SUMMER 2018 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 MAY 20

Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth Century Europe

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

THROUGH MAY 25

Urban Bright Exhibition

The 16^th annual Urban Bright exhibition features the work of K-8 students participating in Art House’s Urban Bright education program to provide students in art-poor schools with hands-on experiences led by professional artists. This year’s theme is “Our City,” and the student work is the result of a partnership with the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which the students visited to learn about conservation, biomimicry and stewardship to fuel their complex finished art pieces.

ART HOUSE

 

THROUGH MAY 26

Body of Work: Annual Exhibition & Sale of Advanced Pottery Students

BAYARTS

 

THROUGH MAY 26

Glass Exhibition featuring Scott Goss, Marianne Hite & Timothy Stover

HARRIS STANTON CLEVELAND GALLERY

 

THROUGH MAY 26

Marbling Exhibition, curated by master marbler Antonio Vélez Celemín

Summer Workshop Instructors Exhibition

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

THROUGH MAY 27

Maidenform to Modernism: The Bissett Collection

This Is Your Art: The Legacy of Ellen Johnson

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH JUNE 1

Lisa Eastman: Nocturne

Redux & closing reception 6-10 pm

ARTICLE

 

THROUGH JUNE 1

Jewelry Student Show

ORANGE ART CENTER

 

THROUGH JUNE 2

Organic Progression: Patty Flauto & Michael Nathal

RIVER GALLERY

 

THROUGH JUNE 2

The Lorain Legacy Show

The five artists in this show—Paul Arnold, David Jansheski, Robert Pelegrin, Mary Owen Rosenthal and Joe Sroka—all have ties to Lorain County, and all have dedicated much of their time to teaching and encouraging the next generation of printmakers. The show fueled a series of outreach programs in honor of the quintet’s legacy.

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

THROUGH JUNE 3

Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH JUNE 3

73^rd Annual May Show

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

 

THROUGH JUNE 4

Members Show

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

THROUGH JUNE 6

Recent Acquisitions 2014-2017

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

THROUGH JUNE 8

Matt Lambert: Fun & Games

Eli Gfell: post-consumer

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

 

THROUGH JUNE 9

Merit Scholar Exhibit

47^th Student Show

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

 

THROUGH JUNE 10

Mei-Jia & Ting-Ting & Chih-Fu & Sin-Ji by C. Spencer Yeh

Zigzags and Diagonals by Claudia Comte

The Founder’s Paradox by Simon Denny

INDUCTION by Tauba Auerbach & Éliane Radigue

MOCA CLEVELAND

 

THROUGH JUNE 15

Portals_Thresholds: Sara Ludy, Rachel Rossin, Rafaël Rozendaal, Wickerham & Lomax

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

 

THROUGH JUNE 15

Cruising in the Passing Lane

Works by Andrew Shondrick & Matt Miller are described as “an ode to the particulars of life in NE Ohio.”

E11EVEN2 GALLERY @ 78^th STREET STUDIOS

 

THROUGH JUNE 15

David Butram & Deborah Silver

ARTNEO

 

THROUGH JUNE 16

Matthew Gallagher Solo Exhibition

HEDGE GALLERY

 

THROUGH JUNE 17

Photographer Richard Renaldi spent seven years documenting New York City’s club scene in black and white with a large format camera, images that formed the basis of his 2016 book Manhattan Sunday Morning. Work from that book will be on view at the Transformer Station, along with Jess T. Dugan’s new work from her project Every Breath We Drew, a collection of portraits exploring the queer experience and the fluidity of gender identity.

TRANSFORMER STATION

 

THROUGH JUNE 24

Spotlight: Christopher Darling

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

THROUGH JUNE 30

My City, Cleveland: The Work of Phyllis Seltzer

Satellite show in Cleveland’s AECOM Building

SPONSORED BY ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

THROUGH JUNE 30

Director’s Choice: Historical

An Exhibition of Historical Art

KENNETH PAUL LESKO GALLERY

 

THROUGH JULY 1

A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Japanese Prints

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH JULY 8

Jennifer Adams: A View of My Neighborhood

Pennsylvania native Jennifer Adams, who now lives in Shaker Heights, has degrees in textile design and fiber art, but her current practice also includes drawing, printmaking and photography as well as quilting and knitting. The foundation of her work is detailed repeated patterns, which she hopes will encourage the viewer to look for patterns surrounding them.

