CINCINNATI— ArtWorks is launching its new permanent art gallery, “Your Name Here,” at its newly renovated Creative Campus in Walnut Hills. The inaugural gallery opening will coincide with ArtWorks’ Creative Campus Grand Opening, April 26, 2025. The Your Name Here Gallery will feature artworks from ArtWorks artists-in-residence and emerging fellowship program participants. Four themed exhibitions are planned for 2025, highlighting a variety of mediums, including sewing, drawing, painting and illustration.
Previously, ArtWorks ran the pop-up V² Gallery, which opened in 2021 and was named Best Art Gallery in Cincinnati Magazine’s “Best of the City” that year. That gallery was designed to be temporary and housed in formerly vacant storefronts on McMillan Street in the heart of the Walnut Hills business district. The fellowship program, also launched in 2021, was supported by its namesake V² – Sara and Michelle Vance Waddell and Ron and David Nebel-Houck. V² (Vance-Waddell and Nebel-Houck) is the 2025 Season sponsor of the Your Name Here Gallery. Your Name Here is a nod to the creative professionals whose work will fill the space, the future great artists of Cincinnati. This gallery is presented by the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation as part of ArtWorks’ Painting the Future Together Capital Campaign. Every room throughout ArtWorks’ new creative campus is named for great Cincinnati artists, both historic and contemporary.
The gallery will be on the first floor of ArtWorks’ new building at 2429 Gilbert Avenue in Walnut Hills. It will showcase exhibitions of art pieces created in ArtWorks’ Gallery Fellowship Program. In its fourth year, this program gives young artists ages 16–24 hands-on experience and the chance to work alongside curators, collectors, and arts professionals. Participants create individual works that come together in group exhibitions, building skills and connections along the way. Applications for the program are accepted throughout the year in advance of each exhibition.
The new Your Name Here Gallery will open with ArtWorks’ new building and Hannan ArtPark at a public grand opening dedication and celebration on Saturday, April 26 from 1–5 p.m. The first exhibition, “Color Me” will allow the community to create art in a larger-than-life coloring book mural, created by Artists-in-Residence Andrew Neyer and Andy J. Pizza. This exhibit is highly interactive and visitors will be invited to color in the mural with massive markers. ArtWorks Gallery Fellows will design unique “Color Me” posters, which will be screen-printed as limited editions, framed, and sold at the exhibition opening.
The new building allows ArtWorks’ offices, studio space and gallery to be in one building for the first time in its history. Free public openings will occur during the first day of each exhibition. Public gallery hours will be announced during the opening.
“Opening this permanent gallery is a dream come true for ArtWorks and we are excited to give young artists opportunities to be rising stars in our creative community and accomplish their dream of exhibiting and selling artwork at the Your Name Here Gallery,” said Colleen Houston, CEO & Artistic Director of ArtWorks. “We’re thrilled to soon open our doors and invite the community to celebrate this milestone with us.”
2025 Your Name Here Gallery Exhibitions
Color Me
Artists-in-Residence: Andrew Neyer & Andy J. Pizza
On view: an interactive coloring book mural where audiences bring giant black-and-white drawings to life with oversized markers and limited-edition “Color Me” posters, designed by Fellows
April 26 – June 5
Opening: Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 1–4 pm (Coincides with Grand Opening of New ArtWorks Creative Campus)
Splendor in the Grass
Artist-in-Residence: Julia Lipovsky
On view: Drawings and personal narratives inspired by Jackie DeShannon’s 1968 song, “Splendor in the Grass”
June 27 – August 7
Opening: Friday, June 27, 2025 | 5–7pm
Dilly Dallin: Where does your mind wander?
Artist-in-Residence: Nytaya Babbitt
On view: relationships, identity and community explored through acrylic paintings
August 29 – October 9
Opening: Friday, August 29, 2025 | 5–7pm
Threads of Our Lives
Artist-in-Residence: Josie Love Roebuck
On view: tapestry-like quilts that layer materials and techniques tell complex stories of identity, pain, triumph, and healing
October 24 – December 4
Opening: Friday, October 24, 2025 | 5–7pm
ArtWorks is a Greater Cincinnati nonprofit that creates community-based public art providing career opportunities for artists of all ages. Since 1996, ArtWorks has collaborated with community organizations and residents, businesses, governments, foundations, and nonprofits to create works of art that have helped to define Greater Cincinnati’s global reputation as an arts destination. Its mural program has made Cincinnati the #1 City for Street Art in USA Today’s 2024 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards. By employing and training over 3,500 professional artists and engaging 4,000 teens and young adults, ages 14–24, ArtWorks is actively investing in the creative economy. Through job creation that supports local talent and mentorship programs that pair professional artists with diverse teams of young people, their programs foster the development of 21st-century career-readiness skills. ArtWorks has created a vibrant citywide gallery with more than 14,000 public and private art projects over the last 28 years. Among these are more than 300 permanent outdoor murals that contribute to Cincinnati’s rich cultural tapestry, enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. ArtWorks partners with Hamilton County and Talbert House for seasonal apprentice funding. It also receives ongoing support from the City of Cincinnati, the Ohio Arts Council, ArtsWave, and individual donors.
