Press releases and announcements from Ohio's arts organizations
The Taft Museum of Art will present ‘The Scandinavian Home: Landscape and Lore,’ featuring 75 works from a major private Nordic art collection, from June 13 through September 20, 2026.
Read moreThe Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Funds for Artists program opens June 1, offering individual artist grants for materials, professional development and marketing to Franklin County residents.
Read moreNearly 100 works by the late self-taught Cincinnati artist Tony Dotson go on view May 8 at AGAR’s Sample Space gallery downtown in the first major retrospective of his career.
Read moreThe Taft Museum of Art will show ‘The Scandinavian Home: Landscape and Lore’ June 13–September 20, 2026, featuring roughly 75 Nordic works from an important private collection.
Read moreThe Bowling Green State University Philharmonia will release ‘The Composer’s Voice: Volume 10′ on April 10, its 10th album of previously unrecorded contemporary orchestral works, timed to the College of Musical Arts’ 50th anniversary.
Read moreThe Akron Art Museum will host a national touring exhibition of Cree artist Kent Monkman’s work from April 11 through August 17, the only Midwest stop on the tour.
Read moreColumbus’s Short North Arts District opens its April 2026 exhibition cycle with new shows at galleries along North High Street and Lincoln Street, with Gallery Hop on April 4.
Read moreThe Columbus Symphony’s 2026-27 season marks its 75th anniversary with a Carnegie Hall return on October 28 and three major choral collaborations.
Read moreArtsWave and its LGBTQIA+ affinity group announce a call for artists to create a public mural at 515 Madison Ave. in Covington, Kentucky, with a 2,500 stipend and an April 25 application deadline.
Read moreThe Chagrin Cinema 6 in Bainbridge Township reopened April 1 as The Hive and Honey Hill, a multi-use venue with restaurants, a music space, event halls and a small screening room.
Read moreThe Columbus Symphony unveiled its 2026-27 season marking the orchestra’s 75th anniversary, highlighted by a Carnegie Hall appearance in October for the first time in 25 years.
Read moreThe Akron Art Museum presents Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors, the only Midwest stop for a sweeping survey of the Cree artist’s work, running April 11 through Aug. 16.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art announced its ArtLens Gallery will reopen in July 2026 as a fully transformed space featuring AI, mixed reality, and four interactive zones designed to deepen engagement with the permanent collection.
Read moreGreat Lakes Theater’s 2026-27 season at the Hanna Theatre features Shakespeare, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, and A Christmas Carol, with subscriptions now on sale.
Read moreCincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Ballet, Know Theatre, Children’s Theatre, and Playhouse in the Park all unveiled 2026-27 programming, including world premieres and a new CSO partnership series.
Read moreSix Central Ohio artists will be featured in the biennial Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition at Columbus Museum of Art, opening April 15 in partnership with the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
Read morePlayhouse Square announced its seven-show 2026-27 KeyBank Broadway Series, opening Sept. 12 with the touring premiere of Death Becomes Her.
Read morePlayhouse Square announced a seven-show 2026-2027 KeyBank Broadway Series headlined by the national tour launch of Death Becomes Her. The season runs from September 2026 through September 2027 and also includes Mamma Mia!, BOOP!, Maybe Happy Ending, Buena Vista Social Club, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Season tickets range from $185 to $810.
Read moreThe Toledo Museum of Art has opened ‘Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World,’ featuring artifacts from the Louvre, British Museum, and Met on loan through July 5.
Read moreThe Toledo Museum of Art opened ‘Cursed\! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World’ on March 21, featuring 75 objects from the Louvre, British Museum, and Metropolitan Museum.
Read moreBalletMet’s spring triple-bill production invites audiences to donate personal hygiene items for YWCA Columbus families in emergency housing.
Read moreBalletMet’s ‘For the Love of Dance!’ triple bill at Davidson Theatre included a world premiere by company member Leiland Charles alongside works by Ratmansky and Arqués.
Read moreThe Massillon Museum screened ‘The Golden Key,’ a 1955 short film by Massillon native Nell Dorr, on March 26 as part of the Canton Palace Theatre’s America 250 film series.
Read moreThe Columbus Museum of Art will present a landmark 60-work survey of Asian American art from April 15 through August 16, 2026, organized by Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center.
