Katie Griffith

With the funds, the King Records Legacy Foundation will hire a full-time executive director

An annual exhibition hosted at various venues throughout Ohio is coming to the Cincinnati Art Museum for the first time. Accessible Expressions Ohio is a traveling collection of art made by artists who identify as having a disability.

We’re almost to the weekend, Cincinnati. There’s plenty of fun to look forward to, including CityBeat’s Best of Cincinnati event on April 11. Take a hike to check out what kind of flowers these April showers are yielding, find a clothing swap to spruce up your spring looks or check out the Half Price Books West Chester Warehouse for an exclusive sale. Scroll down for all of our weekend picks.

The Cincinnati Fringe Festival is returning to Over-the-Rhine in May with a lineup that will showcase local, national and international talent. The performing arts festival will celebrate its 21st year in typical fashion: a collection of wacky, thoughtful, experimental, profound and comical stories that can only be seen together in the Queen City.

Since growing up in Cincinnati, playing in a local groovy psych-rock band (Surdy-Greebus) in the late ’60s, attending medical school at the University of Cincinnati, then pursuing photography and eventually assisting the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams, Stu Levy’s renowned photographic work is calling him back to the Queen City. On April 28, Levy will give an artist talk at Iris Bookcafe and Gallery in Over-the-Rhine, where his work is currently on view.

Broadway and Fellow Travelers star Noah J. Ricketts and artist Zain Curtis are the double feature of QueerKY magazine’s fifth volume. The magazine is an arm of nonprofit organization Queer Kentucky and aids in its mission to amplify and strengthen queer culture through storytelling, education and action.

Two artists from the Ohio River Valley Region explore their connection to place through photograph, sculpture and other media in an upcoming Wave Pool exhibit. Kith and Kin: Things Well Known runs from May 11 to June 22 at the Wave Pool gallery in Camp Washington.

A giant sculpture will soon rise in Roselawn at the corner of Reading and Section roads as part of a citywide art installment. The 10-foot “R” sculpture, created by Annie Ruth, is the first installation of 16 giant-letter sculptures and an exclamation point that will appear in various places around Cincinnati, eventually spelling “Black Lives Matter!”

The inaugural Cincinnati Anime Film Festival is coming this summer with a lineup of screenings for all ages that span two months. The festival lineup is set to be released during a launch party at Woodward Theater on June 3.

If you ask the keepers of the Ohio Lesbian Archives what the most prized item is among the decades-old collection of LGBTQ ephemera, the answer is typically not going to reveal one specific thing. The Ohio Lesbian Archives (OLA) has been collecting for decades and works to preserve LGBTQ+ history locally and beyond.