Fall 2021 Events

 

Melissa Bloom, CONVERGE Artist Portraits, acrylic on board, each 5 X 5 inches.

Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal.

 

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many art events planned for this fall have limited admission, and while almost all of them remain free, many require pre-registration. At press time, many in-person indoor events require wearing facial covering.

 

These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Depending on the course of the disease and trends in rates of infection, events may be added, cancelled, or postponed. Check the CAN Weekly e-newsletter for the most up-to-date information. To subscribe to the free CAN Weekly, visit CANjournal.org and look for the “Join Our Email List” button on the right side of your screen.

 

CONTINUING EVENTS

 

Through August 31

Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition: Xuena Pu

PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

 

Through August 31

The Tamir Rice Foundation + SPACES Art Supply Drive

SPACES

 

Through September 1

Art By the Falls Pop-Up Gallery Exhibit II

Second group of artists accepted to last year’s cancelled Art by the Falls are featured in this two-part show.

VALLEY ARTS CENTER

 

Through September 3

The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through September 3

Nikki Woods: Vivid Wild Things

In her second show at HEDGE Gallery, Nikki Woods, a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate who is currently the director of CIA’s Reinberger Gallery, is showing paintings that depict women, landscapes and “beautiful objects, including porcelain tchotchkes.” Her lush, impressionistic paintings use strong colors to create a powerful impact.

HEDGE GALLERY

 

Through September 10

The Goddess Shield: Recent Acquisitions in South Asian Art

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through September 10

How can Museum Labels be Antiracist?

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through September 10

Watercolor Ohio 2021

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

 

Through September 12

Out of the Shadows: New Paintings by Eileen Dorsey, with Garrett Weider

Eileen Dorsey is best known for her slightly surreal, deeply detailed landscapes rendered in her distinctive, unreal yet realistic palette. This show includes some of those, but also extends her reach into portraits, abstracts and landscapes much looser and more gestural than her usual work, and features several collaborations with fellow painter Garrett Weider, with whom she passed the canvases back and forth.

CAIN PARK FEINBERG ART GALLERY

 

Through September 12

Mike Wasemann Painting

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

 

Through September 12

Snickers That Turn Into Livable Joy

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

 

Through September 12

New Histories, New Futures

The impact of time on historical revisionism is the theme of this show, which includes the work of three contemporary artists, two of them from northeast Ohio. Oberlin-based Johnny Coleman creates his large-scale immersive installation from sculpture, projections and sound, using his research on a child slave who died during his journey north and was buried in Oberlin. Cleveland’s Antwoine Washington counteracts stereotypes about Black fathers with portraits of his own family. And Queens, New York, artist Kambui Olujimi’s North Star series of paintings and videos feature weightless, floating Black bodies “freed from the gravity of oppression.”

TRANSFORMER STATION

 

Through September 17

Cross Generations; bridging the gap of artists: MOCHA x Morgan Conservatory

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Through September 18

Davon Brantley: We Not Linkin’

BAYARTS

 

Through September 18

2021 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition

WATERLOO ARTS & PHOTOCENTRIC

 

Through September 19

Totally Rad: Bold Color in the 1980s

Totally Radical: Art and Politics in the 1980s

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

Through September 19

Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1889-1900

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through September 25

Crossroads: Still We Rise

The augmented reality exhibit, curated by artist/activist Robin Robinson, creates an interactive art experience that’s the first of its kind in Cleveland. Commissioned artwork is set in specific locations that give the work added context, with another layer added by viewing it through a free smartphone app. This allows viewers to explore the layered histories of neighborhoods and the reasons, often race-related, behind those histories.

Presented by the Sculpture Center in locations around Cleveland.

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

 

Through September 25

Uplifters: New Beginnings from Old Things

YARDS PROJECT

 

Through September 26

A Thrilling Act: The Art of Anthony Eterovich

MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Through October 6

Judi Krew: Hoard Culture, Where Are Meets Fashion

MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Through October 8

Nikki Woods: Ghost Fields

DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS

 

Through October 10

The Weight of Time

The introspective works of Chad Eby, Danny Greene, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Matt Milligan, Haumed Rahmani and Nowhere Mountain, who hail from all over the country, explore the disorienting, surreal aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global and societal dysfunction it exposed.

