Social Medium: Photography as a Tool for Community Collaboration [FotoFocus Biennial]

September 15, 2018, 7:00 - 10:00PM

Join us for the opening celebration and reception for Social Medium: Photography as a Tool for Community Collaboration. Meet and mingle with some of the artists, experience interactive installations, and enjoy light refreshments.

Free to the Public

September 22, 2018, 2:00 - 5:00PM

Hosted by Eliza Gregory and Gemma Rose-Turnbull, this workshop invites artists and arts educators to explore what happens when the disciplines of photography and social practice merge. For the first half, we will share inspirational projects and personal experiences as a group, in addition to creating a matrix of techniques, resources, and case studies pulled from the leaders’ own research. In the second half of the workshop, we will work in teams to map out potential project structures, role play to test out different mechanisms of exchange, and begin to work out the logistical complexities of particular practices. In the first half, we’ll pool our knowledge and develop a common vocabulary of references and strategies, and in the second half we’ll put that knowledge to use in advancing participants’ own goals. Artists and educators at any stage of thinking about this topic are welcome. (If you’ve never thought about it before but feel curious, that’s fine! If you’ve done a lot of work in this area, that’s great too–we’ll put your knowledge to work.) One of the goals of this workshop is to convene a dialogue that brings the Cincinnati arts community together to share ideas and experiences relating to this topic.

Free to the Public

October 13, 2018, 12:00 - 5:00PM

Camp Washington is becoming the arts and cultural corridor of Cincinnati. Explore secret artist studios, galleries, maker spaces, a foundry and a neon making shop. Camp Washington’s community of 40-plus artists, galleries and makers are collaborating on our second annual neighborhood tour. Designated “Made in Camp,” the event will be complimented by demonstrations offered by select Camp Washington manufacturers. A revised brochure will be available listing The Camp’s artists, galleries and makers and incorporating a locator map for the convenience of visitors. Brightly colored signs hung along the route will match up with the numbered artist locations on the map.

Free to the Public

October 14, 2018, 2:00 - 3:00PM

Wave Pool will host an artist panel discussion on social practice photography between exhibiting artists Jason Lazarus, Eliza Gregory, Jacqueline Wood, Natalie Mancino, and Rebecca Hackemann, moderated by curator Calcagno Cullen. This is an opportunity to learn more about this relatively new way of creating both images and community as well as dive into some of the challenges that arise through an art form that must consider the history of photography, social justice issues and concerns, community dynamics, and of course the aesthetic results.

Free to the Public