Winter 2023-2024 Events
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, and the change of seasons, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person indoor events may require wearing facial covering.
These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Depending on rates of infection and variants of the coronavirus, 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.
ONGOING
Through November 25
Prints by Elizabeth Catlett
This tiny gallery opened in a Cleveland Heights storefront in the late summer of 2023 by an art collector/dealer who has been placing work by African-American artists in collections and museums for more than three decades. Its opening show featured both early and recent works by Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey; its second presents a collection of linocuts and lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett who died in 2012 at the age of 96. Catlett’s output was diverse, including sculpture, printmaking and drawing. People are likely most familiar with her finely detailed portraits of Black figures and faces, both well-known people and “types,” generally women.
LUSENHOP FINE ART
Through November 26
Everlasting Plastics, featuring work by Xavi L. Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague and Lauren Yeager, curated by Tizziana Baldenebro of SPACES and Lauren Leving of MoCa Cleveland
US PAVILION BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA, VENICE
Through November 26
Work by three Ohio artists: textiles by Helen Murrell, paintings by Martha Shiverick, and ceramics by Brian Sarama
NICHOLSON B. WHITE GALLERY AT ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Through December 1
Willie Cole: The Curlee Raven Holton and Raven Fine Art Editions Distinguished Art Fellow
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY CVA GALLERY
Through December 1
Myers School of Art Faculty Exhibition
EMILY DAVIS GALLERY AT UNIVERSITY OF AKRON MYERS SCHOOL OF ART
Through December 2
Kimberly Chapman: Eighty-Six Reasons for Asylum Admission
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SCIENCE & CULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON CUMMINGS CENTER
Through December 2
Honoring the Land: Lawrence Baker, Joseph O’Sickey & Brinsley Tyrrell
Satellite show at Bostwick Design Partnership, 2729 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Through December 3
Fluid and Fixed: Michael D. Zelenka and Anthony Van Rooy
This show features Zelenka’s glass mobiles and freeform glass art, with VanRooy’s latest paintings. It celebrates 818’s sixth year as a gallery in Tremont.
818 STUDIOS
Through December 3
Time, Times, and Half a Time: Dara Harper
EAST AVENUE MARKET AND GALLERY
Through December 3
JOANN, 2 EVENTS
Native North American Textiles
Ancient Andean Textiles
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December 3
Imagine: Kathy Maxwell
STELLA’S ART GALLERY ANNEX
Through December 3
Arts Leadership Exhibition
KAISER GALLERY
Through December 7
Emerging Artist Series: a group show featuring recent art graduates from Northeast Ohio colleges and universities
GALLERY WEST, TRI-C
Through December 9
Wesley Thompson Solo BFA Exhibition
KINK CONTEMPORARY
Through December 9
Aggregate
KSU DOWNTOWN GALLERY
Through December 10
La Carta Canta by Claudio Orso
Orso’s work revolves heavily around paper, both in his detailed printmaking and his assemblages and masks. He says, “it’s a process that affords me a trusted path of alternating challenges and realizations, excitement and despair, ideally leading from inconclusiveness and confusion to a tentative clarity, even fulminant sparks of understanding.” The feeling of the shows is celebratory, as of a performance or parade.
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
Through December 10
Animals in Japanese Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December 12
JOANN, 2 EVENTS
Anthropocene Aesthetics
Variables: An Exercise in Close Looking
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 12
BIPOC Residency
ZYGOTE PRESS
Through December 12
What’s in a Spell? Love Magic, Healing, and Punishment in the Early Hispanic World
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 13
Annual Juried Art Show
VALLEY ART CENTER
Through December 13
Reflections
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through December 14
Tri-C Creative Arts Annual Faculty Art Exhibition
GALLERY EAST, TRI-C
Through December 16
JOANN: 2 EVENTS; I HAD TO COPY THE NAME OF THE SECOND ONE. I HOPE IT WORKS.