LISSAUER GALLERY AT SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

THROUGH JULY 13

9^th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

Reception & Awards Ceremony 7-9 pm May 25

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

 

THROUGH JULY 15

Ed Emberly: Better You Than Me

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH JULY 15

Handle with Care: Embracing Fragility

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH JULY 22

Ministers of the Kingdom: Brian R. Williams

Windows into the Past: Works from the Permanent Collection

Brian Jarvi’s African Menagerie: The Inquisition

Odysseus & Penelope: The Long Journey

Minnesota artist Kari Halker-Saathoff loves adventure stories, including the classic Homeric epic The Odyssey, which underscores this collection of ceramics. The 12 vessels in the show tell the story of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus who waited faithfully for 20 years for him to return from war, while 12 drawings tell Odysseus’ tale.  The titles of the latter are taken from The Odyssey, while those of the vessels are inspired by the 2017 Women’s March, drawing parallels between ancient Greece and modern America.

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

 

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 9

Frameworks: Paintings by Dragana Crnjak, Andrea Joki & Matthew Kolodziej

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 23

Jerry Birchfield: Asleep in the Dust

The 32-year-old Cleveland artist’s photography-based work moves outside of traditional photography, using such processes as cameraless images and chemically manipulated one-of-a-kind prints, and incorporating text and sculpture, frequently recycling images from work to work. This show of new work includes plaster relief sculptures and a sculptural installation in addition to recent photographs, all of which verge on or tip over into abstraction.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH OCTOBER 7

Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

MAY

18

CAN Journal Summer Issue Launch Party

ARTNEO

 

24

Szalay/ Takács: Secrets

Inaugural show for newly archives artists Judy Takács and the late Marilyn Szalay

Reception 5:30-8 pm

Through July 14

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Members Show Gallery Talk

7 pm

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

25

Water Signs: Hilary D. Gent, Sherry Bradshaw & Jennifer Whitten

Founder of Vermilion gallery the Artseen Sherry Bradshaw collects driftwood and other debris washed upon the nearby shores of Lake Erie to create her sculptural works. For this show, she joins her work with that of two more northeast Ohio artists inspired by the close presence of water: painter Hillary Gent, whose vibrant works with their thick gobs of paint are all about capturing water’s movements, and Jennifer Whitten, whose assemblages are pulled together with intricate stitching and beading.

Reception 6-9 pm June 2

Through September 1

THE ARTSEEN

 

26

Family Clay Day

10 am-Noon

ART HOUSE

 

31

Art of Mikhail Bratslavsky

Reception 1-2:30 pm June 3

Through June 25

BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER GALLERY

 

JUNE

1

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

Bonnie Dolin

Reception 6-8:30 pm

Through September 30

ART AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE

 

Lisa Eastman: Nocturne

6-10 pm

ARTICLE

 

Al Fuchs: Gallery 216

June 1 & 30, July 6, August 3 and by appointment

ARTICLE

 

Natural Dye Garden demonstrations and opening reception

4-6 pm

PRAXIS FIBER ARTS

 

Waterloo Arts 2018 Juried Exhibition

Through July 21

WATERLOO ARTS

 

2

Love Being Black: Donald Black Jr. & Ali McClain

Photographer Black is known for his intense portraits of fellow African Americans as well as murals and collage-style work whose juxtapositions explore the black life experience. Black and young performance poet Ali McClain were among the co-founders of Cleveland-based artist collective Acerbic, which draws on a range of media and disciplines to look at how race impacts the urban experience and to uplift youth of color.

