Cincinnati Art Museum

Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant Cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities. Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum features a diverse, encyclopedic art collection of more than 67,000 works spanning 6,000 years. In addition to displaying its own broad collection, the museum also hosts several national and international traveling exhibitions each year.

This artwork titled “Waterfall” is inspired by water, the persistent source of life. Water is a constant throughout human history, it changes form and shows its resilience again and again. To complete this artwork, we asked the CAM summer campers to choose colors, shapes and items they associate with water. More than 50 children contributed to the canvas over the course of four weeks. We chose materials that would change and flow with water. It is a mixed media piece that includes fabric dye, salt, watercolors, fabric markers, colored pencils and ink daubers. The artwork’s form changed with each layer of materials and as each student added their own ideas of what water means to them.