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OHHS Artists Take the Long View: A Wayfarers Artist Talk

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As part of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial, the opening of Wayfarers at the Delhi Event Center featured an engaging artist talk highlighting the creative journeys, perspectives, and experiences of three members of the OHHS Art and Design community: Jamie Schorsch, Steve Groh, and Hannah Knight. The artist talk offered an opportunity for attendees to hear directly from Schorsch, Chair of the OHHS Art and Design Department and Ohio Art Teacher of the Year, photography teacher and artist Steve Groh, and OHHS Art and Design alumna Hannah Knight (2018). Together, they shared their perspectives on art and photography, the ways photography influences how we see and understand the world, and the personal journeys that shape us as artists and individuals.

The conversation was especially meaningful within the context of Wayfarers, an exhibition co-curated by Groh and Knight that brings together photography from OHHS Art and Design alumni alongside work by their former teacher. The exhibition explores the idea of the “wayfarer”, someone who travels along a path or embarks on a wandering journey, as a metaphor for the artistic and personal paths we take throughout our lives.

The artist talk also connected naturally to this year’s FotoFocus Biennial theme, The Long View. The theme encourages viewers to consider photography through the lenses of time, distance, perspective, and reflection. In that spirit, the speakers reflected on where their own creative journeys began, how those experiences have shaped their work, and where those journeys have led them.

For the OHHS Art and Design Department, the event was a powerful example of how the impact of art education can extend well beyond the classroom. The conversation brought together a former teacher, a department leader, and an alumna to share their experiences and demonstrate how creative journeys continue to evolve over time.

Wayfarers: An OHHS Art and Design FotoFocus Exhibition Opened this Weekend!

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As a part of this year’s FotoFocus Biennial, OHHS Art and Design Photography alumni will be exhibiting alongside their former teacher, Steve Groh, in the Wayfarers exhibition at Delhi Event Center. The exhibition theme and title, wayfarer, defines a person who travels, especially on foot. The term is often used in a literary or poetic sense to describe someone who goes on long, wandering journeys, embracing the freedom and unpredictability of life on the road.

Each Biennial, FotoFocus is structured around a unifying theme. The 2026 Biennial theme, The Long View, considers aspects of time and perspective in photography and film, and how these mediums shape our understanding of the world. “The long view” is a phrase used to invoke a broader perspective. It suggests both distance and duration, i.e., looking far into the distance and/or looking for a long period of time. The Long View acknowledges the semiquincentennial of the United States, encouraging a posture of reflection in regards to the grand sweep of our country’s history, its past, present, and future. Photography can show us many moments from that history but it can also serve as a metaphor for how we understand our past and decide to shape it over time.

Groh co-curated the exhibition with alumnus Hannah Knight (2018). The exhibition features a photograph that represents an earlier point in photographic journeys, and another that represents where individuals are now, along with a pair of shoes that somehow represents the journey through life. This weekend’s exhibition opening will include a brief educational component in the form of artist talks. Jamie Schorsch, OHHS Art and Design Department Chair, photography teacher Steve Groh, and Hannah Knight all shared their perspectives on art, the impact of photography on the world, and the journeys we take throughout our life.

OHHS Alumni from across the United States entered works for the exhibition, many of whom traveled back home to Cincinnati and the packed house opening on Sunday! The special exhibition is a testament not only to the great memories, wonderful new life experiences, and celebrations of connections amongst teachers and students, but also to the impact of Steve Groh ‘s journey as an educator and the lives he has influenced throughout his 31 years in the classroom.

Wayfarers will be on exhibition through November 6th, 2026 at the Delhi Event Center.

‘Amplifying Student Voices’ with Cedric Michael Cox and the Taft ARC Program

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The Taft Museum of Art’s Artists Reaching Classrooms program (ARC) immerses high school art students in Cincinnati’s visual arts community, artistic practices, exhibitions, and marketing strategies while exposing them to careers in the arts. This year, Ms. Schorsch’s Drawing and Printmaking students are participating in this amazing program which consists of 1 museum visit and 4 classroom visits during the 1st semester, culminating in an exhibition of collaboratively created artworks at the Taft Art Museum in the winter. This year, students will be working alongside Cedric Michael Cox to experience the practices of a professional artist firsthand. Cedric will also lead students in the creation of a collaborative artwork, and an individual piece, for the Annex Gallery exhibition.

Cedric Michael Cox is best known for his paintings and drawings that merge surrealism and representational abstraction. As a student at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), Cox was awarded a fellowship to study at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1999, he began to exhibit regionally and nationally. In addition to his work being in corporate collections, Cox has executed several large murals in various public and private schools in The Cincinnati Region. Cox’s past exhibitions include The Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, The Weston Art Gallery, The Columbus Art Museum, the Dayton Art Institute, Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, the Museum of Science and Industry and Gallery Guichard in Chicago, and The Taft Museum of Art.

