A chronological listing of openings and art events around Northeast Ohio, including your Festival Guide, highlighting Festivals from June to September.

 

CONTINUING

Through May 30

28^th Annual International Exhibition

Harris Stanton Gallery, Akron

Through June 6

Syncope

Heights Arts

Through June 27

Reemergence

AAWR

 

Through July 3

Recent Acquisitions: 2012-2015

ARTneo

Through July 10

Bounce: Keegan and Nick

SPACES

Through July 10

The Vault

Video installations

SPACES

 

 

Through July 12

Altered Landscapes

Akron Art Museum

 

Through July 31

Funny Money II: Josh Usmani

Tregoning and Co.

 

Through September 27

Staged

Akron Art Museum

 

Through October 25

Proof: Photographs from the Collection

Akron Art Museum

 

MAY

 

May 17

My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb

Through August 16

Cleveland Museum of Art

 

May 22

The Artists of Tower Press

Through July 10

Receptions: 5 – 9 pm Friday May 22 and July 10

Red Space Gallery at Hot Cards

May 29

PJ Rogers Tribute Exhibition through June 27

Harris Stanton Cleveland

 

May 30

BereaArtDay

Art walk on the Triangle, Mayfest at Coe Lake

10 am – 5 pm

 

JUNE

June 1-5

Wood Engravers Network conference

Morgan Conservatory

First Friday Walk All Over Waterloo

 

June 5

Mary Deutschman Paintings and Farm to Table: A Celebration in Art

Through July 3

Opening Reception 7 – 9 pm June 5

BAYarts

 

June 5

Live art-making by Ron Copeland, James Jenkins, Ali Lukacsy, Stephen Love and Anastasia Pantsios. Bob Peck and Loren Naji.

Satellite Gallery

June 5

Textile Arts Alliance Member Showcase

Opening Reception 6-8PM

Praxis

 

June 5

Michael Walsh, Rasmuson Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Zygote Press, through August 4

Zygote Press

 

June 5

Mary Jo Bole, works on paper through July 25

Lori Kella, photographs through July 25

David Alban & Megan Sweeney, sculpture, through July 25

Kristen Cliffel, sculpture, through July 25

Debra Rosen, metals, through July 31

William Busta Gallery

June 6

Fiber studio Grand Opening Celebration 10AM-5PM

Praxis

 

June 6

Artwood Derby, 6-8 pm

SPACES

 

June 6 and 7

Art By The Falls, Chagrin Falls

Valley Art Center’s 32nd annual “Art By The Falls” kicks off the summer art festival season with a two-day event in bucolic Riverside Park, in downtown Chagrin Falls. It’s a classic summer art festival, with special features to add to the fun, including a children’s art tent, and an art raffle. To make the raffle interesting, each of the 120 artists exhibiting in the festival donates a piece. And for every $50 you spend on art at the festival, you get an entry ticket for the raffle. You can also buy tickets for $1 each, and complete a Valley Arts Center survey and get a raffle ticket free. Even if you don’t win, you can’t lose: Paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture and textiles, jewelry, weaving and ceramics by 120 artists from around the country, plus live entertainment all promise not to outshine the rush of the Chagrin River and it’s gushing waterfall. It’s 10 am – 7 pm Saturday, June 6, and 11 am – 5 pm Sunday, June 7 in downtown Chagrin Falls. Free. If you want to exhibit at next year’s festival, your application is due in February. For more information, go to valleycenter.org.

June 11

After The Pedestal

Opening Reception 5:30 – 8 pm

Artists and Juror talk in the Euclid Avenue Gallery at 6:15 and in the Main Gallery at 7 pm.

exhibit through July 31

Sculpture Center

 

June 12

Memeography: Iconography in the 21st Century, curated by Bellamy Printz and Jennifer Finkel

opening reception 6-8 pm June 19, exhibit through July 30

Zygote Press

 

June 12,

Tremont Art Walk, 6 – 10 pm

 

 

June 12

How To Remain Human, curated by Megan Lykins Reich and Rose Bouthillier, with Elena Harvey Collins,

Through September 6

MOCA Cleveland

 

June 12

The Peer Show: Juried Exhibition, through July 11.

Reception 5 – 9 pm June 12

The Cleveland Print Room

 

 

June 13

Cleveland Museum of Art’s Parade the Circle

Parade at noon, Circle Village 11 am –4 pm

Wade Oval

June 13

BAYarts Annual Art & Music Festival

If you like the music of the Buena Vista Social Club, you’ll love Ray Cintron’s Rice and Beans band, which headlines the BAYarts annual Art and Music Festival this year. On a good day in the summer, the BAYarts setting in the Huntington Reservation of the Metroparks is almost heaven. The campus features the restored victorian Fuller House, a railroad caboose, mature trees, and views of Lake Erie—with its beach within easy walking distance. Add to that eighty artists exhibiting their work, plus Rice and Beans’ latin grooves, and you simply can’t go wrong. It’s 10 am to 4 pm Saturday, June 13 on the BAYarts campus, 28795 Lake Road in Bay Village. Free admission, free parking. Go to BAYarts.net for more information.

