• Wednesdays or Fridays, 10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

    Participate with your toddler in singing, moving, dancing, listening, and playing simple instruments – while developing a strong musical bond with your child. Toddlers and their adults will sing, chant, move, dance, listen and play simple instruments: this class provides a full mix that allows them to be active, which is how they learn. We'll channel the toddler's energy productively, facilitate expression of feelings, assist in improving memory through repetition, and develop further musical aptitude and focused listening.
    • Ages: 16 months - 3.5 years with parent/guardian
    • Session: 19 weeks
      • Wednesday sessions run Jan 3 – May 22, 2024. No class Feb. 7 or Mar. 27!
      • Friday sessions run Jan 5 – May 24, 2024. No class Jan. 26 or Feb. 9; snow day make up class on Mar. 29!
    • Instructor: Shea Haney
    • Cost: $245/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 5 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC’s new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: Ongoing! Class tuition prorated based on start date: contact CCAC with questions.
  • Wednesdays or Fridays, 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

    Play musically with your baby through bouncing and rocking songs, wiggle and peek-a-boo games, dancing, moving, and singing. Music play activities are designed to increase your child’s curiosity about music, to develop listening skills and a sense of beat, and to establish the foundation for singing and musical thought.
    • Ages: newborn - 18 months with parent/guardian
    • Session: 19 weeks
      • Wednesday sessions run Jan 3 – May 22, 2024. No class Feb. 7 or Mar. 27!
      • Friday sessions run Jan 5 – May 24, 2024. No class Jan. 26 or Feb. 9; snow day make up class on Mar. 29!
    • Instructor: Shea Haney
    • Cost: $245/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 5 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC’s new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: Ongoing! Class tuition prorated based on start date: contact CCAC with questions.
  • Wednesdays or Fridays, 11:00 - 11:40 a.m.

    The Cycle of Seasons is a musical celebration of the four seasons using activities that build on the child's growing independence and competencies. It nurtures the children's ability to use language and capitalizes on their delight in dramatic play within the musical context. Classes are filled with songs, movement activities, exploration of instruments, and imaginative stories for children to make their own. Encourage the child's moving, singing, verbal, and listening skills and tap into the child's vivid imagination and lay the foundation for creative development via story-telling and poetry.
    • Ages: 3-5 with parent/guardian
    • Session: 19 weeks
      • Wednesday sessions run Jan 3 – May 22, 2024. No class Feb. 7 or Mar. 27!
      • Friday sessions run Jan 5 – May 24, 2024. No class Jan. 26 or Feb. 9; snow day make up class on Mar. 29!
    • Instructor: Shea Haney
    • Cost: $245/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 5 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC’s new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: Ongoing! Class tuition prorated based on start date: contact CCAC with questions.
  • AfroBeat Workout by Basko

    $20.00$204.00

    Thursdays, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

    Are you ready to explore Africa without your passport? This class is not just an Afro-dance workout. It's an education, a journey, and a new way of merging the dynamic dance moves of Afro beats with an intensive full-body workout. You'll learn to move your body in ways you didn't know it could move while burning calories and having fun. Add cultural flavor to your workout routine. This class will feed your mind and soul as you learn the moves and rhythms paired with energizing music from the African continent.
    • Ages: Adult
    • Session: Ongoing starting February 1, 2024.
    • Instructor: Basko
    • Class Location: CCAC’s new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Class payment options:
      • $20 for a single class
      • $108 for a 6-class pass (10% discount)
      • $204 for a 12-class pass (15% discount)
  • Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm

    Have you ever wondered how it feels to publish a book? You get a box in the mail, open it, and it's the first copy of your book with your name printed. You just became an author! This one-day writers' retreat will change your mindset on becoming an author. Throughout the workshop, participants will:
    • Explore questions like: why do you want to publish a book? In what genre do you want to write? What is preventing you from starting your book right at this moment?
    • Learn best practices on your writing space, time, and designing a writing system.
    • Participate in group discussions and exercises to motivate you to start and continue until you become an author.
    • Explore traditional and online publishing.
    • Learn how to visualize your book before it's published.
    • Take part in a Q & A session with a local author.
    Beginners welcome. No complete manuscript is required. Bring your pen and paper, but most importantly, your desire to publish and become an author.
    • Ages: Adults 18+
    • Session: One-Time Workshop
      • Spring 1: January 13, 2024
      • Spring 2: February 10, 2024
      • Spring 3: March 16, 2024
      • Spring 4: May 11, 2024
    • Instructor: Victor Vélez
    • Cost: $150/session (includes lunch and Writers' Workbook)
    • Class Location: CCAC’s new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Class Size: 3 – 10 students enrolled per session.

