HIDDEN GEMS
WORDS BY REBECCA MATTESON
Rosenthal Education Center The Rosenthal Education Center in the Cincinnati Art Museum fosters a community where children can explore new mediums and use their robust imaginations. With family and art at the focus of the REC, interactive spaces, takehome art bags and project prompts fill the spacious center within the museum’s Great Hall. Open during normal museum hours, the Rosenthal Education Center encourages families to drop in anytime and stay as long as their creative heart desires. Inspired by sculptural and painted portraits, children can try on costumes, choose items from bins to recreate famous still life pictures and create items from an art bar that is inspired by artwork around the museum.
With themes rotating twice a year, Cincinnati artists in residence provide interactive exhibits for families to immerse themselves in
different styles of art. Currently, residents Jim Tucker and Michael Thompson, with a passion for education, have created a space for children to reimagine and reinterpret artwork by Cincinnati artists like Nam June Paik’s robots, Robert Duncanson’s still life and Rookwood’s famous vases. Through October 30th, 2022, children can experience art through the multi-media artist’s eyes. Build a life-sized robot, swap magnetic faces and use elements to recreate famous art at the REC.
Generously donated to Cincinnati by the Rosenthals, the art museum and Rosenthal Education Center is free for all to enjoy. All activities inside the REC including take-home art bags, in studio projects and process art are free of charge and make a beautiful addition to your art room at home.
953 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati cincinnatiartmuseum.org
August 2022 I ohParent.com
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