Special Projects

Businesses and organizations in the tri-state area regularly turn to ArtWorks to fulfill their artistic needs. By contracting ArtWorks to manage your art project, you are hiring an organization that has a relationship with hundreds of professional artists and over 11 years experience in administering art projects. For a fee, the ArtWorks Special Projects Division can assist you in your search for that perfect piece of art.

Select Special Projects that ArtWorks has managed:

The Collect

The Collect was a city-wide art project presented by ArtWorks and the Rohs Street Café. Writer, artist, and Australian native Mandy Smith created this innovative project where the public was invited to collect small, broken or discarded items from the streets of Cincinnati. These items were transformed into works of art by local artists. The works of art were displayed at Rohs St. Cafe in the fall of 2007 and auctioned in a silent auction. All proceeds were given to ArtWorks to put art back into the community.

Flying Pig Marathon Pigs

The Flying Pig Marathon has teamed up with ArtWorks to bring back the Big Pig Gig. Seven new Big Pigs were created and debuted at the 2005 Flying Pig Marathon. Each year, The Flying Pig Marathon will add more pigs along the route until there is one at every mile.

Newport on the Levee

ArtWorks celebrated the city of Newport, Kentucky in 2001 with the unveiling of 30 painted panels at the Newport on the Levee entertainment complex. Learn more about this project.

Flower Power

In 2002, the Cincinnati Horticultural Society hired ArtWorks to manage Flower Power, their public art project that placed dozens of giant fiberglass pots filled with flowers on the streets of Greater Cincinnati. Learn more about this project.

In 2002, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center hired ArtWorks to manage an intensive national search for site-specific permanent works of art for the Center's newly opened facility in downtown Cincinnati.