Faces: Don’t Get It Twisted - Untangling a Textured Legacy

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Faces: Don’t Get It Twisted - Untangling a Textured Legacy centers diverse portraiture as a site of cultural preservation, storytelling, and reclamation – honoring the beauty, resistance, and layered histories woven into hair, identity, and lineage.

Featuring a dynamic and international group of emerging artists, the exhibition explores the profound meaning carried in every texture, style and strand. From natural hair to locs and tapered fades, these world-class works speak life into the journey of diverse hair – a journey of self-expression, heritage, and defiance. Each piece invites viewers to slow down and engage with the nuances of legacy: what is inherited, what is protected, and what is reimagined for the future. Through mixed media, bold materiality, and deeply personal narratives, Faces: Don’t Get It Twisted - Untangling a Textured Legacy honors community as both subject and source, amplifying voices that shape culture from the roots up.

Faces: Don’t Get It Twisted - Untangling a Textured Legacy creates a cultural moment that reflects CAC’s ongoing commitment to presenting art that challenges, affirms, and connects. The exhibition opens space for dialogue across generations, disciplines, and lived experiences, reminding us that identity is not singular or static, but textured, evolving and deeply human.

Featured artists include Stephanie Amon, Nate Austin, Marquest Cathcart, Blessing Chidera, Yann Couedor, Nyzere Dillon, Asia Estelle, Peyton Euriah, Her Name Was Kyra, Chibuike Ifedilichukwu, Kid Kardiac, Jonaé Michelle, Eddy Ochieng, Petie Parker, Reggie Singleton, and STU.

Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400