Who is Annie Ruth

With everything that's been going on, I forgot to tell you all that my business was named "Business of the Month" for the city of Cincinnati for September. (They came out to photograph me when I was installing some art in the community.) Special thanks to Christian A. Drye for helping me install the repurposed flower pot sculptures in the business district of Roselawn. Thanks to Tracey Artis and the Cincinnati OH Chapter of The Links, Incorporated for the arts sponsorship to Eye of the Artists Foundation and investment in community artmaking. Thanks to Most Outgrowing LLC and community members that painted tiles. (Click here for more info: https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/inclusion/news/september-business-enterprise-of-the-month/

**HELP SPREAD THE WORD ** Looking for some great family fun!! The Roselawn Community Council, Inc. presents the Roselawn Fall Festival on Saturday, October 26 | 1PM - 5PM at Roselawn Condon School, 1594 Summit Road. Thanks for the support of great community partners Cincinnati Public Schools, BYE Institute, Interact for Health, Eye of the Artists Foundation, and Life Center.

Attention parents, grandparents, mentors and more... This weekend I'll be at the Cincinnati Museum Center Children's Museum creating art with families. Please join me for this interactive time called,

"I Am Me” Creating Self-Portraits with Artist and Author Annie Ruth. (I will share excerpts from my I Am…Enough book and invite children and families to create imaginative self-portraits that show feelings, emotions and the things that make each of us special and unique.)

When: Saturday, July 13 from Noon to 5 p.m.

Where: KidSPACE (The Children's Museum)

Entry: Free for Members or included with Museum Admission

**PLEASE SHARE** Thanks to the arts partnership of the Cincinnati Arts Association, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Roselawn Business Alliance, and Cincinnati Cincinnati OH Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, we are creating public art for Roselawn. Join Annie Ruth, Adoria L. Maxberry and Christian A. Drye to paint a tile in our tent on Monday, June 24, 2024| 3pm to 6pm in the New Birth Christian Center [Parking Lot], 7648 Reading Road. (No registration necessary- just drop by and paint with us). A special call out to our fellow members of Black Art Speaks that may have some time to come volunteer to paint a tile. Hope to see you!!!

"Art & Activism: Fostering Community Engagement" panel
will be presented by several members of Black Art Speaks Advisory Team-- Annie Ruth, Toilynn ONeal Turner and Cedric Michael Cox at the Invest In Neighborhoods "Neighborhood Summit"- Join us to hear how you can use art to engage your neighborhood and activate a community!- Saturday, April 20th at University of Cincinnati- TUC (Our session goes from 10am - 10:45am)

This is to announce the unveiling of the letter "R" from Cincinnati's Black Lives Mater mural at the (corner of Section and Reading Road) on May 2, 2024 at 11am. I hope that you can join us for the press conference and see the new letter R design.

Thanks to the City of Cincinnati's Safe & Clean Grant administered by Keep Cincinnati Beautiful and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati Black Empowerment Works- Eye of the Artists Foundation and Black Art Speaks have been able to partner to bring the letter "R" to Roselawn.

As the lead artist of the letter "R", I look forward to sharing this great unveiling with you.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! This is to announce the unveiling of the letter "R" at the corner of (Section & Reading Rd.) on May 2, 2024 at 11am. I hope that you can join us for the press conference and see the new letter R design.

The Letter Project involves erecting the letters from the Black Lives Matter mural in front of City Hall and includes community programming centered around the theme of each letter. The letter "R," designed by Annie Ruth, embodies the theme "We Want What You Want," advocating for the males in our lives to be seen as kind-hearted gentlemen, not as thugs or criminals. Special thanks to our financial sponsors, United Way and Keep Cincinnati Beautiful- Safe and Clean Grant, who have been pivotal in amplifying our message against the bias faced by Black men.

I look forward to sharing this great unveiling with you.

The Roselawn Block Party for the Arts is returning this year. Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 18, 2024 at Roselawn Condon School. (Corner of Summit and Greenland in Roselawn). More info coming soon!!!!

Feeling like I’m in the Matrix

Save the Saturday, Date- May 18, 2024- noon to 4PM. "Great Art and Fun for the entire family coming to Roselawn"

** PLEASE SHARE ** "For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place".- Maya Angelou . Join ROMAC - Robert O'Neal Multicultural Art Center, Annie Ruth and Black Art Speaks in celebrating Gyata Afrakan Drum And Dance Theater, the next generation of legacy of African/African American Dance in the Greater Cincinnati region.

** PLEASE SHARE ** "All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.."- Maya Angelou . Join ROMAC - Robert O'Neal Multicultural Art Center, Annie Ruthand@Black Art Speaks in celebrating Ryan Nichole Leary, a Passionate visual artist, educator, historian dedicated to the instruction, appreciation and creativity through the visuals arts. Don't sleep on this sister! She will bring a wealth of knowledge to any program dealing with art and art history.