Summer 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.
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CONTINUING EVENTS
Cleveland Print Room Member Darkroom Hours at CSU Middough Building,Room 221
Open 4-9pm Tuesdays & Thursdays; 12-4pm Sundays; 12-4pm alternating Saturdays (check schedule on website)
Text darkroom monitor with questions or special needs at 216-389-8756.
B&W Darkroom Basics: Film Development & Darkroom Printing
(at Cleveland State University) Classes held twice a month. More information and registration here: eventbrite.com/o/cleveland-print-room-33421692569
More info at clevelandprintroom.com
Through May 18
StarBurst: Regional Juried High School Exhibition
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Through May 24
Discovery the Promise: Impact, Legacy & Perspective
Sponsored by the City of Cleveland, the show features work by 35 Northeast Ohio-based artists, some young and rising, such as Aja Joi Grant, Lauren Pearce and Davon Brantley; some well-established and much admired, including Dale Goode, Dexter Davis, Gwendolyn Garth, Robin Robinson, Gina Washington, Antwoine Washington and David Buttram; and several who’ve passed away after productive careers: Michelangelo Lovelace, Miller Horns, Charles Louis Salle Jr.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT CLEVELAND CITY HALL
Through May 24
Cleveland State University Merit Scholars Exhibition
YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS
Through May 24
52nd Annual Cleveland State University Art Show
BONFOEY GALLERY
Through May 26
Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage
Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve
BlackBrain: SCRD GRDN
MOCA CLEVELAND
Through May 26
Counting in Art and Math with Sol LeWitt
Digital Reimaginings: Printing Towards Accessibility
A Passion for Prints: Works from the Elesh Collection
Raghav Kanaria: Community and Creativity / Photographs of Rural India, 1970s-1980s
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through May 26
Laura Ruth Bidwell: Daily Vanitas
Daily Vanitas is a collection of works on paper based on clippings from The New York Times, which the artist collages and paints to reflect on New York City’s iconic places and activities, creating juxtapositions that seem both purposeful and accidental at the same time. She uses those quintessentially New York signifiers to engage with humor in social criticism and reflections on life, death, art, history and culture through artful juxtapositions.
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS
Through May 27
Cosmic Glow: work by Aja Joi Grant, Amber D. Kempthorn, Chen Peng, Theadis Reagins and Lyanne Torres. Curated by Thea Spittle and presented by the Museum of Creative Human Art
CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
Through May 31
Solely Me Exhibition
EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON
Through May 2024
The Archive: Installation by Rebecca Louise Law
Maybe you’ve heard people raving about this immersive show. You should believe them and get down to see it before it’s done. The artist has filled Brett Hall, a 44,000-square-foot room on the ground floor of Cleveland Public Library’s main branch, with preserved flowers, pinecones, leaves, twigs, seed pods and other vestiges of nature, which were then sewn together and strung on strips of copper to create thick cascades of hanging streamers of plant life. Stop taking selfies for a minute; stop to drink in the array of textures, forms and muted colors Law has brought indoors for us to contemplate.
CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY MAIN BRANCH BRETT HALL
Through May
Reclipse: Photos taken during the April 8 total eclipse
BOSTWICK DESIGN ART INITIATIVE
Through June 1
Emil Robinson: Interiors
ABATTOIR GALLERY
Through June 2
To the River’s South in Japanese Painting
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through June 2
Douglas Manry: Narrative Magic
LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY
Through June 2
Sukeina: The Light of Omar Salam
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
Through June 6
Membership Exhibition
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
Through June 8
Lori Kella
Kella’s work is based on photography but it’s much more than that. In recent years, she’s caught viewers’ eyes with her landscapes which on closer examination turn out to be tiny constructions she’s photographed to look real. Underlying them are themes of environmental degradation, juxtaposing natural beauty with threats to its existence. In her latest series she incorporates photographs into photographs, creating complex, layered images that require careful looking to ferret out all their meanings and references.
