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.

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Through March 9

Annual Student Faculty Exhibit
VALLEY ART CENTER

Through March 11

Line By Line

In the 20th century, weaving grew far beyond a craft aimed at producing clothing and household items. It became a mode of artistic expression that expanded into an extraordinary range of shapes, sizes, materials and designs with no practical applications. The show Line by Line, curated by Kent State University professor Janice Lessman-Moss, showcases six early-career artists who use weaving as the basis of their artistic practice: Erin M. Riley, Samantha Bittman, Crystal Gregory, Diedrick Brackens, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke

CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS GALLERY KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Through March 11

76th Annual Student Independent Exhibition
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Through March 12

Kate Snow: Journal
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS @ DEEP END

Through March 12

Stuart Pearl: Stories in Light

Stuart Pearl has been capturing the rhythms of life in Northeast Ohio for half a century. The son of Cleveland painter/educator Moses Pearl, he continued his father’s work of capturing the contradictions of a city simultaneously vibrant and decaying, but in a different medium. This large retrospective includes portraits, photojournalism and abstract studies, in color, as well as intimate cityscapes of industrial Cleveland, in color and black & white, revealing Pearl’s attentiveness to light and composition, as well as his understanding of the flow of daily life of Cleveland and Clevelanders.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Through March 13

Picturing Motherhood Now
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through March 13

ARSMag presents From the Black Top to the Hardwood
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Through March 13

Rust
HEIGHTS ARTS

Through March 13

Spotlight: Jesse Rhinehart
HEIGHTS ARTS

Through March 18

Let It Be: Re-Imagined

A Beatles mural just outside its 78th Street Studios space should make visitors aware that someone at the E11even2 Gallery is a fan. That would be co-owner Rich C!hlar, who organized the latest of the gallery’s pop-oriented group shows, Let It Be: Re-Imagined (Puzzle Show). For the show, 30 artists were each given a 15” square of canvas of an 8’ x 8’ puzzle mural called Let It Be to complete in their own media and style. That exhibit centerpiece is augmented by the artists offering individual pieces depicting their favorite Beatles moment. Prints of the mural are available at the gallery.
E11EVEN 2 GALLERY

 

Through March 19

Blaque Cleveland
GALLERIES AT CSU

Through March 20

Abby Cipar Solo Exhibit
PRAXIS FIBER ARTS

Through March 23

The Art & History of Black Hair: Through the Eyes of the 21^st-century African-American Child
MASSILLON MUSEUM

Through March 24

Art Therapy Tri-C Division & Ursuline College exhibit
TRI-C EAST GALLERY

Through March 26

Note to JoAnn: six separate events at Summit Artspace

FRESH juried exhibition

In Kind: Art Alive

Kenn Hetzel: Thinking Large, Working Small

Diane Pribojan: A View of a House

Jacob Mollohan: Pick It Up Together

Community postcards from the Akron Art Library
SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Through March 26

Gabrielle Lajoie Bergeron: Important Papers

Important Papers had its genesis in an 8.5 x 11” envelope stamped with those words and filled with photos, drawings and poetry created by a Mexican woman in the mid-20th century who married an American. Part of her immigration process, it was accompanied by text written by her daughter in 1975. It inspired the artist to connect with other immigrant mothers in Ohio, to learn their stories, reflect on the act of leaving behind your roots & identity except for what can be carried in one envelope, and to examine the collision of human lives with immigration bureaucracy.
SPACES

 

Through March 26

Erykah Townsend: Bitter Sweet
SPACES

Through March 27

More Is More: Visual Richness in Contemporary Art
AKRON ART MUSEUM JUDITH BEAR ISROFF & FRED AND LAURA BIDWELL GALLERIES

Through April 1

Celebrate Women’s History Month: From Women XV … Created by Women, of Women & About Women, curated by Mary Urbas
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Through April 2

A Better Story: Photos by Stephen Bivens
BAYARTS PLAYHOUSE PROJECT GALLERY

Through April 3

Stories in Japanese Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through April 3