Raja Belle Freeman: Consider This Your Trigger Warning
Debra DeGregorio: co≈rrelate
AKRON SOUL TRAIN
Through December 16
Fall Exhibitions
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Through December 16
Joseph O’Sickey in Retrospect: Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Satellite Exhibition
HUNTINGTON CONVENTION CENTER
Through December 16
JOANN, 2 EVENTS WITH ARTIST INFO FOR EACH
A Hard Line: Geometric Abstraction from the AAWR collection
Artists include David E Davis, Ruth Bercaw, Samuel Butnik, George Schroeder, Susan Schroeder and Dan Tranberg
Tangents: Abstract and Geometric Art in Northeast Ohio
To accompany A Hard Line, comprising work in AAWR’s collection, this show, curated by prominent Cleveland painter Jenniffer Omaitz, features pieces by currently working artists who delve into such abstraction-related areas such as color, optical interplay, mathematics, space, surface, texture, process and the built environment. The artists include Edward Raffle, Natalie Lanese, Gianna Commito, Susan Squires, Mark Keffer, Catherine Lentini, Andrew Reach, David Cintron and Mark Howard.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Through December 23
JOANN, 2 EVENTS
Anna Van Mertens / Henrietta Leavitt: A Life Spent Looking
Everything Is Stardust: Artmaking and the Knowability of the Universe
ALLEN MEMORIAL AT MUSEUM
Through December 30
Heights Arts Holiday Show
HEIGHTS ARTS
Through December 31
Liquid Stripes in Harmony: Mona Kolesar & William Ward
Satellite Show at Judson Manor, 1890 E 107th Street
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Through January 7
A soft place to land
Don’t mind if I do: organized in collaboration with Finnegan Shannon
Juntos: presented with the Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center
Nina Chanel Abney: Cafeteria 2
MOCA CLEVELAND
Through January 7
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through January 8
Bonfoey’s 130th Anniversary Exhibition
BONFOEY GALLERY
Through January 12
Forest of Memories
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Through January 14
Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism
While Degas’s name is the draw here, this show actually contains many pieces by his fellow late-19th century Impressionists, artists who inspired him or were inspired by him: paintings, drawings and prints. It also features information, photos and artifacts relating to the difficult lives of the laundresses who were ubiquitous in the landscape of Paris in that era to suggest why they fascinated these creative (mostly) men.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through January 15
Jef Janis photography: Streets of Cleveland
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART
Through January 21
Picturing the Intangible: Oberlin Looks at Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through January 23
The Invisible Body
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through January 24
The Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
GALLERY AT LAKELAND
Through January 25
New Masters: Women Artists of Northeast Ohio
URSULINE COLLEGE WASMER GALLERY
Through January 28
Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through January 28
Shared Art: Wendy Red Star
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through February 3
Tabaimo: Blow and The Obscuring Moon
CMA’s first show as owner of the Transformer Station is a time-based installation by groundbreaking Japanese video artist Tabaimo calledBlow, which uses both traditional Japanese art forms and digital animation to create a four-channel immersive work that erases the boundaries between reality and fantasy. CMA acquired the 2009 work in 2012. It will also be showing the artist’s 2016 piece The Obscuring Moon, which springboards off a work by 19th-century master printer Utagawa Hiroshige, transforming it into a whole new thing.
Admission: FREE
10am-5pm Wednesday-Saturday
TRANSFORMER STATION/CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through February 4
JOANN: 2 EVENTS
Amanda D. King: Locusts
Barbara Stanczak: Spirit and Matter
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through February 5
Nominations for the 2024 Arts Alive Awards close on February 5. Visit summitartspace.org/arts-alive-2024 to nominate a candidate who you believe helps champion the arts and culture sector in Summit and surrounding counties.
SUMMIT ART SPACE WEBSITE
Through March 10
Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through March 24
RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore
The Wesley and Missy Cochran Collection was amassed by two ordinary middle-class people (she was a teacher, he was a stonemason). Without a lot of wealth, they put together a large collection of American art, heavy on prints and African-American art. Work by more than 40 artists from their collection makes up this new show at the Akron Art Museum, which is grouped by four themes: remembrances of Africa, African-Americans’ syncretic religious practices, the challenges African-Americans faced and still face, and the ways in which they have fought back.
AKRON ART MUSEUM KARL AND BERTL ARNSTEIN GALLERIES
Through May 12
Land Jam
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through May 6
Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 2024
The Archive: Installation by Rebecca Louise Law
CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY MAIN BRANCH BRETT HALL
Through August 4
Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 31, 2025
JOANN: 2 EVENTS
Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts
Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
NOVEMBER
17
CAN Winter Issue Launch Party
EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY
Third Friday
5-9pm
78TH STREET STUDIOS
David King: Show and Tell-Domestic Narratives
In November, HEDGE will feature Show and Tell-Domestic Narratives, new paintings by David King. King’s latest series of paintings evolved from personal experiences which expanded to become a more universal reflection on family, encompassing the stories of both friends and strangers. King states, “as a father and educator, ‘show and tell’ has always played an important role in my life. It was my favorite activity in elementary school. I love sharing my stories and hearing everyone’s family folklore told through objects and experiences.”
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through December 30
HEDGE GALLERY
It’s a Christmas MiraCLE!
This group show features art work based on six popular holiday movies: Die Hard, A Christmas Story, Nightmare Before Christmas, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, and Elf.
Opening 5-9pm
Through December 15
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
Holiday Fair Preview Party
Requires RSVP
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
Functional Geometries
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through January 6
CONTEXT FINE ART
Fresh
This show of work in various media revolves around fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables. It includes ceramics by Ann Bort, paintings by Christen Schneid, mixed media work by Eric Dull, photography by Christian Fredriksen, watercolors by Janine Jacobs-Beleski, altered images by Ron Kretsch, and photography by Stephen Tomasko.
