8/6/2025
Visitors to the REC have had fun creating Yarn Creatures using felt, googly eyes, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, and, most importantly, yarn. Here are a few of our favorites!
7/24/2025
Be on the lookout for the CAM Cruiser this summer and contribute a "puzzle piece" to be added to a colorful mural project at the museum.
7/23/2025
As summer flies by and the new school year quickly approaches, the museum is busy planning student programs and activities for 2025–26. This includes the Florence Koetters Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) Fourth Grade Program.
7/23/2025
The Rexroth Project focuses on giving greater consideration to museum visitors with disabilities by creating more equitable experiences in exhibitions.
7/18/2025
When you give to the museum's Annual Fund, you fuel creativity, ignite learning, and expand access to art across our community.
7/16/2025
Visible damage from regular use, like the hairline cracks on a teacup, often tells a story that can connect us both with the object and the person who used it.
6/25/2025
Elizabeth Nourse (1859–1938) is one of Cincinnati’s most celebrated artists. Tucked away in the museum’s archives is a scrapbook filled with letters, photographs, press clippings, and other unique materials that paint a fuller picture of Nourse as both an artist and a person.
6/24/2025
How does the museum stay engaged and involved with our Cincinnati community? At CAM, the community engagement team develops partnerships with local organizations, artists, and leaders.
6/18/2025
The Rosenthal Education Center is open and ready for art-making fun all summer long for the whole family.
6/12/2025
Learn more about Karen Saunders, the museum's 2025 Rosenthal Education Center (REC) Artist in Residence.
6/12/2025
Everyone likes a good hero story, a protagonist struggling against the odds, yearning for home or homeland.
6/5/2025
This summer, the East Asian department awaits the arrival of 40 Japanese paintings from Dr. Toshihide Hirose of Hirosaki, Japan.
5/14/2025
Woodcutting, the oldest form of relief printmaking, is a beautiful medium that utilizing a block of wood and enabling artists to create engaging—and replicable—artworks.
5/14/2025
For billions of people worldwide, there is spiritual significance to the fact that the papal conclave is held in the Sistine Chapel inside Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica, immersing the participants in one of the most profound works of sacred art ever made.
5/8/2025
Explore the origins of Art Climb, the outdoor art experience connecting the Cincinnati Art Museum to its neighborhoods and the city on its 5th anniversery..
5/2/2025
Museum staff have been busy installing "You and Me and the Space Between: Our Expedition Starts Now" by REC artist in residence Karen Saunders.
5/1/2025
Implementing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) activities in the classroom helps foster creativity that carries over into other subjects.
4/30/2025
Bikes are not just a useful invention for transport and recreation. They are constantly reimagined and redesigned in practical and artful ways.
4/25/2025
In the days when paintings did not travel for exhibitions, artists created prints featuring the originals. One example is an eighteenth-century engraving after a painting by Tintoretto now on view.
4/23/2025
Studying the “art of the bike” has provided a new understanding of the “heart” of the bike as a global vehicle for social change.
4/22/2025
If the grounds are blooming, and the bees are buzzing, then spring has arrived here at the Cincinnati Art Museum!
4/18/2025
Meet Mari Groves, the Cincinnati Art Museum's new School-Based Learning Intern. As an art educator, Mari is passionate about sharing creativity and artistic exploration.
4/7/2025
On March 9, 2025, the Rosenthal Education Center (REC) celebrated 10 years of art making, especially artworks created by the museum's youngest visitors.
3/27/2025
Inside our objects conservation lab, this 19th-century mirror is once again standing upright in all of its glory for the first time in several decades.
3/27/2025
CAM Cruiser is hitting the road for another exciting year of art, education, and community fun!
3/20/2025
What the public sees over a span of a few months—whether a gallery rotation, a new show, a series of events, or the flying banners placed above the museum’s entryway—actually takes years to create by countless individuals across the institution and beyond.
3/13/2025
Who is this mystery woman painted by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886–1957) more than 85 years ago?
3/13/2025
A lawyer friend of mine says that when he was a kid his mom had a way of mixing metaphors when she was giving mom advice. “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it, son.” This turn of phrase got his attention not only with words but more memorably with visual imagery.
3/11/2025
In this edition of SketchCAM, we look at the amazing exhibition Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior in a way you might imagine belongs in math class. Using our simple tools of pencil and sketchbook, we'll reveal the “secret geometry” of great artwork.