Just in time for Halloween,the Taft presents a slightly scary, totally fun encounter with the supernatural!

• Enjoy music inspired by horror movies like Aliens and Ghostbusters from Eagle to Squirrel Variety Hour
• Learn about paranormal investigations and equipment from Cincinnati Area Paranormal Existence Research
• Meet Jeff and Michael Morris, authors of Haunted Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio
• Go on a ghostly tour of the historic house
• Create masks and paint pumpkins
• Enjoy traditional fall refreshments and a cash bar

Join ghosts and ghostesses from the community for this eerie evening!

$5 for members; $10 for nonmembers. Advance registration is recommended. Call (513) 684-4526.

Encouraged by the energies and heroism of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, many African American artists subsequently made creative breakthroughs. This exhibition opens with a prologue: some formative early 20th-century African American masterworks by Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence. It then arrives at the heart of the matter, showcasing paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and mixed-media objects from the late decades of the 20th century that are vibrant, bold, optimistic, and spectacularly colorful.

Represented are such celebrated artists as Benny Andrews, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, and Raymond Saunders. Altogether nearly 70 pieces express the new American ideals and identities forged during the period 1960 to 1990. Philadelphia collectors Harold and Ann Sorgenti assembled this collection, which they subsequently donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the organizer of this exhibition