WILLIAM BUSTA PROJECTS
Through June 9
Spring Show with Meryl Engler, Gene Epstein, Boni Suzanne Gelfand & Jeff Suntala
NICHOLSON B. WHITE GALLERY, ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Through June 15
Spring Exhibitions
Happiness & The End of the World: Matt Miller
The Aunties: Sylvia Sykes
Medina County Art League Exhibition
Artists of the Rubber City Juried Exhibition
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Through June 15
Rachel Linnemann: Butterflies on Barbed Wire
alexandra virginia martin: dress rehearsal
SCULPTURE CENTER
Through June 18
Simple Pleasures
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT JUDSON MANOR – SOUTH CONCOURSE
Through June 22
I Had Been Young, Vol. 4: a solo exhibit by Meryl Engler
Following up her show I Had Been Young Vol. 3 at Akron’s East Ave Market & Gallery earlier this year, Engler’s woodcuts, mixed-media works and relief carvings explore the relationship between the environment and humans and what that relationship means to each. The California native brings to bear her background in sculpture, printmaking and papermaking to create work that expands the boundaries of traditional printmaking, as she incorporates self-portraiture, bird imagery and patterns borrowed from quilt-making.
KAISER GALLERY
Through June 22
Lisa Schonberg and Jennifer Leach
YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS
Through June 29
Richard Andres 2.0
WOLFS GALLERY
Through June 29
Transference & Translation: Baila Litton; Flaunt: Arabella Proffer; Floating Worlds: Jean Kondo Weigl
Three simultaneous inaugural Archived Artist solo exhibitions in AAWR’s three gallery spaces shine a spotlight on three area women artists, each of whom integrates elements of surrealism into her work in extremely different ways. Proffer brings her unique vision to lushly colored pop-influenced art, including her recent Superfine Tableau oil paintings, while Litton and Weigl both use their work to explore issues around immigration and cultural identity.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Through June 30
Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through July 5
Emerging: Victor Welzer and Darci Gumins-Paulett
JUDSON SMART LIVING HOWSON & STREETER GALLERIES
Through July 14
Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through July 19
The 14th May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Through July 20
The Cleveland Salon, 1920-1924
The 1920s were a time of radical change in the way Americans lived, and while some clung nostalgically to the past, artists everywhere, including Cleveland, were embracing that change. And while the Midwest might not have been a groundbreaking cultural center, Northeast Ohio painter William Sommer, architect William Lescaze, poet Hart Crane and theatrical designer Richard Rychtarik formed a short-lived “salon” of sorts that brought together new streams of visual art, poetry, theater and architecture. This exhibit from an organization that collects and shows art from this region will shed light on that brief but shining moment and the creative forces behind it.
ARTNEO
Through July 21
Africa & Byzantium
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall
Ticket required; members are always free.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through July 31
Precarious Legacies: Exposure of a Fleeting Landscape
MASSILLON MUSEUM
Through July 28
A Material World: Janice Jakielski’s Impossible Objects
Beyond Worlds: Paintings by Laine Bachman
Ginni Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
Immersive Spaces from the CMA Collection
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany
Through August 4
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through August 11
Monet in Focus
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through August 18
Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life
When Cleveland painter Lovelace passed away in 2021 at the far-too-young age of 61, just as he was starting to get wider recognition for works that were packed with closely observed details of urban life in all its beauty and decay, vibrancy and violence. While he studied briefly at the Cleveland Institute of Art, developing skills that put him just outside the boundaries of “outsider” art, he learned to paint by experience and pouring that unvarnished experience into highly specific portrayals of life on these bustling, sometimes but not always, mean streets. The Akron Art Museum retrospective offers a look at his work from 1992-2000.
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Ready, Set, Relay!
