William Scheele’s Kokoon Arts Gallery, with its low bank of windows and curved metallic partition wall at 78th Street Studios, is a mixture of worlds. Past meets future here, in a two-level room that’s a cross between the bridge of a starship and an eighteenth century wunderkammer – with an emphasis on the “wunder.” Scheele’s stock-in-trade is really his openness […]
Read moreThe nascent years of the 21st century have been shaped by subjectivity, identity politics, and social media, wherein identity is not only self-branded as subjective, but carefully crafted for public consumption. In that context it’s rare to find art that has the potential to resonate broadly. Many of Kate Gilmore’s works, however, are exceptional representations of (dare I say) “universal” […]
Read moreGrafton J. Nunes is the tenth president to serve the Cleveland Institute of Art. Nunes began his career as a filmmaker (working on Light of Day, the rock and roll story partially filmed in Cleveland, among other projects) before turning his career toward higher education. In his post at CIA, Nunes oversees the Campus Unification Project, with its $55 million […]
Read moreJune 7 – 9 Pull Ask “what does work mean to you?” and it’s a good question anywhere in the world. But in Cleveland and other rust belt cities, we’ve got work on our minds in a big way. The entire population is made up of people who came to work—or their parents and grandparents did. The latest to come […]
Read moreDistinguished Opera stars of tomorrow will appear in an FYI Opera program brought to you by Westlake-Westshore Arts Council at Westlake Porter Public Library, 27333 Center Ridge Road on April 2nd at 7:30pm. This program, in its 22nd season running, will preview the Cleveland Institute of Music’s upcoming productions of “Great Scenes from Great Opera.” Each April, CIM showcases its opera students in scenes reflecting a wide variety of […]
Read moreRondle West: MozART | Sarah Hahn: Of Gods and Demigods, Relics and Souvenirs 2013 W2S artists Trough April 13 Rebecca Cross: Grief Like a River A 2013 W2S performance Exhibition April 19–20 | Free Performance April 19, 8pm The Tragedy of the Comm ons | A Collaboration between Ali Momeni and Robin Meier Mark Schatz: Universe A 2013 […]
Read moreThe Plain Dealer will feature artists Bonnie Dolin and William Gould in their first floor Lobby/Gallery with an exhibit, titled Artists View of the Western Reserve. The exhibit, which runs from January 21 to March 30, represents their interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes in Northeast Ohio. Artist Bonnie Dolin feels that although we are in an age of new technology, she still uses traditional materials with roots in […]
Read moreThe black-and-white landscape photographs in Welcome to Hard Times—the opening exhibit of the Cleveland Print Room—are a boisterous amalgam of primitive and high tech. The enlargements are digital. But photographer Vaughn Wascovich captured them on a DIY pinhole camera made of wood, and processed the images by hand, spraying, splattering and brushing chemicals on the paper like a jazz man improvising in collaboration with the […]
Read moreA more than 15-year tradition of Presidents’ Day programs for children continues with “Fit, Fun & Frolic” on Monday, February 18, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Westlake Porter Public Library, a 45-minute program. The Westlake-Westshore Arts Council (W-WAC) and Porter Library sponsored program brings MorrisonDance from the Teaching Artist Roster of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio for children ages 3 to 5 years. The color, rhythm, and repetition of popular children’s […]
Read moreThe Wyoming Artist Expedition brings together 6 artists from Wyoming, Ohio, and Oregon to see Wyoming’s rarely visited Wilderness Study Areas and Citizen Proposed Wilderness Areas, to better understand and document the energy boom, and to use art to communicate Wyoming’s special places at the center of oil and gas drilling. Artists will meet with scientists, meet with oil and gas industry experts, and camp and hike in some […]
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