Reception 6-9 pm

Through June 23

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Workshops: Eco-Printing | Portfolio Structures for Artwork and Collections

10-4 pm June 2-3

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

6

Art Bites: Professional Practices

“How to Make Friends & Influence Strangers: Social Media for the Artist” with Judy Takács

6:30-8 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

7

Pop-Up Exhibition featuring Nathan Prebonick

Though June 30

HARRIS STANTON GALLERY AKRON

 

8

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT

A New Season: The Paintings of Chris Benavides & Jim Osborne

Eileen Dorsey: Home is Where the Art Is

Dorsey’s evocative, impressionistic landscapes are well known to those who stop by her studio at 78^th Street on Third Fridays. This new body of work should have an even stronger elegiac feel as it looks at places connected to her own life to explore the feeling of “home.” At the same time, BAYarts opens a show of work by a pair of retired American Greetings illustrators exploring what their future as artists looks like freed from commercial constraints.

Reception 7-9 pm

Through July 7

BAYARTS

 

Peer Show

Reception 5-9 pm

Through July 28

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

Big Ass Papermaking Returns

In a first-time collaboration, students can learn to make paper this weekend at the Morgan and dye it next weekend at Praxis Fiber Workshop. Artist-in-residence Julie McLaughlin will teach this outdoor class in making 6′ x 9′ kozo sheets in a 10′ x 12′ vat, including cooking and beating the fiber to prepare it. If you enroll in both weekends, there’s a 15% discount.

10 am-4 pm June 8-10

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

9

New Work: Christine Ries & Paul Linhares

Through July 14

RIVER GALLERY

 

Narrative Treasure Box Workshop

10 am-4 pm

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

15

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

Sticks & Stones

Reception 6-9 pm

Gallery Talk 6 pm July 12

Through July 29

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

16

Workshops: Letterpress Fundamentals: Make Your Own Greeting Cards | A “Signature” Binding Structure: Nag Hammadi Codex VI

10 am-4 pm June 16-17

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Family Open Studio

Every 3rd Saturday of the month

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

 

Big Ass Paper Dyeing

In this first-time collaboration, students will learn how to take the sheets of kozo paper created at the Morgan Conservatory last weekend and color them at Praxis with MX Reactive dyes.

9:30 am-4 pm June 16 & 17

PRAXIS FIBER ARTS

 

17

Open House

Noon-5 pm

LISSAUER GALLERY, SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

18

Valley Art Center summer classes

Through August 11

 

22

After the Pedestal: The 11^th Exhibition of Small Sculpture from the Region

Through August 17

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

 

23

Flowing Form: Julian & Barbara Stanczak

Painter/printmaker Julian Stanczak, who died last year at the age of 88, was a Polish refugee who graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art before becoming one of the most significant figures in the 1960s Op art movement. His brilliant geometric works perfectly reflected the era’s zeitgeist. His wife Barbara is an art educator and sculptor who works in wood and stone to address in a very different way the issues of form, light and color that he husband did. Barbara Stanczak will speak at the opening reception.

Through July 21

BONFOEY GALLERY

 

City Artists at Work: The History of an Art Community

AAWR Satellite show

Reception 3-5 pm June 24

Through July 22

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

 

Workshops: Summer Bouquet: Letterforms, Abstractions and Flowers | Art and Text Remix

10 am-4 pm June 23-24

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Moniker: Identity Lost & Found

The idea of tagging train cars didn’t begin with hip-hop’s graffiti artists. In fact, the tradition of putting artistic names on the sides of freight cars emerged in the 19^th century when hobos and railroad workers tagged them with paint sticks and dubbed them “monikers.” This exhibit documents that folkloric history from its origins through today and explores the styles of these anonymous artists.

Through October 21

MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

28

Art of Jerry Schmidt & Friends

Reception 1-2:30 pm July 8

Through July 20

BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER GALLERY

 

Cleveland FRONT and SEEN: Timothy Callaghan, Hilary Gent & Darius Steward, with films of Little Miss Cleveland by Sarah Paul

Reception 6-9 pm

Through August 31

YARDS PROJECT SPACE

 

29

Spotlight: Peggy Spaeth

Reception 6-9 pm

Through August 12

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

30

Annual Student/Faculty Art Exhibit

Reception 6-8 pm July 6

Through August 1

VALLEY ART CENTER

 