Read moreOhio University’s School of Art + Design hosted its biennial Mentor + Mentee juried exhibition, featuring 13 teachers and 23 students from across Ohio.
Read moreColumbus Museum of Art’s Wonderball gala drew more than 1,500 guests on Jan. 31, 2026, raising nearly $300,000 for CMA’s creative programming under a baroque theme.
Read moreOhio University’s Global Arts Festival marked its 20th anniversary with three days of concerts, workshops, and performances featuring artists from five countries.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra announced its 2026 summer seasons on March 13, with Brett Mitchell returning to Blossom and live Harry Potter film concerts among the highlights.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra announced its 2026 Blossom Music Festival and Summers at Severance seasons, marking Music Director Franz Welser-Möst’s 25th and final summer with the ensemble.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra announced 13 programs for its 2026 Blossom Music Festival and Summers at Severance series. Idina Menzel headlines on July 26. Music director Franz Welser-Möst leads his 25th and final summer season with programs at both Blossom and Severance. The festival opens with an America at 250 celebration and closes with three nights of John Williams over Labor Day weekend.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra revealed its 2026 summer lineup featuring Idina Menzel, America at 250 celebrations, and music director Franz Welser-Möst’s farewell season.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra announced its 2026 summer season with highlights including an America 250 tribute, Idina Menzel, a Harry Potter film concert, and conductor Franz Welser-Möst’s final season.
Read moreThe Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown has received a 1957 ‘Homage on the Square’ painting by Josef Albers, donated by the Roemer family of Pittsburgh.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra unveiled its 2026 summer season featuring the Blossom Music Festival, Idina Menzel, Harry Potter film concerts, and Welser-Möst’s final summer with the ensemble.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Pops Orchestra released Harlem Renaissance on March 13, its eighth album under conductor John Morris Russell, featuring Marcus Roberts, Duke Ellington, and a debut recording of Carlos Simon’s Hellfighters’ Blues.
Read moreHong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan led the Cleveland Orchestra March 19-21, drawing attention as a potential candidate to succeed departing music director Franz Welser-Möst.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Art Museum opens ‘Elizabeth Hawes: Radical American Fashion’ April 24, the first major museum presentation of the work of the American couturier and social commentator.
Read moreCincinnati Playhouse in the Park announced a 2026-27 season headlined by a world premiere commissioned from playwright Theresa Rebeck and the launch of the inaugural Made in Cincy: New Works Festival.
Read moreCincinnati Opera is seeking non-singing supernumerary performers for its 2026 Summer Festival, with open casting sessions April 22 and 25 at Cincinnati Music Hall.
Read moreConductor Brett Mitchell will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in live performances of the “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” film score at Blossom Music Center on July 11 and 12.
Read moreBallet Excel Ohio, the Cuyahoga Falls company founded in 1975, celebrates its 50th anniversary with a world premiere production of ‘Aladdin’ at Akron Civic Theatre on March 14-15, 2026, led by the company’s first Black male lead.
Read moreHershey Felder starred as Sergei Rachmaninoff in a new musical play at Cleveland Play House’s Allen Theatre, exploring a fictional encounter between the composer and Tsar Nicholas II.
Read moreThe Akron Art Museum opens “History Is Painted by the Victors,” the only Midwest stop for Cree artist Kent Monkman’s North American tour, on April 11, 2026.
Read moreThe 53rd Athens International Film + Video Festival runs April 13-19 in Athens, Ohio, with more than 200 films and visiting artists including Boots Riley and Amy Jenkins.
Read moreThe Short North Arts District announced its 2026 Gala honorees, recognizing volunteers, business owners, and community organizations for their contributions to the Columbus neighborhood.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra has appointed five new members to its violin and viola sections, including a new First Associate Concertmaster and Associate Concertmaster.
Read moreBeck Center’s 24th annual Razzle Dazzle production unites performers with disabilities and community volunteers at the Lakewood arts center April 24-26.
Read moreCincinnati Opera and CCM will stage a public preview of the new opera-ballet ‘O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky’ on March 31, featuring soprano Christine Goerke.
Read moreThe Toledo Museum of Art is reorganizing its entire collection chronologically for the first time in nearly 40 years, with a grand reopening expected in late 2027.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art opens a landmark exhibition on Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot on March 29, alongside a full calendar of Women’s History Month performances.
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