MATCH Fellowship
The MATCH program pairs selected candidates and local partners with the goal of fostering collaborations and artist-driven projects that exist at the intersection of the creative industry, local enterprise, and community development.
This project gives artists real-life business experience and provide businesses with the opportunity to reimagine existing systems and processes. Our goal is that this program moves away from focusing solely on artistic production, towards artists engaging in creative consultation.
Welcome Handbook
Wave Pool is hosting free monthly community building dinners where each month a different topic of concern and interest is focused on. Each dinner features the food of a local home chef, an interactive art piece by an artist that will gather community input, stories, and feedback regarding the topic at hand, and a presentation by a local official/expert. These dinners will result in the Welcoming Handbook with a different chapter for each topic.
This project is funded by a Fund to Foster Belonging Grant through Welcoming America
Owning Your Own Voice
Owning Your Own Voice is a community-based storytelling project designed to increase resiliency, build community, and combat stigma one story at a time. Your story matters and together our stories have the power to generates courage, hope, healing, and change. Our past and present does not define our future.
MATCH Welcome Project Artist in Residence
As part of Wave Pool’s pilot year program for our NEA-supported Multidisciplinary Artists for Transformative Change (MATCH) Fellowship, artist, entrepreneur, and arts educator Asha White will be working hands-on with Camp Washington community members in 2024 by reporting and capturing their needs, co-creating public engagement programming, and organizing and facilitating a refresh of our “Soup & Stories” programming from 2022.
Welcome Editions
Welcome Editions are limited edition art objects designed by nationally recognized artists and fabricated at least in part by the refugee and immigrant women of the Welcome Project. Often functional, affordable and always collectible, the editions appeal both to collectors of contemporary art and those seeking to support refugees.
Cincinnati’s Table
Cincinnati’s Table is a series of dinners held at neighborhood community centers around the city. The series aims to bridge relationships within neighborhoods including but not limited to helping immigrants connect with each other and their neighbors through shared meals. Each of these meals revolves around a theme, which are introduced by a local artist through an interactive artwork or installation and are strengthened by food cooked by an immigrant or refugee in order to best start conversations across many groups and bridge divides within our city.