KAISER GALLERY

 

Through October 10

CIA Faculty Exhibition

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

 

Through October 10

Ohio Designer Craftsmen: The Best of 2020-2021

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

 

Through October 15

Blue/Black/Baby Smiles, Singin’ to an Old River—We Hear You Coming

SPACES

 

Through October 16

CONVERGE presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

This huge five-venue exhibition features 71 regional artists of a variety of identities, examining and celebrating what those identities mean to them personally and to the community. The lead curator is self-identified lesbian Kelly Pontoni (who works at AAWR), a nontraditional recent CIA grad in her 40s, who was inspired by a new generation of LGBTQ+ students. It includes almost 150 pieces, including painting, photography, mixed-media assemblage immersive installation, glass and textiles. Receptions and artist talks will be held at the various venues throughout the run of the show. Check the Artist Archives website at artistsarchives.org/event/converge/.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, LAKE ERIE COLLEGE, LGBT CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND, CLEVELAND METROHEALTH, & JUDSON MANOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY

 

Through October 17

Printers Select

Spotlight: Nicole Schneider

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

Through October 24

Close to Me: Ceramics by Erica Sanada

Moments in Time: Watercolors by Yuki Hall

Soar, Roar, Explore: Animal Life from the CMA Collection

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through October 30

Best Served Cold by Shelley Benner Baird

Opening reception 5:30-8:30 pm September 4

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

 

Through November 7

A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920-1950

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through November 14

From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through December 26

Ashcan School Prints and the American City: 1900-1940

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through December

Open (End)ed Show: Works of Dragana Crnjak, Isabel Farnsworth, Michael Gable, Mark Keffer, Christine Mauersberger, Taryn McMahon, and Hui-Chu Ying

On view at The East End Collection

 

ART EVERYSPACE

Through January 2

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

This exhibit opens a window on the diversity of L.A.’s Chicano arts community, featuring cross-disciplinary works made from the late 1960s to early ‘90s, including painting, photography, fashion, music, video, print materials and performance art ephemera. Much of the work revolves around the civil rights, women’s and LGBTQ activism of its participants, driven by the AIDS epidemic, which claimed one of its leading artists, Edmundo “Mundo” Meza, in 1985 at the age of 29. His central role is honored in the title of the exhibit, which brings together these pioneering artists’ work for comprehensive consideration for the first time.

MOCA CLEVELAND

 

Through January 9

Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panama

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

 

Continuum: Historical Resonances in Contemporary Art

Through February 27

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

Through May 15

The 10,000 Things by Jordan Wong

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

AUGUST

 

27

CAN Fall Issue Release

DOUBTING THOMAS GALLERY

 

28

Last Saturday Higher Verse Open Mic Night @ 6 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

Pochoir En Plein Air in-person workshop

Taught by Beth Sheehan

10 am-4 pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

30

86 Reasons for Asylum Admission

Artist Kimberly Chapman’s work examines the practice of declaring women mentally ill for reasons such as reading novels or being bored with cleaning and ironing, and sending them to insane asylums for primitive and often debilitating treatments by male doctors. “It was a convenient way for husbands and fathers to keep opinionated, unruly or inconvenient women and girls in line,” says Chapman. The exhibit includes sculpture, mixed media installations and tintype photos of the artist, a recent CIA graduate, posing as nineteenth-century “crazy” women.

Opening reception 5-8 pm September 10

Through September 24

BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY

FAWICK GALLERY @ KLEIST CENTER FOR ART & DRAMA

 

SEPTEMBER

 

3

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

Jim Soppelsa: Combinations Along the Way

Opening reception 6-9 pm

Through September 26

ARTICLE

 

Dead Wax & Distant Transmissions

Opening reception: 5-8 pm

Through October 2

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

La Cosecha Galleria Annual Halloween Emporium

Opening 6 pm

Through October 31

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

Tali Weinberg

Currently artist in residence at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, Tali Weinberg’s work looks at the history of weaving as a voice for women and other marginalized groups. The climate crisis is one of her key concerns, along with health issues, and she addresses those issues in this show as she “traces relationships between climate, water, extractive industry, illness, and displacement; between personal and communal loss; and between corporeal and ecological bodies.”

