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Events and Exhibitions
Common Ground: Portraits of Cincinnati Area Artists
Prints by Greater Cincinnati Artists for SOS ART
For a Better World 2024
Hunger/Food Insufficiency Art Event
Open Calls
Artist-in-Residence
SOS ART, in collaboration with the Fitton Center, is offering an ongoing Artist in Residence Program. This residency, targeted primarily toward Greater Cincinnati Artists, is designed to encourage creators engaging with themes of Peace and Justice in their artistic practice. With support from SOS ART and the Fitton Center, selected artists will spend three months creating, curating, and collaborating on a project to share with our community. The residency is open for artists, curators, educators and creators.
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Deadline to apply for next Cycle, July – September 2024, is May 1.
SOS ART 2024
USA Miniprints for Peace and Justice
Latest Publications
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The book “Voices from India” is the fourth such book in a series of SOS ART books and exhibits that mean to showcase prints from a different country where artist printmakers use their art as a reflection of their social, cultural, and political reality. Before India, the other three featured countries were Mexico (Oaxaca), Lebanon, and Czechia. The prints of “Voices from India” will be exhibited at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, in Cincinnati, from July 6 to August 31, 2024. At some point during the length of the exhibit an Indian cultural and an Indian movie mini festivals will take place. The purpose of these SOS ART projects is to share the art and the culture of a different country with Greater Cincinnati residents, thus bridging the cultural divide and contributing to a better world.
“Cartoons for Peace and Justice”, a project of SOS ART, consists of a series of cartoon books, each on a given theme of peace and justice. Each book, composed of 2 stories on the same theme, is illustrated by two different Greater Cincinnati artists or groups of artists. These books are given free to local elementary and middle schools to share with their students and have their content discussed at some point in the classroom. also with the hope to trigger in the students artistic creativity in line with the addressed theme. The first two books published were respectively on the theme of Environment and Hunger. The three newest ones are: 1) on the theme of Endangered Animals, consisting of the following 2 stories: “Merit Badge,” written and illustrated by Kate Rowekamp, and “Have You Ever Seen a Dodo Bird,” written and illustrated by Jeff Casto 2) on the theme of Negative Effects of Technology, consisting of the following 2 stories: “Idea Box,” written and illustrated by Nick Felaris, and “Bad Click,” written and illustrated by Soren Melbye 3) on the theme of Responsibility, consisting of the following 2 stories: “The Ant Captain,” written by Peyton Ericson and illustrated by Ella Emanuel, and “The Letter,” written by Saad Ghosn and illustrated by Wesley Ericson. Please feel free to share these books with children you know and to contact us (sosartcincinnati@gmail.com) for any additional questions or information.
“For A Better World 2024” is the 21st yearly book of Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists published by SOS ART. It includes poems by 80 local poets and drawings by 36 local visual artists, all on the themes of peace and justice.
“Human Rights” Portfolio of Woodcut Prints
by Artists from Oaxaca and Cincinnati
Latest Videos
SOS ART 2022
The “SOS ART 22” video documents the SOS ART 2022 and USA Miniprints exhibit that took place at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, June and July 2022. The exhibit comprised artworks by more than 150 Greater Cincinnati artists and 50 printmakers from all over the United States, all on the themes of Peace and Justice.
Voices from Czechia, 2022
“Voices from Czechia”, after Oaxaca/Mexico and Lebanon, was the 3rd “Voices from…” organized by SOS ART and curated by Saad Ghosn, its President. Its meant to share with the Cincinnati audience artworks which reflected the social and cultural reality of Czech printmakers. The show comprised 121 prints of various printmaking techniques, by 31 Czech artists, emerging or well established, young and old, a couple already dead. It took place at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, July to September 2022, and was accompanied by a Czech cultural and a Czech movie mini-festivals. It goal of the exhibit and of its accompanying activities was to contribute, within the Cincinnati community, to cultural exchange and enrichment, to promote cross cultural understanding and appreciation; also to illustrate the power of art as a contributor to a universal better world. In case you were not able to see the show in person, please watch the video below that documents it.
Race & the City Art Event, May 14, 2022
Please watch the short video below summarizing and highlighting the May 14, 2022, “Race & the City Art Event”, organized by SOS ART, and in which took part 14 local poets, 40 local visual artists and 2 local performing groups, each adding their own artistic response to one of the chapters of the book “Race and the City: Work, Community, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970”, edited by Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Participating in the event were also the editor and 2 of the authors, Charles F. Casey-Leininger and Nancy Bertaux.
You can also watch the video documenting the entirety of the event here.
SOS ART Retrospective 2016-2020
The “SOS ART Retrospective 2016-2020” video documents the artworks on peace and justice included in the exhibit of the same name. They consist of selected artworks by more than 90 Greater Cincinnati artists who had participated in the annual SOS ART exhibits between 2016 and 2020. The video also features mini interviews of 60 of the participating artists.
Calls to Artists and Online Exhibits
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America; mixed media; by VL Cox
Thom Shaw’s Woodcut Series “The Malcolm X Paradox,” a Timely Call to Action
Article by Saad Ghosn
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