Press releases and announcements from Ohio's arts organizations
ArtsWave will present its fourth annual Truth and Innovation Artist Showcase from July 12 to 14, 2024, a free, public exhibition of new works by 22 Black and Brown artists from the Greater Cincinnati region.
Read moreArtsWave Board of Trustees approved $8,845,540 in Sustaining Impact grants for 47 arts organizations in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
Read moreLes Arts Florissants, a Baroque ensemble based in France, will perform at EJ Thomas Hall in Akron on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as part of Tuesday Musical’s 2025-26 Akron Concert Series.
Read moreState and Federal Communications hosted a reception on Oct. 9 at its downtown Akron headquarters to mark the installation of new artwork by Summit County artist Jennifer Vincik.
Read moreBoston Brass and Imani Winds will perform together at E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron on Tuesday, Feb. 10, as part of Tuesday Musical’s Akron Concert Series.
Read moreSoprano Renee Fleming will lead a panel discussion on the connections between the arts and health on April 20 at the Hudson Library in Hudson, Ohio.
Read moreOhio University students workshopped an original jukebox musical in 29 hours as part of the OU Fringe Festival this spring, funded by the university experiential learning grant program.
Read moreWeathervane Playhouse in Akron has announced the cast for its upcoming production of “The Secret Garden.”
Read moreWeathervane Playhouse in Akron has announced the recipients of its Chanticleer Awards, recognizing performers, designers, and volunteers from its recent season.
Read moreWeathervane Playhouse in Akron has announced the winners of its 13th Annual 8×10: The Eileen Moushey TheatreFest.
Read moreAn America 250-Ohio signature event will pair Ohio-centric films with community programming at venues statewide in 2026, from the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights to independently owned cinemas in Cincinnati.
Read moreThe 28th annual Summer Festival of the Arts will take place July 11-12 on the YSU campus, featuring more than 80 visual artists and free admission.
Read moreThe Taft Museum of Art is accepting applications through July 31 for the 2027 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence Program, offering a $10,000 honorarium to an oral storyteller.
Read moreThe Taft Museum of Art will show more than 100 works by Cincinnati-based artist Edie McKee Harper from October 17, 2026, through January 24, 2027, in the first solo museum exhibition of her work.
Read moreThe Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati presents The Scandinavian Home: Landscape and Lore, featuring approximately 75 works from a private collection on public view for the first time, through September 20.
Read moreThe Human Race Theatre Company introduces Camp DNA (Developing New Artists), a three-week summer theater program for high school students running July 6-24, 2026.
Read moreThe Dayton Performing Arts Alliance will retire its SuperPops and Rockin’ Orchestra Series and shift Masterworks to Saturday evenings for 2026-2027.
Read moreMutual Dance Theatre presents four new works at Modern Mix ’26 at the Aronoff Center, May 1-2, featuring the first artistic collaboration between Cincinnati Ballet and Mutual Dance Theatre.
Read moreDan Denhart, head of the Technical Direction program at Ohio University’s School of Theater, retires after four decades of shaping productions and mentoring students.
Read moreThe Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation has announced its 2026 honorees. Ann Patchett will receive the Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. Kaveh Akbar won fiction for Martyr! and Sunil Amrith won nonfiction for The Burning Earth.
Read moreMiami University’s College of Creative Arts has received a philanthropic commitment from Jason T. Busch and Duane G. Middendorf to support leadership at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum.
Read moreThe Cleveland Institute of Music has announced its 2026-27 CIM Opera Theater season, the first under Dr. François Germain. The three-production season includes works by Daniel Catán, Jonathan Sheffer and Mozart.
Read moreBeginning July 1, the Columbus Museum of Art will offer free daily admission to visitors 25 and under. The change is part of Access 150, a five-year initiative backed by a $4 million gift from the Walter Foundation.
Read moreA new study by ArtsWave and the Cincinnati Regional Chamber found the region’s arts sector produced $1.6 billion in total economic impact from 2019 to 2023.
Read moreThe Columbus Museum of Art ratified its first collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME Ohio Council 8, effective February 5, 2024.
