Fall, 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
Through August 30
Tricia Kaman: Painting from Life, A Retrospective
ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER
Through August 30
Daniel Adan Baker: Fox and Crow (songs of innocence and experience)
Baker’s paintings, here on exhibit for the first time, are based on a personal mythology he’s created which uses various creatures to reflect aspects of his own personality and personal history.
PINWHEEL GALLERY
Through August 30
Home is Where the Art Is: A Celebration of the Cleveland Heights Artistic Community
CAIN PARK FEINBERG GALLERY
Through August 30
David Buttram
EAST AVE MARKET AND GALLERY
Through September 1
Tranquility: Nature paintings by muralist and decorative artist Lari Jacobson
LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY
Through September 5
39th Annual Juried Exhibition
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
Through September 7
Descendants
In this show, put together by guest curator Connie Pieper, fifteen artists explore their own roots with work that uses their own family and personal narratives and cultural backgrounds as raw material and reflects the diversity of the community.
KAISER GALLERY
Through September 8
Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through September 8
Emily Barolone: On Its Head
MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M
Through September 14
Kasumi: Persistence of Vision
Overdose Awareness Exhibition
Women’s Art League Member ’Exhibition
Steven Mastroianni: Diagrams for Inner Space
Melih Meric: Stitched Editions: Walking Through the Sacred Garden
Several regional museums and arts centers selected artists from the 2022 CAN Triennial to do full shows of their work, and Summit Artspace chose Kasumi, one of the area’s most diverse yet coherent artists whose work was a highlight of the Triennial. She’s best known for her digital videos and films, which verge on the abstract, slicing and dicing repeated images, gestures and themes across the body of her work. But this show, which is a retrospect of her work going back to the late ’90s, also includes prints, painting, collage and installations.
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Through September 21
Rachel Feinstein: Meat on the Bones
WATERLOO ARTS
Through September 22
Antwoine Washington: 2024 AIR at the Deep End
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS
Through September 27
Expectations of Growth: Student Exhibition
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Through September 28
Chris Kaspar & Greg Martin: Shifts
The two area photographers in this show use their medium to explore the theme of time, employing technology along with conventional tools and ideas to push beyond the boundaries of traditional photography and find something perhaps more creative on the other side.
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY
Through September 28
Various Small Fires
WORTHINGTON YARDS
Through September 29 JOANN: 2 separate events
From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings
Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through October 4
53rd Annual Juried Exhibition Call Ends
VALLEY ART CENTER
Through October 11
Continuum: The Painting of Charles Basham
KSU CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
Through October 12
Julie Schenkelberg
Schenkelberg’s mixed-media installations draw on post-industrial decay and abandonment, deconstructing items (dishware, furniture, textiles) that read as traditional symbols of reassuring domesticity and transforming them with media such as concrete, resin, and construction materials into something much less comforting. They emphasize the precarity of what we know and cling to, and how easily it can all slip away from us.
ABATTOIR @ THE QUARTER
Through October 13
Constructed Nature
HEIGHTS ARTS
Through October 13
Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion and Fortune 1870-1900
MASSILLON MUSEUM
Through October 13
Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through October 20
Art Triennial: Proximity of Fate
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
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 21
Counting in Art and Math with Sol LeWitt
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 22
A New Kind of Painter for China: 1960s-1980s
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 29
Message from Our Planet
Erykah Townsend: “Happy” Holidays
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh
MOCA CLEVELAND
Through December 29 JOANN, 2 separate events
Where We Live: Photographs of Human Spaces
Zeerak Ahmed: Amma Mein Tou Pahonee/Mother I Am Compelled to Leave
This New York-based Pakistani native’s sound and video installation draws from the folk culture of her region in northern India. The fleeting song fragments, in a no-longer-used language, suggest the disruptions the region has endured since the violence around the 1947 Partition, which caused the artist’s family to become refugees.