Workshops: Sculpture from Nature: Materials and Methods | Paste Paper: Owning the Mark

10 am- 4 pm June 30-July 1

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Al Fuchs: Gallery 216

June 1 & 30, July 6, August 3 and by appointment

ARTICLE

 

Joe Stavec/Leslie Humez

12-6 pm June 30, 6-10 pm July 6

ARTICLE

 

JULY

6

CAN Triennial Preview Party

78^th STREET STUDIOS

 

Group Exhibition featuring 15 represented artists

Through September 7

HEDGE GALLERY

 

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

Installation Exhibition: Tom Balbo, Susan Danko, Danielle Wyckoff, Taryn McMahon, Megan Singleton, Kristina Paabus

Know How II: Summer Workshop Instructors exhibition

Reception 6-9 pm

Through August 11

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Al Fuchs: Gallery 216

June 1 & 30, July 6, August 3 and by appointment

ARTICLE

 

Joe Stavec/Leslie Humez

6-10 pm

ARTICLE

 

7

CAN Triennial opening night

Through July 29

78^th STREET STUDIOS

 

Director’s Choice | Contemporary

20 Artists—15 Cities—5 Countries

Through August 18

KENNETH PAUL LESKO GALLERY

 

Workshop: Hold onto Your Deckle

10 am- 4 pm July 7-8

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Nature Walk Photo Adventure with Michael Loderstedt

10 am-Noon

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Mirrors

Don’t even think about expecting to drop in to see this show featuring the 65 years’ worth of work by the storied Japanese artist, now 89, on the spur of the moment. Tickets went on sale in April and were in high demand. Additional tickets will be put on sale on Monday each week of the show’s run but there will be no onsite sale. Act quickly!

Through September 30

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

11

Donald Black: A Day That No One Will Remember

Reception 6-9 pm

Through September 8

SHAKER COMMUNITY GALLERY

 

12

Bostwick Design Art Initiative: Phillip Buntin, Liliane Luneau, Paul O’Keefe, and Douglas Sanderson

Through September 1

BOSTWICK DESIGN, 2731 Prospect

 

12

A Slice of American Life: People and Places

Through August 11

HARRIS STANTON GALLERY AKRON

 

13

Paintings of Compassion: Artists in Bloom Ministry

Derek Brennan: Interwoven Memories

Reception 7-9 pm

Through August 4

BAYARTS

 

The Expanded Broadside, curated by Lisa Kurzner

Reception 6-8 pm July 19

Through August 25

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

Susan E. Squires: Small Works over the Years, a Retrospective

Reception 6-8 pm

Admission Free

Through August 31

LISSAUER GALLERY, SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

Sweet Treats

THE ART GALLERY, WILLOUGHBY

 

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT

 

14

FRONT

Through September 30

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

FRONT: Barbara Bloom

Through December 17

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

FRONT: Juan Araujo

Through September 30

WELTZHEIMER/JOHNSON HOUSE, OBERLIN

 

FRONT: Cui Jie

Through September 30

RICHARD D. BARON ’64 ART GALLERY, OBERLIN COLLEGE

 

Art Fair at CAN Triennial Gallery Pavilion

July 14-15 & July 20-22

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

Louise Nevelson

Through September 30

THOMAS FRENCH FINE ART AT TREGONING AND CO.

 

Workshops: Natural Dyeing for Book Arts | Daredevil Typesetting

10 am-4 pm July 14-15

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

15

Family-Friendly Photogram Workshop

1-3:30 pm

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

16

A House Is Not a Home

Through September 28

EMILY DAVIS GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

 

19

GRAPHIC: The Counter Culture of Cartoons, Comics & Graphic Novels in Northeast Ohio

No one is more qualified to co-curate this show with AAWR than the husband-and-wife duo of Gary and Laura Dumm, who create vivid cartoon-like graphic art together (Gary did copious illustration work for the graphic stories of the late Harvey Pekar). This show will focus on the many Clevelanders who have turned their abundant creativity toward this “low art” form from the 1930s through today, with cartoons, comics and graphic novels by the Dumms, Robert Crumb, Derf, James Giar, archived artist Marvin Jones, Jake Kelly, Gerry Shamray, and Superman creators Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Reception: 5:30-8 pm

