Jared Presley and Friends music performance

Join Tina Gutierrez - Featured Artist Boost (FAB) artist during the month of August, for a reception, Saturday, August 8, 6-8pm at Swell Art Cafe!

Learn more about the FAB program here.

Meet Tina Gutierrez, incredible photographer and community member and part of our Fotofocus Exhibition presented with Wave Pool, "Forgetting is Everywhere." Tina is passionately involved with social justice photography and believes that the camera is a tool for change. She strongly identifies with both her Hispanic and Appalachian heritage. She works to create images that show the beauty in the diversity of humanity and hopes to create healing opportunities for individuals and communities. She prefers to be called an “Arts Instigator” when working with communities by bringing attention to issues that are difficult or challenging through thought provoking projects that enable others to express their fears, hopes and dreams for the future.

For the show at SWELL, Tina is showing "Made Mountains." Made Mountains of discarded, metals, plastics, cords, and otherconsumed items awaiting recycling create monuments to our culture ofwaste and attempted reclamation.These images are part of an ongoing series made from 2012 to the present at what was formerly Garden Street metal on Spring Grove avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is now River Metals Recycling and is one of the largest scrap recyclers in the country.

Her FAB cocktail of the month is a "Cubalachian," a sour apple martini with dulce de leche drizzle!

As far as mid-sized metropolitan areas go, Cincinnati is truly spoiled when it comes to vinyl records. With over a dozen specialty shops and a solid base of local, passionate collectors, it’s a great place to be a nerd for wax. Hosted by Burrito Boys Booking, this event aims to bring the best of this local subculture together for lowkey hangs and unmatched vibes. Each month, The Boys intend to host one local collector and have them do a set on the turntables. It could be a local DJ, or a local musician, or a record shop employee, or some secret other thing! Some folks will have public DJ’ing experience, some won’t. But that’s half the fun of it!

 The premise is simple: we wanna see (and more importantly, hear) their stuff! What finds are they most proud of? What are the weirdest or coolest cuts in their collections?  
So sit back, relax, and dig the wax! Hang out and talk shop with other local enthusiasts and see what these And while you’re at it, grab a drink or a snack. Swell Art Café is a beautiful, intimate venue in historic Camp Washington that we’re sure you’ll love! See you there! 

Cincinnati's newest celebration of Latine arts and culture kicks off at SWELL Art Cafe on Friday September 18th, 6-9pm. Come meet the talented artists performing in this year's festival, connect with sponsors and supporters, and enjoy an evening of live music and community spirit. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

Don't miss this vibrant launch celebration — be part of the festival from day one!

ACCESSTOGOD / Healng/Dahlia Parton

FRIEND LESS (Jon Mueller) with Neutrals and Fritz Pape

TICKETS

Kertwang Presents FRIEND LESS (Sturgeon Bay, WI) with Neutrals (Dayton, OH) and Fritz Pape
"A Talk Low Affogato"

$3 discount for students

FRIEND LESS is a project by Jon Mueller. Its two recent EPs, Energy Rippers and Logic of Relics (with Bundy K. Brown and James Plotkin) aim to provoke the heart, mind and body through an unorthodox approach to rhythmic patterns. In performance, the pieces from Energy Rippers lean on a system of AIR (Acoustic Improvised Rhythm) using drums and voice to achieve a similar effect. More information about the project can be found at rhythmplex.com.

Jon Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.

In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Timo van Luijk, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Room40, Astres d’Or, American Dreams, Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, and his own imprint, Rhythmplex.

Neutrals is a percussion duo based in Dayton, OH. Formed in 2016 by Evan Miller and Andrew Seivert.

Fritz Pape is a Cincinnati-based modular synthesist and librarian.

Pecha what!? PechaKucha!!! 20 slides, 20 seconds each. Super fun! Join us at Swell Art Cafe for a fast paced, highly visual evening of local designers, artists, and theatermakers telling creative stories of all kinds.

Tickets available here.

DJ Color Scientist and guest DJs play Dub music from all around the world, from Jamaica to Japan, from roots to dub-techno and experimental.

Join us at SWELL Art Cafe on October 3rd, 6–10pm, as we close out the VyM Latine Arts Festival in style! Dance the night away to live Latin music, meet the artists whose work brought the festival to life, and connect with the sponsors and supporters who made it all possible. Stick around for the raffle winner announcements!

Come celebrate community, culture, and creativity as we bring VyM's inaugural festival to a joyful close

We invite you to this space to meet each other from the bordes.

Un territorio para leer y leernos en una lengua que nos sujeta a un lugar cuya geografía es cada vez más movediza, que se desplaza y nos desplaza a habitarnos en las palabras.

A territory for reading and being read in a language that binds us to a place whose geography grows ever more fluid — a language that shifts and shifts us, until we come to inhabit ourselves in words.

If you wish to participate, all genres welcome, all levels welcome.
We encourage you to do so in Spanish or in other languages.

This is a call for poets, storytellers, filmmakers, photographers, playwrights, actors, and creators in general to get in touch and be part of the monthly program of this space.

Join us for a bilingual poetry reading with poet Ana Merino, followed by an open mic (all languages welcome).

As far as mid-sized metropolitan areas go, Cincinnati is truly spoiled when it comes to vinyl records. With over a dozen specialty shops and a solid base of local, passionate collectors, it’s a great place to be a nerd for wax. Hosted by Burrito Boys Booking, this event aims to bring the best of this local subculture together for lowkey hangs and unmatched vibes. Each month, The Boys intend to host one local collector and have them do a set on the turntables. It could be a local DJ, or a local musician, or a record shop employee, or some secret other thing! Some folks will have public DJ’ing experience, some won’t. But that’s half the fun of it!

 The premise is simple: we wanna see (and more importantly, hear) their stuff! What finds are they most proud of? What are the weirdest or coolest cuts in their collections?  
So sit back, relax, and dig the wax! Hang out and talk shop with other local enthusiasts and see what these And while you’re at it, grab a drink or a snack. Swell Art Café is a beautiful, intimate venue in historic Camp Washington that we’re sure you’ll love! See you there! 

Tomb Perfume, Bat Thorn, Parvo and Sewage Grinder. More info to come! Doors at 5:00, music at 6:00. $5 Entry.

Boris Oicherman + Nora Barton + Kate Kilgu