Opening reception 4:30-7:30pm
Through December 19
STOCKER GALLERY AT LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
18
Holiday Fair
Through December 24
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
BAYarts Holiday Shop opens
Through December 24
BAYARTS
Behind the Scenes Tours
See how Cleveland’s oldest gallery does its custom framing. Two tours, 11am-noon and noon-1pm
BONFOEY GALLERY
Sunday Painters Holiday Sale
Through December 24
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY
Nydia Blas
Photographer Blas grew up in Ithaca, New York, and is currently based in Atlanta, where she teaches at Spellman College. Her work focuses on portraiture of Black women and girls, whose lived experiences fuel her worldview and her activism.
Opening reception 6-8pm November 17
Artist discussion with Blas and Amanda King
2pm November 18
Through February 14
ABATTOIR GALLERY
19
New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper
Through April 14
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
21
Quilt National 2023: Best of Contemporary Quilts
Without a Net
The New Deal Artists of the WPA
Stitched Together: A Visual Patchwork from the CMA Collection
Through March 3
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
24
Tasting Notes: Date Night with Degas
7-9pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART PROVENANCE
25
Family Clay Day
10am-noon
ART HOUSE, INC.
29
Chamber Music in the Atrium
Noon-1pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AMES FAMILY ATRIUM
30
The Cleveland Show
Curated by Cheryl Craver and Chey Jeffries, The Cleveland Show features work by Karen Beckwith, Jeff Benedetto, Tim Callaghan, Tim Herron, Ingrid Hoegner, Jesse Rhinehardt, Vivica Satterwhite, Joan Satow, Jeff Suntala and Dawn Tekler, whose images bring their own distinctive visions of Cleveland to their work, revealing a side of our city we don’t often see.
Opening reception 5:30-8pm
YARDS PROJECT AT WORTHINGTON YARDS
Black Graphics: African American Printmakers, 1960 to Now
Through December
LUSENHOP FINE ARTS
Sip in the Studio: Cookie decorating
6-7:30pm
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Elena Masrour: Bingo! I’m the King Now!
Reception 5:30-8pm
Through January 14
MASSILLON MUSEUM GALLERY M
The Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
Artist Reception 7-9pm
Through January 24
GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DECEMBER
1
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Student Holiday Show and 100 Show + Sale
December 1 & 2
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk + Poets Respond
6pm
VALLEY ART CENTER
MIX: Beat Streat
6-10pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AMES FAMILY ATRIUM
2
Walk & Talk through Tangents exhibition with curator Jenniffer Omaitz
1-2pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
A Fiber Affair: 8th Annual Benefit Gala
6-9pm
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
3
Kids’ Makers Fest
11am-3pm
AKRON ART MUSEUM
6
Assembly for the Arts Quarterly State of the Arts lunch/meeting
11:30am-1pm
LOCATION TBA
Chamber Music in the Atrium
Noon-1pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AMES FAMILY ATRIUM
Chamber Music in the Galleries: French Impressionism
6-7pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GALLERY 222
7
After School Open Studio: Ice Cube Watercolors
4-6:30pm
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Holiday Sale
11am-2pm December 7 & 8
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY CVA GALLERY
8
Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Unsilent Night
6:30pm
Meet at the Lincoln Park Gazebo with your smartphone and Bluetooth speaker to prepare for a 45-minue stroll through Tremont playing one of four pre-programmed tracks. Join some three dozen other cities in staging this annual holiday event. Walk steps off at 7pm.
TREMONT’S LINCOLN PARK GAZEBO
Unsalted: A Solo Exhibition by Samuel Skelton
Cleveland photographer/filmmaker Skelton looks at the outdoor world from unconventional angles. Instead of keeping his feet on the ground, he specializes in aerial and underwater imagery to tell stories from another perspective.
Opening reception 6-9pm
Through February 3
KAISER GALLERY
Holiday Market
The annual holiday sale, featuring more than 20 artists of all types, will be held downstairs in the former Fahrenheit space for two days only: December 8, coinciding with Walkabout Tremont, and December 15.
6-10pm
818 STUDIOS
Morgan Makers Exhibition
5-8pm
Through January 6
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Accent
7:30-9pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM
10
Apollo’s Fire: Wassail!
4:30-6pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM
Close Encounters concert
HEIGHTS ARTS
13
Chamber Music in the Atrium
Noon
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AMES FAMILY AUDITORIUM
Winter Wonderland group show focused on the beauty and warmth of winter
Through January 6
BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER ART GALLERY
14
BAYarts holiday trunk show
6-9pm
BAYARTS
15
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
16
Community Art Shop: Pinata making
1-3pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
Closing reception for Akron Soul Train winter shows by Raja Belle Freeman and Debra DeGregiorio. At the reception AST will announce their 2024 artists in residence.
