While the Cincinnati Spring is even more of a rollercoaster ride than usual, Aeqai covers several exciting exhibitions for your avid interest.

Whether “plant chic,” a repository for ancestral knowledge, or “floraporn,” “Ecologies of Elsewhere” at the Contemporary Arts Center highlights human beings’ selfish motives. If this show is any indication, plant appreciators appear more interested in human wellbeing than plant wellbeing.

Don’t miss an opportunity to see “Ceramicus Sculptus ‘Krohn’,” an exhibition of ceramic sculptures gleaming like “hothouse flowers” in the Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park, Cincinnati, on view through June 18, 2023. Visitors to this exhibition truly wonder, “How did they do that?”

Fashion accessories can be great fun, but what if you must hide them? This wasn’t a rhetorical question for trendy Japanese gentlemen in the Edo Period (1603-1868).

The duties of a museum director are vast, complex and persistent. Just ask Raphaela Platow, new director at the Speed Museum, Louisville.

Hayler Barker takes viewers into the home of longtime activist Angeleno Isa-Kae Meksin. By reflecting on Meksin’s garden, apartment and neighborhood, Barker provides an intimate glimpse into the power of everyday interactions with the nonhuman world that bustles around us.

The Aeqai 15th Annual Fundraiser was held at the Annex Gallery, Pendleton Art Center, Cincinnati Ohio on February 2nd, 2023 with a silent auction entitled ”EIGHT BUY EIGHT.”