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05/30/2026

Stop by the DAAP Library Front Desk display case, before July 24, to see a selection of student paintings by first-year 2D and introductory painting students in Associate Professor Emil Robinson. These works began as photography-based paintings created on hand-built wooden panels using acrylic and oil paint. Students explored atmosphere, subtle color, light, and visual ambiguity while thinking beyond simply copying a photograph. The result is a group of paintings that reward looking at them closely and invite interpretations. Featuring work by: Kai Cavins, Mia Getter, Ashlyn McIntyre, Maysun Ring, Sarah Boellner, and Jacob Eichenlaub.

DAAPworks: Directors' ChoiceThe Directors’ Choice specifically highlights the outstanding capstone projects that demonst...
05/21/2026

DAAPworks: Directors' Choice

The Directors’ Choice specifically highlights the outstanding capstone projects that demonstrate exceptional knowledge, creativity, and skill applied to a focused idea and then most effectively communicated by visual means.

Each year, the Directors from all four schools within DAAP review the project submissions from all of the school programs. The Directors take into consideration the recommendations provided by the faculty that work with these students daily.

After much deliberation, a consensus is reached to make the selections of Directors’ Choice award winners. Congratulations on this achievement.

- Kate Bonansinga, School of Art Director

05/15/2026

Students from adjunct instructor Amanda Berg’s class, Collection Management: Registration and Conservation, are exhibiting their Practical Project Assignments in the College of DAAP, Wolfson 6th floor display case. In the spirit of conservation and repairing, the class was tasked with researching, cleaning, and repairing damaged personal item. From antique violin cases to a modern comb, these students repaired their pieces like pros. The exhibit is up through the summer.

05/13/2026

Stop by the Tabula Rasa Gallery before May 23 to experience Time Means Nothing To A Stone, a solo exhibition by Bachelor of Fine Arts student Shawn Sweeney. The exhibit honors the memory of Shawn’s father. In his artist statement he writes:

This work is made at a pace that resists urgency, spectacle, and demand.

It moves slowly, accumulating pressure rather than seeking visibility.

Like stone, it carries memory without narration and weight without explanation.

I have stripped away voices that do not honor my tempo, my labor, or my psyche.

What remains is held by those who held me — the few, the constant, the unseen.

This work is made for them and in their honor.

It does not ask to be understood immediately or even fully.

It asks only to be encountered.

Time, here, is not a measure of progress or delay.

It is an element the work passes through without submission.

Change occurs through endurance.

Meaning gathers through staying.


Join Shawn for an artist reception May 14, 6-9pm Wolfson 5th floor, College of DAAP.

05/01/2026

Students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Games and Animation program gathered at the Spring Semester UC Game Lab Open House, featuring games from over half-a-dozen classes across College of Arts & Sciences and Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. Students shared their board games and videos with their cohort and faculty.

05/01/2026

Congratulations to the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Art History, and Master of Fine Arts students graduating this weekend. We are so proud of you and your accomplishments this year. Please keep in touch and much success to you!

Congratulations to the graduating seniors in Art History! We wish you an exciting next chapter in your lives.  Please ke...
04/30/2026

Congratulations to the graduating seniors in Art History! We wish you an exciting next chapter in your lives.  Please keep in touch, we love hearing about your achievements.

DAAPworks, on view April 27–May 2 at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.School of Art receptions are...
04/28/2026

DAAPworks, on view April 27–May 2 at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.

School of Art receptions are
Tuesday, April 28, 6-8pm

· Bachelor of Fine Arts Reception
Meyers and Reed Galleries

· Master of Fine Arts Reception
Tabula Rasa Gallery

· Bachelor of Arts in Art History Reception
Lobby of Aronoff 5401 Lecture Hall, 4:30 -5pm

* An additional Meyers Gallery reception will be held Friday, May 1, from 10:00 AM–2:00 PM.

04/25/2026

Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller has curated an exhibition in the Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre lobby at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, in conjunction with Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical (March 11–May 17, 2026). The installation features 15 original pieces of sheet music (1947–1956) performed by Rosemary Clooney, drawn from her personal collection, along with Clooney’s first autobiography and interpretive labels grounded in key scholarship on the artist.

Located on the second-floor lobby, the exhibition extends Leininger-Miller’s ongoing research on illustrated sheet music, following her recent co-edited publication, Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830–1930 (Bloomsbury, 2025, with Kenneth Hartvigsen).

04/23/2026

Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Seminar students of Associate Professor Emil Robinson and Assistant Professor Mrin Aggarwal present One Hundred Books, now on view at Tabula Rasa Gallery. The exhibition features three books from each student that have shaped their thesis work and artistic practice, alongside draft proposals open for feedback and critique. Plan to spend some time there before April 24, and join us for the reception on April 23, from 4–6 pm.

Students included in the show are: Tarus Adams, Lamia Aldaoushi, Elena Bleyer, Malia Brown, Phoebe Cannon, Valeria Casas-Lopez, Mia Charlton, Ruby Cheistwer, Alex Copenhaver, Alex Cribbin, Noah DeCurtins, Leila Denbow, Daniel Dickerscheid, Chris Edge, Kallista Edwards, Abby Fadel, Maddie Fair, Seth Hartenstein, Mk Hensley, Jorge Hernandez Cabrera, Rett Kaufman, Emily Korth, Sophia Linkous, Millie Mascall, Alayssa Moe, Caroline McKenzie, Eleonora Nezhivyasova, Emma Thomas, Valerie West, Alexis Willis, Kiera Yeck, and Haley Zuch.

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