BY KATE BRAUER

Mike Mullins' photos illustrate The Lost Children of Kathmandu at SSNOVA on Saturday evening.

As this new year begins, Look Here is pleased to introduce an additional voice to comment on the comings and goings of the Cincinnati art scene. Rob Jansen joins Kate Brauer for 2003, helping to expand CityBeat's coverage and provide an occasionally divergent point of view. ... If you're heading downtown this Saturday, be sure to see The Lost Children of Kathmandu at SSNOVA (2260 Central Pkwy., Downtown). It's a benefit show for the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless (GCCH), featuring a photographic ethnography by MIKE MULLINS of homeless children in Kathmandu. Mullins captures the spirit and the oppression of the Nepali children with grace and dignity, using a mix of black-and-white and color images. The exhibit will feature the work of Mullins and several others in photography and photo-collages, video documentary, paintings and graphic design, as well as prayer flags and other artifacts from Nepal. Fifty percent of all proceeds will go to the GCCH. (If you'd like to donate a coat for GCCH's coat drive, bring it to the show.) Mullins told us he decided to team up with the Coalition after meeting several people who commented that the homeless situation in Cincinnati can be compared to that of Nepal. "Although the surrounding factors are quite different," he says, "the end result is people living on the streets." If you miss the exhibit at SSNOVA Saturday, you can catch it again at MEDIA BRIDGES (corner of Central Parkway and Race St., Over-the-Rhine) on Jan. 31. Or contact SSNOVA for a private showing. For a sneak preview of Mullins' work and his experiences in Nepal, check out www.lostchildrenofkathmandu.org. SSNOVA can be tricky to find: Look for the old Mockbee building on Central Parkway, and park along the street. Hours: Saturday, 7­11 p.m. Info: www.ssnova.org ... More good news for photography fans. CARL SOLWAY GALLERY (424 Findlay St., Over-the-Rhine) has extended the run of The Photographic Edge through Jan. 30. The 71-piece show includes the work of 20 American photographers from a variety of disciplines, curated by CAL KOWAL. For the last seven years, Kowal has organized the Lightborne Lecture Series in Photo-graphy at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and this exhibit includes a few artists who have spoken in the series, including JERRY UELSMAN, whose surrealistic images confront the viewer upon entering the gallery. Another artist in this exhibit, KENNETH JOSEPHSON, will speak at CAM on March 27. Admission to Solway Gallery is free. Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. ... Frequently, art gives us a different look at our world. Usually the viewer is transported to a new environment by seeing the world through the eyes of the artist. In Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad, the artists are taking the journeys and seeing the world differently. For this exhibit, currently showing at the WESTON ART GALLERY (650 Walnut St., Downtown), several Ohio artists had the opportunity to leave their studios and create work in other countries. This group exhibition organized by the OHIO ARTS COUNCIL and curated by SUSAN CHANNING, director of SPACES, features 13 Ohio artists who spent five to eight weeks in countries including the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Italy and India. The results of their sojourns are outstanding. Works contain an eclectic mix of media such as photography, video, installation, printmaking and textiles. WENDY COLLIN SORIN's text collages from old German books and advertisements confront the devastation of World War II and the loss of identity. MASUMI HAYASHI's photo collages explore the concept of ritual through the daily life of India. Before participating in this project Hayashi had never included people in her panoramic photo collages, but in India, she writes, "The bright, exotic garments added a magical aspect to the places." Connections is a dynamic and visually rich exhibit encompassing a cross-section of cultures. Catch it before it closes on Saturday. And don't miss the other Weston exhibition, DON HARVEY's Theories of Public Space, site-specific installations exploring the urban environment. Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Info: 513-977-4165 ... Sad news from Over-the-Rhine: SUZANNA TERRILL GALLERY has closed after five years. The Main Street mainstay will re-emerge in a new location, to be determined, but for the time being, Terrill will operate her gallery out of her apartment. In a recent statement, she wrote, "This year has been another difficult year in the Over-the-Rhine area, as well as downtown Cincinnati. There are still many changes taking place, but the process is slow." For information on the gallery's new location when it reopens, keep reading CityBeat. ... CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER launched its new Web site last week, www.contemporaryartscenter.org. On the new site you can sign up to volunteer. Timing couldn't be better. The CAC just began a new eight-week course for volunteers, teaching recent art history and providing background knowledge for new and current CAC docents. For information about the docent program and how to join, call Laura Stewart at 513-345-8419 (or e-mail education@cacmail.org).

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