Reed Gallery Current Exhibit
Still Moving
September 12th - November 21st, 2024
Reception: Thursday October 3rd, 5-7pm
View Exhibit and 360-Degree Tour
Immigrants and refugees make vast contributions and broad impact across the greater Cincinnati region. This exhibition showcases the unique stories of community leaders who are drivers of innovation, growth, and creativity. Specifically, this work is a platform for immigrant and refugee communities to explore how their own complex histories have driven them to lead. Individuals provide counter-narratives to harmful myths of the model minority and forever foreigner, balancing the intimacy of one’s migratory story as a core driver of action, but refusing to be limited by that story.
Immigrant leaders of community-based organizations, UC researchers, and Cincinnati Compass collaborate using participatory research and design strategies to create the content of Still Moving. The result is an exhibition which leverages narrative, photography, and printmaking to create immersive vignettes that celebrate the assets, strengths, and vision that immigrants contribute to the community.
Curation and Design: Michelle D'Cruz
Photography: HATSUE
Community Partners: Cincinnati Compass Community Council, Bryan Wright, Ph.D, Jane Muindi, Farrah Jacquez, Ph.D, & Michelle D'Cruz, MFA
Who is American Today?
Image courtesy of Flávia Bastos, Ph.D.
Exploring Digital Citizenship
September 12th - November 21st, 2024
Reception: Thursday October 3rd, 5-7pm
View Exhibit and 360-Degree Tour
This exhibition showcases video work created as part of the ongoing research project Who is American Today? investigating how high school-age students understand citizenship. The study’s premise is to enable student voice through digital making by asking more than 100 students across the country to create a short video answering to the question “Who is American today?” Exploring issues of personal and national identity, this exhibition showcases digital stories of students from across the country over a seven-year period. Connecting creativity and democracy, students are invited reflect upon their experiences in their own communities and perceived status as citizens. Viewers can experience different points of view, shared values and concerns, the range of technical skills and creative approaches, and the potential of digital story telling for elevating these voices. By creating and circulating original digital stories, participating students have experienced how digital making can bring attention to less-known stories, validate perspectives, help surpass polarizing issues, and engender shared understandings. Seeking to help articulate connections between students’ personal and political spheres, this project affirms the role of creative practices in advancing civic engagement. The work in this exhibition illuminates how creative practices can provide a road map to facilitate democratic dialogue, therefore, creating pathways for the pursuit of a common good.
Works by high school students from Provo High School, Utah; Oyler High School, OH; Miami Valley High School, and Kennedy Heights Art Center, OH.
Project Creators: Flávia Bastos, Ph.D. and James Rees, MFA
Support for this 2024 FotoFocus Biennial exhibition was provided by:
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FREE & Open to the Public!
Meyers Gallery: Steger Student Life Center, 500 UC MainStreet, Cincinnati, OH 45221
Cultural Exchange:: Still Moving
Cultural Exchange:: Who is American Today?
Reed Gallery: 2624 Clifton Ave Rm. 5275, Cincinnati, OH 45220
Cultural Exchange:: Who is American Today?
Artist James Rees will lead a hands-on digital storytelling workshop for UC faculty, graduate students, and community members, sharing the process that is foundational to Who Is American Today?
Additional Information: RSVP required. Please RSVP to Flavia Bastos: bastosf@ucmail.uc.edu. This event takes place at the Faculty Enrichment Center, UC Langsam Library, 2911 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, OH.
Access to the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial Program is a benefit of being a FotoFocus Biennial Passport holder.
Admission: Free to the Public
Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leaders featured in the exhibit, ask questions, share perspectives, and participate in meaningful conversations about the crucial contributions of immigrants in Cincinnati.
Additional Information: This educational event will take place on the 4th Floor in the DAAP Cafe.
Access to the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial Program is a benefit of being a FotoFocus Biennial Passport holder.
Admission: Free to the Public
Spotlight Days & Weekends highlight FotoFocus Participating Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators will be on site for talks, tours, special events, and featured programming. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the FotoFocus Biennial, exploring art within the communities that create and present it.
https://www.fotofocus.org/
A symposium led by Flavia Bastos and Doug Blandy that will facilitate a conversation about how universities and educational institutions can be more intentional in sustaining democracy through the arts.
Additional Information: This educational program will be held in DAAP Rm 3430.
Access to the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial Program is a benefit of being a FotoFocus Biennial Passport holder.
Admission: Free to the Public
Owning Your Story: Counter-narrative and Storytelling as Tools for Advocacy
Alongside fellow participants, learn how to craft your stories to advocate for your community. This hands-on experience is designed to empower you to use storytelling as a tool for advocacy.
Additional Information: This workshop will take place on the 4th Floor in the DAAP Cafe.
Access to the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial Program is a benefit of being a FotoFocus Biennial Passport holder.
Admission: Free to the Public
About Reed Gallery
The Dorothy W. & C. Lawson Reed, Jr. Gallery is located on the fifth floor of the DAAP Aronoff complex and is the largest of the DAAP Galleries. Located at the heart of the DAAP complex, the Reed Gallery provides a vibrant setting for DAAP students and the regional arts community in which to engage in meaningful discussions about the current state of visual culture. With a focus on current trends and practices, gallery exhibition themes range from Art to Fashion and address all of the fields of study within the college of DAAP. While the focus of the DAAP galleries is contemporary practice, the galleries do present exhibitions that approach practice historically by examining a process, a school of thought, or an individual of significance that exemplify the foundations of contemporary practice. Within an exhibition season, students and professionals alike are represented through a serious of group and solo exhibitions that address a wide range of visual media.
The location of the Reed Gallery provides countless opportunities for professors and students to engage in discussion within the gallery space. Here they can directly address issues relating to their studies, as the gallery may provide examples of work to inspire dialogue and act as an extension and compliment to their class and studio work. Additionally, the Reed Gallery is staffed by current students in order to provide practical experience working within a professional setting while aiding as a learning tool for individuals who are interested in the processes related to museum and gallery operations.
Planning Your Visit
The Reed Gallery
Hours: Sunday - Thursday 10am-5pm
Phone: (513) 556-2839
Address: Room 5275, 2624 Clifton Ct., DAAP Building, Cincinnati, OH, 45221
Location and visiting instructions for the Reed Gallery:
- When visiting the Reed Gallery enter the DAAP building by the third-floor entrance located at the bottom of Clifton Court next to the Clifton Court Garage. Proceed to the Reed Gallery located on the 5th Floor Rm 5275, and please wait outside the gallery for attendant to let you in.
- Metered parking is available on Clifton Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive; hourly parking is available in the Clifton Court Garage.
- Directions: From Martin Luther King Dr. turn right onto Clifton Ave. towards McMillan Ave. (DAAP will be on left). Street and garage parking are available (garage accepts cash or credit upon exit). Gallery is on the fifth floor.
- It may be helpful to view a campus map here
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