Winter, 2016-2017 Events

Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. Enjoy the shows!

Continuing

Through November 23

Loreto Greve, Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Artist-in-Residence exhibition. CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Through November 25

The Baron of Prospect Avenue: A Sneak Peek at John “Derf” Backderf’s New Graphic Novel

WATERLOO ARTS

Through November 26

Cleveland Sight Center Holiday Card Project.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

In-Turn: Works of interns at Zygote Press, Micro Art Space, Praxis, and The Morgan Conservatory

Through November 26

ZYGOTE PRESS

Through November 30

Phyllis Seltzer: A Feast of Americana

ARTNEO

Through November 30

Pita Brooks: Bite Size

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT NATIVE CEVELAND ANNEX

Through November 30

Forbes House Fundraiser; 10% of all gallery purchases benefit Forbes House.

FLUX METAL ARTS

Through November 30

Art of Recovery: Art as Storytelling for Healing.

ART THERAPY STUDIOS at CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH

Through December 2

Architectonic: encaustic paintings by Christopher Kier;

Fabric of Time: recent works by Carmen Romine.

HEDGE GALLERY at 78^TH STREET STUDIOS

Through December 3

Encaustic Exhibition

HARRIS STANTON AKRON GALLERY

Through December 3

Kate Budd: Artifact/Amulet

Elizabeth Emery: Seen Not Heard

Endi Poskovic: Dream: New Print Works

Artist talk with Kate Budd 2pm December 3 at closing reception

2731 PROSPECT GALLERY

Through December 4

Daniel Graham/Rocks

TRANSFORMER STATION

Through December 8

The 22^nd People’s Art Show

THE GALLERIES AT CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

*Through December 10

Matière: Denise Bookwalter and Opening Pages: Susan Warner Keene

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

*Through December 11

Alternative Movie Posters

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT MAIN GALLERY

Through December 17

45^th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

VALLEY ART CENTER

Through December 17

The Hum: a SPACES R&D artist exhibition, in collaboration with the Davis Sculpture Foundation; Apparat: Retrogression through Technological Progress.

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

Through December 17

20^th Anniversary Founder’s Exhibition and Oral Histories Documentary Premiere.

Oral Histories Premiere: Saturday, November 19^th 1:00-3:00pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Through December 17

3rd Annual International Exhibition

HARRIS STANTON CLEVELAND GALLERY

Through December 23

Time Well Spent: Art and Temporality

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 30

15^th annual holiday store

HEIGHTS ARTS GALLERY

Through December 31

The Ecstasy of St. Kara/Kara Walker: New York

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through January 8, 2017

Anders Ruhwald: Unit 1: 3583 Dubois

MOCA CLEVELAND

Through January 8, 2017

Limelight: Celebrating Local Art & Artists

BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Through January 13

Vault: build … destroy … build: New video works by Kate Gilmore, Kasumi, Bram Myers, Annika Sheaf, Cigdem Slankard and Joseph Strunk

NEW SPACES LOCATION

Through January 15, 2017

Intersections: Artists Master Line and Space: Karl and Bertl Arnstein and Judith Bear.

ISROFF GALLERIES, AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through January 17, 2017

Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists

MOCA CLEVELAND

Through January 27, 2017

Mariano Gonzales: Curiosities

1point618 Gallery

Through January 31

Beauty in Distinction: A Zygote Press Artists Group Show. Works by Christi Birchfield, Amy Casey, Jen Craun, Bruce Edwards, Elizabeth Emery, Michael Gill, Jake Hatmaker, Margaret Yuko Kimura, Michael Loderstedt, Michaelle Marschall, Liz Maugans, Pam McKee, Wendy Partridge, Bellamy Printz, Lisa Schonberg, Corrie Slawson, Kate Snow, Denise Stewart, and Rebekah Wilhelm

AMERICAN GREETINGS GALLERY W

Through February 12, 2017

Our Land

FRED AND LAURA RUTH BIDWELL GALLERY, AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through February 5, 2017

Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through February 19, 2017

Jimmy Kuehnle: Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle

THE MARY S. AND DAVID C. CORBIN FOUNDATION GALLERY
AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through May 21, 2017

Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through June 12, 2017

Fred Wilson’s Wildfire Test Pit

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through June 17, 2017

Fred Wilson: Black to the Powers of Ten

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

November starting November 18

Third Fridays

5-9pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art

November 19-March 19, 2019

With the movement’s grounding in capturing light, pastels on paper was a popular medium with Impressionists such as Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. The Société des Pastellistes de France was founded in 1885 to support this genre of work, and the interest in pastels’ ability to render a range of subtle, fleeting effects continued to attract Post-Impressionists such as Odilon Redon and Modernists such as Gino Severini. Pure Color features the work of late 19^th and 20^th century artists pulled together from the museum’s own collection.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

BAYarts Holiday Gallery

Holiday Open House Weekend

10am-4pm November 19 & 20

November 19-December 24

BAYARTS

Ethiopian Binding with Kerri Harding

10am-4pm November 19

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Letterpress Printing with Legos with Bob Kelemen

10am-4pm November 19–20

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Family Clay Days

ART HOUSE

Winterfest

11am-6pm November 26^th

THE W GALLERY

December

Film: Eva Hesse.

