THE CARNEGIE

Krista Franklin, Reading & Conversation 

Thursday, March 26, 4pm | Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

A reading and conversation with writer + artist Krista Franklin. Presented in partnership with Great Meadows Foundation and The Carnegies as part of Altered States: (A) Critical Response, the inaugural symposium dedicated to advancing critical discourse around contemporary art. Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist. She earned an MFA in interdisciplinary arts from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of Solo(s) (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). Her work has been published in Poetry magazine, The Offing, Black Camera, Copper Nickel, Callaloo, BOMB Magazine, Encyclopedia, Vol. F-K and L-Z, and the anthologies The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape (2018), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015) and Gathering Ground (2006).

THE CARNEGIE

Hard to Swallow, a screening and Q&A with Tunde Wey & Theo Schear 

Friday, March 27, 7–9pm | Esquire Theater, 320 Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220

Directed by Tunde Wey & Theo Schear, Hard to Swallow (2025) is an essayistic and reflexive, docuseries that recounts Wey’s explosive career while building a critique of the social structures that disenfranchise Black peoples globally. Traveling across the United States, Tunde investigates the ways food culture is shaped by race and class. Through unsparing interviews, poetic narration, and reflections on the filmmaking process, Tunde calls out individuals, systems and himself, prompting viewers to rethink their own position in system inequality. Official Selection at the 2024 SeriesFest and 2024 Cannes Series: Docuseries Competition.

Presented in partnership with the Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies, The Devou Good Foundation, Great Meadows Foundation, and The Carnegies as part of Altered States: (A) Critical Response, the inaugural symposium dedicated to advancing critical discourse around contemporary art. 

CLASSICS

Accessing a Career in Archaeology: Lessons from the Field and the Classroom

Tuesday, October 7, 12:30 | Taft Research Center 

The MetaClassics lecture series aims to provide self-reflective explorations of the discipline of Classics, celebrating innovative approaches and contributions to the field and encouraging an expansive vision of the materials and methods that we bring to bear on our understanding of ancient and modern worlds. This year’s speaker is Dr. Nadhira Hill, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology at Randolph-Macon College. Co-hosted with UC Classics. 

SWELL

THE CARNEGIE

Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us

KADIST & The Carnegie | October 18, 6–9pm, Covington Plaza, 1 Madison Avenue, Covington, KY 

Taft is proud to sponsor The Carnegie and KADIST's collaborative exhibition that explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and the temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River. Thinking of movement, fluidity, ephemerality, and environmental activation, this exhibition consists of outdoor pop-up video exhibitions that spans six venues across six cities in Kentucky, once a month from June to November 2025. The traveling exhibition is composed of two videos and a soundscape that represent international and regional voices that interweave disruption and contemplation through placid yet subversive temporalities. Learn more here. 

SWELL

everyday-theory

Wednesday, November 19, 7pm | Swell, 2936 Colerain Avenue

Join us for a new reading/making group that centers everyday knowledge now. 

Inspired by The Swell Reader quarterly theme Repair, our monthly sessions will take up recent books that theorize from the everyday and imagine methods for a livable world. Taft Postdoctoral Fellow Harshavardhan Bhat will facilitate the sessions, sharing excerpts from the books and guiding discussion and reflection/making activities. 

On November 19 we will discuss Christina Sharpe's 2023 book Ordinary Notes. After shared reading and discussion, participants will develop their own postcard-length reflections on processing what constitutes a note based on an observation or reading. All are welcome to attend. Copies of Ordinary Notes are available via CHPL.