Two of my photos, The Rabbi and her Daughter and
Renny and Grandma, were shown in this group exhibit.

I'm thrilled to have been chosen as one of the winning artists selected from 16,604 entries received from 125 countries for the contest exemplifying the theme "enriching lives through diversity and inclusion." Winning selections will be displayed at Sarasota, Florida's Bayfront Park, January 21 - April 14, 2024.

Photo from Newport Folk Festival in 1985 © Connie Springer

I was selected as one of the winners of the annual Embracing Our Differences art contest in Sarasota, Florida. The response to the call for art yielded 11,791 entries from 111 countries and 44 states.

My entry, Blowing Bubbles Together, depicts my husband and our son, whom we adopted from Korea, playing with bubbles.

The Embracing Our Differences annual outdoor exhibit is at the heart of a year-round program of activities designed to use art as a catalyst to create awareness and promote diversity.

The exhibit is on display in Bayfront Park in Sarasota from January 18 through April 30, 2020.

In March of 2020, I was one of the local photographers in Cincinnati winning the photo contest, "A Place to Call Home -- Capturing Our Community."

The image was to shine a light on the cultural uniqueness of Cincinnati neighborhoods and communities.

Sponsored by People Working Cooperatively, the photos will be exhibited and auctioned at PWC's ToolBelt Ball (date, TBA).

Podcast interview by Women Writing for a Change's Phebe Beiser, December 12, 2010 Women Writing for a Change

WVXU interview by Jane Durrell for Around Cincinnati, May 29, 2011

Article by Jane Durrell, Remember the Nineties, in City Beat

Article by Kelly McBride, Fountain of Youth Flows at 90, in Community Press

Online article by Virginia Citrano, What 90 Looks Like, in myveronanj.com

Blog article by Ariel Lewis, Oberlin College, OC Book Love.wordpress.com

Publishers Weekly Non-Fiction Review Publishers Weekly

Article by Rachel Richardson, Cincinnati Enquirer

January 8, 2012 POSITIVELY NINETY mentioned in The Outlook newspaper article on Gordon Maham: Engineer, WW II War Resister from the Greatest Generation Turns 95

If you are interested in having the POSITIVELY NINETY exhibit come to your venue, please call (513) 871-1677 or click on CONTACT above.

Connie Springer's book, POSITIVELY NINETY, is now in its second printing, with a price of $25 per book + shipping.

To order the book, please contact Connie Springer at larkspur@fuse.net or (513) 871-1677.

To read more about the book, see the Press entries below.

• With 500 contestants from 29 countries, won 2nd place in the “Take Your Best Shot” category of the Friendly Faces Friendly Places Photo Contest sponsored by the Grantmakers in Aging (GIA)’s Community AGEnda.
Grantmakers in Aging


• Finalist in International Book Awards, 2012, in narrative non-fiction.

March 19, 2016 - displayed both art and POSITIVELY 90 books for sale at the 6th annual SWAN (Support Women Artists Now!) DAY CELEBRATION at Women Writing for a Change in the Silverton neighborhood of Cincinnati.

June 27, 2015 - exhibited classic old photos of folk and bluegrass musicians from the '80s at Downtowne Listening Center.

June 25, 2014 - Speaking engagement about POSITIVELY NINETY to a lunchtime audience at Marjorie P. Lee Retirement Community, where 2 of the nonagenarians from the book lived.

April 25, 2013 - keynote speaker at a Volunteer Luncheon at Cedar Village Retirement Community in Mason, Ohio. One of Springer's resilient nonagenarians, Edith Carter, resided at Cedar Village at the time Springer interviewed and photographed her.

January - April 18, 2013 - Steely Library, Eva G. Farris Reading Room at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

May 1 - May 21, 2011 - Sharonville Fine Arts Center at
11165 Reading Rd., Sharonville OH 45214.

October 1 - December 30, 2010 Centennial Barn at 110 Compton Rd., Cincinnati OH 45215

June 11 - August 6, 2010 Oxford Community Arts Center at 10 S. College Street, Oxford, OH

February 1 - March 26, 2010 Clifton Cultural Arts Center at 3711 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati OH 45220

October 24, 2009 PRESENTATION at the College Club of Cincinnati : "Twenty Common Traits for Longevity"

August 7 - September 3, 2009 Anderson Center at 7850 Five Mile Rd., Anderson Township OH 45230

May 9 - June 6, 2009 Hyde Park Health Center at 3983 Rosslyn Drive, Cincinnati OH 45209

January - March, 2009 Kennedy Heights Arts Center at 6546 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati OH 45213

MASTERING ENGLISH, MUSTERING DIVERSITY, cover story about Cincinnati's excellent ESL program at the Academy of World Languages published in ESL Magazine. (May/June 2010)

FARMING MAKES A COMEBACK, cover story in CityBeat about local farmers in the Cincinnati regional area. (August 24, 2011)