 

 

June 15

Here and There, Now and Then, through August 2

Heights Arts at the Mandel JCC, 26001 S. Woodland, Beachwood

 

June 19

Third Fridays at 78^th Street Studios

June 19

Material Girls

Reception 5 – 9 pm Friday June 19, exhibit through August 21

HEDGE Gallery

June 20

Clifton Arts Festival

It’s no small thing to shut down Clifton, also known as State Route 2, the broad boulevard that runs from the West Shoreway through Lakewood. The street is traversed by more than 25,000 cars every day. But then the Clifton Arts Festival is no small thing, and for one day a year all those cars can take a detour for one of the biggest, busiest white-tent art festivals going. It draws 40,000 visitors with its mix of live music, and its juried art competition awards a total of $7,500 in prizes. If you want to have a booth next year, turn in your applcation by February 27. The Festvial also offers two $750 scholarships to high school seniors enrolled in accredited arts education programs. Applications foe the scholarships are due in May. This year’s festival is 10 am to 6 pm Saturday, June 20, on Clifton from West 112 to West 117. For more information or to download the applications, go to cudell.com/artsfest.asp.

June 21

Crazy Chester, free outdoor concert, 7 – 9pm

BAYarts

 

June 26

Annual Student / Faculty Art Exhibit, through August 5

Valley Art Center

 

June 27

Waterloo Arts Festival, Collinwood

North Collinwod is popping with new arts-related businesses, thanks to Northeast Shores’ Lotus Project, and several have opened (shout outs to Satellite Gallery, Praxis, and Zygote’s Ink House) since last year’s Waterloo Arts Festival. But beyond question, the neighborhood’s visual arts anchor is Waterloo Arts, and their signature event (so much that the organization changed its name from Arts Collinwood to reflect it) is the Waterloo Arts Festival. Waterloo Arts is a year round gallery and cafe with a performance series, classes, and studio space available. Director Amy Callahan makes it a point to spotlight local talent and local issues: you’ve read about the likes of Pretty Vacant and I Am Trans in CAN Journal. The Waterloo Arts Festival takes that mission to the street with a mix of artists, nonprofit organizations, local food, and more. To get involved in next year’s festival, you’ve got to sign up by April. This year’s fest is from noon to 7 pm Saturday, June 27 along Waterloo in the heart of Collinwood. Contact Amy Callahan at 216.692.9500, or go to Waterlooarts.org.

June 27

“Free The Ink” Zygote Press Ink House Open House

noon – 4 pm

June 27

Erie Art Treasures:

noon-7 pm Satellite Gallery

June 28

Ragnar Kjartansson: Song

Video installation, through August 16

Cleveland Museum of Art

 

JULY

 

July 1

Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison

Through October 25

Cleveland Museum of Art

 

July 3

First Friday Walk All Over Waterloo

 

July 5

Hands On Architecture: through September 13

Akron Art Museum

 

July 10

Bounce This!

Experimental music by Chris Auerbach Brown

8 – 10 pm

SPACES

 

July 10

Animals in Art through October 3, 2015

Kokoon

July 10

Milan Kecman: Head 2 Head

Squared up, Instagram photos curated by Christopher Gray

Through July 31

Opening Reception 7 – 9 pm July 10 with Secondhand Dogs

BAYarts

 

July 10

Caroline and Paul Rowntree through August 8

Harris Stanton Cleveland

July 10

Tremont Art Walk, 6 – 10 pm

 

 

July 10

Michael Walsh film screening, 6 – 8 pm

Waterloo Arts

 

July 10, 11, 12

Cain Park Arts Festival

The Cain Park Arts Festival has a reputation for taking care of the exhibiting artists, which inspires feedback like “I do a lot of shows that feel more like jobs, but coming to Cain Park feels more like a vacation!” All that, plus a crowd of 30,000 ticket buyers means a strong focus on art. The juried festival draws applicants from around the country and annually features about 150 artists. And they maintain an emphasis on two-dimensional fine art, with more than half comprised of painting, watercolor, hand pulled prints, and photography. The rest is ceramic, jewelry, woodwork and other fine craft. If you want to apply to next year’s festival, you need to do so by March. Meanwhile, for visitors, admission is free from 3 to 8 pm Friday, July 10, and costs $5 from 10 to 8 pm Saturday July 11, and $5 from noon to 5 pm Sunday. Kids 12 and under get in free. At Cain Park, 14591 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights. For information or details, go to cainpark.com.

