Spotlight Weekends highlight FotoFocus Biennial Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators will be on site for talks, tours, special events, and featured programming. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the FotoFocus Biennial, exploring art within the communities that create and present it.

To RSVP, please email pass@fotofocus.org. Seating is limited. Biennial Pass required.

8:30am Meet at FotoFocus Center / Ziegler Garage

9:00am Kennedy Heights Arts Center

Cultural Ties. Celebrates Latin American culture through photography, mixed media, and short films, offering a multi-sensory exploration of place, history, and identity.

Gallery tour led by Mallory Feltz, Director of Exhibitions and Public Art. Artists and film curator Mary Leonard will be in attendance and will discuss their work.

10:00am Eisele Gallery

Waiting to Be Seen. A selection of street photography and photojournalism paying tribute to the diversity of urban life and to the lens-based artists who witness and capture it.

Gallery tour led by Sandy Eichert, curator, and/or David Smith, gallery owner.

10:45am Cincinnati Art Club

Contemporary Tintype Portraits and Altered Historic Images. Tintype portraits by Ricky Willis Tintypes and Blue Creek Tinworks celebrating the local photographic community alongside altered historic images from the Cincinnati Art Club archives.

Curatorial overview provided by Kip Eagen. Artists/studios may also be present to speak about the process and history of tintype photography.

11:30am Lunch @ Swell Art Cafe

12:15pm Wave Pool

Forgetting is Everywhere. Work by four artists exploring transformations both slow and sudden, unexpected but also predestined. Presented in conjunction with Swell.

Gallery tour led by curator Calcagno Cullen.

1:00pm Studio Kroner

Erika NJ Allen: Beneath All Distance. Investigates deep time, material memory, and humanity’s relationship to landscapes shaped by endurance and change through analog photography and ceramics.

Open gallery roaming and artist talk with Erika NJ Allen. Paul Kroner will also be on site.

1:45pm Art Academy of Cincinnati

Depth of Field. An open call highlighting student artists considering the present state of photography and its possible future directions.

Noel Bassam Mohammad Maghathe: Over Everything. Examines how memory is shaped, altered, and reconstructed through the act of retrieval, initiating a dialogue between longing, connection, and memory.

Untwined/Interwoven. Reflects on concepts of place and time, examining the ephemeral, impermanent, and fragmented nature of photography.

Accra Shepp: Bearing Witness. Presents three bodies of work—Occupying Wall Street, The Covid Journals, and The Islands of New York—that delve into subjects often overlooked or intentionally misconstrued.

Gallery talks led by Michael Hurst, Director of Exhibitions; Rachel Reisert, Head of Photography; and student curators.

3:00pm Taft Museum of Art 

Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play. Over 100 works across a variety of media, including photography, demonstrate the artist’s distinctive modernist vision, highlighting her minimalist and often playful style.

Introduction by Curator Tamera Lenz Muente followed by a self-guided tour.

3:45pm Annex Gallery 

Juan-Sí González: I.T.I.N.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.S. Explores the boundary between documentary and fiction, reinterpreting reality as metaphor and calling attention to shared physical, ideological, and psychological landscapes.

Artist talk with Juan-Sí González. Jorge Rodríguez Diez, Executive Director and Chief Curator, and Jens Rosenkrantz may also be on site.

4:15pm Depart Annex Gallery. Bus returns to Ziegler Garage on Sycamore Street.

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