WAVE POOL POOL PARTY and PARKING LOT ART FAIR

Our Pool Party this year combines block party, art performance fair, and street mural debut!

Come in your swim trunks and be ready for an art-filled summer swim party! Enjoy food and drinks, music, carnival games, and support the place that creates community fulfillment through artistic opportunity!

Wave Pool announces the annual Pool Party, to be held in the streets, parking lots, and vacant grassy lots around Camp Washington an artist-driven block party on August 19th, 2023, from 12 – 3 PM. This event is a party for the neighborhood, featuring artist-driven interactivities, food, an artist-made carnival with creative versions of PLINKO, bean bag toss, and more. The giant inflatable waterslide outdoors will keep us all cool and entertained.

We will also be debuting the finished street mural by Miranda Holmes and Hannah Parrett, Ohio Native Plants!

This is Wave Pool’s primary source of income for next year’s programs including our Socially Engaged Artist and Curatorial Residency Programs, our educational wood shop, free community ceramics program, Artist Professional Development programs, and more. In order to make this event and next year a success, we are looking to raise $20,000.

The Pool Party also features the 9x18 Parking Lot Art Experiment (an alternative / performative / experimental / live art fair), which takes over the parking lot next to Wave Pool’s firehouse. Viewers will be inundated with performance, art actions, experimental engagements, and ephemeral works.

Funds raised at the Pool Party is what makes our programming possible. We need your help making our goal!

If you would like to make a gift, please click the donate button at the top or make checks payable to Wave Pool Gallery 2940 Colerain Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45225. We will be hosting a VIP After-Party for supporters who make donations $250+. Any and all support is greatly appreciated!

Sponsors: Drake Ash, Ron Bates, Lee & Shannon Bower, Kim Burleigh, Sarah Corlett, Cal & Skip Cullen, Linda Einfalt & Joe Power, Diane Fishbein, Mr. Paul Franz & Ms. Shari Loo, Gary Gaffney, Miriam & Jake Hodesh, Gee Horton, Colleen Houston, Mark de Jong, George & Linda Kurz, Kathleen Larson, Mann & Mann Law, Mary Jo Minerich, Mark Patsfall, Kyle Penunuri, Rhinegeist, Chris & Amy Ruberg, Mr. Thomas R. Schiff, Jenna & Seth Shaifer, Elizabeth Solway, Judith Williams

Artists Included:
Nathan Cannon, Cal Cullen, Cate Douglas, Dana Hamblen, Alicia Hopkins, Robert McFate, Penna Tattoo (Karen Boyhen & Julia Lipovsky), Charlotte Reed, Loraine Wible!

Most of the food donated by:
La Soupe

Photos of the 2022 event and Dress UP! by Dana Hamblen: View More Here