Nigeria, Peter Clarke of South Africa,

and Skunder Boghossian of Ethiopia,

mid-20th-Century masters who the
exhibition will link to the cultural and
political changes that were happening
here in the U.S. The show will be on
display through May 19.
The African masters will share
their environs with Robert Duncan-
son landscapes that frame the original
front entrance to the 200-year-old
home of several prominent city leaders
from our past. “We are a global society
local arts organization exposing its pa-
trons to work from elsewhere. The third
Native American artists who use their
art to tell traditional stories and promote
BRIGHT LIGHTS
Michael
now, and Cincinnati reflects that,” says installment of Paloozanoire’s Black & social justice. Thompson
Beaulieu, noting specifically Procter & Brown Faces at the Cincinnati Art Mu- Two exhibitions ran side-by-side at (above) is the
Gamble’s international reach and di- seum, Verified: An Ode to the Cultural the Contemporary Arts Center in the first artist-in-
residence at
verse employee base. ‘’But, for many Influences That Inspire Nations, focuses fall. An Ecology of Here used original art,
Mount St. Joseph
of us growing up, we were taught art on multimedia art from 15 Midwestern film, and photographs to highlight the University.
through the white Euro-centric lens. artists of color who celebrate the global work of BIPOC farmers, artists, and Ricardo Grant
We started with the classics, went on impact of Black and Brown culture on gardeners in providing nourishment to (below) founded
to the Renaissance, then the Enlight- everything from fashion and food to their communities. The challenges of Paloozanoire to
enrich the lives
enment. But there was a whole other entertainment and science. inner-city youth were explored in a se-
of people of
world out there that we really didn’t The show is on display through ries of prints provided by Philadelphia’s color across the
know. It’s exciting to stretch our wings January 21, running alongside Clearly Rush Arts Foundation. Midwest through
and explore it.” Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in art and entrepre-

M
The Taft Museum isn’t the only Glass, featuring 120 glass pieces by 33 ICHAEL THOMPSON sits neurship.
hunched over a painstaking
calligraphy he’s preparing for
his upcoming art exhibition, which will
run for a month starting in mid-Janu-
ary. He’s the first artist-in-residence at
Mount St. Joseph University, and he’s
an up-and-comer. He’s 24 years old and
says he really didn’t begin to seriously
paint until he was in college at Thomas
More University.
Thompson is tall with an athletic
build and an electric smile. He credits
his college advisor for altering his life’s
direction. Take an elective, his mentor
said, that gives you enjoyment. The
arts had always intrigued him, and he
thought back to an art class he took as a
child in a studio above a laundromat in
Richmond, Kentucky, and remembered
how he loved it. He already wrote and
gave poetry readings, so the creativity
was raw but ready.

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