The Art Show – Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1

From Black to Gold shares the journey of up-and-coming Cincinnati music artist Dayo Gold as he finds his true self through his words, his beats, and the culture of hip hop.

Travel to Cleveland to check out George Bellows’ famous and controversial 1909 boxing painting Stag at Sharkey’s.

Storm chaser Stephen Locke uses his camera to capture the fury of mother nature.

Each summer, Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s 6×6 exhibition showcases thousands of original, small artworks.
Season 9, Episode 2

The Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center opens its doors in downtown Dayton.

Travel to Philadelphia and step back in time with a visit to the Museum of the American Revolution.

Get a sneak peek of Human Flow from filmmaker Ai Weiwei, which illustrates the staggering scale and impact of the refugee crisis.
Season 9, Episode 3

Newly resettled in Cincinnati with his family, Syrian refugee Ahmad Darouich continues to perfect his craft as a painter.

Songwriter Lou Poster of the Columbus band Drift Mouth celebrates the sounds of coal country.

Minneapolis visual artist Moira Bateman creates unique sculptural dresses inspired by the natural world.

The paintings of Florida artist Jordan Senarens explore the intersection of math and time.
Season 9, Episode 4

Retired Dayton pastor Yvette Walker Dalton returns to her artistic roots.

Travel to Minnesota to learn storytelling secrets from renowned biographer William Souder.

Kansas City artist Jarrett Mellenbruch creates a haven for wild honeybees.

Get acquainted with the ‘sugar rush art’ of Sacramento painter Jared Konopitski.
Season 9, Episode 5

The Cincinnati Black Theatre Company celebrates African American theatre, culture, and history.

Capital City Pipes & Drums brings the music and dance traditions of the Scottish Highlands to Central Ohio.

The work of London-based conceptual artist Mona Hatoum explores the nature of home.

Former Cincinnati Enquirer political cartoonist Dwane Powell looks back on a lifetime of covering the news.
Season 9, Episode 6

Learn about the unique Casavant Organ inside Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Dayton.

Travel to Milwaukee to check out the ‘Artists at Work’ exhibit at the Grohmann Museum.

Orlando student artist Brooke Hill tackles tough topics in her work.

The California Art Club in Pasadena marks over a century of fellowship for traditional fine artists.
Season 9, Episode 7

Erin Beckloff keeps alive the art of letterpress printing.

The third annual Contemporary Ceramics competition in Zanesville is profiled. Meet artist Doug Swift.

The Lighthouse Guild in New York is the only community music school in the country for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Season 9, Episode 8

Renowned choir director Dr. Catherine Roma uses music to unite and inspire the incarcerated.

The innovative CANVASxDetroit arts platform is transforming their community through creative literacy and arts-centric problem solving.

Travel to South Florida a thousand years from now to check out Daniel Arsham’s Welcome to the Future installation.

Meet young Milwaukee artist Gabriela Riveros, whose colorful illustrations are inspired by her Paraguayan roots.
Season 9, Episode 9

Cincinnati’s Art for All People uses artmaking to bring healing to those in crisis.

Visit the humble cottage of writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Travel to Cocoa, FL to meet sixth-grade violinist Emma Brandenburg.

Arizona video artist Steve Gompf turns thrift store finds into fictional Victorian-era TV sets.
Season 9, Episode 10

The Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus builds bridges of understanding through music.

Travel to Columbus to meet Nikos Fyodor Rutkowski, who is both a special-effects artist and a fine art painter.

Artist Robin Cass of Rochester, New York, crafts otherworldly scientific specimens from hot-sculpted glass and metal.
Season 9, Episode 11

Nate Freeland of Neusole Glassworks in Cincinnati demonstrates the art of glassblowing.

Visit The Messenger Wall, a sculptural mural in the Short North Arts District of Columbus.

Minneapolis dancer Gadu Doushin performs Butoh, an avant-garde Japanese art form.
Season 9, Episode 12

Newly-resettled in Dayton, refugee artist Mohammed Hanif Esmaty paints images of his Afghan homeland from memory.

Abstract landscape painter Laura Leigh Lanchantin works en plein air in the Catskill Mountains.

Learn about the Unsung Heroes Living History Project in Sacramento, which honors the service of African American military veterans.

Meet the soldier musicians of the 323D Army Band at historic Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.
Season 9, Episode 13

S.O.S. (Save Our Souls) Art Cincinnati promotes art as a vehicle for peace, justice and a better world.

Yellow Springs sculptor Jon Barlow Hudson creates public art on a monumental scale.

Behavioral health centers in Southwest Ohio are embracing music therapy as a tool in addiction treatment and recovery.