Author: Mindy Tousley

End of an Era: Mansfield Art Center and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Look Back at City Artists at Work

The Mansfield Art Center is very pleased to partner with the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve to present City Artists at Work, 1998–2018. This exhibition, curated by current AAWR executive director and former CAAW co–chair Mindy Tousley, will be the first in what is hoped will be a continuing partnership between AAWR and Mansfield. It brings together over eighty […]

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In the Details, at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

The fall exhibition season at the Artists Archives opens with In the Details, a group textile show curated by independent curator and Lakeland Community College gallery coordinator Mary Urbas. The exhibition showcases the work of Libby Chaney, Juli Edberg, Sandy Miller, Jessica Pinsky, Gayle Vickery Pritchard, Susan Shie, Deborah Silver, Lilian Tyrrell, Evelyn Ward and Jennifer Whitten. This will be […]

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Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Celebrates Founders, and Looks Ahead

In celebration of AAWR’s creation, we end the year with the 20th Anniversary Founder’s Exhibition, a group show featuring the art of founder David E. Davis and the 8 early supporting artists:  Shirley Aley Campbell, David A. Haberman, William Martin Jean, Robert Jergens, Patricia Zinsmeister Parker, Phyllis Seltzer, Phyllis Lester Sloane and Randall Tiedman.  Each artist will be represented by […]

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Artists Archives Ceramics Invitational

When I moved from Western New York to Cleveland Ohio, I was extremely impressed with the both the quantity and quality of work being produced by Ohio ceramic artists.  After 23 years my enthusiasm and admiration for these artists has only increased. So I am thrilled to begin our summer at the Artists Archives with a Ceramics Invitational Exhibition. Works […]

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A Legacy and Re-Invention at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

On Thursday March 10 the Artists Archives opens Reinvention, a selection of works by Ruth Bercaw, Kim Bissett, Terry Klausman, Andrew Reach and P.J. Rogers. The exhibition documents the story of five artists who reinvented themselves and their work in order to overcome limitations forced on them because of traumatic injury, aging or disease. For each of them, the acceptance, […]

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Teachers and their Students Share Watershed Moments at AAWR

The conversation surrounding the benefits of art education has been in the forefront of public debate in recent years. It is rapidly becoming scientifically accepted that learning visual arts, music and dance can be instrumental in the formation of physical connections in the brain which have lasting effects on human development. Artists have always been in the vanguard of creative […]

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AAWR Presents Fragments, Photo Now, and more

Fragments: Works of Elaine Albers Cohen from the past and present opens at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Thursday, September 17. Fragments will showcase Cohen’s collage, ceramics, paintings, and prints over her career. Cohen’s work over her 50 year span of working as an artist has been inspired by her love of Southwest Indian art. “My interest in […]

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Artists Archives Reemerges

As spring winds down and summer begins, the Artists Archives wraps up a busy spring schedule of exhibitions and programming. Thanks to our patrons and the artists of Cleveland, we had record breaking attendance for both the historic Pearls of Cleveland Exhibition and consciousness raising Majority Rising. We held three programs in our Collecting Art Series, starting with Dr. Marianne […]

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