Community Calendar

All ages

Join us at the accessible and exciting Activity Center Park for this afternoon of adapted events created to serve all abilities! This day will be full of archery, kickball, sidewalk chalk, adapted biking, crafts and so much more! Partners from all over the community will be there to bring this event to life!

This program is open to all. Whether you are a community member who has a disability or love someone who does, are interested in learning more about inclusivity, or just want to join the fun, you're invited to Adapted Action Day!

Registration is requested but not required. Please let us know what accommodations you would like to see to make this event even better for you!

Notations from Home and The North Fork are part of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View. The FotoFocus Biennial, now in its eighth iteration, activates over 70 exhibitions at museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky in October 2026. Each Biennial is structured around a unifying theme; the 2026 theme, The Long View, considers aspects of time and perspective in photography and film, and how these mediums shape our understanding of the world. FotoFocus welcomes global artists, curators, critics, educators, and visitors to Cincinnati with exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings, and panel discussions during its Biennial Opening Events, October, 1–3, 2026.

Amanda Bradley’s Notations from Home uses photography and the camera as a tool for note-taking and relationship building. The images make visible notions of home across geographies and time.

In The North Fork, Trent Davis Bailey takes a long view of family farms on the Western Slope of Colorado. His work investigates how people interact with the land, and the exhibition couples those moments with archival images that explore the history of that land and invites viewers to consider the present moment within a longer historical framework.

A reception will be held on October 17th from 5pm-6pm with an artist talk by Trent Davis Bailey at 5:30pm. Amanda Bradley will be giving a virtual artist talk on October 6 from 12-1pm. In addition to the reception and talks, Trent Davis Bailey will be leading a narrative photobook workshop on October 17th, while Amanda Bradley will be providing a guided reflection and print takeaway, with a limited quantity available to visitors to the Gallery.

The exhibitions will be on display in the Kettering Health Art Gallery at Rosewood Arts Center from September 28 to November 7, 2026.

Rosewood Arts Center’s Community Gallery will feature three Rosewood faculty artist’s work this fall in a group exhibit: INSPIRE. The exhibition highlights the work of Heather Ballard, Eli Flannagan and Nicole Reading who teach photography, screen-printing and watercolor respectively.

Heather Ballard will be exhibiting her photographic work which utilizes the cyanotype process. Her work is a fleeting portrait of our natural surroundings and touches on elements of chance and control. Eli Flannagan’s meticulous pen and ink drawings are inspired by surrealism. Inward looking and metaphoric, Flannagan’s drawings illustrate societal pressures and expectations. Nicole Reading’s work represents the natural world through abstraction, distortion, and accuracy. She explores the relationship between collecting and categorizing objects with their display for scientific purposes.

Join us on October 3, 2026, for a day of Plein Air (open-air) painting and an exciting street fair- complete with food trucks, vendor booths & street entertainers and music. Come join our fall festivities for a fun-filled, family-friendly day! The adult plein air requires registration for participation. Cash prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. The children’s plein air is free! Children will receive a free watercolor set (while supplies last) and be entered in a raffle drawing sponsored by Topsy Turvy Toys.

We will be located in the quaint downtown area in Tipp City, Ohio on Second Street (from Main to Walnut) in front of the Hotel Gallery (109 E. Main) on October 3, 2026 from 10 am – 4 pm!

• Adult Plein Air | Registration @ 9:00am | in front of the Hotel Gallery (Artists may register NOW to get the early bird discount! See our website for more information & to register!)

• Children’s Plein Air @ 10am – 2 pm | in front of Topsy Turvy Toys

• Entertainment! | Vendor Booths! | Food Trucks!

• Adult Plein Air Judging & Wet Paint Sale | 3:00

Currently, participants for the day include:

Food Trucks - What the Taco and JA's & Sweet-Umms

Musicians include: 10-12 Jerome Casinger | 12-2 Benny Bodine | 2-4 Reyna Spears

Other Entertainment: Ranger Vic (balloon clown) and Great Clips (hair painting)

Vendor Booths: Rusty Harden Art & Massage| S & S Bee Company - Honey & Hive Products | Cliffrose Keep - 3D items | Frank's Acrylic Art - art & jewelry | Ruth's Collection - Upcycling | Urban Reclaimed - hand dyed boutique clothing | Sun & Loon Garden Apothecary - locally produced skin care products with MORE to come!

The Contemporary Dayton is proud to present Ella Kraimer: Appearances, a world-premiere exhibition of large-scale photographs. Kraimer transforms herself into a cast of fictional personas through striking self-portraits, using secondhand garments gathered from thrift stores across the country. Layered with irony, humor, and cultural critique, she explores the blurred boundaries between authenticity and performance, memory and invention, self and society.

Previously viewed only as a digital project, Appearances reflects on life in an age of social media, image culture, and spectacle. Inspired by childhood memories of paper dolls, Kraimer fragments and reconstructs her own likeness through costume, collage, and assemblage. At once playful and provocative, Appearances invites viewers to reconsider not only the images we create, but the stories they tell about who we are.

Kraimer spent her formative years in Berlin, Germany and is now based in New Bremen, Ohio. She earned a BA in Design and Visual Communication from the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Berlin, and an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from HMKW University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication, and Management, Berlin.

Ella Kraimer: Appearances is part of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View. Now in its eighth iteration, the Biennial activates over 70 exhibitions at museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky.

The Contemporary Dayton is proud to present Stacy Kranitz: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, the culmination of a landmark multi-year project that challenges long-held stereotypes of Appalachia by Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Stacy Kranitz.

Featuring more than 40 photographs drawn from historical archives, Kranitz’s own images, historical texts, installations, and an accompanying film, the exhibition examines how Appalachia has been represented—and misrepresented—across generations. Together, these works reveal a region shaped by myth, exploitation, resilience, and the uneasy tension between representation and reality.

The exhibition’s title references the gospel song “Ain’t No Grave,” made famous by Johnny Cash, evoking the resilience and resistance that run throughout the project. Recipient of the prestigious Images Vevey Book Award, Kranitz has published a companion monograph, available for purchase in The Contemporary Dayton’s CoSHOP.

Born in Kentucky and based in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee, Kranitz is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awards. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is held in numerous public collections.

Stacy Kranitz: Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down is part of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial: The Long View. Now in its eighth iteration, the Biennial activates over 70 exhibitions at museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky.

Join novelist, teacher, and speaker Katrina Kittle for a fun, informal workshop exploring happiness, why it matters, and why we deserve it. Through three simple practices, conversation, and connection, you'll discover realistic ways to chase more joy - without adding more to your to-do list.

YSZW is back from the dead and ready to fundraise for the Feminist Health Fund and collect non-perishable items for the food pantry. Live music from 3-9, zombie face painting, vendors, food trucks, games for kiddos, costume contests ending with the zombie walk through town. We ask for a $5 donation and an item for the food pantry to participate 🧟‍♀️

OCTOBER 3 A Real Fun Seance ft,

FLOWERSFORPERSEPHONE — Columbus screamo / metalcore / grindcore chaos. Fast, emotional and built for the pit.

TO YOU, DEARY — Chicago-based emotional post-hardcore with moments of beauty, tension and catharsis.

WUJERIA — Dayton dream-pop / alternative / trip-hop living somewhere between dreamy atmosphere and noisy guitars. An alien universe built right here in the Midwest.

GOOD SOUP — Dayton garage-punk / grunge with loud guitars, raw energy and no unnecessary bs.

THE Fairborn PHOENIX

34 S. Broad St. • Fairborn, Ohio
Doors — 7PM
Music — 8PM

Come early. Support the bands. Buy merch. Keep indi music alive.