July 11

Larchmere Festival 10 am – 5 pm

 

July 15

Michael Walsh films and talk at the Underdog

July 16

Sustenance, from Palate to Palette through August 29

AAWR

July 17

Third Fridays at 78^th Street Studios

July 17

Fractured Planes through September 4th,

ARTneo

 

July 19

New Barlycorn; free outdoor concert 7 – 9 pm

BAYarts

 

 

July 24

Destruction of Form

Reception 5 – 8pm July 24. Gallery talk 1 pm July 25. Exhibit through August 28

The Cleveland Print Room

 

AUGUST

 

August 1

Lakewood Arts Festival

If you wonder how Cleveland artists stack up nationally, look at the list of past prize winners of the Lakewood Arts Festival. Now in its 38th year, the event draws artists from around the country, and its list of past prize winners is dotted with names well known in the Cleveland area, including Yumiko Goto, Brian Jasinski, Mark Yasenchack, and Rich Cihlar, among others. The festival shuts down Detroit Avenue from Belle Avenue to Mars, and packs it with 160 artists, plus live music and other performances. Of course Root Cafe, Lion and Blue, Melt, Geiger’s, and a slew of other shops in the busy commercial district are open for business. 10 am – 6 pm Saturday, August 1. And if you want to get involved next year, apply before March 15. To volunteer at this year’s festival or check out the 2015 schedule, to to lakewoodartsfest.org.

August 1

Charles Beneke: Specter

Akron Art Museum

 

August 1

Lumière Cinematheque premiere night

Cleveland Institute of Art

 

August 2

Brittany Reilly Band; free outdoor concert 7 -9

BAYarts

 

August 7

First Friday Walk All Over Waterloo

 

August 7

Dawn Tekler: Blue Carbon

Marge Gulley: Unscene Cleveland

Opening Reception 7 – 9, with Boogie Woogie Kid on stage

BAYarts

 

August 14

Tremont Art Walk, 6 – 10 pm

 

 

August 16

Moko Bovo, free outdoor concert 7 – 9

BAYarts

 

August 21

Third Fridays at 78^th Street Studios

August 28

Prism, final convocation at the Gund Building

Cleveland Institute of Art

 

August 28

2015 Faculty Exhibition (new Reinberger Galleries)

Through October 10

Cleveland Institute of Art

 

August 28

Cleveland Neighborhoods

through September 26

Harris Stanton, Cleveland

SEPTEMBER

 

September 4

First Friday Walk All Over Waterloo

 

September 11

Tremont Art Walk, 6 – 10 pm

 

 

September 12

Moondance: Annual benefit; honoring Liz Maugans

BAYarts

 

September 13

Berea Arts Festival

Rich Cihlar seems to catalyze art activity everywhere he goes. The former proprietor of the Pop Shop in Lakewood, now gallery manager at Baldwin Wallace’s Fawick Gallery and proprietor of E11even 2 Gallery at 78^th Street, Cihlar also manages the Berea Arts Festival. And for the Festival’s 25^th year, they’re moving back to its original location, Front Street in the heart of Downtown Berea. This means you’ll be surrounded by the college town atmosphere, but still be a stone’s throw from the Rocky River and the Cleveland Metropark. About 100 artists and crafters will exhibit. Unique features of the fest include the Kids Kreation Station, the chalk walk, with chalk art created by children, and an art raffle, giving festival visitors an chance to win art from exhibiting artists for the cost of a raffle ticket. The festival itself is free. 10 am to 5 pm on Front Street in Berea. For information, go to bereaartsfest.org.

 

September 18

Art-Tini exhibit, Auction Sept. 25

Harris Stanton Akron

September 19

Chromos Opening Celebration

Cleveland Institute of Art

September 19 – 20

Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival

At the Tremont arts and Cultural Festival, the emphasis is on community. Not only does it fill Lincoln park with art by tremonsters and artists from around Northeast Ohio, as well as music and dance. But this annual neighborhood event also gives nonprofits a forum to present information about their missions and services; creates a market for the ethnic food offerings from Tremont churches and restaurants. And of course it offers plenty of hands-on art, history, and education – related projects for children of all ages. 2015 is the festival’s 17th year. Artists accepted into the festival through the jurying process are eligible for prizes. Applications are due by June 5, 2015. It’s 11 am to 6 pm Saturday, and noon – 5 pm Sunday at Lincoln Park, 1208 Starkweather Ave., Cleveland. For information, go to tremontwest.org. Free.