Betts House to host Traveling Through Time and Color FotoFocus Exhibit
The Betts House is pleased to host a new exhibit, Traveling Through Time and Color: Regenerated Images of History & Landscapes. In response to this year’s FotoFocus theme, Photography, the Undocument, the exhibit offers altered images that lift the audience to imaginative views of real places. Join us for an opening reception on October 1, 2016 from 3 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Be sure to visit us Saturday, October 22, 2016 for a Architectural Photography Walking Tour of the Betts-Longworth Historic District at 1 p.m. The exhibit will be on display until November 30, 2016.
The exhibit showcases the fantasized images produced by photographers David Parks, a retired engineer, and Erce Gokhan, an architect trained in his native home of Turkey. Each piece presents unique truth to the audience through an enhanced, new vision of Cincinnati.
About the FotoFocus Biennial
The FotoFocus Biennial 2016 is a regional, month-long celebration of photography and lens-based art held throughout Cincinnati and the surrounding region that features over 60 exhibitions and related programming. As part of the Biennial, participating venues respond to the theme: Photography, the Undocument, which examines the wide sphere of activity between photography’s documentary tradition and assumptions regarding objectivity and authenticity, to photography as a medium easily capable of fictions of fabrications, to photography as a means of questioning the very nature of “realism” or reality itself.
About The Betts House
Built in 1804, Ohio’s oldest brick house is located in the Betts-Longworth Historic District near downtown Cincinnati. The Betts House offers exhibits and programs exploring historic preservation and education, building trades, construction technologies, and building materials. Located two blocks west of Music Hall, at 416 Clark Street, the house is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 12-5 p.m. Other days and times are available by appointment. Admission is $5 per adult and $2 per child. Visit www.TheBettsHouse.org for more information. Contact: Cora Arney, info@thebettshouse.org
The Betts House is owned and operated by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Ohio (NSCDA-OH), a non-profit organization, founded in 1896, which promotes our national heritage through historic preservation and education. NSCDA-OH owns the Kemper Log House now at Heritage Village in Sharon Woods, the NSCDA Ohio Gallery at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Betts House, to ensure that these historic structures and decorative arts are preserved and shared with the community. Visit www.nscda-oh.org for more information.