Speaking of Home by Nancy Ann Coyne

I’ve been thinking about downtown Cincinnati skywalks as sites for public art, and I just came across a project entitled Speaking of Home by Nancy Ann Coyne. Installed last year in IDS Center /Macy’s Skyway in Minneapolis, the project featured large-scale portraits of new Minnesotans, along with their countries of origin, definitions of “home,” and [...]

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Earth Print by Jane Kim

Artist Jane Kim was born in Chicago and now lives and works in Oakland, CA. This limited-edition print is her collaboration with Berkeley-based letterpress studio Olive-Route, which designs and prints lovely work, including stationery, art prints, and event invitations, sometimes in collaboration with other artists. See more examples of the studio’s work in its online [...]

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Cincinnati Athletic Club Mural

Tucked away in Shillito Place downtown, on the side of the Cincinnati Athletic Club is this metal assemblage of a mural. It’s not the easiest site to photograph, nor is this the easiest artwork to understand. Above is some sort of dumbbell motif; below, I’m not sure. More exercise equipment?

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LEGO Architecture by Sean Kinney

NYC-based Sean Kinney plays with LEGO for a living! He has produced commissions for galleries, museums, television, publications, celebrities, and companies like Google, ABC, Mazda, JP Morgan Chase, ELLE, and FAO Schwarz. A few of the sculptures are available for sale, as are posters and prints of his work, which you can purchase in his [...]

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Elsewhere

A Moving Tale: The Power Of Conversation: everyone, say hello to soon-to-be Cincinnati transplants George and his wife. Cincinnati Heritage Tours: the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Heritage Programs offer a series of awesome tours of various area sites. Take a Ride on the Anderson Ferry: in words and pictures. Vilsack Establishes the People’s Garden Project on [...]

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Arriba Juntos in San Francisco

Based in the Mission district of San Francisco, Arriba Juntos is an employment and job training program that supports economic self-sufficiency for area families. The mural was designed by local artist Catalina Gonzalez, and includes a poem by Alvaro Gutierez.

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The State of Smith’s Toggery Shoppe

Last summer, there was a bit of discussion regarding whether or not 3CDC had bought up the buildings that house Smitty’s, a.k.a. Smith’s Toggery Shoppe. According to this sign I spotted the other day, 3CDC seems to own at least the southern-most building, and the area is part of its Phase III.

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Serigraphs by Evan Hecox

Evan Hecox is a Colorado-based artist whose work focuses on the complexity and isolation of urban environments. Compare Hecox’s work with the cityscapes of Katsuyuki Nishijima, Mark Coomer, and Paola Serrao.

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Skywalk to Nowhere

Downtown Cincinnati has a network of skywalks connecting many of the office buildings. This one, at 5th and Race, used to connect to a building that’s been replaced by a parking lot, so it’s now a dead end. I’ve heard that it may eventually be removed. In the mean time, or instead of demolition, here [...]

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Drip Plates by Cat Merrick

Brooklyn-based Cat Merrick sandblasts vintage ceramic plates to remove most of their decoration, leaving only a seemingly abstract design. These “drip” plates are/were decorated with traditional pastoral scenes.

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