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What We’ve Carried

What We’ve Carried at its heart honors Walnut Hills, one of Cincinnati’s oldest and most historically significant Black neighborhoods. Since the 1800s, Walnut Hills has been a place of refuge and possibility, a community where free Black residents built lives…

Fountain of Love

This mural honors the love, resilience, and legacy of John Arthur and Jim Obergefell, whose fight for marriage equality transformed history. After 20 years together, John and Jim married in 2013 aboard a medically equipped plane in Maryland—overcoming immense obstacles…

Commons

A collaboration between ArtWorks and the Cincinnati Art Museum, Commons is the first outdoor mural by internationally acclaimed Pakistani and American artist Shahzia Sikander, whose work reimagines historic South Asian art forms through a contemporary lens, blending themes of identity,…

A Legacy of Learning

Kiddy Kare Young People’s Liberation School partnered with ArtWorks to produce a mural that speaks to young people’s important role in writing their own futures. This project, designed by Mural Studio Artists Ella Emanuel, Maria Hart, and Miles Brueggemeyer, celebrates…

Danke

As part of the return of BLINK in October 2022, ArtWorks’ Mural Studio partnered with BLINK to produce a mural at 18 W. Elder Street in the Findlay Market neighborhood as part of the four-night event. Tasked with independently producing…

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