by Obie Linn, Conservator of Textiles

10/10/2024

CAMConservation, textile conservation, 1890s fashion, Cincinnati Wing

In the textile conservation lab, a three-piece 1890s cotton muslin ensemble arrived for treatment!

by Sai Ashish Bommasani, Visitor Services

8/26/2024

Rodin | Response: FIELD family secrets, sculpture, DAAP, University of Cincinnati, School of Art, Taft Marsh, Diluted Lineage, Camille Claudel

The pieces in Rodin | Response: FIELD family secrets are a mixture of Rodin’s own sculptures with works from students in the DAAP School of Art at the University of Cincinnati.

by e.m.i., Digital Content Manager

6/6/2024

East Asian Art, Cincinnati

In 2023 the City of Cincinnati proclaimed June 8 to be Dr. Hou-mei Sung Day, in honor of the museum’s curator of East Asian Art.

by Obie Linn, Conservator of Textiles

2/29/2024

CAMConservation, textile conservation, museum pests, silverfish, historic Cincinnati

These elegant pale blue kid leather shoes came to the lab for a new storage tray and interior padding, but they are interesting because they bear tell-tale damage from a specific collection pest: silverfish.

by Franck Mercurio, Publications Editor

2/13/2024

Margaret H. DeWitt Entrance, Adams-Emery building, Potter, Tyler, Martin & Roth, Cincinnati Historical Society, Eve Disconsolate, emersion DESIGN, Triversity Construction, Renovations, Marek Family Commons

If you’ve visited the Cincinnati Art Museum in the past few months, you might have noticed construction work on the museum’s first floor, just past the Great Hall, where Hiram Power’s marble sculpture of Eve Disconsolate once stood.

by Cecile Mear, Conservator of Works on Paper

1/11/2024

paper conservation, Galt House Cincinnati, Emil Klauprecht, historic Cincinnati, lithograph, CAMConservation

In my post of November 30, I promised to explain what it took to improve the appearance and the mechanical condition of Emil Klauprecht’s 1830s lithograph, Galt House.

by Cecile Mear, Conservator of Works on Paper

11/30/2023

Galt House Cincinnati, Emil Klauprecht, CAMConservation, works on paper, paper conservation

At first glance it is obvious the print has had a rough life.

by Cecile Mear, Conservator of Works on Paper

9/28/2023

CAMConservation, Cincinnati Art Museum, collodion photograph, paperweight, archives

An interesting artifact has entered the museum Archives, courtesy of Archivist/Records Manager Geoff Edwards. This glass paperweight holds a small photograph of the museum and the Cincinnati Art Academy (now located downtown).

by Amy Burke, Director of Visitor Services and Franck Mercurio, Publications Editor

6/20/2023

Green Committee, sustainability, Recycle, Cincinnati Recycling & Reuse Hub, green team

The museum’s Green Team recently took a field trip to learn more about recycling opportunities in our region. With our individual recyclables in tow, we visited Cincinnati Recycling & Reuse Hub (CRRH) and were wowed by this organization.

by Cecile Mear, Conservator of Works on Paper

4/6/2023

CAMConservation, Laurence Sisson, paper conservation, Cincinnati Scenes

A recent bequest of 20th-century American prints and paintings includes this view of Cincinnati by Laurence Sisson (1928–2015). Painted in watercolor with pen and black ink, the scene captures downtown buildings overlooking the Ohio River as Sisson saw them in 1954.

by Guest Contributor James Neville, Art Teacher, Cincinnati Public Schools

2/22/2023

Teachers, love story, Evenings for Educators, summer teacher institute, Cincinnati Bengals, Teacher resources

This story begins with Samantha Gaier, the museum’s Associate Director of School-Based Learning, asking about my personalized Super Bowl XLI Bengals jersey during a “visual arts professional development day” for art teachers with Cincinnati Public Schools. Little did she know, the jersey was just a small part of a larger story, a love story that began almost 40 years earlier.

by Geoff Edwards, Archivist / Records Manager, Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives

2/9/2023

Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, artist files, Thom Shaw, Cincinnati artists, Black History Month, Black artists

In honor of Black History Month, the library is currently displaying the artist file of Thom Shaw (1947–2010), one of Cincinnati’s best known and most admired contemporary artists.

