FOOTBALL, HEALING, AND HORNS: STEVE PARKER REIMAGINES THE FIGHT SONG

Based in Austin, Texas, Steve Parker is an artist and musician who creates sculptural ecosystems that transform spaces into large-scale collaborative performances. He is the recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital Award, the Rome Prize, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a Fulbright Scholarship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Parker is associate professor of instruction at the University of […]

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From Cleveland to Venice and Back Again, Everlasting Plastics Comes Home

SPACES is pleased to welcome Everlasting Plastics back to its Cleveland home. Originally premiering in the U. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and then travelling on to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in 2024, this compelling group exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists and designers to examine our complex relationship with plastic. This […]

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Christa Freehands, at Deep Roots

On a classic-Cleveland grey day in late October, I met with multi-disciplinary artist, Christa Freehands and artist-advocate and Deep Roots Experience founding director, David Ramsey at his Central neighborhood gallery to discuss Freehands’s upcoming solo exhibition “Freehands Seasons” opening on November 27. Since we met in the morning, I brought my own coffee in a mason jar wrapped with bright […]

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