Through September 8

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Art Bar Discussion with Tim Callaghan, Hilary Gent, Sarah Paul & Darius Steward

6-8 pm

YARDS PROJECT SPACE

 

20

Third Friday

CAN Triennial edition

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

Art Fair at CAN Triennial Gallery Pavilion

July 20-22

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

The heART of Cleveland exhibition and book release by Scott Kraynak

Twenty-six area artists’ work will adorn the walls, augmenting Kraynak’s Cleveland-focused book. They include such noted local eminences as Derek Hess, Herbert Ascherman, Corrie Slawson, and of course talented gallery co-owners Christina Sadowski, R!ch Cihlar and Billy Naininger, who bring together a range of fine art and pop culture-inspired styles to their photography, painting, drawing and collage work.

Reception 5-9 pm

Through August 17

E11EVEN2 GALLERY@ 78^th STREET STUDIOS

 

21

Family Open Studio

Every 3rd Saturday of the month

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

 

Pinhole Workshop

1-4 pm

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

Workshop: Joomchi: Korean Paper Craft

10 am-4 pm July21-22

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Farm to Table Feast

5:30-9:30 pm

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

22

Workshop: The Gold Goes Everywhere, or Pre-Industrial Tooling

10 am-4 pm

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

26

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Through December 30

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

Art of Stephen Calhoun, Lainard Bush, Julie Sheedy, Kathy Skerritt & Eva Volf

Reception 1-2:30 pm July 29

Through August 18

BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER GALLERY

 

27

CAN Triennial Awards & Closing Party

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

28

In Three Parts

Reception 3-7 pm

Through September 15

RIVER GALLERY

 

Workshops: Drum Leaf Binding | Himalayan Book Experience

10 am- 4 pm July 28-29

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

Family Clay Day

10 am-Noon

ART HOUSE

 

AUGUST

3

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

George Fitzpatrick

Through September 1

BONFOEY GALLERY

 

West Meets East: Herb Ascherman and Unni Krishnan Pulikkal

Cleveland society photographer Ascherman is always setting new challenges for himself in his fine art work, whether it’s delving into creating gorgeous platinum prints or traveling around the world looking for new visual horizons and making new friends from creative communities abroad. Among those he’s connected with is nature and fine art photographer Pulikkal, who is based in Kerala, India, and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 2007. While in Cleveland, he was inspired both by the Ansel Adams black & white photos at the Cleveland Museum of Art and by Ascherman’s work, and he had the opportunity to train with Ascherman in both aesthetics and techniques.

Reception 6-9 pm

Through September 1

LOFTWORKS GALLERY

 

Featured Creatures

6-10 pm

ARTICLE

 

Al Fuchs: Gallery 216

June 1 & 30, July 6, August 3 and by appointment

ARTICLE

 

4

Dorothy Gill Barnes in Nature

Wendy Minor: Making Art on the Fly

Through September 9

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

 

5

Summer in the YARD: Plein Air Party

Noon-3 pm

YARDS PROJECT SPACE

 

10

Bruce Checefsky: Garden Scans

Harriet Wise, Susanne Dotson, Mary Burkhardt: Mother, Daughter, Friend

Reception 7-9 pm

Through October 6

BAYARTS

 

Photography Show

THE ART GALLERY, WILLOUGHBY

 

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT

 

Workshop: Sculpturing with Pulp, String & Natural Pigments

10 am-4 pm August 10-12

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

11

Workshops: Quarter Leather Split Board Binding | Creating Visual Narratives with Monotypes

10 am-4 pm August 11-12

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

16

An American City: Group Exhibition

Through September 30

HARRIS STANTON GALLERY AKRON

 

17

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

Artists-in-residence exhibition: Elaine Battles, Joey Behrens, Nicole Donnelly, Hong Hong, Cara Lynch, Anna Wagner

Know How III: Summer workshop instructors exhibition

Reception 6-9 pm

Through September 15

Day Job: The Working Artist

Through October 19

ARTNEO

 