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through January 5, 2025
Picturing the Border
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through January 18, 2025
Femme ’isms Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through April 13, 2025
Rose B. Simpson: Strata
AMES FAMILY ATRIUM, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 30, 2025 JOANN, 2 separate exhibits
Echoes of the Pandemic
Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through May 31, 2025
Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through July 2025
Traveling Stanzas, presented in celebration of 40 years of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, curated by Annie Cyrus.
KSU HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER
AUGUST
23
CAN Fall Issue Launch Party
Hosted by Deep Roots Experience
BLACK LIVES MATTER OFFICE
25
Hannah Johnson & Emily Bartolone Duo Exhibition
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through October 4
KINK CONTEMPORARY
26
Call for Art: 53rd Annual Juried Exhibition
Through October 4
VALLEY ART CENTER
27
Spotlight: A Juried Exhibit of Artists from CMA Affiliate Groups
Fragile: Work by Barbara Vogel and Eileen Woods
Eyes to the Soul: The Fiber Art of Margene May
Transcendent Dreamscapes: Exploring Surrealism through the CMA Collection
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
29
2024 Faculty Exhibition
on view through October 6
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
Studio Operations Exhibition
On view through September 22
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ANN AND NORMAN ROULET STUDENT AND ALUMNI GALLERY
Tempus Fugit / Time Flies: New Paintings by Sarah Schuster and Laurel Herbold
Opening Reception 4 – 7 pm
On view through September 25
SEPTEMBER
3
Time and Presence
Reception 5-8pm September 27
Through September 27
BALDWIN WALLACE FAWICK GALLERY
Legacy: 58 Years of YSU Art
Reception 5 – 7 pm September 6
On view through October 26
MCDONOUGH MUSEUM, YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Photographer Lauren Pacini book release for Empire Builders: An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen Brothers
Reception 6-7pm
Through September 30
LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY
6
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Cleveland Photo Fest
This year’s Cleveland Photo Fest, its fifth annual event, will again feature multiple shows at the same location. One includes portraits of the mayors/city administrations of all of Cuyahoga Country’s cities, while another, sure to be wildly popular, is called CATography and features photographers’ submissions of their photos of—you guessed it—their cats. Other shows on view include The Women’s Self Portrait Show, Cleveland Middle Schoolers and Their Pets, the 5th Annual Volunteers Appreciation Show, and shows of work by two photographers with links to Cleveland: Daniel Hertel-Cournoyer and Arlene Pachasa.
Gallery opens at noon; reception starts at 7 pm with music by New Sons of Erie
Through September 29
BOSTWICK DESIGN ART INITIATIVE
The Beauty & Influence of Appalachia
Opening Reception 5:30-8pm
Live music during the reception provided by Joe Thrift & Mark Olitsky
Through November 2
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Akron Artwalk
5-9pm
AKRON HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT
Bun Stout
Chicago-based Bun Stout combines fashion, performance, augmented reality, and poetry to explore the drag club scene and the new stories and creative identities that emerge from it. Their work is based on handmade augmented-reality wearables that undermines the data collection functions of software to create something brand new. Sculpture, drawing, and moving image installations enhance the wearables to form total immersive environments.
Through November 2
SCULPTURE CENTER
7
Art Bites: Professional Practices. Musician & luthier Joe Thrift hosts a violin-making demo
1-2:30pm
FREE, RSVP required @ artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Kid Tigrrr Album Release Concert
Doors open at 7, concert 8-10pm. Ticket required.
TRANSFORMER STATION
Pandemonium 2024: In the Garden of Shadow and Delight
7pm-midnight. Ticket required.