    Victor Vélez Victor, a native of Puerto Rico, grew up in New York City and currently lives in Cincinnati. His creative talents are expressed through multiple artistic disciplines as a writer, poet, photographer, and musician.  Victor studied Communication Arts at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, and began his writing career as a freelance writer in the early 1980s. Victor’s published works include:
    • Poetry collections – A Quest for Answers (2003), Conga Blues (2008), Donde Estas, Senor? (2014), Divine Reflections (2016), and Wandering Soul (2019)
    • Photography – Images (2013)
    • Children’s book – You Live Inside (2022)
    • Fictional and non-fiction works – Salsa in the 'Nati (2020), The Triduum of All Hallows (2021), The Twelve (2022), and Forecast (2022)
    • "Jennifer's Notes," a novel suspense thriller with a twist, is coming in 2024.
  • Saturdays, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

    In this art class for the preschool set, children will be encouraged to discover and create using various media including painting, pastels, sculpture, and printmaking.

    • Ages: 3-5
    • Session: 11 weeks (Mar 16 – May 25, 2024)
    • Instructor: Melinda Welch
    • Cost: $150/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 4 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC's new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: March 11, 2024
    Melinda Welch Melinda E. Welch earned her Master’s degree and teaching license in Art Education from the University of Cincinnati’s school of Design Architecture, Art and Planning. Melinda’s Masters thesis focused on developing a visual arts curriculum for a community arts center. Currently, Melinda is teaching for the Clifton Cultural Arts Center and leading art classes at Bridgeway Pointe, UC Health, an assisted living residence.  Melinda’s teaching experience includes 14 years as Art Director at the Wyoming Fine Arts Center. While Art Director, she developed her vision for a visual art community driven by a strong, cohesive art curriculum and relationships with her students and families. She sought to connect with surrounding communities by integrating free art programming through connections with local schools, libraries and recreation centers. She often collaborates with diverse music teachers, and other non-profit organizations such as Elementz and BioKoto.  While in graduate school, she was employed by Kennedy Heights Art Center to teach adult and youth art classes. She also taught after-school art at Pleasant Ridge Montessori and the Pleasant Ridge Library. Her student teaching experience includes Walnut Hills High School, Sherwood Elementary, North Avondale Montessori, and Anderson High School. For the Contemporary Art Center, she taught an arts integration curriculum at Bond Hill Elementary. For the CAC she also led art programing at various local schools and in the UNMuseum. She has completed internships at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Taft Museum of Art, Manifest Gallery and Prairie Gallery. She was part of a youth community photography program in conjunction with Happen Inc, Prairie Gallery and the Mill Creek Restoration Project. Melinda is an active and experienced artist who works in ceramics, photography, collage and whatever else strikes her artistic fancy. She and her husband reside in Camp Washington with their two children.
  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

    The Nia technique is an expressive body-mind movement and fitness program incorporating dance, martial arts and healing arts, including yoga. It is a cardiovascular program that uses whole-body, expressive, grounded movement. Nia is adaptable to most levels of fitness, age and body types. Class payment options:
    • $10 per class for a single class
    • $6 per class for students (with a valid student ID) and seniors (over 65 years)
    • $80 for a 10 class pass
    • $140 for a 20 class pass
  • Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

    Each month of 2024, explore a new aspect of Fiber Art. See the full schedule HERE. In April, learn how to produce beautiful patterns using knotted textiles.
    • Age: Adults
    • Session: April 8 - Apr 29 (4 weeks)
    • Instructor: Prari Parran
    • Cost: $100/student + supplies fee of $20
    • Class Size: minimum of 7 students required to run class, no more than 20 enrolled.
    • Class Location: CCAC's new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: April 5, 2024
    Prari Parran Bio coming soon.
  • Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

