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Fortuitous 12 #. Opening event tonight Thursday May 2, at 7:13pm. New Art by Antonio Adams 210 Pike St, Covington Ky.

Pique Opening Event: Thursday April 2nd. 7:13pm. At Pique gallery, Covington Ky. Fortuitous 12 # New Artworks by: Antonio Adams. Fortuitous 12 # is about to have good luck in 12 weekends of the month for your normal lifetime of the journey after avoided from this chaotic world.

Closing event 3/26/2026. 7:13pm at Pique gallery, Covington Ky 25 Faces of Fairness: work by .artist As the show comes to a close, ***rkentucky invites the community to gather, reflect, and mark the end of the exhibition’s public run. This closing event offers a final opportunity to experience the portraits and stories documenting 25 years of fairness advocacy in Kentucky. Rather than a celebration or conclusion, the evening serves as a moment of reflection —Honoring the people and places that made progress possible while acknowledging the work that still lies ahead.

NKY Q***r History: Covington & Newport. March 18th 7pm at .gallery Presentation. Q***r history in Northern Kentucky long predates modern fairness ordinances and national milestones like Stonewall. This program explores LGBTQ life in Covington and Newport before formal protections existed, tracing how q***r people built community, visibility, and survival in the region despite criminalization and social erasure. The presentation is led by Jake Hogue and serves as a celebration of the release of his forthcoming book, Cincinnati Before Stonewall: The Untold Q***r History of the Queen City, released March 5. By grounding 25 Faces of Fairness in deeper historical context, the event situates contemporary advocacy within a much longer lineage of q***r presence, resistance, and resilience in Northern Kentucky.

Activism Panel: Tuesday March 10th at 7pm. This panel discussion brings together several of the individuals portrayed in 25 Faces of Fairness to reflect on their experiences organizing, advocating, and pushing for change across Kentucky. Moderated by Jake Hogue, author of Cincinnati Before Stonewall: The Untold Q***r History of the Queen City, the conversation centers on lived experiences rather than abstraction. Panelists will discuss the realities of activism in a state where protections have been uneven, hard-fought, and remain incomplete.

Artist talk: Jacob Grant in Conversation. Thursday Feb 26, 7pm at Pique. .artworks How do you translate policy, history, and lived experience into portraiture? This artist talk features a conversation with Jacob Grant, the Louisville-based LGBTQ artist behind the oil paintings in 25 Faces of Fairness, exploring the creative process behind the exhibition. Moderated by .spears Missy Spears, Executive Director of Q***r Kentucky, the discussion will examine why portraiture was chosen over photography, how art can carry civic memory, and what it means to visually document a moment still in progress.

We must CANCEL Bad Movie Club for this Sunday Jan 25, due to the expected snow and ice storm. We will try to reschedule soon. Please be safe & and watch Bad Movies for the full duration of this winter storm.

25 Faces of Fairness is a portrait exhibition by ***rkentucky featuring original oil paintings by Kentucky-based LGBTQ artist Jacob Grant, drawn from the organization’s printed publication documenting 25 years of fairness advocacy in Kentucky. The exhibit highlights 25 leaders in Kentucky’s fairness movement, pairing visual art with journalism to tell the human story behind policy change and ongoing efforts for statewide protections.

Pique Bad Movie Club Event: 1. We will watch Troll 2. Then all willing, will act and film a bad movie.

Remembering Semantics: Closing Event & Artist Talk. Thursday Jan 8th at 7:13pm, at Pique gallery.

Remembering Semantics opening event Thursday Nov 20th 7:13pm at Pique. Remembering semantics celebrates the legacy of semantics gallery, the beloved artist-run space that energized Cincinnati’s art scene for over 20 years before closing in 2015. It was the longest-running alternative art co-op in the city, with a history dating back to 1992. The exhibition brings together artists and archives that reflect semantics’ experimental spirit, DIY ethos, and commitment to community