Artists can’t help but explore the connections between their ideas and the materials they use to express them. As we make, we test materials to see how they perform. Sometimes the material becomes the idea. We travel the same line as poets do, first delving into the relationship between what Laurence Perrine called Sound and Sense, and then maybe arriving […]
Read moreThe 12th Annual Waterloo Arts Fest will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2014, and will feature an exciting mix of innovative art and music experiences for all ages–plus the hippest local art vendors, CLE’s best food trucks, and our newest ARTS ALIVE program, which encourages attendees to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty and give art a […]
Read more“Fluxus: a loose international group of artists, poets, and musicians whose only shared impulse was to integrate life into art through the use of found events, sounds, and materials, thereby bringing about social and economic change in the art world.”—Encyclopedia Britannica A surprise gift is arriving in the mailboxes of thought leaders throughout Ohio. Engaging, visually arresting, tactile, and full […]
Read moreLast year over coffee, Cleveland Institute of Art professor Lane Cooper succinctly summarized my babbling by saying, “Oh, so you are about real art in a real neighborhood.” As we head into spring and the street comes to life again, I found myself reflecting on our changing community and what that tag line means. The words ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ […]
Read moreTerry Welker May 23 – July 25, 2014 Opening Reception: May 23, 2013 from 7-10 PM Making mobiles comes from my passion for architecture, poetic space and meaningful places. Building on the tradition of Alexander Calder, Terry Welker says. I work to understand and extend the language of mobiles by animating form, space and surface with motion. Working with […]
Read moreWe hope this finds you well. We are writing you today on behalf of all the artists we know who are really making a difference in our city, in our neighborhoods, in our schools and in our studios. We want you to know a little more about the ingenuity and distinctive contributions these artists make, as neighborhood builders, town criers, […]
Read moreRuin porn–that much-maligned meme for artistic depictions of abandoned buildings–suffers from one intractable problem. Most of those who decry its gratuitous revelry in the abandonment of our cities also participate in it. James Griffioen coined the term to deride those who fly into Detroit with expensive cameras to take photos they then sell for thousands of dollars to non-Detroiters, exploiting the city for its horribly beauty […]
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