Catherine Opie discusses her work featuring eight images of Lake Erie, applied directly onto the interior spaces of moCa, commissioned in celebration of moCa’s fiftieth anniversary. Interview with Catherine Opie by Jo Steigerwald JO STEIGERWALD: Tell me about the structure of this commission. How did it happen? What about it interested you? CATHERINE OPIE: It came about quite quickly. I […]
Read more
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is one of Cleveland’s most accessible art resources, both physically and financially. Its world-class collection is housed in an accessible building and enhanced with exceptional digital accessibility tools. We love the CMA without reservation. But like most art institutions, it has failed to address the degree to which the lives, works, and identities of […]
Read more
Geri Unger is not an artist, and doesn’t plan to become one. In that sense she is not the kind of person you’d expect to find at the helm of an organization in the media-specific realm occupied by the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory. Most of the people running places like that came to the job through the art form. […]
Read more
Just in time for the holidays, we bring you an overview this year’s exhibition catalogs and other books on Cleveland Art. RESTROOMS OF CLEVELAND Arabella Proffer’s The Restrooms of Cleveland started as an Instagram joke, but she took it seriously when several people asked her to make it into a book. The result is a 9″ X 6″ volume documenting […]
Read more
Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH NOVEMBER 27 Lines & Shadows Cleveland artists Steven Mastroianni and Rebekah Wilhelm bring different priorities and experiences to this show. Mastroianni […]
Read more
Heights Arts Holiday Store NOVEMBER 1–DECEMBER 30 The 18th annual Heights Arts holiday shop in Cleveland Heights features small items such as mugs, journals, jewelry and T-shirts, holiday cards and ornaments, as well as fine art prints, paintings, photos and ceramics by more than 100 local artists. Many of them are contributors to the gallery’s regular exhibition schedule, but Heights Arts […]
Read more
At a time when we have more ways to connect than ever before, it feels like we are all starting to understand just a little less about one another. Sometimes it seems that the breadth of our context is getting narrower, while the need for more perspective continues to grow. The belief that bringing together diverse voices can galvanize a […]
Read more
The nature of bulkheads is to fail. Will bulkheads of nature work better? Mao liked to tell the story of the Foolish Old Man who wanted to improve the view from his farmhouse by moving two mountains. Shovel by shovel, generation after generation, he got his wish. Shovel by shovel, generation after generation, the Cuyahoga River was made tame through […]
Read more
It’s a sunny October afternoon in north Collinwood. On a vacant lot along 156th Street, Praxis Fiber Studio director Jessica Pinsky, gardening partners David Wells and Lu Little, and a crew of volunteers are working in a field where a building once stood. It’s harvest time. The foliage that grew in rows here has been cut and is spread out […]
Read more
Bringing their shared love of contemporary art together to create District Gallery, local partners Karen Chaikin, Bob Roth and Richard Uria have a combined fifty years of art collecting experience. Their collective dream of opening a gallery came to fruition recently when District Gallery, located at 20076 Walker Road in Shaker Heights, opened in August in the Van Aken District. […]
Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.