Join us for a conversation with artist Terence Hammonds, University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for the City Anne Delano Steinert, and Curator of Decorative Arts and Design Amy Dehan to celebrate the opening of Terence Hammonds: Soul is a Ham Hock in Your Cornflakes. Together, they will consider how Hammonds' new body of work engages with and responds to Cincinnati's Black history. 

About the speakers: 

Terrence Hammonds was born in 1976 and grew up in Cincinnati’s Over‑the‑Rhine neighborhood. He attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts before continuing his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. From 2010–2018, he served as Director of Artist Outreach at Rookwood Pottery, a historic Cincinnati institution founded in the late 1880s. Hammonds’ solo exhibitions span both international and regional venues, including The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China (2016), the IFÖ Center in Bromolla, Sweden (2019), the Taft Museum of Art (2023), and The Weston Art Gallery (2026). Hammonds has works currently represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s collection and previously was a Rosenthal Education Center (REC) Artist in Residence in 2020. 

Anne Delano Steinert is Research Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati where she also directs The Center for the City, a cross-college collaboration focused on the past, present, and future of urban space. She teaches courses in the history of Cincinnati and American cities, and architectural and public history.  Steinert is the curator of the award-winning exhibition, Finding Kenyon Barr: Exploring Photographs of Cincinnati's Lost Lower West End, which traveled to ten different venues between 2017 and 2025. The exhibition took a close look at Cincinnati's vibrant and vital Lower West End neighborhood and the impacts of the urban renewal-fueled displacement of over 25,000 Black Cincinnatians. She has recently expanded her work to the NEH-funded Avondale History Project. She also leads an initiative at UC for a just and worthy monument to victims of UC's full-body radiation experiments. Steinert is the founding board chair and current Executive Director of the Over-the-Rhine Museum.  

This program takes place in the Fath Auditorium. 

American Sign Language interpretation will be provided by Ghostlight Artistic Interpreting.

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