Author: Liz Maugans

Yards Project Space Reimagines the Portrait as a Living Archive, in Past Present Portraitsfrom the LAND

Past Present Portraits from the LAND reimagines the portrait as a living archive—a space where identity, place, and memory intersect. The exhibition considers how Cleveland’s artists chronicle both individual lives and collective histories, shaping a visual record of resilience, creativity, and transformation. The featured works traverse time and medium: black-and-white film, digital photography, hand-tinted images, and experimental processes converge to […]

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Dalad Group Deepens Its Commitment to Art and Place with Franklin Yard and Open Yards III

OPEN YARDS III: YARDS Project Space at Worthington Yards, September 25–January 10, 2026 With a long-standing reputation for art-integrated development and historic preservation, the Dalad Group continues to champion Cleveland’s creative identity through its latest project, Franklin Yard, located in the heart of Ohio City. This ambitious third venture builds on the group’s legacy of transforming historic spaces into vibrant, […]

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Tinnerman Lofts and YARDS Projects

LIGHT IN DARK: HILARY GENT JUNE 19–SEPTEMBER 5 AT TINNERMAN LOFTS Hilary Gent: “Light on Dark is a new series of paintings, created with latex and enamel Sherwin-Williams house paint. The meditative nature of water that I experience through Lake Erie conjures my personal connection with the lake’s surface, which I translate through the action of pouring and layering paint […]

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Cleveland Bouquet at YARDS; LAND at Tinnerman Lofts

Cleveland Bouquet at Worthington YardsMarch 13–April 26Flowers have a long history soaked in both sadness and beauty. They are linked to death with the funerary practice of presenting memorial wreaths and sympathy bouquets in tribute to loved ones who are no longer here. Flowers also are linked to being joyously alive. They seed, grow, peak, wilt, die and reseed themselves […]

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Various Small Fires, and BE/longing: With or Without You, at YARDS

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Various Small Fires borrows its name from artist Ed Ruscha’s conceptual book, Various Small Fires, self-published in 1964. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he created a series of small photo-conceptual artist’s books which featured mundane subjects and photographs of fires with deadpan titles. The Various Small Fires exhibition is inspired by the liminal moments of the everyday that are ignited […]

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Street Sense and Sensibility, at YARDS Projects

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Street Sense and Sensibility | June 6–July 27 The photographer Garry Winogrand disliked being called a street photographer. He maintained that photography is finding a way to transform something from the real world into a distinctive image. He said: “Great photography is always on the edge of failure.” Street photography was pioneered by maverick photographers who built bodies of work […]

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Object Commentary: Shannon Morris at Artful

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Shannon Morris’s current show greets visitors at the entrance to Artful Cleveland: as Mother’s Day approaches, she offers a heroic shrine of trophies stacked to form a pyramid that is both precarious and solid. Shannon, a long time estate sale and thrift shopper, renews the thrifted trophies in a way that reveals presence, strength, appreciation and joy. The word MOTHER is […]

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Sage Wisdom at Worthington Yards

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Sage Wisdom We are pleased to celebrate the work of some of the most vibrant artists in this region as they show the expanse of their commitment to making. Sage Wisdom is a moment where we celebrate the life-course of creativity–the impact of age, and how it can, will, and does shift the  practice of artists working in Northeast Ohio. […]

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