Opening reception 6-8 pm

Through October 29

PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

 

Béatrice Lebreton

Through September 24

FRAMED GALLERY

 

4

Best Served Cold by Shelley Benner Baird

Opening reception 5:30-8:30 pm

Through October 30

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

 

Wicked featuring artist Luz Mary T Pagan

6 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

9

Final BAYarts Thursday Market

4-7 pm

BAYARTS

 

10

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

 

11

BAYarts Moondance Annual Benefit

Expect BAYarts popular annual gala to be sold out in advance, after a dark year in 2020. The entire arts community gets together to party on the grounds around the galleries: dining on a variety of local food, drinking wine and beer, listening to music under the stars, and much socializing.

 

BAYARTS

Waterloo Arts Fest

Noon-7 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

12

The NEA Big Read Kick-Off: The House on Mango Street

1-4 pm

ART HOUSE INC

 

14

Virtual Program: Un(masc)ing Drag History with Dr. Lady J

One of the programs connected to Artist Archives of the Western Reserve’s huge CONVERGE exhibit is this talk with local drag artist and transgender woman Lady J. Martinez, whose thrilling performances often involve social commentary. She’s also recently earned a PhD from Case Western Reserve University called “From the Love Ball to RuPaul: The Mainstreaming of Drag in the ‘90s,” which exposes how drag went from an underground art form to being celebrated on national TV.

7-8 pm: visit artistarchives.org to register.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

16

Mark Howard: Shape Shifters

Through November 5

HEDGE GALLERY

 

17

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

 

CONVERGE, presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Opening reception 6:30-8:30 pm

LGBT CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND

 

Spooky Boobs

Through October 15

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

 

18

Performance by Le Charme

PRAMA ART SPACE

 

Tremont Arts & Cultural Fest

September 18 & 19

LINCOLN PARK

 

Cyantific Art featuring artist Cyan Reyes

6 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

19

Closing #namingemilysshow; the art of Emily Szalkowski

PRAMA ART SPACE

Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon

French artist Odilon Redon died shortly before the Surrealist movement was launched, but his dream-like, Japanese-influenced paintings—some of which verge on abstraction with subjects seeming to melt away, done in his final years in the early twentieth century—are harbingers of its arrival. The Cleveland Museum of Art acquired his work early, within a decade of his death, and has grown that collection over the years. This show brings together all of its holdings including painting, lithograph and pastel.

Through January 23

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

23

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk, Poets Respond to Printers Select

7 pm

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

24

Ingenuity Cleveland

The Ingenuity Festival, which promotes arts and technology collaboration, was conceived as a moveable feast intended to activate underused spaces. It seemed to have finally found a permanent home at the Hamilton Collaborative on the edge of AsiaTown in 2016. But after a cancelled year and with some still cautious about large-scale crowd events that partly take place indoors, it’s again gone on the move, locating at Cleveland’s East Side lakefront Gordon Park. With new set-up challenges, the festival should look and feel very different this year. Pray for good weather!

Through September 26

EAST LAKEFRONT/GORDON PARK

 

Strange Devotion: Jacob Koestler & Michael McDermit

Book release & opening reception

Through November 5

WILLIAM BUSTA PROJECTS

 

KEEN Magazine Launch Party

6 pm

Through September 26

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

Technical Specialist Exhibition

Through October 15

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ROULET STUDENT + ALUMNI GALLERY

 

25

Artist Inventory Challenge (hybrid event)

7-10 pm

ART HOUSE INC

 

30

Hush-Hush

Reception 4:40-6:30 pm October 7

Through October 29

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY COBURN ART GALLERY

 

OCTOBER

 

1

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

Dualities, Sculptures by Vivien Abrams Collens

Through January

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

 

Richmond Agamelah

FRAMED GALLERY

 

Miguel Rivera-Vera

Through November 13

WATERLOO ARTS

 

2

More is More: Visual Richness in Contemporary Art

Through March 27

Afterimages: Geometric Abstraction and Perception

Through January 9

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

Morgan Conservatory Benefit

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

8

Charlotte Lees: Nature Re-Imagined

Opening reception 5-8 pm October 8

Through November 12

BAYARTS

 

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

 

Leaves and Leaving presented by Art Books Cleveland

Through November 20

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Screw Factory Open House

6-10 pm October 8

10 am-4 pm October 9

LAKE ERIE BUILDING, LAKEWOOD

 

Lauren Kalman: Devices for Filling a Void

Detroit-based Kalman’s performances spotlight the relationship of the female body in relation to environments and wearable objects. Trained in jewelry and contemporary crafts, she’s expanded her practice to include installation, 3D printing, computer-controlled objects, performance, photography, and video, as well as traditionally-fabricated metal objects, textiles, beading, and ceramics.