18

Family Open Studio

Every 3rd Saturday of the month

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

 

Art Bites: Collecting Art Talks

“History of Street Art” with Roger Gastman and Bob Peck

1-4 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Workshops: Books on Brass Boards | Relief from Relief Papercasting

10 am-4 pm August 18-19

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

 

22

Art of Lizzi Aronhalt and Mary Kay Thomas

Reception 1-2:30 pm August 26

Through September 12

BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER GALLERY

 

24

CAN Journal Fall Issue Launch Party

FRONT PORCH

 

 

FESTIVAL GUIDE

Art in the Village Art Festival

Although it hasn’t always been held at “lifestyle center” Legacy Village (which opened in 2003), Art in the Village has been popping up in that neck of the woods for 28 years. In addition to the art fair with more than 100 artists from around the country offering painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics and photography, it includes a separate craft marketplace.

10 am-8 pm June 2 & 10 am-6 pm June 3

Art by the Falls

Hosted by the Valley Art Center, this fine art and crafts festival takes place in Chagrin Falls’ historic downtown with a smalltown feel, in the park along the Chagrin River. There, 120 artists from around the country display their work and do demonstrations for the browsing crowds. It’s celebrating its 35^th year this year.

10 am-7 pm June 9 & 10 am-5 pm June 10

Crocker Park Fine Art Fair

This art fair was born shortly after the opening of the Westlake-based Crocker Park lifestyle center in 2004, with year #13 this year. It features 100 fine arts in various media, along with a variety of crafts vendors, set among the center’s array of shops and restaurants.

10 am-8 pm June 9 & 10 am-6 pm June 10

Parade the Circle

Parade the Circle, now in its 29^th year, is a participatory event in which families, neighbors, clubs, scout troops, church and school groups and others get together to create costumes, props, puppets and masks, either on their own or in workshops sponsored by event host, the Cleveland Museum of Art. This year’s theme is “Cadenza, a Flourish of Creativity,” and paraders are free to incorporate it or not. But the parade is strictly about community creativity—no motorized floats, political messages, advocacy, commercial logos or characters are allowed, not even “Go Cavs.” The parade kicks off at noon, followed by activities on Wade Oval until 4 pm.

10 am-4 pm June 9

Clifton Arts & Musicfest

The Clifton street festival took a break last year due to street construction. But it’s back now on the improved boulevard, right on the border of Cleveland and Lakewood where new development is rapidly shaping up. This juried show features local and national artists and artisans as well as local bands and, weather cooperating, can draw tens of thousands of people. It also includes an art student scholarship competition.

10 am-6 pm June 16

BAYarts Art & Music Festival

This festival, taking place outside the campus of historic buildings that house the BAYarts Gallery, is all about local: local artists, local music, local food, with more than 70 vendors. It’s also Destination Bay Day when visitors can explore other landmarks in Bay Village, including the Bay Village Historical Society, the Village Project, Lake Erie Nature & Science Center and the Bay Village Fire Department.

10-4 pm June 16

Boston Mills Artfest

The granddaddy of northeast Ohio arts fairs at 47, this two-weekend blowout takes place at a ski resort located between Cleveland and Akron. Each weekend opens with a preview party before the doors open to the public. And it’s basically two art fairs in one—each weekend features a completely different group of artists drawn from applicants across the country.

6-9 pm Friday, June 29, 10 am-6 pm June 30 & July 1

6-9 pm Thursday, July 5, 10 am-6 pm July 6–8.

Waterloo Arts Fest

The Waterloo Arts Fest, spread over three blocks of the Waterloo Arts district, has a funky, friendly neighborhood vibe. And many of the street’s businesses and galleries open their doors or set up on the street, while other art and crafts vendors of all types—largely local—have booths and tents. Music is a large part of this festival, with bands performing inside clubs such as the street’s hub, the Beachland Ballroom, and on five or six outdoor street stages. A gathering of food trucks has been part of the festival in recent years, and you can always stop at the Beachland for food in their parking lot as well.