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE
8
Demons, Ghosts, and Goblins in Chinese Art,
On view through January 19, 2025
JULIA AND LARRY POLLOCK FOCUS GALLERY, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
8
Berea Arts Fest
10am-5pm
FRONT STREET, BEREA
9
Annual Tri-C Faculty Exhibition
Reception 5 – 7 pm Wednesday, Sept. 18
On view through October 10
TRI-C GALLERY WEST
12
NewNow 2024, presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
Opening reception & awards ceremony 6-8:30pm
Through October 17
TRI-C EAST GALLERY
13
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Eileen Dorsey: The Neglect of the Urban Canopy
Opening Reception: September 15th
On view through October 27
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
Exhibition: The Affordable Print Fair: Collecting 101
Opening Reception 5 – 8 pm Friday, September 13
On view through October 19
ZYGOTE PRESS
Sky Creature with Tony Orrico
7-9pm. Ticket required.
TRANSFORMER STATION
In Touch: A Hands-On Exhibition
Opening 6 pm
Through October 23
VALLEY ART CENTER
14
Chalk Festival
Noon-5pm
September 14 & 15
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
MENtor Group Exhibition
Opening noon-6pm
EAST AVE MARKET AND GALLERY
Hildur Jónsson
Cleveland-based Jónsson has earned national and international recognition for her spectacular textile works, composed of dyed silk thread, whose semi-abstract images are drawn from the landscape of her native Iceland, reflecting its subtle, shimmering light and colors. She spends considerable time there each year, taking photographs at different seasons to use in shaping her complex weavings, which range from intimate works to huge wall-sized hangings.
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through October 12
ABATTOIR GALLERY
Waterloo Arts Fest
Noon-7 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Moondance Annual Arts & Culture Benefit
This year’s honoree is retiring BAYarts Executive Director Nancy Heaton. Music by Apostle Jones.
6:30-10:30pm
BAYARTS
14 & 15
Rooms to Let CLE
The art installation event that for its first several years captured proverbial lightening in abandoned homes at the Slavic Village heart of the foreclosure crisis has evolved through the years. After moving to commercial storefronts along Broadway, the plan this year was to use a new kind of venue—a vacant industrial building. When that fell through, the organization regrouped and rescheduled and now plans once again to present installations in vacant storefronts along Broadway near its intersection with East 55th Street. Watch for details.
BROADWAY IN SLAVIC VILLAGE
18
Digitalism: Jenniffer Omaitz, Andrew Reach & Meagan Smith
Opening reception 6-8pm
Through October 25
CONTEXT FINE ART GALLERY
19
EKPHRASTACY: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Constructed Nature
7pm
HEIGHTS ARTS
20
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Karicterz Too: The Knew Batch
In 2022, E11even 2 co-owner Billy Nainiger did a solo show called Karicterz at the gallery. Now he’s been inspired to create a new batch of wall sculptures in the same vein: humorous, absurd, and bizarre. These mixed-media creations are cobbled together with found materials and objects such as wood and metal, nuts and bolts, and other detritus.
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through October 18
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
21
FireFish
This free family-friendly festival in downtown Lorain features a day of art, music, and fire, culminating with a community parade and the burning of a new, environmentally friendly fish sculpture with a reusable frame. The musical emphasis this year is on gospel and religious music.
DOWNTOWN LORAIN
Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival
September 21 & 22
LINCOLN PARK
Kimberly Chapman: Through the Looking Glass
Porcelain sculpture exploring the lives of fiercely independent women who lived as oddities
Reception 5:30-8pm November 2
Through November 3
MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M
Glow: Neon and Light
The artists in this show use materials such as glass, mirrors, light bulbs and neon tubes to create sculptural installations that will immerse visitors in a world of light emanating from the walls, floors and ceilings. Some artists use material, such as wood, fractured glass, mirrors, and the interiors of VHS tape cassettes, in addition to light sources such as neon; others bend glass to make neon items or work with manufacturers; and some recycle commercial neon. Among the artists in the show are Sarah Blood, Jeffry Chiplis, Mona Hatoum, Keith Lemley, Iván Navarro and Keith Sonnier.
Through February 9, 2025
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Friends & Family Open Studio
1pm
ART HOUSE, INC
Local artist Walter Allen Rogers hosts The Gift of Art, a monthly pop-up exhibit sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland, along with Edward Parker. Artists gather in the Creative Arts Complex to discuss art and events, while displaying a selection of their work for sale. Refreshments are served.
