Apr 17 Wednesday
Tai Shani works with painting, sculpture, installation, and film to explore the politics of emancipation through a feminist lens. A prolific writer, Shani draws on sources including punk rock, cult cinema, Greek mythology, feminist theory, and science fiction. For her first US solo museum exhibition, she has made a feature-length film, My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, and all the Bodily Remains that Ever Were and Ever Will Be (2023). The film makes use of emotive effects and passages of digital animation to explore the often overlooked connections between leftist resistance movements over the past 150 years. It oscillates between depictions of a society plagued by isolation, greed, and fear on one hand, and investigations of eroticism and pleasure as catalysts for radical change on the other.To accompany the film, Shani has produced a floor-based installation resembling an inverted Medieval ceiling, accessorized with an array of artifacts—pearlescent spheres of various sizes, handcrafted ceramic hands, and a reliquary—that refer to the film and various literary sources. Suspended above it and on the adjacent wall will be fragmented architectural forms—columns, an altar, and circular discs—that further emphasize Shani’s interest in conjuring immersive dream-like environments. Drawing on queer and feminist theory, and political ideologies of collectivism, the exhibition ponders love as a device for healing and resistance.Thought-provoking and reflective exhibitions like these happen thanks to the support of generous patrons. Speak with a member of our Development Team to learn more about how you can support bringing art to all people.Annual exhibition support is provided by Gale and Dave Beckett, BelFlex and Jason McCaw, Barbara Weston Sasser and Carol Weston Roberts, Ronnie and John Shore, Helen and Brian Heekin, Barbara Myers, and the generous contributors to the CAC Exhibition Fund. General operating support for the CAC is provided by ArtsWave, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, P&G Fund, and the Johnson Foundation.
Please join us on March 8th from 6-9 PM for the public opening reception of our next exhibition, Delicate Ecologies, Painting Selections From: Kelley Booze, Katherine Colborn, and Samantha Haring.
The exhibition will be on view in the gallery and our website from March 8th-August 10th, 2024. Please visit indianhillgallery.com for more information and hours of operation.
Join us for dinner and an evening of bluegrass music at the beautiful Vinoklet Winery, 11069 Colerain Ave in Cincinnati, OH 45252. Seated indoors in Vinoklet’s main dining room, patrons can enjoy the spectacular view overlooking the 30 plus acres of rolling hills while dining on any of the delicious menu items. Bluegrass entertainment by Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass from 6:30 til 8:30. Admission is free. Reservations are strongly recommended and should be made early: 513-385-9309 or vinokletwinery@fuse.net.PRICE admission free TIME 6:30-8:30 CONTACT 513-385-9309 or vinokletwinery@fuse.netWEB https://www.vinokletwines.com/post/2018/09/30/Bluegrass-Wednesdays-Spaghetti-Meat-Balls
This hilarious world premiere comedy sees a family upside-down as they do everything but tell the truth to get what they need.
Families, are we right? Steph has typical mid-life woes on her plate: a precocious daughter about to graduate high school and an absentee father who just moved in, who may or may not be faking dementia—oh, and did we mention she has a little bit of cancer? Steph has ulterior motives for letting in her dad and a grand scheme to pull it off. When the family gathers for a birthday party with a hidden agenda, they’re forced to confront the truths they’ve been too afraid to acknowledge. The 2022 winner of the Jackie Demaline playwriting competition, this world premiere comedy hilariously reflects on how families aren’t always well matched.
Performance times vary by date. Visit our website for a full list of performances.
Presenting The Play That Goes Wrong, a side-splitting comedy written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields that is sure to be a sensational hit. From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes a farce about the opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor. The show has everything you never wanted to see, including an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Thursday-Saturday, April 11-13 at 7:30 p.m.Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m.Wednesday-Friday, April 17-19 at 7:30 p.m.Saturday, April 20 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Apr 18 Thursday
Charles E. Boyk Law Offices are proud to offer our 16th annual Bikes for Kids Giveaway. To promote bicycle safety and recognize deserving children in the community, we are giving away 10 bikes to local children for the summer! To learn more and make a nomination visit our Bikes for Kids Giveaway page.
African Modernism in America features nearly 80 dynamic and vivid works of art created in Africa during the 1950s and ‘60s. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries, the exhibition explores the relationships formed between African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultural organizations amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War. Many of the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in the show were drawn from Fisk’s remarkable collection of gifts from the Harmon Foundation. Following World War II, this foundation, along with other institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Fisk University, and other historically Black colleges and universities, supported and exhibited the work of Black artists, including the important modern African artists Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). Showing African art in the United States rooted it in the present and encouraged American audiences to engage with African artists as contemporaries. The inventive nature of the works in this exhibition challenges the assumptions of the time about African art being isolated to a “primitive past.” Some pieces took inspiration from early Christian art, West African sculpture, and Nigerian literature, while others reflect the influences of American jazz and modern European art.
Learn more at taftmuseum.org/Exhibitions/AfricanModernism.
Nature can provide inspiration for beautiful objects or set the mood in a painting. Anything from flowers to a sunset can spark an artist’s creativity. For this exhibition from the Taft collection, our curators have selected small nature-inspired works of art from storage.
Learn more at taftmuseum.org/Exhibitions/NatureInspires.