Making Waves Blog

The Carnegie is a gallery and a theater, and it serves as an arts education department for schools in Northern Kentucky thanks to support from ArtsWave and its donors.

Close your eyes and imagine that, ten years ago, a group of local business and community leaders got together and agreed to go all in on supporting the kind of arts that can build identity, equity and healing. Actually, there's no need to imagine that. Just look to the Circle of African American Leaders for the Arts.

What does Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center have in common with a thrill ride? That's not a joke. There's a real answer, because the CAC is a hub for artistic innovation.

Chamber music is so named because it was traditionally played by a group that could fit in a palace chamber. How do you make an art form more approachable when it was literally created for palaces? Summermusik has an answer.

A new grant program from ArtsWave will offer creative placemaking grants for projects to enliven Northern Kentucky neighborhoods.

How does an organization like Learning Through Art make an impact? Is it the multi-sensory Books Alive! For Kids program? The program's companion app and creative activities? Is it Paige Turner, LTA's charismatic spokesowl? Maybe it's all of those things, but none of them would be possible without the talented people behind the scenes.

What brings Cincy's business and community leaders together? The same thing that brings us all together: the arts. Local leaders recently gathered at the Cincinnati Art Museum to launch the 2025 ArtsWave Community Campaign.

Cincinnati has earned a spot among the nation's top 20 most arts-vibrant large communities for the fourth consecutive year, according to SMU DataArts' rankings. The region ranks in the top 1% for earned program revenue and top 2% for arts worker compensation, reflecting its thriving cultural scene.