Community Engagement
The Clifton community is invited to take advantage of the many creative learning opportunities at our world-class institution. Below is a sampling of what's happening at DAAP this fall.
Chatterjee Global Lecture
Ann Hamilton - Recent Public Projects
- Wednesday, October 22
- 5pm
- Aronoff 4400
- Reception to follow
Ann Hamilton trained in textile design at the University of Kansas, and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. While the underlayment of her practice is in the structures and material processes of weaving her work takes form as large-scale site-responsive installations, performance collaborations, print media, and public projects - most notably the 2017 project for the MTA subway at the World Trade Center. Her work’s multiple forms often explore the relationship between language structures and tactile materiality. Whether comprised of a building four stories high or confined to the surface of a thimble, the qualities of these spaces, objects, and their atmospheres evoke an awareness of the site and the scale of the body to ask how, in a technologically extended world, the literacies of the hand and embodied knowledge matter, and the possibility for cultivating attention in a hyper distracted world of information.
Learn more about the Chatterjee Global Lecture series and past speakers.
Workshops
School of Art Lectures
All lectures, unless otherwise noted, will take place at the College of DAAP located at 342 Clifton Court on the campus of the University of Cincinnati.
Faculty Lecture Series - Caroline Anderson and Theresa Leininger-Miller
- Thursday, September 25, 12:30 - 1:30pm
- Reed Gallery reception area
- Join us to learn more about SOA faculty creative research.
Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series, Marisa Williamson
Friday, September 26, 12:30 - 1:50pm
- Aronoff 5401
- Marisa Williamson is a project-based artist who works in video, image-making, installation and performance around themes of history, race, feminism, and technology.
Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series - Kevin Quiles Bonilla
- Wednesday, October 8, 12:30 - 1:50pm
- Aronoff 5401
- Kevin Quiles Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through photography, performance and installation, his works explore ideas around power, colonialism, and history with his identity as context.
Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series - Chakaia Booker
- Friday, November 7, 12:30 - 1:50pm
- Aronoff 5401
- Chakaia Booker is an internationally renowned and widely collected American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works from recycled tires and stainless steel for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces.
Tabula Rasa Gallery exhibits
- Date & Time: Gallery is open Mon – Fri, 8am – 5pm, receptions are usually on Thursdays 4-6pm
- Location (or Zoom link): Wolfson 5300
- School of Art
- The Tabula Rasa Gallery is a student run gallery that exhibits group, solo, or curated shows by School of Art students.
Gallery Exhibits
The DAAP Galleries host rotating exhibitions throughout the year in both solo and group exhibitions featuring work by artists that range from practicing professionals, faculty, and students.
DAAPcamps
DAAPcamps began in the summer of 2011. It has grown each summer and now hundreds of students join us from all over the country and internationally to explore the disciplines at DAAP. The Camp Leads are comprised of faculty and professionals in the individual industries of Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Shoe Design, Graphic Communication Design, Architecture and Interior Design, Fine Art disciplines, and Animation and Digital Film-Making.
If you would like to be notified about DAAPcamps 2026, please submit this interest form.
Contact
Kiaya Demere Carter,
Manager of Unit Operations and Strategic Initiatives
513-556-4933