Read moreThe Dayton Performing Arts Alliance announced its 2024-25 season, marking Neal Gittleman’s 30th year as conductor of the Dayton Philharmonic.
Read moreThe Akron Art Museum presented ‘Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life,’ featuring the Cleveland artist’s cityscapes, portraits, and dioramas, from May to August 2024.
Read moreThe Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati adopted a new strategic plan and mission statement after a nine-month planning process facilitated by the DeVos Institute of Arts Management.
Read moreBalletMet appointed choreographer and former Dutch National Ballet principal dancer Remi Wörtmeyer as its new artistic director.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art announced a $25 million challenge gift from The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation, funding exhibitions, a curatorial position, landscape work, and a lobby renovation.
Read moreBLINK, the biennial public light and art festival, featured more than 80 artists and 70 installations across Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky from October 17-20, 2024.
Read moreThe Columbus Museum of Art received a $1 million gift from The Columbus Foundation as the museum marks the 10th anniversary of its Margaret M. Walter Wing expansion.
Read moreThe Canton Museum of Art opened four winter exhibitions in November 2024, led by ‘Bohemian Chrysalis,’ a collaborative exhibition about Cleveland’s early 20th-century Kokoon Arts Klub.
Read moreCincinnati Opera announced Good Bones, a new opera by Pulitzer Prize winners Michael Abels and James Ijames, as the third and final work in the company’s Black Opera Project. The approximately $6 million initiative will premiere three commissioned operas across three summers at Cincinnati Music Hall.
Read moreThe 47th annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland features 10 indoor concerts at Playhouse Square June 25-27, including Sheila E., Ohio Players, Ron Carter, and Kurt Elling.
Read moreCincinnati Opera stages Richard Strauss’s Salome at Music Hall on June 18 and 20, the first Cincinnati production in more than 25 years. Soprano Kathryn Lewek makes her title role debut.
Read moreThe Kent State University Museum opens two exhibitions on June 26 exploring American textile traditions, including a quilt attributed to Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley.
Read moreHeights Arts announced three summer exhibitions: a student-curated color show, a group show by artists working through disability and illness, and a cultural identity solo in the Spotlight Gallery.
Read moreThe free outdoor concert series on the College Green in Athens begins June 11, with a patriotic finale celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 2.
Read moreCIFF launched a virtual masterclass series for film creatives at $25 per session, with the first on TV writing led by J.D. Shields on June 25.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy will co-present a 120-work exhibition tracing modern art on the French Mediterranean from the 1870s to 1960s, opening at CMA in March 2027.
Read moreGCAC awarded $504,300 to 44 Columbus artists through its community-reviewed grant process, with more than 200 reviewers evaluating 99 finalists at a public review day on May 9.
Read moreGCAC approved $923,447 in 2026 Project Support grants to 71 nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in the Columbus region.
Read moreThe Columbus Symphony will present two free outdoor family concerts at Columbus Commons on June 26 and July 10, funded by a $25,000 Honda contribution.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Natural History named Dr. Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong, Dr. Walter Paulin Tapondjou Nkonmeneck, and Dr. Ethan Gyllenhaal as curators of botany, biodiversity, and ornithology.
Read moreLandscape studio Terremoto will design a native-plant garden at CMA’s Pizzuti building, the firm’s first Midwest and first major museum commission, developed with OSU’s Knowlton School.
Read moreThe Cleveland Institute of Music enrolled more than 150 new students for fall 2026 from 15 countries and awarded $5.4 million in tuition assistance to the incoming class.
Read moreThe Cleveland Institute of Music’s $22 million Kulas Hall renovation, completed in September 2025, won a NAIOP Northern Ohio construction award for its acoustic redesign of the 1961 concert venue.
Read moreThe National Endowment for the Arts awarded Toledo Opera a $21,000 grant to support Opera On Wheels, the company’s educational outreach program now in its 40th year.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Natural History has completed trail and boardwalk improvements at Scheele Preserve on Kelleys Island. A free Welcome Day is set for June 20.
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