5-7:30pm
AKRON SOUL TRAIN
17
Apollo’s Fire: Wassail!
4:30-6pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM
22
Tasting Notes: Date Night with Degas
7-9pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART PROVENANCE
JANUARY
3
Chamber Music in the Galleries
6pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GALLERY 217
Paul Tikkanen
A retrospective of the work of Ashtabula abstract painter/sculptor/photographer Tikkanen (CIA ’49) whose work was inspired by his world travels. This show will feature a series of paintings called “Profile.”
Through January 31
STELLA’S ART GALLERY
4
Melvin W. Clark: Four Decades of Painting
Through end of February
LUSENHOP GALLERY
Call for Art: Black & White Show January 4–6
All works in all media must use only black & white, full tonal range of grays included
Show opens January 12
Through February 3
STELLA’S ART GALLERY
5
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Davon Brantley Solo exhibition
Opening reception 5-9pm
Closing reception 5-9pm February 2
Through February 2
KINK CONTEMPORARY
8
Lorain County Region Scholastic Art Exhibit and Awards
Artists Reception 1-3pm January 14
Gold Key Ceremony 1-3pm January 28
Through February 15
STOCKER GALLERY AT LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
10
Joshua Redman Group featuring Gabrielle Cavassa
7:30-9pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM
12
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Christopher Pelrine: I Don’t Paint For Your Comfort
Opening 5-8pm
Through February 3
BAYARTS
Prismatic Group Exhibition
Spotlight: Amelia Joynes
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through March 10
HEIGHTS ARTS
Black & White Show
Through February 3
STELLA’S ART GALLERY
Winter Exhibitions
20th Annual FRESH Juried Exhibition
Nobody Here: David Kruk
Social Justice Student Art Exhibition
Waffle Weave Invitational: Group Show
Bad Nostalgia: Katherine Strobel
Through March 16
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
18
ArtBar
An evening of music, art and cocktails
HEIGHTS ARTS
19
Liz Maugans: Life Is Brutiful
HEDGE GALLERY
Laundromat Show
Opening 5- pm
Through February
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
20
Family Open Studio
1-3pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
21
Samantha Schneider—Root Beer Float: The Simple Pleasures of Childhood
Through February 25
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
23
Winter Exhibition
Artist reception: 5:30-7pm February 16
Through February 29
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
26
We Be Workin’ Staff Exhibition
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through February 16
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
27
Scholastic Art & Writing Exhibition
Through February 9
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Family Clay Day
10-11am
ART HOUSE, INC.
29
3rd Annual Emerging Young Artist Exhibition Call for Artists Begins
VALLEY ART CENTER
FEBRUARY
2
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
2
Is It Because I’m Me BLACK!!?
Opening reception 5-7pm
Through February 29
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
9
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
ABC Does the ABCs: Explore the Alphabet by Art Books Cleveland
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through March 2
BAYARTS
11
from WOMAN XVII… created by women, of women and about women
This biennial show, curated by gallery director Mary Urbas, offers a sprawling and engrossing look at dozens of mostly regional women artists, some well-known and some not, who work in a range of mediums.
Artist Reception: 3:30-5pm March 24
Through March 29
GALLERY AT LAKELAND
15
Ekphrastacy: Poets respond to works in Prismatic Art show
HEIGHTS ARTS
16
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
17
Jen P. Harris, Sam Dienst, Mike Meier
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through March 23
KINK CONTEMPORARY
18
Close Encounters concert
HEIGHTS ARTS
23
Group show on intimacy featuring both local and out-of-town artists
Opening reception
Through mid-April
ABATTOIR GALLERY
AIR Exhibition: Pulp, Paper and Possibilities
Opening reception 5-8pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Art Maker on the Move
Conceived by longtime area arts promoter/organizer Joan Perch, who now focuses her work on Lorain County, this exhibit features artists working in new technologies. It emanates from the LCCC Campana Center’s Future Artist Lab, which promotes the intersection of art and technologies and makes new technologies available to working artists through programming, public exhibitions, and its LCCC mobile Fab Cab makerspace. This show features work made by LCCC’s Gregory Little, Oberlin College’s Abby Aresty, and Cleveland Institute of Art’s Matthew Hollern.
Opening reception 4:30-6:30pm
Through March 19
STOCKER GALLERY AT LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
25
Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light, Moon Shadow
Through June 30
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART MARK SCHWARTZ AND BETTINA KATZ PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
29
Free gallery concert
HEIGHTS ARTS
MARCH
1
CAN Spring Issue Launch
FRAMED GALLERY
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Grand Reopening & Annual Members Exhibition
Opening reception 5:30-8pm
Closing Party & Annual Member Meeting 5-8pm May 3
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
9
ABC Chili Cook-Off
1-4pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
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