Upcoming Events

Gift Shop Trunk Show

July 31, 2010 11:00 AM

The Freedom Center Gift Shop will host a trunk show featuring jewelry designer, Carole McCullom Jackson; University DAAP professor and multi media/ textile designer, Cynthia Lockhart; and works from Toilynn O'Neal's New American Art Gallery will also be on display. The artistry displayed for this trunk show will compliment our current exhibit Textural Rhythms.


Basic Skills Quilting Workshop with Carole Gary Staples

August 07, 2010 02:00 PM

Join Carole Staples, an award-winning textile and fiber artist showcased in the Textural Rhythms exhibition, and brush up on your quilting skills from one of the best quilters around! Learn some of the basic techniques and gain invaluable one-on-one guidance from a master quiltmaker and artist. Cost of the workshop is $20. All materials are included in the cost of the workshop, which should last about an hour and a half. Seating is very limited, so reservations are required. First 10 reservations accepted. 513-333-7705.


Family Activity Series - 19th Century Children's Games

August 28, 2010 12:00 PM

Ever wondered how children played before there were video games? Come play the 19th century way with games like ball and cup, graces, and table top nin pins! All ages are welcome. Free with admission.


Family Activity Series: The Fall Harvest

September 25, 2010 12:00 PM

Before there were grocery stores, everyone had to grow the food they wanted to eat. Try your hand at planting seeds for your winter garden! All ages welcome. Free with admission.


Family Activity Series: Dia De Los Muertos Paper Banners

October 23, 2010 12:00 PM

Make Day of the Dead decorations popular in celebrations throughout Latin America. Dia de Los Muertos celebrates and honors family and friends who have died and is a time of celebration and joyful fun! Free with admission.


"Dream in Doubt" Film Screening

October 23, 2010 02:00 PM

This award-winning documentary tells the story of America’s first post-9/11 revenge murder. When his brother was mistaken as Middle Eastern and viciously murdered in the months following the terror attacks on the United States in September 2001, Sikh-American and film director Rana Singh Sodhi searches for the meaning of freedom in our own lives and challenges our conceptions of what it means to be an American. Presented in conjunction with The Enemy Within. Reservations preferred, but not required, to 513-333-7705.



Upcoming Exhibitions


Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition

June 15 – August 14, 2010
Textural Rhythms explores the weaving together of two unique and popular artistic forms of African American culture – jazz and quilt-making – which come together to capture masterpieces of imagination and creativity through the complex bonding of rhythms and moods.


The Enemy Within: Terror in America, 1776 to Today

September 11 – February 6, 2011
The Enemy Within will reveal nine major events and periods in U.S. History when Americans were threatened by enemies within its borders: depicting how the government and public responded, illustrating the corresponding evolution of U.S. counterintelligence and homeland security efforts, and examining the challenge of securing the nation without compromising the civil liberties upon which it was founded.


Invisible: Slavery Today

October 8, 2010 (opening date is tentative)

Invisible: Slavery Today is a new, permanent exhibition that will bring visitors face-to-face with  the continuing travesty of contemporary slavery.   The first museum-quality exhibition in the world on the subject of modern slavery, Invisible will show how forced labor and human trafficking make up a $32 billion illicit economy in which men, women and children are bought sold, and discarded.  But it will also challenge visitors to take action to abolish modern-day slavery in their own communities and around the world.

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