Noon-7 pm June 30

Cain Park Arts Festival

This festival is celebrating its 41^st year in the expansive park in the middle of Cleveland Heights, where around 150 vendors set up along tree-lined paths, selling everything from $50 lawn ornaments to $5,000 sculptures. It features a constantly changing mix of local and traveling artists with about two dozen prize winners from the previous year automatically accepted. Inside the park’s Evans Amphitheater and smaller Alma Theatre there’s non-stop entertainment—a headlining set by Louisiana zydeco performer Terrance Simien is a Cain Park tradition—and food offerings from local restaurants served up on the deck. It’s free Friday evening; $5 for 13 and over Saturday and Sunday.

3-8 pm July 13, 10 am-8 pm July 14 & noon-5 pm July15

Rooms to Let CLE

This weekend event, now in its fifth year, takes over vacant houses slated for demolition in Slavic Village—once the national center for the foreclosure crisis—and transforms them with temporary art installations and performances. Curators oversee teams of artists who take over rooms and other spaces to create work—much of it interactive and participatory—that speaks to the lives of people in the urban environment. Vacant lots will also be sites of installations and activities, and there will be a fix-up day when artists and neighbors work together to beautify the area around the art sites.

Noon-5 pm July 28 & July 29

Lakewood Arts Festival

The 41^st annual festival takes over several blocks of downtown in this diverse, arts-oriented community to showcase the work of about 165 artists, selected by a jury process. It gives out awards sponsored by local businesses and organizations, as well as a scholarship for a local high school graduate and grants to community arts programs. It also features a daylong lineup of local musical entertainment and lots of food both within the festival area on Detroit Avenue and (since Lakewood is one of northeast Ohio’s biggest foodie cities) plenty more at surrounding restaurants.

10 am-6 pm August 4

Flats Festival of the Arts

With the recent re-creation of the East Bank of the Flats as an upscale living, eating and partying destination, this festival launched in 2016 to add arts and culture to the mix. Hundreds of both local and national artists will have their work on view, and dancers and musicians from around the region will make it even more festive. There’ll be plenty of food and drink as well, at both the festival and surrounding eateries.

11 am-8pm August 18 & 11 am-5 pm August 19

Berea Arts Fest

Now 28^th years old, the festival turns downtown Berea into a hive of activity with fine artists and craftspeople setting up along the sidewalks and more art inside storefront businesses. Demonstrations and performers are also part of this festival featuring approximately 70 artists. It also has an area dedicated to artists with disabilities of all ages and a “Kids Kreation Station” where families can join in adding their work to a handful of cooperative art projects.

10 am-5 pm September 9

Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival

Taking place in leafy Lincoln Park in the middle of one of Cleveland’s first arts neighborhoods, this festival situates artists—mostly local but some travelers—along two of the paths radiating out of its iconic gazebo, while dedicating others to local food vendors, area businesses and local organizations, even neighborhood churches (of which Tremont has many). Several stages host musicians and dance ensembles. In the last several years, a large tent in the middle of the park is devoted to artists who live and work in Tremont, demonstrating that creativity continues despite gentrification. Expect to see a lot of dogs!

Noon-7pm September 15 & noon-5pm September 16

FireFish

One of northeast Ohio’s younger festivals, FireFish returns for the fourth year to activate empty spaces in once-booming, now-struggling downtown Lorain, with art exhibits, installations, dancers, spoken word artist, acrobats and musicians. Costumed street performers including jugglers, stilt walkers, magicians and mimes, mingle with the crowd and, at the culmination of the festival, they lead visitors down by the Lorain waterfront’s Black River Landing for the spectacular burning of the ceremonial fish, representing the area’s ties to the nearby lake.

September 21-22

Ingenuity

The distinctive Ingenuity Festival, now entering its second decade, has finally found a permanent home at the Hamilton Collective, which seems to fit it like a second skin. The former industrial complex’s many and diverse spaces, indoors and out, provide a backdrop for a range of performers, installations, displays, vendors and arts-related activities that engage visitors rather than relegate them to mere spectators. The original goal of Ingenuity—to explore potential interactions of the arts and technology—has been reborn here.

September 28-30