Bigger and better than ever, our Pool Party this year combines block party, art book fair, and experimental performance art fair
Come in your swim trunks and be ready for an art-filled summer swim party! Enjoy food and drinks, live music, carnival games, a silent auction of local goodies, and support the place that pairs communities’ needs with artists’ sense of possibility!
Wave Pool announces the annual Pool Party, to be held in the streets, parking lots, and vacant grassy lots around Camp Washington, in an all day artist-driven block party on August 21st, 2021, from 12 – 5 PM. The event will feature music by Brooks Taylor, Jennifer Grantham and Brad Myers, Freedom Nicole Moore, BB Hutch, and intermediate parades by the Camp Washington Heavy Metals Marching Band. An artist-made carnival will take place on Rachel St., including artful versions of PLINKO, bean toss, duck pond, put-put and more. Live community sign-making will be happening with artist Paul Shortt, special “pool-side” drinks and handcrafted tamales will be served to keep us full and libated, and an inflatable waterslide outdoors will keep us all cool and entertained.
As part of this year's Pool Party, the 9x18 Parking Lot Art Experiment (an alternative / performative / experimental / live art fair) takes over the parking lot next to Wave Pool’s firehouse. Viewers will be inundated with performance, art actions, experimental engagements, and ephemeral works.
This event also happens in conjunction with the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, happening just one block down at CampSITE Sculpture Park at the same time.
Over the course of 2020 Wave Pool paid 207 artists for their time and talent, including 87 Artist Relief Fund Grants. We expanded Driving Lessons, our Artist Professional Development program, and provided our city with cutting-edge and socially engaged Artist and Curatorial Residency programs. Help us continue to serve artists and creatives by joining us in a day of celebration and community!
This event is the primary source for our yearly exhibitions and programming budgets.
If you would like to make a gift, please visit our donation page: https://bit.ly/3qrizyP Any and all support is greatly appreciated.
Participating artists include:Angela Asselin, Amanda Bergman, Caroline Bell, Arynn Blazer, Karen Boyhen, Scott Bellissemo, Jake Brinkman, Camp Washington Heavy Metals Marching Band, Ellina Chetverikova, Brad Davis, Adrienne Dixson, Erica Fitzgerald, Gary Gaffney, Jennifer Grantham, Joe Girandola, Nikita Gross, Dana Hamblen, Laila Hameen, Ashley Hines, Byron Hutchins, Kelly Kroener, Maggie Lawson, Rhee Lightner, Alicia Little, Julia Lipovsky, Renee Martin, Noel Maghathe, Chase Melendez, Freedom Nicole Moore, Brad Myers, Cody Schriever, Krista Sheneman, Paul Shortt, SLAPface, Geralyn Sparough, Brooks Taylor, Salem Turchan, Rick Wolhoy, and Drew Yakscoe.
Pool Party Silent Auction Items for our annual fundraising event:
We have a large selection of items to bid on, including a picnic basket full of all kinds of goodies, Reds Baseball pro shop items, many gift certificates and gift cards from various local restaurants, breweries and shops, fashion items, as well as a local artists’ ceramic piece. So come and take a look and Bid Often, Bid High.
This performance/event is made possible by American Rescue Plan funds from the City of Cincinnati, administered through ArtsWave.
This engagement is also supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Ohio Arts Council.
We are grateful for sponsorships from Sara Vance Waddell, OMBRE Gallery, Jens G. Rosenkrantz, Jr., and Suki Skidmore who also make this event possible.