Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center

You may be sick of me talking about the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center this week, but please take a minute to scroll through the photos of this gorgeous old building, especially if you haven't visited!

Even when we were planning on visiting, we didn't realize that there was a theater within the Carnegie. The museum staff explained that the building used to have political uses; the theater was an area where elections were held. Now they have concerts and theater performed on their intimate stage.

The Carnegie website says the building was also a public library at one time. I can picture it.




Overall, the building is a great blend of modern and historical-- the same thing I love about Over-the-Rhine and many other parts of Greater Cincinnati.




Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center: http://www.thecarnegie.com/

A Time To Celebreate features the works of Oliver Debikey, M. Katherine Hurley, M.P. Wiggins, Kathy Hamm (Katham), Alex Hibbitt, Maureen Holub and a special exhibition of vintage bicycles from the collection of Hugh Rosensweig.

Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center

Our visit to the Carnegie Center was so interesting that we decided to break it up into a series of posts. Hands down my favorite exhibit last weekend was the display of vintage bicycles. Part of their 'A Time to Celebrate' series included a exhibition of vintage bicycles from the collection of Hugh Rosensweig. The collection was quite beautiful and in amazing condition. A real treat for a bicycle junkie like myself. There's just something about the old bikes that all the new high tech stuff has lost. Probably why my own bike build has taken a turn towards the older styles.

Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center: http://www.thecarnegie.com/

A Time To Celebreate features the works of Oliver Debikey, M. Katherine Hurley, M.P. Wiggins, Kathy Hamm (Katham), Alex Hibbitt, Maureen Holub and a special exhibition of vintage bicycles from the collection of Hugh Rosensweig.

Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center

Let me show you a great example of what I had hoped to achieve with this blog!


I had heard of an art gallery that was featuring an exhibition of vintage bicycles, so my boyfriend, my brother and I clambered into the car and headed to Covington to the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center. None of us had ever visited, or heard much about this gallery.


We found a dozen different reasons to love the Carnegie, and I'm already counting the days until they shuffle the galleries and we can visit again. In this post, I want to share a few shots from the main gallery of the center (mostly the glassware; it was my favorite); tomorrow Dan will show off the vintage bicycle exhibit, and on Friday I'll post a few more shots of the gorgeous old building itself.



The Carnegie embodies my re-adventure: discovering new things about a city I was somehow bored of. (I say "somehow" because I can hardly imagine being bored these days!) If I didn't make a little effort to get my finger back on the pulse of the arts in Greater Cincinnati, I would never have stumbled across this beautiful arts center.


Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center: http://www.thecarnegie.com/

A Time To Celebreate features the works of Oliver Debikey, M. Katherine Hurley, M.P. Wiggins, Kathy Hamm (Katham), Alex Hibbitt, Maureen Holub and a special exhibition of vintage bicycles from the collection of Hugh Rosensweig.

Flying Pig #12: Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center

Another piggie with a nameplate! We're batting a thousand over here.


Meet "Swine Art." We met him at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center on a recent gallery visit; in the next couple of days we'll share some photos of the exhibitions we discovered at this gorgeous museum in Covington.




I went a little nuts with the photos. It was a gorgeous day and the pig was as blue as the sky.