Glass: Selections from the Collection
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Through April 3

In Concert: Photography and the Violin

Akron-born Evan Mirapaul had a career as a professional classical violinist before he became a collector of photos of violins and violinists, which began as a hobby but has become a consuming passion. He has acquired more than 2,000 images, ranging from just a few years after the birth of photography in the mid-1800s through today, with both personal snapshots by unknown photographers and works by well-known figures such as Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yousef Karsh, Weegee, Irving Penn and Dorothea Lange, along with promotional photos and ads. The show at the Transformer Station includes 250 of these images in various sizes, formats and photographic processes, including daguerreotypes, tintypes and cabinet cards.
TRANSFORMER STATION

 

Through April 3

Coveted II
KAISER GALLERY

Through April 4

Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age of Cleveland Art (1900–1945)

CLEVELAND HISTORY CENTER OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

Through April 6

Alex Vlasov: I Promise to Make a Fabulous PTG Tomorrow
MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M GALLERY

Through April 15

Seen and Unseen: Explorations in Halides

Samuel Carpenter, Mary Defer, Rich Stroffolino
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Through April 24

Popular Art from Early Modern Korea
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through May 15

The 10,000 Things by Jordan Wong
AKRON ART MUSEUM BUD AND SUSIE ROGERS GARDEN

Through May 29

Derrick Adams: Looks

Baltimore-born, Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams works in painting, sculpture, collage, video, performance and sound installations to examine various aspects of Black identity and how certain visual signifiers—colors, textures, symbols—reflect that identity. His current show at the Cleveland Museum of Art addresses those issues in the traditional medium of painting. It comprises nine oversize paintings from his Style Variations series of wigs on mannequin heads, inspired by wig shops in his neighborhood. They divide the faces into geometric segments with diverse skin tones and makeup, depicting some of the ways Black Americans create and use looks to make statements about who they are.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART MARK SCHWRTZ AND BETTINA KATZ GALLERY

 

MARCH

4

CAN Spring Issue Launch Party
FIG CREATIVE @ THE PIVOT CENTER

Women Who Print

Women Who Print is a celebration of contemporary artists working in a variety of print techniques with a strong focus on silkscreen. Local and national printmakers, at all levels in their artistic careers, are highlighted to show the unique talent and dedication involved in creating print-based artworks. This exhibition demonstrates the ongoing contributions of women who print.
Opening 5-8 pm March 4

Through May 14
FIG COMMUNITY GALLERY @ THE PIVOT CENTER

Irma Withani: The Venus Collection
Reception 6-8 pm March 4
Through March 30
LOGANBERRY BOOKS GALLERY ANNEX

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-10 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

April Bey: Art and the Millennial Natural Hair Movement
Noon via Zoom
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Questions of Reverie, paintings by Christopher L. Richards
Through May 6
MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

6

Judy Takács: The Goddess Project: Innocents

Cleveland artist Judy Takács is well known for her realistic, yet heroic paintings of women of all types, which have been widely exhibited. Her latest series is part of a book launch for her new The Goddess Project: Paintings and Stories, featuring 55 full-color images. In it she reimagines goddesses, heroines and other women of classical mythology from a modern feminist viewpoint. As usual, her goal is to push aside the facile, one-dimensional stories about women that have been passed down through the ages to reveal deeper, more complicated and more diverse narratives. Takács will be signing copies of her book during the opening reception; books will be on sale during gallery hours throughout the run of the show.
Opening Reception 2-4 pm
(RSVP requested at chagrinarts.org/event)
Through June 12
CHAGRIN ARTS

 

7

Alex Vlasov: My Kid Can Do That
Through March 16
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

 

7

Passion and Joy: Passion Works Studio and Planet Joy Studio
Through April 15
EMILY DAVIS GALLERY, MYERS SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

 

8

Art House Big Read event in partnership with Young Latino Network to celebrate International Women’s Day
5:30-8 pm
JULIA DE BURGOS CENTER

