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The Taft Museum of Art is seeking an oral storyteller with teaching experience and a commitment to social justice for the 2027 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence Program. The residency application is open through July 31, 2026, 11:59 p.m. with an honorarium of $10,000. The Duncanson Artist-in-Residence Program is one of the nation’s longest-running and most respected artist residency programs dedicated to celebrating and elevating contemporary Black artists across disciplines and community-based practice.

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The Taft Museum of Art, in partnership with the Charley and Edie Harper Art Studio, presents Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play, on view October 17, 2026, through January 24, 2027. This landmark exhibition marks the first solo museum presentation devoted to the work of Edie McKee Harper (1922–2010), a Cincinnati-based artist whose prolific career spanned more than six decades and a remarkable range of media. Accompanied by a comprehensive catalog and new scholarly research, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works offering a long-overdue exploration of the breadth and depth of Harper’s distinctive artistic vision and her lasting contributions to mid-20th century American art and design.

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The Taft Museum of Art presents The Scandinavian Home: Landscape and Lore, an exhibition that brings one of the most extraordinary private collections of Scandinavian art in North America into public view for the first time. Organized by The Frick Pittsburgh and on display at the Taft Museum of Art from June 13 through September 20, 2026, the exhibition invites visitors to explore how ideas of home, landscape, and national identity shaped Nordic art and material culture from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The Scandinavian Home spans a remarkable range of media, including painting, furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and works on paper, highlighting approximately 75 works from the private collection of Pennsylvania-based collectors David and Susan Werner. Together, these objects illuminate the period from 1880 to 1920, a time of profound cultural transformation across Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. 

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MARCH 2026—The Taft Museum of Art marks two major anniversaries in 2026: the 175th anniversary of Robert S. Duncanson’s landmark landscape murals and the 40th anniversary of the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence Program, one of America’s longest running residencies dedicated to community engagement and artists of color.

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OCTOBER 2025—The Taft Museum of Art presents Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White—Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum (February 7–May 17, 2026). Co-organized by the Rembrandt House Museum (the artist’s former home and studio in Amsterdam) and the American Federation of Arts, this is the first time in 27 years that this exquisite collection of etchings will be displayed outside of the Netherlands. The show includes nearly fifty rarely exhibited works, presenting the depth and breadth of Rembrandt’s etching subjects, including portraits, self-portraits, scenes from daily life, landscapes, narrative scenes, and still lifes. The exhibition also demonstrates his centuries-long impact on the field of printmaking through a select group of etchings by Rembrandt’s contemporaries, as well as later admirers including James McNeill Whistler and Pablo Picasso. 

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OCTOBER 2025—The Taft Museum of Art presents Teatime: Chinese Enamels from the Taft Collection (November 15, 2025–March 22, 2026), the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to the history of tea and its cultural legacy. Adorned with colorful designs, the works of art included in the show are part of a bequest of 89 enamels from the late Reverend Compton Allyn. His gift forms one of the world’s largest known public collections of Chinese painted enamels. Featuring 24 rarely seen works from the museum’s collection—most of which are typically in storage—Teatime offers a unique opportunity to explore the beauty, symbolism, and craftsmanship of enamelware in the context of tea culture in China and beyond. 

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AUGUST 2025—Indigo and the Art of Quiltmaking comes to the Taft Museum of Art (October 4, 2025–January 11, 2026). Twenty quilts will showcase a range of indigo dyeing techniques as well as the skill, design sensibility, and artistry of the women who made them. Indigo and the Art of Quiltmaking is organized by the International Quilt Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, home to the largest public collection of quilts in the world.

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JULY 2025—Never lent outside of Cincinnati, the Taft Museum of Art portraits of Museum founders Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft by Spanish painter Raimundo de Madrazo will travel to the first monographic exhibition devoted to the artist, Raimundo de Madrazo. The international tour begins at Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, Spain (September 17, 2025–January 11, 2026) and then goes to the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (February 22–June 21, 2026), home to the most comprehensive collection of Spanish art outside of Europe.

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JUNE 2025—The Taft Museum of Art has selected visual artist Ayana Ross as the 2026 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence. The award-winning residency is known for its competitive application and review process. The 40th anniversary celebrates the program’s long-standing cultural significance, elevating the profile of contemporary artists across a variety of disciplines. Ross’s residency will include an exhibition of her work at the Taft Museum of Art as well as engagement with the community, leading public programs, teaching workshops, and visiting schools across Greater Cincinnati in spring 2026.

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Prolific, playful and curious, Ohio artist Edie Harper is finally getting her due

WVXU | October 16, 2026

Charley and Edie McKee Harper's only son Brett is with curator Tamera Muente in a large Cincinnati warehouse full of Edie's paintings, prints and photographs. They're discussing pieces in an upcoming show of her work at Cincinnati's Taft Museum of Art.

Edie’s artwork is lively and diverse. Geometric angles and lush colors come together in whimsical scenes — from wildlife to sly, playful takes on Biblical parables. Her photography, full of abstract shapes and shadows, provides a kind of roadmap to her use of simplicity and form in her later work. And she branched out beyond these, too, into printmaking, tapestry, sculpture and other mediums.

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Charley and Edie Harper love story continues with tandem art shows

Cincinnati Enquirer | October 15, 2026

This fall is Harper season. The late Charley Harper and Edie Harper – husband and wife and two of Cincinnati’s favorite artists – each have a major retrospective exhibition of their work at a prominent art museum in town at the same time.

The Art of Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame opens Friday, Oct. 16, at the Cincinnati Art Museum and runs through March 7.

Then, Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play opens Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Taft Museum of Art and runs until Jan. 24.

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Frommer's Best Places to Go in 2027

Frommer's | October 15, 2026

Cincinnati has long punched above its weight in the arts, and 2027 gives culture lovers several new reasons to visit.[...] Come fall, the Taft Museum of Art turns the spotlight on Robert S. Duncanson, the pioneering 19th-century Black landscape painter who made Cincinnati his home. Opening in October 2027, the retrospective—organized in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts—is the first devoted to Duncanson’s work in more than 30 years.

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Celebrating the Harper's Legacies

Cincinnati Magazine | October 9, 2026

The late Charley Harper is one of Cincinnati’s most popular visual artists ever, due to his colorful, streamlined, and inventive nature art. So it isn’t surprising that the first museum retrospective of his career arrives at Cincinnati Art Museum this fall. He’s overdue.

What’s unusual is that a concurrent museum retrospective of his artist wife, the late Edie Harper—also a first—is happening at the Taft Museum of Art. And that’s a sign of her ongoing emergence as a major artist in her own right, supported by advocates in the local art world who see her talent and accomplishments on equal footing with Charley’s.

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