In 2019, Cox’s work was exhibited at the 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati; in 2020, he had a solo exhibition at James Ratliff Gallery in Sedona, Arizona. A 20-year retrospective exhibition was created for Caza Sikes Gallery, along with a commissioned body of work for the Kinley Hotel Cincinnati in 2020. In 2021, a series of 64 paintings were installed for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and in 2022 created work in the Metro Dayton Library west branch. Recently, he executed four new murals for the community of Avondale that stand as monuments to the healing spirit of joy and community pride as well as several murals featured in local schools.

The Drawing and Printmaking students spend their first visit getting to know Cedric and brainstorming ways that they could communicate their collective interpretations of ‘Amplifying Student Voices’. Following the idea brainstorming sessions, through which they established a theme focused on music and culture, they generated sketches to be shared with Cedric which he will use to synthesize their different perspectives into a collective, cohesive, design.

Over the next few weeks, the Drawing and Printmaking students will continue their collaboration with Cedric in preparation for the winter exhibition of their work at the Taft Museum of Art.

Wayfarers: An OHHS Art and Design Fotofocus Exhibition in Partnership with the Delhi Event Center!

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Each Biennial, FotoFocus is structured around a unifying theme. The 2026 Biennial theme, The Long View, considers aspects of time and perspective in photography and film, and how these mediums shape our understanding of the world. “The long view” is a phrase used to invoke a broader perspective. It suggests both distance and duration, i.e., looking far into the distance and/or looking for a long period of time. The Long View acknowledges the semiquincentennial of the United States, encouraging a posture of reflection in regards to the grand sweep of our country’s history, its past, present, and future. Photography can show us many moments from that history but it can also serve as a metaphor for how we understand our past and decide to shape it over time.

As a part of this year’s FotoFocus Biennial, OHHS Art and Design Photography alumni will be exhibiting alongside their former teacher, Steve Groh, in the Wayfarers exhibition at Delhi Event Center. The exhibition theme and title, wayfarer, defines a person who travels, especially on foot. The term is often used in a literary or poetic sense to describe someone who goes on long, wandering journeys, embracing the freedom and unpredictability of life on the road.

Groh will be co-curating the exhibition with alumnus Hannah Knight (2018). The exhibition will feature a photograph that represents an earlier point in photographic journeys, and another that represents where individuals are now, along with a pair of shoes that somehow represents the journey through life. As an official part of the FotoFocus Biennial, the exhibition opening will include a brief educational component in the form of artist talks. Jamie Schorsch, OHHS Art and Design Department Chair, photography teacher Steve Groh, and definitely be speaking, and Hannah Knight will be featured speakers with additional alumni contributing to discussion throughout the event.

Mark your calendars now for the exhibition opening at the Delhi Event Center:

Wayfarers Opening Reception
Sunday, October 4
1:00–3:00 p.m.

From Inspiration to Exhibition: AP Art Students Engage with Gee Horton at the Contemporary Arts Center

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A recent visit to the Contemporary Arts Center provided AP Art and Design students with an exceptional opportunity to engage directly with Gee Horton while experiencing his exhibition, Chapter 4: In Another Lifetime. The visit moved beyond observation, offering students insight into both the conceptual depth of Horton’s work and the lived experience of a practicing artist.

Spanning two galleries, the exhibition continues Horton’s evolving body of work through large-scale photorealistic drawings, photography, collage, video, and installation. His exploration of generational memory, childhood, and the navigation of grief and loss, invites viewers to examine the tension between safety and vulnerability, and how these forces shape identity. Building on Chapter 3: Be Home Before the Streetlights…, Horton shifts from the idea of returning home to what is inherited once we arrive.

At the center of Chapter 4 is the narrative of Freeman Little, a boy living with a rare hereditary sleep disorder that produces vivid, prophetic dreams. Through this lens, Horton blurs memory, imagination, and reality, creating a space where past and present coexist. Students responded to this storytelling approach as a powerful model for embedding meaning and narrative within their own work.

Horton also shared his journey to becoming a full-time artist later in life, speaking candidly about the risks, persistence, and clarity that accompanied that transition. His perspective challenged students to think more expansively about creative careers and reinforced that artistic paths are often nonlinear.

The visual impact of Horton’s exhibition, particularly his graphite and cyanotype works, immersive assemblages, and symbolic imagery, deepened students’ understanding of how material and scale can support complex ideas. This, paired with the experience of exhibiting their own work, prompted thoughtful dialogue about intention, craftsmanship, and the role of art in communicating layered narratives.

In addition to engaging with Horton’s work, students experienced a meaningful full-circle moment by viewing their own exhibition on the CAC’s 6th floor Creativity Center gallery. The displayed works, developed through this year’s SOP (School Outreach Program) experiences, reflected individual and collective explorations of process, concept, and personal voice. Seeing their work installed in a professional gallery setting elevated the experience, encouraging students to consider presentation, audience, and context as integral parts of their practice.

Together, these experiences underscored the value of connection: between artist and audience, concept and execution, and student work and professional practice. For AP Art and Design students, the visit was not only an opportunity to learn from Gee Horton, but also to see themselves as part of a larger creative community; one where their voices, ideas, and work hold real presence and potential.