For more than forty years, Michael Scheurer (Cincinnati, OH) has refined his inimitable collage style influenced as much by the Surrealists and Cubists as whatever odd or antique paper, illustrations, handwritings, or fabric he uncovers in his unending quest for inspiration. Scheurer’s work, sometimes intricate, sometimes bold, defies convention in both subject matter and raw material. Signature Scheurer features works from each decade of this prolific artist’s masterful career along with new selections and a series of large-scale murals, artist-designed wallpaper, and collages transferred to handwoven carpets.

Nate Ricciuto (Columbus, OH) explores the various ways that representations of the natural world are encoded with and shaped by human aspirations and desires. He engages with everyday objects and ad hoc approaches to create spaces where imagination and perception become both tactile and fluid. Making use of the very public aspect of the Weston’s street-level gallery—its high visibility from the street—in The Curiosity Motive, Ricciuto constructs a dioramic landscape that may be observed either from outside or inside depending on the viewer. In collapsing and amplifying the distance between image and spectator, the diorama becomes an illusory space where the objective picture is revealed as another unreality.

Summerfair Select is an exhibition of twelve Cincinnati-area artists who received Summerfair Aid to Individual Artists Awards from 2013–15. Participants include Andrew Au, Lisa Hueil Conner, Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker, Cindy Hamann, Emily Moores, Kevin J. Muente, Sara Pearce, Dana Saulnier, Christian D. Schmit, John Sousa, Tina Tammaro, and Dan Vance.

Organized by the Cincinnati chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the Society for Design Administration, Canstruction® is an international design/build competition of the architecture and engineering industry that unites the love of design, art, creative thinking, competition, and public service. Local teams race to build whimsical sculptures created entirely from canned and packaged food. After the event, all “building materials” are donated to the Freestore Foodbank.

The Summerfair 50thAnniversary Poster Exhibition celebrates fifty years of Summerfair and its unique and award-winning poster designs from the popular annual Cincinnati summer art fair—one of the oldest continuous art fairs in the country.

Summerfair Select is an exhibition of twelve Cincinnati-area artists who received Summerfair Aid to Individual Artists Awards from 2013–15. Participants include Andrew Au, Lisa Hueil Conner, Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker, Cindy Hamann, Emily Moores, Kevin J. Muente, Sara Pearce, Dana Saulnier, Christian D. Schmit, John Sousa, Tina Tammaro, and Dan Vance.

The Summerfair 50thAnniversary Poster Exhibition celebrates fifty years of Summerfair and its unique and award-winning poster designs from the popular annual Cincinnati summer art fair—one of the oldest continuous art fairs in the country.

Organized by the Cincinnati chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the Society for Design Administration, Canstruction® is an international design/build competition of the architecture and engineering industry that unites the love of design, art, creative thinking, competition, and public service. Local teams race to build whimsical sculptures created entirely from canned and packaged food. After the event, all “building materials” are donated to the Freestore Foodbank.

In Calling, Kate Kern (Cincinnati, OH) presents several new installations with recent drawings and works on paper that continue her exploration of the seen and unseen—juxtaposing real and imagined images of the natural world, often inspired by scientific drawings and diagrams, with references to the world of human religious belief.

Over the past four decades, Jane Alden Stevens (Cincinnati, OH) has photographically studied her family’s evolutionary development as it has grown in size and complexity. The resulting visual chronicle forms a multifaceted psychological portrait of her family’s changing identity, past and present.

Artist, independent curator, and educator C. M. Turner (Cincinnati, OH) curates contemporary sculpture and installation works exploring archive, artifice, and networked-connection in The Wired. Featuring collaborative works by Future Retrieval (Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis) and Jordan Tate; Justin Hodges and Casey James Wilson; and Caroline Turner and Ian Anderson (all Cincinnati, OH, except Justin Hodges of Americus, GA); The Wired presents physical manifestations of digital content that break down the perceived boundary between the corporeal world and the Internet. Each piece contains a kinetic facet—from circulating water, to video, to virtual reality, underscoring the movement of images, objects, and information humans seek to balance in daily, mediated existence.