April 30, 2016 - January 31, 2017 - Threads of Tradition focuses on the time-honored techniques used to create patterns in Central and West African textiles. Among the examples on view are complex strip-woven kente cloths made by the Asante and Ewe of Ghana, an impressive resist-dyed display textile (or ndop) from Cameroon, and raffia skirts that the Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo cr...

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April 30, 2016 - January 22, 2017 - This exhibition highlights the company’s classic and new designs, follows the creation of a textile, and showcases a selection of contemporary fashions by African and European makers as well as Vlisco’s in-house design team. Explore how the Dutch company Vlisco became one of the most influential textile brands in West and Central African fashio...

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April 30, 2016 - September 25, 2016 - This exhibition offers an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of African cities: Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou. From Akinbode Akinbiyi’s observation of urban centers and Seydou Camara’s examination of Islamic manuscripts to Ananias Léki Dago’s pictures of offbeat locales, the ...

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April 30, 2016 – October 13, 2016 - This exhibition of thirty photographs is drawn from VMFA’s collection and highlights the artist’s early career in Hungary while also focusing on seminal moments during the sixty years when he worked in Paris and then New York City.

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April 30, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - The exhibition draws from the Hall’s extensive collection of sports objects, documents, and memorabilia, and will trace the evolution of American sports from those organic beginnings, when the New York Metropolitans played “big league” baseball on a cricket ground adjacent to the St. George ferry terminal, and the hometown Stapes were part of t...

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April 30, 2016 - October 30, 2016 - This exhibition explores some of the most compelling contemporary artworks in the museum’s permanent collection that connect to Carl Solway’s transformative influence on the Cincinnati arts scene. About 50 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and multi-media, will be on display, some for the first time.

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May 1 - June 19, 2016 - The 3,000-square-foot exhibit includes interactive Native American tools used to farm, grind and cook corn, an interactive station on genetic modifications of corn over time and more.​ The Science, History and Culture of Corn takes visitors back more than 10,000 years to learn about the evolution of corn from the time of the ancient Mesoamericans--when the teosinte plant ...

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May 1 - October 31, 2016 - Sherwood’s sculptures explore the aesthetic systems of space, time, and the dynamic relationships of objects in motion. The choreography of each piece is governed by a set of basic movements, facilitated by an arrangement of rotating joints and aerodynamic surfaces. Made of stainless steel and ranging in scale and size, the reflective qualities of this materia...

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May 1 - October 31, 2016 - This immersive, whimsical exhibition will feature more than  sixteen quilts ranging from three-dimensional to kinetic quilted sculptures, by internationally renowned fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann. Dominique Ehrmann is celebrated for her freestanding, three-dimensional quilted sculptures. Referring to herself a “quilt illustrator,” Ehrmann likes to tell...

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May 1 - June 10, 2016 - The Wright Museum will showcase FORTY NEW Charles Miller paintings in this exhibition. These works are part of the six hundred paintings  Charlie created more than seventy years ago; vivid depictions that bear witness to the everyday life of the servicemen who fought in the South Pacific. They are powerful works of art full of wonderful color and skilled draftsmanship ...

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