7pm

Free screening of documentary about the post-minimalist sculptor who explored the use of unconventional industrial materials, long before that was common practice, and produced a groundbreaking body of work before dying of brain tumor at age 34 in 1970.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Holiday Treats, featuring small works for sale by member artists

December 1-22

Opening Reception: December 9^th 6-7:30pm during annual holiday party

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Walk All Over Waterloo / Ink House Holiday Show

5-9pm December 2

ZYGOTE PRESS INK HOUSE

Surface: Works of Laurence Channing and Christopher Burk

December 2-January 7, 2017

Opening reception December 2 5- 8pm

Clevelander Laurence Channing and Columbus resident Christopher Burk both ground their work in the mundane aspects of the urban landscape. Channing’s charcoals feature homely nooks of the urban environment rendered in a fleeting, soft-edged manner, as if glimpsed out of the corner of the eye in passing, while landscape painter Burk hones in on rooftops and utility lines painted with photographic verisimilitude. Channing’s work is familiar to locals — he’s been represented by Bonfoey since 1998 — but it’s Burk’s first show there.

BONFOEY GALLERY

Off The Wall Members Showcase

December 2-17

Opening reception 5-9pm December 2

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Swingin’ into the Holidays: Ornament and Holiday Boutique

December 2-4

Preview Party December 1

WATERLOO ARTS

Screw Factory Open House

6-10pm December 2

noon-6pm December 3

LAKE ERIE BUILDING, LAKEWOOD

Off the Wall Holiday Show Free the Ink

December 3 & 4

ZYGOTE PRESS

Annual Children’s Holiday Workshop

December 3

VALLEY ART CENTER

Annual Holiday Open Studio

11am-7pm

TOWER PRESS BUILDING

Annual Holiday Sale

11am-7pm December 3; 11am-5pm December 4

ARTCRAFT BUILDING

Make Your Own Treasure Box with Betsy Begue

10am-4pm December 3–4

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Alber Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle

December 4-March 12, 2017

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Walkabout Tremont

5-10pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Eva Hesse

5:30pm

Free screening of the 2016 documentary about sculptor Eva Hesse; see description December 1.

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Holiday Trunk Show, regional artists working in various media, libations and light bites.

6-9pm

FULLER HOUSE GALLERY at BAYARTS

All Together Now: New Work From Gallery Artists

Now in its second year, 2731 Prospect Gallery, takes a look back — and ahead — with this group show of artists it’s shown in that time and artists on its roster who have future shows. Most of them — Christi Birchfield, Jerry Birchfield, Tim Callaghan, Elizabeth Emery, Andrea Joki, Aaron Koehn, Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson and Jason Milburn — will be familiar patrons of the space’s former tenant, William Busta Gallery. Laura Bidwa, Michelle Murphy, Dale Rothenberg and Joseph Minek are newer to this gallery, though the latter three have had exhibitions at 2731 in the past year. And Brandon Juhasz is new to this gallery, but but certainly not to the Cleveland art scene.

December 9-March 4, 2017

2731 PROSPECT GALLERY

Get to Know the Archives!

Annual Holiday party for members featuring a behind-the-scenes tour of the Artists Archive.

6-7:30 pm.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Holiday Sale & Open House

December 9-10

VALLEY ART CENTER

*Second Saturday Curator Gallery Talks

Glitter and Glamour: Portraits by Mickalene Thomas

2pm December 10

Mickalene Thomas creates her elaborately detailed portraits from rhinestones, acrylic and enamel. Her primary subject matter is the African-American woman — herself — as she floods her images with color, form and a riot of detail. Akron Art Museum assistant curator Elizabeth Carney will talk about two works by Thomas in the museum’s collection.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Clay in CLE Cleveland Bazaar Holiday

December 10-11, 10am-6pm

Third Friday: December 16, 5-9pm

ZAINA GALLERY

Build a Book! Bookbinding for Kids with Fran Kovac

10am-4pm December 10

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Gallery Talk: Jimmy Kuehnle

6:30pm December 15

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Third Fridays

5-9pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

Healing Through Art

December 16-January 20, 2017

Opening Reception Friday, December 16 5-9pm

HEDGE GALLERY

Men’s Shopping Night

3-7pm

BAYARTS

Kid’s Shopping Night

12-5pm

BAYARTS

Deck the Walls & Holiday Shop with hundreds of regional artists for extended holiday hours and special events.