Through September 6
CIA students respond to works in the Progressive Art Collection
Reservations required: visit readysetrelay.com
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART AT
PROGRESSIVE’S CAMPUS ONE IN MAYFIELD VILLAGE
Through September 8
Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through September 29
From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings
Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through October 13
Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December 8
Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December 15
The Body, The Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 22
A New Kind of Painter for China: 1960s-1980s
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through January 18, 2025
Femme ’isms Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through May 30, 2025
Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts
Echoes of the Pandemic
It’s certainly natural to want to wipe our memories of the recent pandemic that killed millions of people around the world, and many of us have gone about our lives as if it never happened, reminded only by an occasional mask tossed on the ground to disintegrate. This show intends to make us stop and think about the way things changed and in what ways those changes might be lasting.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through May 31, 2025
Religious Art from Asia
Class, Colonialism, and (Over)Consumption
Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
MAY 15
Spatial Harmony: Cleveland painter Justin Brennan, with Columbus-based painter Aaron Troyer and Cleveland ceramicist Kero Johannes.
Preview reception 5pm
Opening reception 5pm May 17
HEDGE GALLERY
16
Cleveland Heights High School Student Exhibition: Unintentional Beauty
Spotlight Gallery: Juliet Duffy and Antonia Casucci
Through June 9
HEIGHTS ARTS
MAY
17
CAN Journal Summer Issue Launch
LOGO CREATIVE STUDIO
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
The Don’t Panic! Room
E11even2 co-owner R!ch Cihlar and street-style artist Bob Peck collectively call themselves Don’t Panic! The show blends artworks in a range of media with interactive challenges and puzzles that encourage viewers to directly engage with the pieces and includes an actual escape room.
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through June 21
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
Stitching Stories: Celebrating Our Heritage
African American Quilt and Doll Guild Show
This organization of artists and crafters based in Warrensville Heights is less well known than it should be, given the high level of skill displayed in their works and the wide range of sophisticated artistry, which embraces abstraction, scenes of, and tributes to, Black life, and political and social statement. If you’ve seen their work, it was most likely at Cleveland Public Theatre’s Station Hope, but they also recently brought it to a new part of town when Praxis Fiber Workshop’s gallery presented a dazzling array of their work that’s both colorful and subtle, as well as richly textured. This two-day show will also feature vendors, a fashion show, guest speakers, and a “make and take” quilting activity. Ticket required.
May 17 & 18
CHURCH OF THE SAVIOR, CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
Dog Days at Deep Roots
Free day to come to the gallery with your pet every Third Friday
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE
Marking Time and Space: Rebecca Kaler and Robert Wright
Opening reception 5-9pm
Closing reception 6-8pm June 19
CONTEXT FINE ART GALLERY
Battle of the Teal Art Showcase
Opening reception 5-7pm
Through May 19
FUTURE INK GRAPHICS
18
Re:Sound New and Experimental Music Festival
The Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) hosts a regular concert series, as well as this festival, of boundary breaking, experimental music, much of which also incorporates other elements such as spoken word and visuals. Various configurations of musicians create sound on an array of devices, acoustic and electronic, much of it improvised in the spaces between the players. The festival includes three evening concerts at Convivium 33 as well as sound installations at CMA’s Pivot Center space.
May 18 & 19
CONVIVIUM 33/CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER AT PIVOT CENTER
Jared Wolfert Solo Exhibition
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through July 5
KINK CONTEMPORARY
Mixed Techniques with Nicole Malcom
May 18 & 19
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Couture and Craftsmanship
Free family-friendly hands-on activities. Artist Aimee Lee will demonstrate how to make Korean mulberry-bark lace.
11am-3pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Friends & Family Open Studio
1pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
More Than Crayons Kids’ Art Workshops
(Free for all kids under 18)
10am-noon every third Saturday
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE
19
79th Annual May Show
Artist reception & awards 2-4pm
Through June 30
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
Open Studios/Vendors in Wooltex Gallery
Noon-5pm
TOWER PRESS
21
Artistic Jungle: A Visionary Fusion of Art, Fashion and Technology
Polymath Georgio Sabino III has his fingers in a whole bunch of creative pies. He’s a visual artist known for his photography, but he’s also worked in fashion, film and technology. His work will be concurrently on display at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, and at Deep Roots Experience where his “artistic jungle series” opens May 24.
Through July 14
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
22
Creative Impact Fund Info Session
Assembly for the Arts provides information on applying for its unrestricted artists grants, funded by the Cuyahoga County arts levy/cigarette tax.
