Art

You can’t separate Aminah Robinson’s artwork from the Columbus house where she lived and created. Culture Couch producer David Seitz takes us there.

The interactive exhibit will be at the main branch of the Dayton Metro Library through September 25th. One sponsor said they hope the exhibit will be used as an organizing tool.

Today on ReEntry Stories we meet Azizi Carter, the third in our series about women who took advantage of training opportunities in prison and made it a stepping stone to a new life.

“Walk This Way” is an exhibit at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati. It displays over 100 pairs of women’s shoes collected by high-fashion shoe designer Stuart Weitzman. Culture Couch producer Susan Byrnes takes us on a stroll through the show.

Johnson Simon, a painter and professor who has cerebral palsy, had his career plan interrupted by the pandemic. He speaks about his passion for teaching in an audio diary for the Move to Include initiative.

A painting by Cincinnati artist Robert S. Duncanson was selected as the 59th Inaugural Painting. Duncanson is considered the most well-known African American artist of the Civil War era.

On Chicago’s Southwest side, a colorful mural pays tribute to America’s essential workers. It features three of the community’s very own: Rosalinda, a retail clerk; Javier, a postal carrier and Juan, a butcher shop worker. Underneath their portraits are the words El Corazon de Chicago: The heart of Chicago.

Eli Harvey grew up in a Quaker community near Wilmington, Ohio to become a celebrated sculptor. And yet most Ohioans have never heard his name. Harvey mostly sculpted wild animals from close observation. The Historical Society in Clinton County has now digitized the art and writings of Eli Harvey.

After 55 years, Mendelsons Liquidation Outlet will be closed for good. In this segment Culture Couch producer Susan Byrnes brings us voices of Dayton artists who found materials and inspiration there.

In a new exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute called “Archiving Eden”, photographer Dornith Doherty turns her lens to the critical issue of seed saving, and global efforts to conserve the world’s food sources.

Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. It was planned long before the pandemic hit and the country marched in protest of the murder of George Floyd. Now Thomas’s work, which addresses the ongoing struggle for liberty and equality that African Americans face, communicates with even greater urgency.

The National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio brings us, Queens of the Heartland, an exhibit that tells the stories of 30 African American women in Ohio from the 1830s to today.