BAYARTS

Don’t Blink, film about photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank.

7pm

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Selections: Photographs and Prints from Nomadic Bookshelf

December 29-January 1, 2017

Opening reception 6-9pm December 29

ZAINA GALLERY

January

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

DayGlo 5 Show

January 6-February 12

Opening Reception 5-9pm January 6

The Day-Glo Show, challenging artists to create works using this headquartered-in-Cleveland fluorescent paint, began at Tremont’s scrappy little Doubting Thomas Gallery before moving to Waterloo for its 4^th iteration last year. With its blacklight-enabled psychedelic quality, the medium gives the participating artists license to come up with work that’s fun, sometimes goofy and mind-bending.

WATERLOO ARTS

John W. Carlson and Douglas Max Utter: Between Presence and Projection.

January 6-28

Opening reception 7-9pm January 6

Sullivan Family Gallery at BAYARTS

Bernie D’Ettore Student Exhibition: Watercolor students of Bernie D’Ettore

January 6-28

Opening reception 7-9pm January 6

BOLDMAN EDUCATION GALLERY at BAYARTS

Above the Surface: The Grace & Depth of a Printmaker

A Benefit Exhibition Honoring Anthony Bartholomew.

January 6^–February 19

Opening reception 5-9pm January 6

Anthony Bartholomew, who died in October 2011 at the age of 30, taught printmaking at Kent State University and was artist in residence coordinator at Zygote Press. He was also a commercial screen printer at Jakprints. Proceeds from the exhibition will benefit a post-graduate Kent State University residency at Zygote Press.

January 6^–February 19

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

A Curve of Color: Art and Fashion of Samuel Butnik and Bonnie Cashin

January 12-February 23

Opening reception: January 12, Gallery W, American Greetings headquarters

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

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Walkabout Tremont

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Let’s Talk About Love, Baby: The Love Library

January 13-February 25

Opening reception 6-8pm

ZYGOTE PRESS

Wandering Palette: Watercolors from the ARTneo Collection

January 13-March 3

ARTNEO

New Directions

January 13-February 11

HARRIS STANTON GALLERY AKRON

Tricia Kaman: Women in Reverie

January 13-February 17

Opening reception 5-8pm, January 13

Tricia Kaman, one of the cornerstones of Cleveland’s original art neighborhood, Little Italy, has been painting her insightful, approachable portraits from live models for 40 years. She’s especially drawn to women and, in this show ay Ohio’s oldest women’s college, she looks at women as they snatch moments of reflection and introspection from the often overwhelming demands of their multitasking lives– moments she calls “a beautiful necessity.” She’ll be doing a free lecture and a workshop at the gallery on January 31.

WASMER GALLERY at URSULINE COLLEGE

Portrait Show

January 13 – February 25

Opening Reception 6-9pm January 13

HEIGHTS ARTS

Grand opening of new location

After 26 years at its location on Superior Viaduct, SPACES moves up the hill to Hingetown’s Van Rooy Coffee Building, which it’s spent the past six months restoring. Today begins its series of grand opening events, with its first new shows at the location opening January 27.

SPACES

Heavy the Sea: Works by Esther Teichmann

January 14 – April 30

Opening Reception with musical performance by OPUS 216, members preview 5-7pm; public opening 7-9pm

TRANSFORMER STATION

Scholastic Art + Writing Exhibition; annual show of works of young artists and writings from Cuyahoga County

January 14-February 1
REINBERGER GALLERY, CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

The Case for Making Your Own Bookcloth with Cris Takacs

10am-4pm January 14–15

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Third Fridays

5-9pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

The Map Is Not the Territory

January 20-March 17

Opening reception 5-9pm January 20

ZAINA GALLERY

It’s Elemental: Fire & Water

January 20-March 1

VALLEY ART CENTER

Inside Outside

January 20-March 17

Opening reception 5-9pm January 20

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Anne Kmieck: Riparazioni;

Miriam Norris Omura: Ghosts and Strangers

Susan Squires: From There to Here;

Robert Banks: Placeholder

January 20-February 25

Conversation with artists at 4pm; opening reception 5-8pm; dance performance by Kathleen Diehl in Kmieck’s space at 6pm January 20.

Anne Kmieck’s art explores what it means to be a woman physically, emotionally and especially spiritually, using something most intimately associated with her: her garments. In Riparazioni: Meditations on the Fullness of Being (Women), she creates fabric sculptures in the form of dresses that stand for the lives of legendary women religious figures including Hildegarde of Bingen, Jeanne D’arc and, of course, Mary, as well as lesser known and even apocryphal figures. She’s been working on the project for nearly a decade and the installation, promises gallery director Robert Thurmer, is stunning.