6pm
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND
24
In the Shadows: Artwork of the Total Solar Eclipse
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
24
Experience the Deep Roots of Georgio Sabino III
Polymath Georgio Sabino III has his fingers in a whole bunch of creative pies. He’s a visual artist known for his photography, but he’s also worked in fashion, film and technology. This avant garde exhibition, which he’s dubbed the “artistic jungle series,” offers a taste of all of this, displaying the range of this talented creator. His work is concurrently on display at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.
Opening 5pm
Through June 15
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE
25
Friends & Family Clay Day
10am
ART HOUSE, INC.
Marbling: Beginner to Intermediate with Jenniffer Omaitz
May 25 & 26
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
31
Little Italy Art Walk
Through Sunday, June 2
LITTLE ITALY NEIGHBORHOOD
Deadline for submissions for women’s self-portrait show for Cleveland Photo Fest, which opens September 6, 2024
BOSTWICK DESIGN ART INITIATIVE
Construction Mural Reveal
VALLEY ART CENTER AT RIVERSIDE PARK, CHAGRIN FALLS
JUNE
1
Art Bites—Art in Context Series: The Mosaic of Singapore with Irene Shaland
Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org
1-2:30pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Intro to Western Papermaking Part I with Ryan Cermak
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
A Panoply of Pamphlets with Mary Beth Boone
June 1 & 2
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Pride in the CLE
MALLS B & C, DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND
Main Street Kent Art & Wine Festival
11am-8pm
DOWNTOWN KENT
2
Protest Printmaking: Block-Print Your Own Propaganda with Tahm Lytle
5:30-9:30pm, Sunday, June 2 & Wednesday, June 5
Pay-What-You-Can
5
Assembly for the Arts Quarterly Meeting
Get the scoop on what Assembly is doing to promote the arts in Cuyahoga County and what’s going on with the arts tax renewal. It’s also an opportunity to meet other artists and people involved in the local arts scene.
6-7:30pm
HILDEBRANDT BUILDING
6
Street Sense and Sensibility
Through July 27
YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS
Bella DeRose, Zelda Hansen-Thayer, Chloe Sampson: Pride Art Exhibition
Opening reception 6pm
Through July 2
LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY
Game On Double Play: Benefit for moCa Cleveland at Studio West 117. Get tickets at mocacleveland.org/game-on
7-10:30pm
MOCA CLEVELAND
7
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Beth Humphrey: New Works
Through July 21
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS
Allison Bogard-Hall: Alchemy Dreams
In this group of new oil paintings, the Lakewood-based artist presents ultra-realistic images in settings that blur their connection to reality, causing the viewer to wonder what’s real and what’s not. This, her second solo show in the area, comes from the Exhibition Award she earned at the CAN Triennial.
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through July 6
BAYARTS SULLIVAN GALLERY
Incantations
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through August 24
Additional programming to be announced
ZYGOTE PRESS
Liminal Spaces: Art & the Environment
Opening Reception 5-8pm
Through June 27
Dylan Rundle Solo Exhibition
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through July 5
KINK CONTEMPORARY
Picnic-Themed Group Show
Through July 26
PINWHEEL GALLERY
8
Art by the Falls Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Festival
Now in its 40th year, Art by the Falls, which typically takes place at Chagrin Falls’ downtown park, will be at the Cleveland Metroparks Polo Field this year. That should provide a bit more elbow room for this bustling event which features more artist booths than the previous space could accommodate—more than 140 in every medium you can think of! Food trucks, beer & wine, and artist demonstrations. There’s even a free shuttle from downtown Chagrin Falls but there’s plenty of parking at the polo field.
10am-7pm Saturday, June 8 & 10am-4pm Sunday, June 9
VALLEY ART CENTER AT CLEVELAND METROPARKS POLO FIELD
Jessica: A Burgess Story
Through June 28
Intro to Marbling with Ryan Cermak (2 separate classes)
Political Printing: Block Printing Protest Art with Tahm Lytle
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Collage & Journals with Doriana Diaz
June 8 & 9
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Parade the Circle
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s long-running event features community-created costumes, masks, giant puppets and more. The 2024 theme is Visions of Harmony. The parade, which steps off at noon, is followed by activities on Wade Oval until 4pm.
