Chase Public, 2868 Colerain Avenue, Cincinnati, OH (2026)

01/11/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist and Organizer Feature:

Scott Holzman is a writer, poet, curator, and conceptual artist based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. His practice is focused on the ways by which meaning is informed through context, and how seemingly unlike things interact when they share space. He served as the executive director of Chase Public, a collaborative space for art and assembly from 2013-2018. He is currently working to understand what the inversion of a going-away party would look like. This was his first experience with tabletop role-playing games, and now he is hooked.

01/11/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Anissa Pulcheon is a designer and musician particularly interested in the surreal, soft, and satisfactory.

01/10/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist and DM Feature:

Jeb Brack is a freelance writer, illustrator, and podcaster. He writes fiction and online content, draws house portraits and fantasy illustrations on commission, and co-hosts "All In The Reflexes," a podcast about geek culture. As a result, he makes very little money. He is one of the leaders of the Cincinnati Urban Sketchers group along with fellow gamer Christina Wald.

Jeb has been playing role playing games for forty (40!) years now, since before it was cool, starting with purple box D&D. He discovered the joy of game mastering early and has run games in almost every genre, and in many different systems. Ask him about his favorites; he'll go on and on. He recently co-published a book of ideas for role-playing games, "Random Encounters Season One Omnibus," including his essays and illustrations. The essay "The Dragon Mine" makes an appearance in the Ral Buldhar campaign.

You can find Jeb's work on his Instagram, , and on his website, wordspicturesmagic.com.

01/10/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

John Stormcrow Sebastian is a Cincinnati-based illustrator and designer. He graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati’s College of DAAP. Since then, he’s been creating works of weird and fantastical wonderment, cartoons, and designs.

01/10/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Christina Wald has done illustration for a wide variety of toys, games, books, and magazines.

In addition to doing illustrations for many role-playing and collectible card games in the 90s, she also did art for the Savage Coast module and a bunch of Dragon Magazine issues. Other games she did art for include Star Wars, Dune, Babylon 5, Cyberpunk, Netrunner, Battletech, Shadowrun, Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings CCG), Legend of Five Rings, and many others.

She now mostly illustrates picture books, is working on a graphic novel and is chaotic good (mostly)…

01/10/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Marcus Alan Donaldson is a poet & writer with a lot of questions. He is currently writing his first chapbook, and lives with his family on a hill just north of Cincinnati, Ohio.

01/09/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Gabrielle Lanza is in it for the beauty, order, and delight. This artist, collaborator, and coach holds a BFA in 2D Art from the University of Cincinnati’s College of DAAP. Her current creative work includes drawing, poetry, and singing; she also occasionally creates and hosts some weirdo art events.
If you want to collaborate on a project / share in creative coworking time / play D&D, do reach out!
Find this GRL’s art in Insta-land: or online:
http://www.artofgala.com/

This was Gabrielle’s first D&D campaign and, oooo wee, it was the best. World-building is the best because it’s a completely immersive and wild ride. Collaborative storytelling is the best because it requires continuous, nimble improvisation. And role-play games are the best because it feels real fun to make decisions as an acrobatic, chaotic elf.

01/09/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Alexa Justice is the daughter of two artists, so she decided to be a history major. She was born in Ohio but dragged all around the world by her parents' work before landing back in Cincinnati, where she works in the Sociology Department at the University of Cincinnati. She has been active in the theater community wherever she's lived, and is a frequent stage manager and techie at various theaters around town. While working on shows in college, she and her friends would play Dungeons and Dragons between shows, which sparked her love of the game. Over the past ten years, she has played Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 through 5.0, and is often a Dungeon Master (DM) for her friends.

This connection between theater and role-playing games is what drew her to this project, and in particular viewing D&D as a theatrical activity. Although there are rough guidelines to the games, they boil down to improvisational group storytelling, which is what connects the players to the story and gets them invested in it. Every player has a part in creating the world they are playing in. For the sake of this show, this led to the reverse creation of a script; instead of reading a script to perform, we performed to create.

01/08/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Jay B. Kalagayan is the creator and writer of MeSsed Comics. MeSseD is the nickname of the Metropolitan Sewer District and features sewer worker Lilliput. She is our tour guide to the weird, wild and wet world beneath our feet.

Creating a comic book like MeSseD has been a lifelong dream. With two seasons published, featuring artwork from friend and collaborator Dylan Speeg, Jay tours the country promoting MeSseD. He just finished his People’s Liberty project, the MeSseD Tunnel Tour, an immersive comic book experience taking place three stories underground.

01/08/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

L.D. Nehls is a maker of arts, designs, and weird things in Cincinnati.

01/07/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Artist Feature:

Aiesha Little is a writer, cosplayer, comics enthusiast, workshop facilitator, and co-founder of the Midwest Black Speculative Fiction Alliance, an organization which connects fans of, and champions speculative works by, African American and African diasporic creators working in genres of sci-fi, comics, Afrofuturism, steampunk, and sword & soul. She is a founding member of the steampunk cosplay group Airship Ashanti, which promotes multiculturalism and diversity within the steampunk and cosplay communities and supports numerous non-profit and philanthropic causes including Relay for Life, WordPlay Cincinnati, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Her articles and interviews on steampunk, cosplay, and nerd culture have appeared in such venues as Cincinnati Magazine, BLKBOARD, Punk Black and New World Comics’ “Comics Empower” project. Through her involvement in the local steampunk community, she has created characters in fantasy settings and has casually played board games and RPGs with her friends for several years.

01/07/2019

In the summer of ‘18, 12 writers and illustrators gathered for the adventure of a lifetime: Dungeons and Dragons set in the fantasy metropolis of Ral Buldhar. In the months since, they’ve made art about it. Come and see. Opening on Friday, Jan 11 - Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show

Geoffrey Woolf is the author of three collections of poetry. His most recent book is Learn to Love Explosives from Dos Madres Press. If he's not campaigning as a chaotic-neutral cleric, he's probably busy in real life being the chaotic-evil Dean of Humanities and Sciences at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

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