The Lens

Prince Lang, known for his infectious smile and captivating storytelling, presents Person, Place, Thing, a solo exhibition rooted in the Walnut Hills community. Through photography, Lang goes beyond the surface to capture the present moment as part of the backstories of Black Americans. Lang’s work highlights everyday life—the joys and the struggles that define a community's spirit. 

As part of the exhibition, Peebles Gallery engages with the community by distributing disposable cameras to individuals, inviting them to capture their own stories. This collaborative approach underscores the importance of community building and offers a platform... Continue reading Prince Lang: Person, Place, Thing

Curated by Toilynn O’Neal Turner, in partnership with Arabeth Balasko, Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Media at the Cincinnati Museum Center, Lens of History explores the rich tapestry of Black history in Cincinnati through the lens of Black photographers and community photo collections from the 1800s to the 2000s. The exhibition showcases the often overlooked and sometimes unseen contributions and experiences of Black individuals and communities throughout Cincinnati’s history. Through photographs of people and spaces, triumph and resilience, extraordinary moments and everyday life, viewers can discover the past in a profound new way. Works in the exhibition offer a vivid, powerful... Continue reading Lens of History: Celebration of People, Spaces, and Emotion

Call Me When You Get Home is a body of work drawing from Marissa Nicole Stewart's relationships with the women in her family. It explores the place-making practices and generational worldbuilding that occur within a Black matriarchal household while also celebrating self-constructed identity.

The exhibition seizes fleeting moments, brings forward deeply ingrained memories, and challenges photographic tradition with an experiential eye. The exhibition’s rich images of Black women are revealed in black-bordered prints, allowing the work to sink into the space and envelop the viewer. These flow into the matriarch of the family, the... Continue reading Marissa Nicole Stewart: Call Me When You Get Home

Blank Generation presents a panoramic visual survey of the tectonically shifting arts culture of the 1970s–80s in downtown New York City, and the raw and dynamic new ideas in music, film, art, literature, graffiti, fashion, queer culture, and performance that it spawned. The bleak and bankrupt NYC of Travis Bickle and Ratso Rizzo felt like a city teetering on the verge of collapse, but in the dive bars, abandoned buildings, and squats of the grimiest neighborhoods, a cultural renaissance was taking place. 

The iconoclastic writers, musicians, scenesters, performers, outsiders, and other creators whose life and work energized this underground... Continue reading Blank Generation: Downtown New York 1970s–80s

Convening Stories at the Crossroads is a site-specific, outdoor, projection-based public artwork that explores intersecting histories and experiences of place. Working in video and sound, artist Diane Fellows weaves together multiple strands and sources to construct enterable spaces and compelling filmic and sonic narratives. Participation, collaboration, and input from community members creates a collage of stories that moves through the landscape, unearthing moments of friction as well as weaving together past and present, town and gown, and urban and rural experiences in Butler County. 

Images and sound overtake the Performing Arts Quad, home to a public sculpture by Ursula... Continue reading Convening Stories at the Crossroads