WADE OVAL
11
Floral & Landscape Exhibition
Through July 25
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
12
Art Bites Surrealist Game Night! Come and play with us!
Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org
7-8:30pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Rotating Exhibit of Specialty Selections
BONFOEY LOWER GALLERY
2024 Alumni Exhibition
Through August 9
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
13
Screenprinting Basics with Hannah Manocchio
5:30-8:30pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
BAYarts Thursday Market
Vendors, food truck, music
4-7pm every Thursday through September
BAYARTS
14
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Check It Out: A Literary Artwalk
AKRON’S HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT
Graffiti HeArt 10-Year Party with Cornbread
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, this nonprofit, whose mission is to connect street-style artists with paid work and to offer scholarships to younger street-style artists, brings to town the legendary Philadelphia graffiti artist Darryl “Cornbread” McCray for a weekend of events. He’ll do a talk Friday evening, host a youth workshop Saturday afternoon, be part of a fundraiser and auction Saturday evening, and join a street art mural tour on Sunday.
Through Sunday June 16
GRAFFITI HEART
Emergent 2024: NE Ohio Up and Coming Artists
Spotlight Gallery: Destiny Moore
Opening 5pm
Through August 11
HEIGHTS ARTS
15
3rd Annual Juneteenth Exhibit
Opening reception 5-9pm
ARTFUL
The Gift of Art
The Gift of Art is sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker. Each month, artists gather at the Creative Art Complex to network, discuss current events and art, and display a selection of their work for sale. Light refreshments will be served. This month, they’re celebrating Juneteenth as well. Upcoming dates: July 20 and August 17
2-7pm
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
Intro to Bookbinding with R. E. Anderson
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
16
BAYarts Summer Concert: School of Rock
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
18
Intergenerational Art Class
6-8pm Tuesdays & Thursdays through July 25
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
21
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
2024 Alumni Exhibition
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Marvin Jones
Through July 12
BONFOEY GALLERY
22
BAYarts’ Annual Art & Music Festival
70+ Vendors, Small Craft Advisory, food trucks, kids activities
Free admission & parking
Vendors contact Karen@bayarts.net
10am-4pm
BAYARTS
AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (In-Person & Live Streamed on Facebook)
Isabella Myers, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence
12:15pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Beginner Linocut Block Printing with Tahm Lytle
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Visual Art Showcase
Stop by CMA’s Ingalls Library to meet local artists Laura and Gary Dumm and Joe Zabel, and learn how they use their graphic arts talents in the context of storytelling as they share works from their collections and samples of things they’ve worked on such as Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor comics.
10am-2pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
23
BAYarts Summer Concert: Serious Nature
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
Design & Print a Repeating Pattern with Meryl Engler
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
26
Art Bites—Art in Context Series: The Other Side of the Spanish Avant Garde
A conversation about the art of Maruja Mallo, Angeles Santos and Remedios Varo, with Dr. Maria Alejandro Zanetta.
Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org
7-8pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
28
Gurushots: Cleveland Photo Exhibition
Opening reception 7-10pm
Through June 30
KAISER GALLERY
3 separate shows
Message from Our Planet
Erykah Townsend: “Happy” Holidays
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh
Message from Our Planet features 19 international artists working in video, software and light technology, proposing that technology will allow us to communicate with future generations—now where is my floppy disc player? Skinchangers is Montoya’s first solo museum show, a work of speculative fiction that will use polystyrene to create the last spaceship from an apocalypse-ravaged Earth which in inhabited by shapeshifting creatures. The whole thing is accompanied by a soundtrack the artist has created. And rising young Cleveland artist Townsend takes a jaundiced look at the commercialization of holidays originally meant to be religious or reflective, a topic well suited to her pop culture-derived work.