by Cincinnati Art Museum

2/9/2022

Cincinnati Bengals, Bengals, Rosenthal Education Center, REC

Many recent visitors have football on their minds!

by Conservation

9/2/2021

Constance McClure, Art Academy of Cincinnati

Visit the Art Academy to see Never a Day Without Drawing, on view from August 23 to September 9, 2021.

by Trisha Brockmeyer & Geoff Edwards

8/6/2021

Paintings, Politics and the Monument’s Men: The Berlin Masterpieces, Monuments Men, Walter Farmer, Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, Trisha Brockmeyer, Geoff Edwards, archives, Cincinnati history, World War II

Although perhaps best known for his wartime service, a new donation of papers and photographs to the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives is helping to shed light on Walter Farmer’s life and work beyond the Monuments Men.

by Cincinnati Art Museum

4/16/2021

Charity Navigator, Top Rating, Financial Health, Accountability, Transparency, Institute for Museum and Library Service, CityBeat's Best of Cincinnati, Cincy Chic Guide, Share Your Story

Charity Navigator gives its highest rating for the sixth consecutive year.

by Conservation

1/21/2021

Order of Cincinnatus, Eleventh Cincinnati Exposition, Panorama print, behind the scenes, conservation, paper conservation

Last week our paper conservator visited the Contemporary Arts Center downtown to deinstall the museum’s Panorama of the Procession.

by Conservation

7/9/2020

paper conservation, Order of Cincinnatus, Eleventh Cincinnati Exposition, Panorama print, CAC Cincinnati, behind the scenes

This year the Cincinnati Art Museum is again supporting the Contemporary Arts Center by lending a book to their newly opened exhibit, “Tania Candiani: Sounding Labor, Silent Bodies”.

by Kaitlyn Sharo, Marketing & Communications Manager

12/18/2019

Year in Review, front ramp, Nancy Rexroth, Beyond Black Rock, Art Climb, Art in Bloom, Special Exhibitions, No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, Best of Cincinnati

From a new attendance record to Burning Man interactive installations to a new fully accessible front entrance, what an incredible year it’s been for the Cincinnati Art Museum!

by Helen Rindsberg

3/13/2019

Japanese Woodblock, April Vollmer, Cincinnati Asian Art Society

Artist April Vollmer will help the Cincinnati Art Museum celebrate its outstanding Japanese woodblock print collection at a special event from the Cincinnati Asian Art Society on Sunday, March 31.

by Conservation

1/24/2019

behind the scenes, conservation, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Artists

Benn Pitman’s Design for a Circular Plate is an example of a preparatory drawing the artist created for a carving.

by Geoff Edwards

1/4/2019

Art Academy of Cincinnati, behind the scenes, Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives

The Art Academy and Cincinnati Art Museum have closely intertwined histories.

by Summer Gollar

5/9/2018

CAM staff, Highlights, Personal Favorites, Staff Highlights, Cincinnati artists, CAMfam, Meet the CAM fam

Posted by: Summer Gollar and Drew Yakscoe

by Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings

3/21/2018

curatorial, Cincinnati history, Louis Charles Vogt, American Painting, Cincinnati artists

Posted by: Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings

by Conservation

9/14/2017

behind the scenes, conservation, paintings, Cincinnati artists, woman's art club

Posted by: Conservation

by Samantha Gaier

7/5/2017

summer, summerteacherinstitute, Teacher resources, Cincinnati Summer, professional development, Folk Art, art of craft

Posted by: Samantha Gaier

by CAM Staff

6/27/2017

Cameron Kitchin, Cincinnati Art Museum, CAM staff

Cameron Kitchin, Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, discusses the layers of creating and developing one of the oldest museums in the United States and its 'encyclopedic' and vast collection of more than 65,000 objects.

by Geoff Edwards

4/7/2017

Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, archives, library, World War 1, Cincinnati artists

Posted by: Geoff Edwards

by Design and Installation

1/31/2017

Dressed to Kill, Arms and Armor, Samurai Sword, Cincinnati Art Museum, video

(Video) Watch as one of the Dressed to Kill swords is prepared and installed.

by Molly Donnermeyer

12/14/2016

MildredFischer, Holidays, HolidayCard, CAM, Cincinnati, Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives

Posted by: Molly Donnermeyer