9

Two-Day Photography for Screenprinting Workshop with Aja Joy Grant and Anna Tararova
6-8:30 pm March 9 & 10 am-4 pm March 12
ZYGOTE PRESS

10

Slowhand

The show Slowhand is dedicated to the Slow Art Movement, said to be grounded in guitarist Eric “Slowhand” Clapton’s habit of taking long breaks between songs to re-string his guitar. It aims to push back against the contemporary habit of racing through galleries casting a few seconds glance at each work of art. The goal of this show is nothing less than to “quiet the pace of both the creation that impact the viewing experience and change the way we embrace and approach this meaning.” Artists include Laurie Addis, Kate Budd, Ryn Clarke, Jill Eisert, Bob Herbst, Nancy Katz, Jacquie Kennedy, Myrya Johnson, Frank Oriti, Theadis Reagins, Katie Richards, Noel Reifel, Adrienne Slane and Judy Takács. Come planning to spend time with your favorite works.
Through April 26
YARDS PROJECTS

 

11

ArtWalk: Art Connects US! Arts & Education
4-8 pm
SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Juried Show
Opening reception 5-8 pm
Through April 2
BAYarts

Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT

12

Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure

This traveling exhibition, co-organized by the Fondation Giacometti in Paris and the Cleveland Museum of Art, pulls together 6o of the iconic Swiss artist’s sculptures, paintings and drawings that reveal different aspects of his focus on the human figure, and shed light on how he arrived at the long, spare bodies that inhabit of his work. This is the museum’s first Giacometti exhibit in nearly 50 years.
Through June 12
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Cleveland Museum of Art CAC Open Studio Women in Print silkscreen free make and take
1-4 pm
PIVOT CENTER

Earthling: featuring artist Juliann O’Fray
4 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA

13

Celebrate Women’s History Month: from Women XV … created by women, of women & about women

Each year, curator Mary Urbas pulls together the work of dozens of women artists, mostly from this region, in a wide range of media. Some reflect on what it means to be a woman, while others just showcase what a talented artist can accomplish.

Artist reception 3 pm
Through April 1
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

 

16

Exquisite Attention: Rebecca Cross, Cathie Bleck & Taryn McMahon
Preview 5:30-7:30 pm
Third Friday opening 5-8 pm March 18
Through May 6
HEDGE GALLLERY

Free Print History Webinar with Brittany M. Hudak: Blanche Lazzell and the Provincetown Printers
6-8 pm via Zoom
ZYGOTE PRESS

18

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78TH STREET STUDIOS

Michelle Grabner: New Edition
Through March 26
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS @ THE DEEP END

Spotlight: Jane Alexander
Opening reception 6-9 pm
Through May 15
HEIGHTS ARTS

Jordi Rowe: The Metaphysics of the Sublime
Through March 27
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Figurative/Abstract
Opening reception 6-9 pm
Through May 15
Ekphrastacy 7 pm April 21
HEIGHTS ARTS

19

Art House Family Open Studio
1-3 pm
ART HOUSE INC

Notan: The Dark/Light Principle of Design
10 am-4 pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

20

The Goddess Project: Innocents

A Panel Discussion with Judy Takács and women of the Ohio Innocence Project at the Chagrin Falls Town Hall
2-3 pm
Gallery viewing at Chagrin Arts
3-4 pm
(RSVP requested @ chagrinarts.org)
CHAGRIN ARTS

 

Fred Bidwell, FRONT International Triennial & Gregory Peckham of LAND Studio discuss Cleveland Public Art—Outside the Box
9:30-10:45 am
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF CLEVELAND

22

In Motion: Using Text and Image in Artist Books
Virtual Workshop
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

24

Annual Members Exhibition
Opening Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through May 6
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Art House Community Culture Night
7-8:30 pm
ART HOUSE INC

25

10th Annual Juried Exhibition: Introspection/Retrospection
Through May 6
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Asia Armour: Bloom
Through April 10
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Pip Logan
Opening reception 6-10 pm
Duo Decibel System performs 8-10 pm
Through April 15
PRAMA ARTSPACE