Through December 29
MOCA CLEVELAND
29
Plein AIR
Noon-3pm
TINNERMAN LOFTS
Rooms to Let: CLE
Once an intriguing mélange of artists claiming spaces in abandoned houses soon to be demolished to create temporary art, this festival features some of that in a handful of empty storefronts and commercial buildings, while vendors, musicians and hands-on activities, sponsored by various organizations, camp out on this central, once-vibrant, commercial intersection in Slavic Village.
Noon-6pm June 29 & 30
SLAVIC VILLAGE, EAST 55TH & BROADWAY
Beyond the Accordion Fold with Katie Delay
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
30
Zine Making with Sequoia Bostick & Andy Passchier
10am-4pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
30
BAYarts Summer concert: Rey Cintron’s Rice & Beans Band
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
JULY
July day & time TBD
Art Bites—Professional Practices: Popup Book History & Making with Mark Soppeland
Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
2
Woven Prints and Papers as Visual Narratives (Virtual) with Susan Fecho
July 2 & 9
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
5
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
6
Making Charcoal with Kozo with Anna Chapman
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
7
Cleveland Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Concessions, free admission. It’s outdoors; bring a blanket or chair.
7pm
BAYARTS
9
Deadline for submissions to CATography Show
In response to its show, Going to the Dogs, a couple of years ago, this year’s Cleveland Photo Fest will devote a gallery to felinity. Photographers of all types are invited to submit their best work expressing the essential nature of the cat by July 9. Find submission information here. smarterentry.com/CallsForEntry/clevelandphotofest/
CLEVELAND PHOTO FEST
10
City Stages: Pahua
The much-loved City Stages series returns for a three-concert run in Ohio City, where acts perform on a big stage set up on the corner of West 29th and Church, outside the Transformer Station, and people dance on the street, grab a bite and a drink from a local business or a food truck parked in the Transformer Station parking lot and claim a place on its lawn to eat. The concerts showcase a variety of global music acts from all corners of the world. Mexico’s Pahua (Paulina Sotomayor) is a DJ, producer, percussionist and singer whose music is a vibrant collision of Afro-Latin beats, electronic sounds and lyrics about womanhood, nature and self-discovery. Feet will move.
TRANSFORMER STATION
11
Solo inaugural exhibitions for two Archived Artists, John Saile and Jon Barlow Hudson. Plus Book Art Uncovered, an Art Books Cleveland members exhibition.
Opening reception for all three shows 5:30-8pm
Through August 24
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (in-person & live streamed on Facebook)
Jennifer Scheuer, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence
12:15pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Descendants
Opening reception 6-9pm July 12
Through September 7
KAISER GALLERY
12
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Anne Manley: Pause
Opening reception 5-8pm July 12
Through August 3
BAYARTS SULLIVAN GALLERY
Cain Park Arts Festival
Through Sunday July 14
CAIN PARK
24 in 24 Marathon Papermaking
5pm Friday, July 12 to 4:59pm Saturday, July 13
Dance party with foods, drinks, DJs starting 5pm Saturday
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Kasumi: Persistence of Vision
Through September 24
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
13
7 pm
BAYARTS Playhouse
Art By Jada J
Through July 26
EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON
Jason Milburn: Dual Civilizations
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through August 17
KINK CONTEMPORARY
14
Rose B. Simpson: Strata
Through April 13, 2025
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
BAYarts Summer Concert: Tweed
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
16
Tessellating Herringbone Fold (Virtual) with Paula Beardell Krieg
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
17
Nikki Woods: Conjuring Images
Preview reception
Opening reception 5pm July 19
HEDGE GALLERY
City Stage: Wesli
7:30-9pm
Free
TRANSFORMER STATION
19
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Finding Joy: A Watercolor Exhibition Celebrating Life’s Vibrancy
Through August 21
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
20
The Gift of Art
The Gift of Art is sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker. Each month, artists gather at the Creative Art Complex to network, discuss current events and art, and display a selection of their work for sale. Light refreshments will be served. Upcoming date: August 17
2-7pm
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
Cave Paper Casting with Amanda Degener
July 20 & 21
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
21
BAYarts Summer Concert: Blues Deville.
