Come curious and leave inspired with our remarkable art exhibits. Our galleries feature continually changing exhibitions in an informal, family-friendly atmosphere. Enjoy the ~*CReaTioN STaTioN*~, where you can create and display art of your own. We also feature a student gallery, which allows budding artists of all ages to display their artwork. You’re also invited to bring home an original piece of art, as most pieces are available to purchase. Admission is free! Openings include a wine and beer reception. Student musicians provide entertainment.
Artworks are often available for purchase so that you can enliven your home or office with original works. For more information, "call for entries" or to be placed on our juried competition mailing lists, contact Cathy Mayhugh, Director of Exhibitions 513.863.8873 ext. 122 or cathy@fittoncenter.org.
Below details exhibitions that will be on view in the Lobby Gallery and The Anne Ruder Bever Galleries throughout the season. Click here to check out what's on view in our Student Gallery!
RECEPTION SPONSOR: MillerCoors
Experience changes of mood in landscapes by three Ohio artists. Be wonderstruck by Kent Krugh’s timeless black and white photos of the massive ancient Angel Oak on South Carolina’s Johns Island. Become lost in the eerie stillness and filtered light of Robert Mullenix’ forest scenes that capture a tension between media technology and the hand-made object. Feel pleasantly overwhelmed by the buzz and hum of Robert Robbins’ large energetic paintings of thriving underbrush. (Krugh, Fairfield OH; Mullenix, Oxford OH; Robbins, Westerville OH)
Check out this review on photos by Kent Krugh by local author and art critic Karen Chambers. It is published in the online art review website for Cincinnati, Aeqai.com.
SPONSOR: Penny Brooks
Undercurrents will be a recycled, site-specific, collaborative installation throughout the Fitton Center. The intent of Undercurrents is to express dreams, hopes, actions and even fears and doubts which move below the surface of the everyday experience.
This large-scale installation will contain several visual and tactile components, including the following: Our Stream of Consciousness, a river designed with braided and woven paper and words and found objects, will flow from the upstairs galleries and lobby to the downstairs lobby and unite with a fantastical, SteamPunk-inspired ship constructed from reclaimed wood, cardboard, metal, and found objects. A soundscape blending spoken words and sounds from daily will also be featured.
University students, high school students and community groups and individuals will work on-and off-site with artist and arts choreographer, Jennifer Van Winkle to construct this large-scale artwork. Art Center visitors may view and pARTicipate! in the making of Undercurrents with the artist from August 22-September 22, 2011. Visitors will also be able to add their messages (words and images) to undercurrents thru October 27.
Premiere Sponsors: Miami University Hamilton, Butler Tech and Penny Brooks.
Supporting Sponsors: Bethart Printing Solutions, City of Sculpture and Hamilton Scrap Processors A Division of Cohen Brothers Inc.
Contributing Sponsors: Butler County Recycling and Solid Waste District, Chris and Anne Flaig, Rumpke and Bill Wilks.
Seek insights, memories and mysteries of life in the human and animal figures generated by five regional artists. Journey through an allegorical narrative in Mary Batstone Woodworth’s mysterious prints on paper and fabric. Discover the beauty and complexity of the human form that inspire the glass sculpture of Margot Gotoff. Find balance and unity in structure and surface in Bruce Grimes’ raku works that celebrate living creatures. Observe the movement and captured memories that animate Steve Meyer’s natural forms in glass. Look for the subtleties and ambiguities within human relationships in Randy Simmons’ large-scale charcoal drawings. (Batstone Woodworth & Gotoff, Cincinnati OH; Grimes, Cedarville OH; Meyer, Fairfield OH; Simmons, Paducah KY)
SPONSOR: Gerry Hammond
installations by Dawn Gettler & Alan D. Pocaro
Using materials that refer to social constructs, Dawn Gettler makes soft, quiet environments containing repetitive objects and imagery that explore compliance. Examining the manipulation of language and landscape by contemporary authority figures in and effort to obscure our perception of truth, Alan Pocaro’s multi-layered atmospheres utilize light, drawing, painting, and printmaking.
a multi-media group show curated by Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro PhD featuring Carlos Diaz, Edward Montgomery & Jon Yamashiro
Selections of photos, collage, drawings, and prints in Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro’s Without a Sound: Visual Silence convey meaningful experience, thought and states of existence by invoking found, attained, self-imposed or enforced silence.
(Gettler, Chicago IL; Pocaro, Cincinnati OH; Yamashiro, Miami University Hamilton)
Art and heirlooms by Fitton Center member families with an auction of quilts by Jacque Huber
This show highlights personal and family bonds that are expressed through art-making. Enjoy both historic and contemporary artworks and the stories behind them, submitted by our community of artists. Try your luck by bidding in both silent and live auction for a selection of eclectic hand-made quilts by Jacque Huber. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Gertrude M. Huber Scholarship Fund, providing arts experiences for children, and the Fitton Center’s educational programs.
PREMIERE SPONSOR: Art on Symmes-Sherry & Lou Armstead
SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Anonymous and Mike & Cindy Dingeldein.
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: American Printing, Hamilton Caster & Manufacturing Company, Miami University Hamilton, WAL-MART Stores, Pat & Debbie Pawling, and Terry Stewart.
Consisting of two main galleries, a reception lobby gallery and a corridor gallery on the second floor, these rooms feature artists of regional to international acclaim. Hardwood floors and wood grid ceilings make these spaces rich and warm.
This large, open first floor room features emerging area artists, traveling shows or exhibitions of community interest.
~*CReaTioN STaTioN*~ Sponsor: Kathleen Klink
This wide first floor corridor connecting the pottery, visual arts and music studios is used to celebrate the results of Fitton Center classes, artwork made in area schools or community projects. This space features 10 - 15 gallery exhibitions annually.
Sponsor: James H. & Evelyn E. Hader Charitable Foundation
The Fitton Center displays 5 temporary exhibitions per year. Each new exhibition is celebrated with an informal and family-friendly reception, normally scheduled within the first week that the show is open to the public. Exhibiting artists are often present at receptions so you can talk with them about their artwork. Receptions include wine and beer. All exhibition receptions are free and open to the public.
Receptions sponsored by: MillerCoors
Gallery Geeks sponsored by: Penny Brooks
Gallery Musicians sponsored by: Butler Tech
The deadline to propose an exhibit for the 2013-2014 season is June 1, 2012. Click here to download the form (pdf). For more information, contact Cathy Mayhugh, Director of Exhibitions, at 513-863-8873 ext. 122 or cathy@fittoncenter.org.
The Fitton Center's Exhibitions Program appreciates the continuing support of Artique Gallery of Fine Art and Custom Framing in Middletown, Ohio, the Hamilton Community Foundation, ArtsWave and the Ohio Arts Council. Miami University, the University of Cincinnati, and Bowling Green State University student interns assist with the management of the program.