Walnut Hills / E. Walnut Hills

Walnut Hills was the first Cincinnati neighborhood to participate in Soapbox's On the Ground series, an embedded journalism approach to learn what's happening in the underrepresenting neighborhoods that are being transformed. Stories covered everything from business and community development, arts and culture and education to health and wellness, crime and food insecurity. A community newsroom was held at Caffé Vivace hosted by the champion of 45206, Kathryn Gardette. 

SonLight has handled installations of solar panels in third-world countries for more than a decade. When COVID precluded traveling abroad, they took the opportunity to fulfill their mission of providing energy for local schools and nonprofits.

Cincinnati Zoo expands regional solar energy with nonprofit collaborators

A Cincinnati Zoo/SonLight partnership illuminates BLOC Ministries’ Horses on the Hill.  

The art of getting out the vote

“It’s an important moment in American politics, and it’s a moment to bring a get-out-the-vote message to the streets,” said Shepard Fairey.

Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois, 1941.
Negro Motorist Green Book exhibition connects past with ongoing struggles for freedom and safety

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service exhibit's personal stories bring realities of travel for African Americans during the Jim Crow era to life.

Megan Wolfkill, a Memphis native who just moved to Cincinnati for her residency at Manifest, stands beside her painting Orange Couplet, which features bright tones and slightly asymmetrical mirror images.
Cincinnati’s creative class: Inspired works of art through study and residencies

Manifest creates a sanctuary space to support artists and their striving for excellence through [MAR] and [SIR] residencies

American Sign Museum expands to share more history and really BIG signs

American Sign Museum is a visually compelling testament to the artistry and diversity that signs provide for on-premises advertising.

Norwood / Factory 52 - The Resilience of an Industrial Town tour.
Build the City, But for Whom?

The recent CNU-32 event has left its mark on the Cincinnati region with strategic plans for [4] communities: Amelia, Camp Washington, Norwood and Xenia.

CNU 32.Cincinnati Comes to Town

“Cincinnati was chosen for its history, distinct neighborhoods, unique communities and places, and how it has been rebuilt harnessing its own diversity to overcome adversity.”

New restaurants coming to East Walnut Hills, Oakley, and Madisonville

New grub and tipples from a trio of forthcoming dining establishments.  

ArtWorks' Civic Studio artist in residence Asha White (second from left) with the Studio's team of artists catalogued Greater Cincinnati's 218 existing monuments and their subject matter as part of the New Monuments Initiative.
Artworks’ monumental task

The New Monuments Initiative strives for more inclusive Cincinnati memorials.  

L to R: Civic Art Studio Artists Emilee Taylor, Zero Pruitt, Eve Miller, Madison Lentz, Aspen Stein (behind), Lexi Spurlock, Claire Wagner and Civic-Artist-in-Residence Asha White at ArtWorks' ArtAmplifed event in June.
ArtWorks reimagines the future of public art with New Monuments Initiative

Share your thoughts and ideas on monuments in your community to help inform the creation of new ones. Take the five-minute public survey now.

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