Community Opening—Terence Hammonds: Soul is a Ham Hock in Your Cornflakes

Community Opening—Terence Hammonds: Soul is a Ham Hock in Your Cornflakes Thursday, November 19, 2026 from 5–6 p.m. FREE. * Registration required only for the CAM Presents Lecture at 6 p.m. Join us for the community opening reception of Terence Hammonds: Soul is a Ham Hock in Your Cornflakes. With a title plucked from Funkadelic’s 1970 song “What is Soul?” this exhibition—featuring the work of Cincinnati-based artist Terence Hammonds—throws a proverbial ham hock into the museum’s bowl of cornflakes. As the song’s vivid lyrics suggest, power and meaning often emerge from unlikely combinations, and “nothing is quite good until you play with it.” Pairing historical objects from the museum’s collections with his newly created printed ceramics, wallpaper, and textiles, Hammonds constructs unexpected vignettes that speak to Black history, resilience, and cultural imagination. “By juxtaposing these objects, I aim to create a form of historical fiction—a speculative ‘what if’,” Hammonds explai