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
Picturing the Border
Amid all the political posturing about “the border! the border!” this exhibit takes a long look at the much-maligned demarcation between Mexico and the US from the 1970s to today, with photos taken by residents and outsiders. Some depict humanizing portraits of the individuals involved while others zoom out to focus on protests and clashes at the border. The show aims to provide a thread of continuity in border issues across the decades, offering context for the exaggerated, negative, and often flat-out wrong claims being made today about southern border migrants in order to serve ulterior motives.
Through January 5, 2025
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
26
ARTFUL Open Studios/P.E.A.C.E. Pops
6-9pm
COVENTRY P.E.A.C.E. CAMPUS BUILDING
27
Friends & Family Clay Day
10am
ART HOUSE, INC.
Variations in Long Stitch with Jenniffer Omaitz
Intro to Letterpress with R.E. Anderson
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
28
BAYarts Summer Concert: Kingfish
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
Coptic Bookbinding with Jenniffer Omaitz
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
30
39th Annual Juried Exhibition
Through September 5
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
31
City Stages: Bia Ferreira
7:30-9pm
Free
TRANSFORMER STATION
AUGUST
August day & time TBD
Art Bites—Artist Talks with John Saile & Jon Barlow Hudson
Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
1
AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (in-person & live streamed on Facebook)
Danqi Cai, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence
12:15pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
2
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Antwoine Washington: 2024 AIR at the Deep End
Through September 22
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS
3
Book Repair with Daniel Colvin
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Marbling: Intermediate to Advanced with Jenniffer Omaitz
August 3 & 4
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Lakewood Arts Fest
The 47th Annual Lakewood Arts Fest offers everything you always come for at this one-day event: food, drinks, music by a variety of the area’s best performers on multiple stages, information booths from local organizations, and lots and lots of art, with more than 150 local and national artists in a wide range of media.
10am-6pm
DOWNTOWN LAKEWOOD
4
BAYarts Summer Concert: Hoodoo BBQ
7-9pm
Concessions, free admission
BAYARTS
7
Tricia Kaman: Painting from Life: A Retrospective
Opening reception 6-8pm August 9
Through August 30
ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER
9
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Shifts: Chris Kaspar & Greg Martin
Gallery opening 5-8pm
Through October 5
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY
10
David Buttram
One of the elders of the Cleveland art scene, Buttram is a graduate of Cooper School of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State University and a retired art educator. He’s been painting his highly realistic, slightly nostalgic scenes of urban life for more than 50 years. His works glow with warmth, basking in his skillful use of light and shadow, color and design, as his people go about their humble activities—playing, shopping, chatting with neighbors, riding the bus, walking the dog, going to church, hanging out—and he finds beauty in the most ordinary scenes.
Through August 30
EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON
Intro to Western Papermaking Part II with Ryan Cermak
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
11
BAYarts Summer Concert: OMF
Concessions, free admission
7-9pm
BAYARTS
16
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Expectations of Growth: Student Exhibition
Reception 5-8pm September 6
Through September 27
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
16
BARK in the PARK Benefit for a new kennel
Vendors, music, lots of dogs!
Free admission
Noon-4pm
BAYARTS
17
The Gift of Art
The Gift of Art is sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker. Each month, artists gather at the Creative Art Complex to network, discuss current events and art, and display a selection of their work for sale. Light refreshments will be served.
2-7pm
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
Intro to Bookbinding II with R. E. Anderson
Suminagashi: Japanese Marbling with Linh My Truong
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
18
Linoleum Printed Zine with Emily Tamulewicz
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
23
CAN Journal Fall Issue Launch Party
Hosted by Deep Roots Experience
BLACK LIVES MATTER OFFICE
24
Natural Dyes with Maggie Latham
August 24 & 25
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
29
AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (in-person & live streamed on Facebook)
Lari Gibbons, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence
12:15pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
2024 Faculty Exhibition
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
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