26

Un-settling: A Story of Land Removal and Resistance
Through May22
MASSILLON MUSEUM

Art House Family Clay Day
10 am-noon
ART HOUSE INC

Letterpress Bootcamp with Wendy Partridge
10 am-4 pm March 26 & 27
ZYGOTE PRESS

30

Alexa Wehrmann + Sebastian Schenz: Cum Rags to Cum Riches
Through April 9
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

 

APRIL

 

The 12th May Show (May 19–July15) at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition Call to Entry
Judges and submission details to be announced
Submit online entries through ArtCall by mid-April
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

1

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-10 pm
WATERLOO ATS DISTRICT

Lori Kella: The Edge of Things
Through May 14
PHOTOCENTRIC

We Want Everything

Artist/designer Josh MacPhee has used his creative practice to further leftwing political and social movements and ideas, including Occupy Wall Street and prison reform. The list of collaborative publications, exhibitions and activist organizations he’s been involved with is lengthy. He’s bringing that passion and experience to the CIA, where he’s organized We Want Everything, a show focused on a collective output and the sharing of ideas rather than things authored by a particular artist. For the show, he’ll turn the gallery into a maker space where visitors will be able to actively engage with and explore the materials on display.
Opening 5-8 pm
Through June 10
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

 

SNAP

Opening May 1

Poetry Reading across the street at Blue Windmill 6-7:30 pm May 6

Through May 22

DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS @ DEEP END

 

Student works from Chagrin Falls High School, Brush High School, Excell TECC at Orange High School, Shaker Heights High School, Cleveland State University, & Lakeland Community College

Opening reception 5-8 pm

Through May 11

VALLEY ART CENTER

 

Techniques in Tapestry: work by Bryana Bibbs, Sam Dienst, Andrea Vail

Opening reception 6-8 pm

Through June 15

PRAXIS FIBER ARTS

 

2

Threads Moving Backward and Forward: Contemporary Textile Artworks from Ohio

Through May 18

MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Destroy All Nonprofits featuring artist Topiltzin

4 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

Embossed Printmaking Workshop with Patricia Brett

10 am-2 pm April 2 & April 3

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

8

The Painting Porch: Cathie Bleck & Marianne Berardi

Opening 5-8 pm

Through May 7

BAYARTS

 

Spring Exhibitions

Through June 25

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

 

Scott Kraynak: A Restless Mind

Opening reception 6-8 pm

Through April 30

LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY

 

Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT

Silent Fields

Kaiser Gallery combines its mission to embrace a wide range of both traditional art mediums and contemporary technology-based art with a focus on the environment and specifically the role of the honeybee as a pollinator, essential to our food system, in its show Silent Fields. It put together this group show from an open call for artists working in painting, photography, 3-D work, projection art, new media, performance and more to submit work looking at the decline of pollinators and what that means for the way we eat.
Through June 5
KAISER GALLERY

 

9

Art House Poems and Print with Lake Erie Ink
10:30 am-noon
SPACES

14

A Symposium for TEXTURES: the history and art of black hair
April 14 & 15
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

15

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78TH STREET STUDIOS

Variable Speed: Works by Katy Clark and Rich C!hlar

Opening reception 5-9 pm

Through May 20

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

 

16

The Grownups Keep Talking/Nobody Knows Why: woodcut and letterpress books and prints by Michael Gill

Artist Reception/Letterpress Demo 5-7 pm April 23

Through June 1

MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M GALLERY

 

Art House Family Open Studio

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE INC

 

Through the Looking Glass 3

4 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

Monoprinting Intensive with Lisa Schonberg

10 am-2 pm April 16 & April 17

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

19

50th Annual CSU Student Art Show and Merit Scholar Exhibit

Awards Ceremony 6 pm April 22

Through May 28

GALLERIES AT CSU

 

20

420 Collaborative Show

4 pm

LA COSECHA GALERIA

 

21

Ekphrastacy

7 pm

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

Art House Community Culture Night

7-8:30 pm

ART HOUSE INC

 