    Each month of 2024, explore a new aspect of Fiber Art. See the full schedule HERE. In August, study various surface design techniques, including mud cloth, stenciling, stamping, and more. You'll then use these techniques to embellish your own unique apron.
    • Age: Adults (16+)
    • Session: August 5 - 26, 2024 (4 weeks)
    • Instructor: Judy Dominic and Carole Douglas
    • Cost: $100/student + supplies fee of $10
    • Class Size: minimum of 7 students required to run class, no more than 12 enrolled.
    • Class Location: CCAC's new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: August 2, 2024
    Judy Dominic Judy is a native of southwest Ohio. She has been weaving in some fashion since 1979 and indulges in all sorts of fiber techniques. Her use of natural and odd materials has become her signature, and she teaches and exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally. Judy has been honored locally for enhancing the quality of community life through art. She lives with a wonderfully supportive husband and claims three handsome sons, two lovely daughters-in-law and six lively grandchildren. Carole Douglas Carole was born, raised, and educated in Cincinnati where she married, then raised three boys. She taught arts and crafts with Cincinnati Recreation Commission for thirty years before becoming happily retired. Carole’s true love is fiber arts, always returning to sewing and quilting, but continuing to add different colors and textures to her fabric. Second only to the doing is the learning and teaching of various techniques to add excitement and freshness to the surface of the fabric!
  • Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

    Each month of 2024, explore a new aspect of Fiber Art. See the full schedule HERE. In June, learn the basic stitches and essential techniques of crochet. Unleash your imagination as you create beautiful, handcrafted items with yarn and hooks.
    • Age: Adults (16+)
    • Session: June 3 - June 24 (4 weeks)
    • Instructor: Karen Saunders
    • Cost: $100/student + supplies fee of $10
    • Class Size: minimum of 7 students required to run class, no more than 20 enrolled.
    • Class Location: CCAC's new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: May 31, 2024
    Karen Saunders Karen is a multi-disciplinary artist who hopscotched across the Midwest before landing in Cincinnati, where she’s been practicing as an artist and arts educator for almost three decades. She has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with an emphasis on Ceramics and an MA in Art Education from Miami University at Oxford.

    For the better part of 20 years, she has worked with diverse audiences at local institutions, such as the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Kennedy Heights Arts Center, and exhibiting her art at such venues as the Contemporary Arts Center, Canton Art Museum, Richmond Art Museum, and 21c Museum/Hotel.

    She routinely works collaboratively with community and artist groups, with one notable example being the Bombshells of Cincinnati, a largely anonymous group of local lady crafters who juxtapose vandalism with the non-threatening nature of fiber art.

    Karen is inspired by large-scale projects that might intimidate less resourceful and creative artists. She is ever challenging her own expectations and growing her ongoing practice.

  • Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

    Each month of 2024, explore a new aspect of Fiber Art. See the full schedule HERE. In May, learn the art of combining loose fibers into new fabrics or sculptures.
    • Age: Adults
    • Session: May 6 - May 27 (4 weeks)
    • Instructor: Kelli Gleiner
    • Cost: $100/student + supplies fee of $10
    • Class Size: minimum of 7 students required to run class, no more than 20 enrolled.
    • Class Location: CCAC's new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: May 3, 2024
    Kelli Gleiner Bio coming soon.
  • Saturday, April 27 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

    Create your own fashion line! You'll develop a fashion portfolio consisting of casual wear, party and evening dresses, swimsuits, and accessories. Students will also design fabric swatches to complement their portfolio. The day will end with a fashion display! Students should pack a non-refrigerated lunch.
    • Ages: Ages 8+
    • Session: One-Time Workshop, meets on April 27
    • Cost: $90/students
    • Class Size: Minimum of 7 students required to run workshop, no more than 15 students registered.
    • Class Location: CCAC's new home (3412 Clifton Ave)
    • Registration Deadline: April 24, 2024
    Lynn Arnsperger Lynn’s training is in fine art as well as commercial art & advertising and includes training at Hanna-Barbera for teaching animation. While there, she trained to be (and eventually became) the Dean of Animation at ACA College of Design. At Hanna-Barbera, Lynn learned how a real animation studio operates. Many of her students have gone on to have successful careers in art, like a graphics designer for the Super Bowl, department head at Disney, and Assistant Editor for Dungeons and Dragons Magazine. Lynn is a regular teacher at CCAC and has led classes, workshops, and camps for numerous years.

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