On December 3, 2024, family of Patricia Zinsmeister Park posted the following on Facebook: “To all of Trish’s countless friends [ . . . ] Trish left this world on Thanksgiving day of this year, in Liestal Switzerland. She chose to ‘move on’ via Voluntary Assisted Death. Trish left a wide and deep mark on those that knew her, loved […]
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Since 2002, the Arts Alive Awards, presented by Summit Artspace, have recognized outstanding artists, educators, administrators, and patrons who strengthen the arts and culture sector in Summit and surrounding counties. The Arts Alive Awards honor recipients in the following categories: Emerging Artist; Outstanding Artists in Theatre, Dance, Music, Literary, and Visual Arts; Arts Educator; Collaborative Project; IDEA Leader; Rising Arts […]
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Crystal Miller describes herself as an “all-or-nothing” person, and that personality plays out in the bold, extravagance of her work. Her Afro-Futurist portraits of glamorous Black women figured prominently in her BFA show at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and landed her a show at Summit Artspace earlier this year. In September, she opens her first solo show in a […]
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Over the course of her decades-long career, Patricia Zinsmeister Parker has defined, on her own terms, what it means to be a successful female artist. Zinsmeister Parker’s career-spanning exhibition, I DID IT MY WAY, is currently on view in Summit Artspace’s Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery. Born in Cleveland in 1934, she earned her BFA in painting in 1973, […]
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Over the past two years, Katie Butler has become synonymous with her depictions of fish as a mechanism to draw political anxieties into the domestic sphere. Her latest exhibition, State of the State, at Abattoir Gallery, is a gutsy step in a different direction. She employs her tongue-in-cheek commentary through new forms and confronts the issues she cares about directly. […]
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In his solo exhibition at the Massillon Museum, Awaken in the Garden My Love, Davon Brantley extends us an invitation to step into the darkest corners of the mind. Through vulnerable subject matter, we witness as the artist battles his innermost thoughts. Brantley utilizes self-portraiture and psychology to unleash the ugliest parts of human nature, connecting them to the seven […]
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As this issue of CAN goes to press, curators Tizziana Baldenebro of SPACES and Lauren Leving of moCa Cleveland were on the verge of departure for Italy, where they would oversee the installation of Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition they have built for the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura. Their proposal, via Cleveland-based SPACES Gallery, was chosen by […]
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Magic Mountains, Magic Cities by Tia-Simone Gardner is on view through April 28th at SPACES. The body of work came from conversations that Gardner had with her mother about Fairfield, Alabama, where they both grew up. Fairfield is located at the Western border of Birmingham and was an experiment in spatial-racial-class separation and segregation. According to Gardner’s artist statement, “these […]
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Kristen Cliffel’s delightfully textured ceramics are familiar around northeast Ohio in group shows, galleries, and museums. At William Busta Projects, Cliffel’s solo exhibition, Working from Home, occupies two rooms and is poignant in all the right ways Cliffel’s work is an exploration of what she calls “domestic mythologies.” According to her website, “our culture surrounds us with pervasive archetypal myths […]
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I’ve wanted to see artistic commentary on Amazon’s pervasiveness for a long time. I’m certain that nearly everyone reading this has made a purchase from Amazon at some point in their lifetime (myself included). As I write this article, I’ve already looked out the window and watched the Amazon truck pass by my apartment building. Whether you’re an enthusiastic Prime […]
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