Author: Michael Gill

City Artists At Work and The Plain Dealer Feature Artists of the Western Reserve

The 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 […]

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RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT: Analog photographers are not ready to give up the ghost

The 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 […]

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WWAC Winter Programs

A 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 […]

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Frack This? The Wyoming Artist Expedition Examining the Collision of Art, the Environment, and Our Economy

The 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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The Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association

In April 2012, the Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association (NOADA) organized an Art Expo at the Museum of  Contemporary Art’s former location on Carnegie Avenue. The three day event was a great opportunity to showcase  some of the area’s most well-established galleries and art dealers. Having so many art dealers come together under one roof provided attendees a rare chance to see a diverse group of  powerful artwork while […]

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Evolution, Renaissance, Transformation, Metamorphosis: Arts Collinwood Becomes Waterloo Arts

These words all have different nuances of meaning, but a common thread or generalization is that they describe a change in the state of a thing or idea that is no longer apt or useful into a more current, appropriate one. This theme is definitely playing out during the first part of 2013 at Waterloo Arts. No, that is not a typo. After a suggestion from a volunteer […]

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Emerging Artists Take Control at CIA

Real world experience doesn’t get more real than this. The Student Independent Exhibition at the Cleveland Institute of  Art launches students into professional roles of exhibiting artists, curators, and promoters of a show that ranks as one of  the most popular annual exhibitions at the college. Students do it all. They solicit student artwork, convene a jury, curate the show, and conduct panel discussions, and  gallery tours. Artwork that […]

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Cleveland Arts Prize Honors and Promotes

The Cleveland Arts Prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes artists whose original work has made  Northeast Ohio a more exciting place to live, and whose accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which  other artists can aspire. The Cleveland Arts Prize recognizes the contributions of individuals and organizations that have  expanded the community’s participation in the arts and helped make the region more supportive of creative artistic expression. CLEVELAND […]

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