THE GALLERIES AT CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Inside Outside Panel Discussion with Barbara Tannenbaum, Cleveland Museum of Art Curator of Photography; James Edmonson, Dittrick Museum at Case Western Reserve University Chief Curator; Maggie Goddard, exhibition curator, and Dr. Ewald Horwath MD, MetroHealth Chair, Department of Psychiatry

1pm

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

No Sewing Required: Tacketed Bindings with Fran Kovac

10am-4pm January 21

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Monika Meler Artist Talk

4:30-5pm January 21

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Havens: Imani Roach; Except as a Punishment for Crime: Anthony Warnick; Astrojack: Videos by Soda_Jerk

January 27-March 24

SPACES

Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible; Lisa Oppenheim: Spines

January 27-May 14

Opening reception 7-10pm, January 27

MOCA CLEVELAND

The Electrostatic Man: The Art of Miller Horns

January 27-March 18

Campus-wide opening reception 5:30-8:30pm January 27

AAWR Gallery, ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Michael Bierut: a presentation by the legendary graphic designer and design critic

PETER B. LEWIS THEATER, CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series

Keith Lemley: New Work; Christy Wittmer: New Work

January 27-March 17

Opening reception 5:30-8pm January 27

SCULPTURE CENTER

Encaustic on Paper with Clare Murray Adams

10am-4pm January 28–29

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Tricia Kaman Women in Reverie Lecture

11am January 31

WASMER GALLERY at URSULINE COLLEGE

Tricia Kaman: Women in Reverie Workshop

1-4pm January 31

WASMER GALLERY at URSULINE COLLEGE

February

Collecting Art Talk: Collecting African American art with David Lusenhop

February date to be announced

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Valentine’s Day Special

February 1-14

THE W GALLERY

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

DayGlo a GoGo Dance Party

WATERLOO ARTS

Interiors: Invitational featuring 10 women artists working in various media, curated by Karen Petkovic.

February 3-March 1

Opening reception 7-9pm February 3

SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY at BAYARTS

Susan Gray Be Student Exhibition: Paintings

February 3-March 1

Opening reception 7-9pm February 3; reception with instructor 1-3pm February 5

BOLDMAN EDUCATION GALLERY at BAYARTS

Lynn O’Brien and Meaghan Reed

February 3-March 4

HARRIS STANTON GALLERY CLEVELAND

Annual Hot Chocolate Fundraiser

February 4

VALLEY ART CENTER

Softcover Journals and Sketchbooks with Kyle Holland

10am-4pm February 4–5

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Palettes for the Senses: Art + Scent Demystified

February 9-March 4

Opening Reception 5-9pm February 17;

Private Preview Party, 6:3-9:30pm February 9

HEDGE GALLERY

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk + Poets Respond

7pm February 9

HEIGHTS ARTS

Walkabout Tremont

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose

Toronto-based Hi-Fructose magazine, founded in 2005, calls itself “the new contemporary art magazine.” What that means in practice is that it covers an eclectic gamut artists, both new and established, both those who have all the proper academic/gallery credentials and those who might be termed “outsider” or “lowbrow” artists. This touring exhibit looks back at its first decade, featuring 51 artists who have appeared in the magazine and media ranging from painting, drawing and sculpture to video and mixed media.

February 11-May 7

Opening party, February 10 7:30pm

KARL & BERTL ARNSTEIN GALLERIES, AKRON ART MUSEUM

7^th annual Student Independent Exhibition

February 10-March 19

REINBERGER GALLERY, CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Third Fridays

5-9pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

March (through March 15)

Walk All Over Waterloo.

5-9pm.

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

George Mauersberger solo show

Opening reception March 3

Bonfoey Gallery

Performance by OPUS 216

2pm

TRANSFORMER STATION

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Walkabout Tremont

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition
March 10-April 7

Opening reception 7-9 pm March 10

SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY at BAYARTS

Liz Maugans: Irreverent Sketches/And The Things That (I Think) People Are Thinking: The City Pool and People In Church

The title of Maugans’ latest show captures its informal, quotidian quality. The sketches have what she describes as a “plein air kind of thing” going on, only instead of landscapes, ordinary people whose types patrons of BAYarts will surely recognize are the subject matter. To add to their engagingly whimsical quality, she’s iimagined phrases and comments her subject might be casually thinking as they loll by the poll or heir attention wanders during the sermon.

March 10-April 7

Opening reception March 10, 7-pm

BOLDMAN GALLERY at BAYARTS

The Curious Case of Color

March 10-April 15

Opening Reception 5-8pm March 10

THE GALLERIES AT CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

National Arts Program

March 3-19

Artwork Drop-Off February 16 & 17; Opening Reception & Awards, 5-9pm March 3

WATERLOO ARTS

Pat Zinsmeister Parker & Wendy Chazin