Stephen Yusko

Through December 17

SCULPTURE CENTER

 

9

LGBT Center Heritage Day Special CONVERGE Viewing

Time TBA

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Fish Fly Fur

Opening reception noon-3 pm

Through November 20

YARDS PROJECT

 

14

CONVERGE, Presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Closing Reception 4:30-7:30 pm

LAKE ERIE COLLEGE

 

15

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

 

Sonata #6 Project

A World Premiere performance of Sonata #6 will be scheduled during the run of the exhibition presented by Context Fine Art and Gordon Square Classical Concerts.

Through December 17

SURVIVAL KIT

 

Drawn to Clay: The Alchemy of the Elements

Opening reception: 5-9 pm October 15

Special Holiday Ceramics Sale: November 19, December 11, 12 & 17

ARTNEO

 

Davon Brantley: Familiar Phases

Through November 30

DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS

 

Zygote Artists Showcase

Through December 20

METRO HEALTH CLEVELAND

 

16

Picturing Motherhood Now

Through March 13

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Cut From the Same Cloth

In partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Art: Creativity Works Program

Through November 28

KAISER GALLERY

 

Workshop: Letterpress Basics, Setting Type with Wendy Partridge

10 am-1:30 pm Saturdays, October 16, 23 & 30

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

22

Rock and Roll Nightmare: a horror and rock-themed show featuring various artists

PRAMA ART SPACE

 

23

ReFuge: The Last Days of Wonder

Developed in partnership with the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, the artists in this group show created a nature-themed installation from recycled materials, looking at such issues as nature as a refuge, nature as unwelcoming to some, and the environmental impact of material use. It also includes two-dimensional work made from recycled material.

Gallery is open noon-5pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Check website for any changes in hours.

Through January 28

URSULINE COLLEGE, THE MULLEN BLDG., 1ST FLOOR

 

Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross

POP/OP

Tom Franco and the Ice Creams: Beyond Struggle, When the Future Hello Meets Identities Deep Roots

Bay area folk artist Franco worked predominantly with found material, including his painting surface. His work draws from his surrounding community, as well as his inner life, combining images that are both whimsical and thought-provoking. Tom Franco and the Ice Creams is a collaborative group he leads that created this show of paintings, illustrations and sculptures over the period of a year, responding to the question “Who am I?”

Through March 6

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

 

30

Mind Jewl featuring artist Julian O’Fray

6 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

NOVEMBER

4

Kindred Spirits: Glass & Clay Invitational

Opening Reception 5:30-8 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

5

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

Bits and Pieces: A Collage Show with works of Susan Squires, Zoe Murphy, Kelly Pontoni, Kathy Skerritt and Kim Bissett

Opening reception 6-9 pm

Through November 28

ARTICLE

 

One Year, One Outfit

This intriguing show features the work of more than fifty makers who spent the year working individually or in groups of up to three people, creating an outfit of three garments and/or accessories made with materials from within the local “fibershed” (within 250 miles). It’s intended to spotlight “slow” fashion, local production and a collaborative process.

Opening reception 6-8 pm (TBD whether in-person, virtual, or both)

Through December 31

PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

DECEMBER

1

Holiday Store

Open seven days a week starting December 1

Through December 31

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

6

Annual Holiday Market Kickoff 6 pm

Through December 24

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

Two-day relief workshop intensive with Arron Foster

11 am-3 pm November 6 & 7

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

12

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

 

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Community Culture Night

7-8:30 pm

ART HOUSE

 

14

Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain

Through January 30

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

18

David King

Through January 7

HEDGE GALLERY

 

19

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

 

Holiday Showcase

Through December 17

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

 

20

Music performance

PRAMA ART SPACE

Holiday Open House

10 am-4 pm

BAYARTS

 

21

Closing of Rock and Roll Nightmare

PRAMA ART SPACE

 

26

Black Friday 50% OFF Seasonal Sale

6 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

27

Waterloo Arts Holiday Coop Sale

Through December 24

WATERLOO ARTS

 

29

Christmas boutique

November 26-29

PRAMA ART SPACE