2-7pm September 21, October 19 & November 16
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
24
Jamye Jamison: Should I Buy that? A Conservator’s Perspective on Purchasing Works on Paper
5:30 – 7:30 pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
25
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART @ MUSIC BOX SUPPER CLUB
Lake Affect Studios Open House
5-7pm
LAKE AFFECT STUDIOS
26
Artists of Tower Press Building Group Show
Opening party 5-9pm
Through October
WOOLTEX GALLERY
27
IngenuityFest 2024: Era of Ascent
Entering its 20th year, Ingenuity has come into its own in a stable location in the 300,000 square foot former Osborn Manufacturing building, where they have developed a crew of artists, makers, and do-ers—the Ingeneers—together showing off the region’s rich artistic, innovative, and technological assets. The IngenuityLabs Incubator program, provides space, tools, and resources to artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators looking to “cross a threshold,” using their art to serve community needs. September 27–29.
HAMILTON COLLABORATIVE
Assembly for the Arts Public Officials Recognition Breakfast
Details coming soon on their website: https://assemblycle.org/breakfast/
John Bramblitt Keynote Talk
6pm
VALLEY ART CENTER
Time and Presence
Closing reception 5-8pm
BALDWIN WALLACE FAWICK GALLERY
28
Imagination in the Age of Reason
Through March 2, 2025
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Friends & Family Clay Day
10am
ART HOUSE, INC.
OCTOBER
3
Tran-Scen-Den-Tal: Works of Amelia and Bruno Casiano
Reception 4 – 7 pm
On view through November 3
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER GALLERY
4
Celebrating the Cleveland School
Featuring the sale of the collection of the late Albert Wasserman
Opening reception 6 – 8 pm
WOLFS GALLERY
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Waffle Weave Invitational
5 – 8 pm
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
Curlee Raven Holton: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit
Opening 6-9pm
Through November 7
WILLIAM BUSTA PROJECTS
Plein Art Competition Painting Days
Through October 6
PENINSULA ART ACADEMY
Althea Jones: My Superpower is My Skin Color
Opening 5-8pm
EAST AVE MARKET AND GALLERY
JOANN, 5 separate events
22nd Annual Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition
Environ: in transport of delight, Lindsay Martin Gryskewich
Greg Caudill Solo Show
Ohio Reclaimed: What Once Was Group Exhibition
Artists of Rubber City Member Exhibition
Through December 14
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
5
Artist Inventory Challenge
7pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
Dress to Impress: Paper Fashion Fundraiser
Interns and artists made reams of paper in the summer for fashion artists to use in the creation of exotic, wild and wearable art as the Morgan celebrates paper and print as fashion with a catwalk, exhibition of paper-centric fashion, photo booth, and more.
6-11pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Tikkanen Painting Prize
Reception and Announcement of Winners: 6 – 9 pm
ASHTABULA ART CENTER
11
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Tony Skinner: In Plain Sight
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through November 9
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY
BE/longing: With or Without You
Through January 4, 2025
WORTHINGTON YARDS
Outlined in Black
Opening reception 6-8:30pm
Through November 9
AKRON BLACK ARTIST GUILD AT AKRON SOUL TRAIN GALLERY
12
Plein Art Competition Reception & Awards Announcement
PENINSULA ART ACADEMY
Art Bites—Performances: Musicians Cary Moskovitz & Mark Olitsky
8-9pm
FREE, RSVP required, @ artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT TRI-C GALLERY EAST
13
Playday: Otherworld
10am-2pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
16
Campus Wide Open House
CLIFFE COLLEGE OF CREATIVE ARTS, YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
18
CARTA Exhibition
Open to the Public October 18 – 19
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
Works of Jeff Yost
On view through January 3, 2025
GEORGE A. STREETER GALLERY, JUDSON PARK
17
Todd Masuda + Christy Gray: How to Tackle Large-Scale Commission Work
5:30-7:30 pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
18
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Aggregate II: The Revenge of the Rock
Through December 7
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY DOWNTOWN GALLERY
19
Spooky Sketches
The monthly Artists in the Atrium demo/hands-on art event in the museum’s Ames Family Atrium has engaged an appropriate local artist for the Halloween season. Angela Joy Oster is known for her macabre but humorous figure drawings which she’s applied to a variety of mediums. Join her for a drawing session to create your own supernatural characters inspired by the museum’s current show Demons, Ghosts and Goblins in Chinese Art. Free, drop-in event.
