![]() ![]() “Everything we do centers around people and places,” says Tamara Harkavy, ArtWorks’ CEO and artistic director. ![]() ArtWorks murals have converted more than 150,000 square feet of blank, and often previously neglected, building walls into a citywide gallery of paintings that celebrate Cincinnati’s cherished history. After he enrolled in a credit recovery high school, an art teacher introduced him to ArtWorks - the arts organization that would change his life.ĪrtWorks, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit dedicated to transforming people and places through investments and creativity, has garnered attention over the past 21 years for bringing more than 100 public murals to Cincinnati’s downtown and Over-the-Rhine, as well as dozens of area neighborhoods and cities. Then his father lost his job and could no longer afford to send Winston to school.īut Winston, now a College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning freshman at UC, persevered. Due to Winston’s mother’s mental illness, his father raised him on his own. Yet, just a few years before he became a University of Cincinnati student, Winston had dropped out of high school, seemingly with no chance to ever pursue a college education. The young man’s calm, confident demeanor never hints at a past of adversity. Art has brought many things into Charles Winston’s life - direction, a career and, perhaps more importantly, a chance at painting his way to success. ![]()
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