Author: Michael C. Butz

SIE 79, Latinx Club Shows Highlight Cleveland Institute of Art’s Spring Exhibitions

The talent and creativity of Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students will be on full display during two spring exhibitions: the 2025 Student Independent Exhibition (SIE)and Every Day Echoes: Small Moments, Big Connections, Lasting Traditions.This year marks the 79th Student Independent Exhibition, an annual show organized and mounted entirely by CIA students. Those same students also choose jurors, and for […]

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Local, National and Student Art Celebrated at CIA

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Exhibitions that invite regional and national perspectives and center student work highlight the Cleveland Institute of Art’s winter offerings. Possibility for Repair is a group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect that features work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland). Acknowledging the […]

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Art—and Design—Figure prominently in CIA’s 2024 Faculty Exhibition

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Many Northeast Ohioans recognize the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) as a preeminent art school. But on occasion, they lose sight of the fact that CIA is a college of art and design. Remember, world-renowned designer Viktor Schreckengost ’29 pioneered the nation’s very first Industrial Design department at CIA in 1933. Rest assured that design—from product design to animation to […]

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CIA Students Respond to Progressive Art Collection in Ready, Set, Relay!

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In Ready, Set, Relay!, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students created paintings, drawings, sculptures and digital media in response to celebrated works in the Progressive Art Collection, bringing fresh perspectives to historic works and offering the public a rare opportunity to view Progressive’s collection. Seventeen students spent the semester researching and responding to works by world-renowned artists such as Kerry […]

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2024 Student Independent Exhibition on View This Spring at CIA

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Work by Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students that demonstrates their prodigious creativity; a show organized and mounted entirely by some of those same CIA students; and, Reinberger Gallery filled with work representing a wide range of mediums and perspectives. These qualities and others make CIA’s annual Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) one of the college’s most popular exhibitions. And, every […]

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Student Creativity on View at CIA

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Two exhibitions will take center stage this winter at the Cleveland Institute of Art. One is an ambitious, immersive multimedia installation inspired by the wonders of the natural world. The second features artwork from CIA’s Black Scholars and Artists (BSA) club that explores the experiences of contemporary Black artists. What do they have in common? Both are student-driven exhibitions. Forest […]

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Work by New CIA Professors Always a Draw at  Annual Faculty Exhibition

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The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Faculty Exhibition is an annual favorite among Northeast Ohio art enthusiasts that, year after year, remains a fresh experience. That’s due in part to longtime faculty who evolve and experiment within their practices. But, CIA’s new faculty also deserve credit. Illustrator and folk artist Dinara Mirtalipova joined CIA’s Illustration Department as an assistant professor—and participated […]

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Come, Rest Here by My Side, CIA’s 2023 Alumni Exhibition, on View This Summer

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Clotilde Jiménez is no stranger to the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA). The visual artist earned his BFA in printmaking from CIA in 2013. Since then, he’s established a successful practice in Mexico City and exhibited his work—multimedia collages that create visual narratives—in Paris and Chicago. In 2020, he was featured on the cover of Art in America. Now, he […]

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