It’s fun to hear artist Suzanne Head talk about her younger self. Poised and thoughtful, Head is a newly minted graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art with a plan for making her life as a fine artist. She spends weeks on exquisitely rendered drawings of animals or the female form, or some combination of the two. And with […]
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The room is always crowded and loud, the distractions plentiful. But when teams of artists hunker down to compete in Cleveland’s annual live drawing competition, the concentration gets fierce and the results are — well, perhaps better than you might expect. Welcome to Drawn & Quartered, the eight-year-old annual event started by artists Deb Steytler and Juan Quirarte of the […]
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Illustration is popular again. After a decline in favor of photography in the 1980s and ‘90s, illustrations appear everywhere — in books and magazines, TV commercials, video games, food packaging and more. Computers make it easy to share art and information, and the Internet makes it easy to find an artist for hire. But artists don’t find work in the […]
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A photo of an empty movie theater appears on the July bulletin of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Typed across the photo is -30-, which old-time newspaper reporters used to tap out on their Smith Coronas to signal a story’s end. And -30- is how John Ewing, co-founder and director of the Cinematheque, marked the end of an era […]
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Professional illustrators tell stories — on demand, on deadline, and usually to someone else’s specifications. But once a year, members of the Northern Ohio Illustrators Society stretch out a little to make art for themselves and for the public to enjoy. The Selfie Show runs Sept. 11 through Aug. 4 at The Art Gallery in Willoughby. Some 30 illustrators will […]
Read moreIf you’ve ever received an award that’s not-quite-suitable for framing, or chucked a giveaway paperweight that was all about the corporate logo, you might have wondered why companies throw good money after bad swag. Commemorating achievement and loyalty is a business-world staple, but it doesn’t have to be done with boring “lumps of plastic,” says RED DOT Project Executive Director Christy Gray. RED DOT Project, the nonprofit artist registry, helps […]
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