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This is a virtual event.

Participate in a new kind of serial conversation program in whic h we seek insight and work together to identify concrete\, locally releva nt and achievable actions toward change.

Each Impact Circle begin s with a live-streamed panel discussion examining a topic relating to Hank Willis Thoma s’ artwork and current events. At the conclusion of each discussion\, panelists frame a question for audience members. Over the following week s\, we encourage motivated audience members to organize breakout Circles to explore the question with people they are connected to\, whether throu gh a workplace\, classroom\, faith community\, social group\, or other co ntext. Key insights and action points from breakout Circles will be colle cted and shared with the public to amplify potential impact.

Topic:

Envisioning

Look ah ead to the future\, considering what it will take—collectively and indivi dually—to create a world that is equitable and just for all.

Join artist Hank Willis Thomas\; Cal Cullen\, Executive Director of Wave Pool Art Center \; Emma Nuzzo\, Partnerships Manager at For Freedoms\; and mo derator Eileen Cooper Reed for a panel discussion exploring the act of en visioning the future – putting a vision for a better world into words and actions.

We will conclude the discussion with a question to carr y the conversation forward in your own breakout Circle\; submit your Circ le’s responses using the form below to be shared in the Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… exhibition.

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Panelist Bios:

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Calcagno Cullen
Calcagno Cullen is a social practice artist\, arts e ducator\, and curator. She is founder and Executive Director of Wave Pool Arts Center\, a gallery\, studio space\, and socially-engaged arts activ ator in Cincinnati\, and the co-founder of The Welcome Project\, a social -enterprise and makerspace for and by Cincinnati’s refugees and immigrant s. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her personal m ission is to “create empathy and social change through contemporary art.”
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Emma Nuzzo
Emma Nuzzo is a curator\, organizer and educator working at the intersection o f art and social impact. Central to her creative practice is the belief t hat art encourages the understanding of nuance and multiplicity in narrat ives and can promote deeper personal understanding\, empathy and social u nity. Nuzzo is the current Partnerships Manager at For Freedoms\, where she works directly with institutional partners to develop collaborations across the country\, produces programming and exhibitions with the collec tive\, and helps in the development of For Freedoms' pedagogical resource s. Nuzzo is currently pursuing a creative project to financially empower student and emerging artists\, set to launch in fall 2020.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to pe rspective\, identity\, commodity\, media\, and popular culture. Hi s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. All Th ings Being Equal… is the first major retrospective of his work\, and is o n view at the Cincinnati Art Museum through November 8
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Eileen Cooper Reed
Eileen Cooper Reed is a change maker and advocate who resides in Cincinnati. Her entire adult li fe has been dedicated to the improvement of the human condition particula rly for children and families of color. Eileen’s devotion to service led to her election to the City of Cincinnati Board of Education where she se rved two four-year terms and was chosen President by her colleagues four of those years. She is active in the Greater Cincinnati community and cur rently chairs the Board of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center and is a me mber of the Xavier University President’s Advisory Council.

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Impact Circles are made possible i n part by LPK and Eric and Jan-Michele Kearney.

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