ARTneo Presents Drawn to Clay: The Alchemy of the Elements

  This exhibition presents the work of four Northeast Ohio women who all have decades of experience in the ceramic arts. The natural world has provided much inspiration for these artists who are moved by the infinite variation in process, form, and color found in nature. Their overlapping interests and differences highlight contemporary developments in regional ceramics. Donna Webb and […]

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Kokoon Arts Gallery’s Fond Farewell

Kokoon Arts Gallery has had a great run, but it is time for a change.  The Gallery will close at the end of 2016.  I thank Dan Bush for creating the remarkable 78th Street Studios, now the largest arts facility in Cleveland. We must also thank our patrons and visitors for their appreciation, support and encouragement. We have participated in […]

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Kokoon Arts Gallery: Regional Visions

Kokoon Arts Gallery has represented some of Cleveland’s finest historic and contemporary visual artists for the past nine years at 78th Street Studios.  We always exhibit work by Frank Wilcox, Paul Travis, Henry Keller, William Sommer, Jean & Paul Ulen, William E Scheele, Mary Wawrytko, Larry Isard, Charles Herndon, Gary Spinosa, Donna Webb & Joseph Blue Sky, Andrea LeBlond, Randall […]

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Kokoon Presents Gone But Not Forgotten

Cleveland has long been a breeding ground for Fine Artists, and this exhibition highlights several who have contributed their particular artistic prowess to the region since the early twentieth century.   Frank Wilcox (1887-1964) was a longtime Cleveland School of Art teacher, book author, historian and artist. He produced prolific amounts of drawings, prints and paintings that explored the human […]

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Frank N. Wilcox: Artist as Historian

Frank Wilcox, unlike most children, was encouraged to pursue his artistic talents by many members of his large, extended family. Both the Wilcox and Snow families moved to Ohio in the early 1800s after their first stop in New England and became major contributors to the growth of Northeast Ohio. Frank Wilcox Sr. was a lawyer based in Cleveland, who […]

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Kokoon presents Gone But Not Forgotten

Cleveland has long been a breeding ground for Fine Artists, and this exhibition highlights several who have contributed their particular artistic prowess to the region since the early twentieth century. Frank Wilcox (1887-1964) was a longtime Cleveland School of Art teacher, book author, historian and artist. He produced prolific amounts of drawings, prints and paintings that explored the human character; […]

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Animals in Art

Throughout the history of mankind, artistic images of animal life have maintained an important stature in human creative efforts. This is evident in works from the early Ice Age up to current, cutting edge contemporary artists. Ancient civilizations across the globe produced artifacts of many types that incorporated animal forms. Over time, western culture diminished the importance of animals in […]

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Landscapes through Time

The Hudson River School artists were the first Americans to attract major attention as landscape painters in the middle to late nineteenth century. Their mammoth scale works depicted the epic scope of the American wilderness that inspired a sense of awe at a time when much of the country was still being explored. Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Moran […]

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The Cleveland Region as Artistic Inspiration: Artwork inspired by the Glory of Cleveland & Northeast Ohio, from the Past to the Present

The Cleveland region has provided inspiration for visual artists since the early 20th century, producing many different creative results. Whether they are images of the rural countryside or the evolving cityscape, they are compelling works of art.   Louis Rosenberg (American 1890-1983) was commissioned by the Van Sweringen brothers to chronicle the demolition of older buildings and the excavation and […]

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Kokoon Arts Presents The Fin Art of Ray Troll and Cleveland-Inspired Works

  The Fin Art of Ray Troll Fresh off the boat from Ketchikan, Alaska, artist Ray Troll presents a number of prints in honor of the Fine Art of Fishing. Ray’s colorful and humorous work has a global following and we are proud to expose his art to the Cleveland region. Cleveland Inspired Work Three of Cleveland’s finest artists present […]

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