10am-3pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Friends & Family Open Studio
1pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
Shawn Powell
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through November 30
ABATTOIR
The Gift of Art
2-7pm
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
Jova Lynne & Alberte Tranberg Duo Exhibition
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through December 6
KINK CONTEMPORARY
21
Conversations: Patricia Brett and Paula Damm
Reception 5 – 7 pm Wednesday, October 23
On view through December 5
TRI-C GALLERY WEST
25
Stephanie J. Woods: The Genius of Play
Artist reception 5-7pm, artist talk 7 pm October 31
Through November 26
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
AIR Exhibition: Pulp, Paper and Possibilities
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through November 22
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Screw Factory Artists Open House
6-10pm
10am-3pm October 26
SCREW FACTORY
29
All We Cannot Forget
Opening reception 2-4pm November 2
Through January 3
OHIO ARTS COUNCIL RIFFE GALLERY, COLUMBUS
NOVEMBER
1
Black Art Expo Exhibition
Opening Reception 5 – 8 pm
On view through December 12
SANKOFA AT TRI-C GALLERY EAST
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Holiday Store
Opening reception 5pm
HEIGHTS ARTS
2
Kimberly Chapman: Through the Looking Glass
Reception 5:30-8pm
Through November 3
MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M
All We Cannot Forget
Reception 2-4pm
Through January 3
OHIO ARTS COUNCIL RIFFE GALLERY, COLUMBUS
3
Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry
Through October 12, 2025
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
53rd Annual Juried Exhibition Opening
Opening reception 6pm
VALLEY ART CENTER
8
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
8
Possibility for Repair
On view through February 9, 2025
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
53rd Annual Juried Exhibition
On view through December 16
VALLEY ART CENTER
9
Kwesi Agyare: Womanism
Opening noon-6 pm
EAST AVE MARKET AND GALLERY
13
The heART of Cleveland volume 2
Group exhibition preview 5pm
Exhibition opening & book release November 15
Through December 28
HEDGE GALLERY
14
Funny Stuff curated by George Kocar, along with a solo exhibition featuring Kocar as a new Archived Artist.
Opening Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through January 11, 2025
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
15
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
It’s a Christmas Miracle 2
Opening 5-9pm
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
16
Annual Community Kozo Harvest
Hidden behind the Morgan Conservation is its kozo grove, said to be the largest such growth of the Japanese mulberry trees in this country. Its bark is used to make paper used by artists such as those who work at the Morgan. Once a year it harvests the branches and strips the bark during a weekend event in which anyone is welcome to take part—they’ll show you what to do. When we went, they also had a demonstration of how paper is made from the harvested bark.
10am-4pm November 16 & 17
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Friends & Family Open Studio
1pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
The Gift of Art
2-7pm November 16
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART
18
Terra Incognita: Work by BW professor of painting Steve Ziebarth
Reception 5-8pm November 22
Through December 6
BALDWIN WALLACE FAWICK GALLERY
21
Community Culture Night
7pm
ART HOUSE, INC.
22
CAN Journal Winter Launch Party & Networking Event
6-8pm
PINWHEEL GALLERY
23
Art Bites—George Kocar Curator Talk
1-2pm
In person in the AAWR Gallery. Register on artistsarchives.org.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Friends & Family Clay Day
10am
ART HOUSE, INC.
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