22

Juxtaposed: Photographs + Objects from the Collection of John Foster

Conversation with John Foster and Barbara Tannenbaum April 30

Through June 4

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

A Common Denominator: Max A Denney +6 Master Artists

Adam Collet, Amy Crognale, Brett Hill, Wendy Means, David Curtis, Neffie M. La La

Through May 22

PRAMA ARTSPACE

 

Ruddy Roye Open Studio

April 22 & 23

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

23

All Ages Reading & Printmaking Activity with Book Artist Michael Gill

11:30 am

MASSILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY

 

The Grownups Keep Talking/Nobody Knows Why: Woodcut and letterpress books and prints by Michael Gill

Artist reception/Letterpress demo 5-7 pm

Through June 1

MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M

 

The Accordion Variations: 3 Basic Book Structures

10 am-4 pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Art House Poems and Print with Lake Erie Ink

10:30 am-noon

SPACES

 

26

Note to JoAnn: 4 events listed at Canton Museum

Abandoned America: Everything Must Pass

Visions 2022: Artists League Show

Asian Voices from the CMA Collection

Witness to Wartime: The Painted Diary of Takuichi Fujii

One of the most shameful episodes in American history was the internment of Japanese-American citizens during WW II. Artist Takuichi Fujii (1891-1964) was one of those forced from their homes; he and his family were taken from Seattle to live in a “relocation center” in rural Idaho. Fujii kept an illustrated diary commencing with the forced removal in May 1942 through the closing of the camp in October 1945, creating nearly 250 ink drawings of daily life, along with 130 watercolors that expand upon the ink drawings. He also created several oil paintings and sculptures. After the war, Fujii moved to Chicago and continued to paint, but his wartime journal remains an important witness to a period that must be remembered no matter how uncomfortable it may make some people.

Through July 24

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

 

29

Art Books Cleveland

Artists’ reception 6-8 pm May 6

Through May 26

BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY ART CENTER

 

30

Clicking for a Cause

Through June 15

MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Generations

Through May 14

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

 

Kent/Blossom Art Intensive

Application deadline April 30 at kent.edu/kentblossomart

Sessions May 30-June 12

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART

 

MAY

 

5

Illustrious Gravitas

Through June 18

YARDS PROJECTS

 

6

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-10 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

 

Screw Factory Artists Spring Open House

6-10 pm May 6

10 am-3 pm May 7

SCREW FACTORY

 

Annual Members Exhibition

Closing & awards reception 7-8 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Urban Bright Exhibition Ice Cream Social and Reception

4-8 pm

ART HOUSE INC

 

Ava Reiss: Drifting in the Galaxy

Opening reception 6-8 pm

Through May 31

LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY

 

Annual Advanced Student Pottery Show

Opening reception 5-8 pm

Through May 27

BAYARTS

 

8

The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion

Art and fashion photographers have always played footsie with each other, with some of the greatest “art” photographers, such as Edward Steichen, breaking ground in fashion photography, and fashion photographers drawing on art to push the boundaries in their craft. Now a younger generation of Black photographers in the U.S., Europe, and Africa is blurring those boundaries with vivid, high-concept images that draw on dazzling color, highly constructed designs, and vibrant juxtapositions of shapes and patterns that demonstrate the movie-set level of planning that goes into a single image. The exhibition features photos, videos, publications and fashion installations.

Through September 11

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

13

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

TREMONT

 

15

Art Books Cleveland: Watch Art

1-3 pm

BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY ART CENTER

 

19

Roy Bigler & Terry Durst

Opening reception 5:30-8 pm

Through June 25

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

The 12th May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

Artist reception and awards ceremony 6-9 pm

Through July 15

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

 

20

CAN Journal Summer Issue Release

SPACES

 

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

 

JoAnn: two events at same time at Heights

What a Time to Be Alive

Spotlight Gallery: Eryn Lawson, Josie Naypauer

Opening reception 6-9 pm

Through June 12

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

21

Art House Family Open Studio

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE INC

 

28

Art House Family Clay Day

10 am-noon

ART HOUSE INC