closing reception for the showcase of student works from Pick It Up, Turn It Over on November 2, 2024 from 4–7pm. Additional Information: The reception will be ticketed, but free and open to the public. Tickets will be available on Eventbrite closer to the end of the 8-week course…