Arts & Theatre
The Largest Photography and Lens-Based Celebration
Posted on Sep 23
This project showcases a wide range of original exhibitions curated by FotoFocus
Photo Credit : FotoFocus
FotoFocus is a non-profit, created to support and celebrate photography and lens-based art that is accessible, enriching, and engaging to a diverse public. The 2024 Biennial features 107 projects at 86 participating venues across Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky, including 3 Butler County venues. This is a month-long celebration, uniting regional artists, curators, museums, galleries, universities, and more.
This year's theme, backstories, focuses on stories that are not evident at first glance. These stories offer context for what happened previously or out of view, providing narratives not yet told or presented from a new perspective.
Participating Butler County Venues:
Fitton Center for Creative Arts
Me > Me: 17 Artists Explore Hamilton Neighborhoods | October 19, 2024 – January 3, 2025
The Fitton Center and 17STRONG match regional artists with Hamilton's 17 diverse neighborhoods to find visual narratives that define the community.
Miami University Richard & Carole Cocks Art Museum
Through Their Lens: Photographing Freedom Summer | August 27 – December 14, 2024
This exhibition approaches the story of Freedom Summer in a new way by focusing on those behind the lens and their backstories as documentarians.
Miami University Performing Arts Quad
Convening Stories at the Crossroads | October 3-5, 2024
A site-specific projection-based public artwork by artist Diane Fellows that explores the intersecting histories and experiences of place through collaging video and sound.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum
Stories of the Land | August 16 – December 22, 2024
This exhibit invites us to consider the land's complexities, both the beautiful and the incomprehensible. Using many different approaches, the artists in this show contemplate humanity’s deep relationship with nature and their own place within it, capturing moments full of mystery and a longing to understand the world around us.
Meryl McMaster: Stories of the Infinite Sky | August 16-December 22, 2024
This is an outdoor exhibition of nine photographs from artist Meryl McMaster that draw inspiration from memories and cultural traditions related to her nêhiyaw (Plains Cree), Métis, Dutch, and British ancestry. Displayed as semi-transparent tapestries amidst the forests of Pyramid Hill, the images weave an imaginative tale of memory, mystery, and what lies within the personas we create throughout our lives.
Jo Whaley: The Theater of Nature | August 16-December 22, 2024
Jo Whaley exhibits a collection of photographs and ephemera presenting the world of insects and nature as dramatic, wondrous, and ultimately, intertwined with our own lives.