by Erin O’Brien Horse-drawn Amish buggies clop along lonely county roads. Pastoral farmhouses evoke cotton shirts billowing on clotheslines and the aroma of freshly baked apple pies. Gentle bovines chew grass. While it’s only about fifty miles southwest of Cleveland, Huntington Township feels very far away from, say, 78th Street Studios in Gordon Square, where Dana Depew’s edgy “Your […]
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ARTIST / ARTIST DANA OLDFATHER AND STEPHEN YUSKO Dialog coordinated by Rebecca Cross Dana Interviews Stephen SY: I made these boxes after the election and this was my political take, so this is red for the Republican Party and spells “empty” (MT) in Morse code; the blue one spells “resist.” DO: Do you have a special link to Morse code? […]
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CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH MARCH 15 Ryan Dewey: Lines of Descent; W2S 2019 New Work by Kelley O’Brien THE SCULPTURE CENTER THROUGH MARCH 22 Danny Volk: The News Gallery Julia Oldham: Fallout Dogs Johnny Coleman: Crossing the Water: Requiem for Lee Dobbins Oberlin-based sculptor/installation artist Johnny Coleman is an associate professor of studio art and Africana studies at Oberlin College. He […]
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Rooms to Let: CLE 2019 Noon–7pm Saturday, May 18 Noon–5pm Sunday, May 19 Rooms to Let—the annual festival of art installations in Slavic Village homes slated for demolition—has become a landmark event in Cleveland. It takes a liability—houses that have outlived their use, for which there is no market—and celebrates their history through art. It turns collateral damage from the […]
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Cleveland photographer Greg Martin traveled to Cuba as part of the Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion cohort in the winter of 2017. While in Havana and Matanzas, he made photographs of locals using the wet plate collodion process, a complex technique that dates to the early days of photography. It involves first dipping a piece of glass or metal in a […]
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Creative Fusion’s Waterways to Waterways is an artistic celebration of the Cuyahoga At the center of the Cleveland Foundation’s 2019 Waterways to Waterways Creative Fusion program are five grassroots organizations spearheading nine unique efforts to draw attention to the Cuyahoga River. The 2019 program will also include a Global PechaKucha Night. On June 20, “Waterways” will fill the Jacobs Pavilion […]
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The Waterways to Waterways cohort of Creative Fusion residents continues a long tradition of artistic response to the Cuyahoga. The general lay of the land surrounding Cleveland offers little drama to feed either artists’ or tourists’ desire for the extraordinary. Even the coast of our Great Lake offers little variation—with none of the outcroppings, peninsulas and offshore islands that usually […]
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The Cleveland Foundation Presents Creative Fusion Waterways To Waterways: Art and the Cuyahoga by Stephen Love “No visible life…it oozes rather than flows,” lamented Time Magazine in its now infamous article on the environmental plight of the Cuyahoga River. The article featured the river fire of June 22, 1969, a combustion so small that no known photographs exist. The thirteenth […]
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TradeMarks March 1-April 26 CAN launch & opening reception 6–9pm Friday, March 1 In the 1960s, Andy Warhol famously made silk-screened copies of Brillo boxes. In the ’80s, Richard Prince re-photographed magazine ads for Marlboro cigarettes and Barbara Kruger created large-scale word-and-photographic image pieces that objectified her experience of the world, transforming her job as a designer into her work […]
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Living in Berlin shocks me awake. In my teens I fantasized someday I would move to Berlin. I thought: that’s where the zeitgeist was, that’s where things start, where I can let loose and taste rebel culture. My dreams were born of a restlessness I didn’t know how to satisfy. Berlin seemed dark and gritty, and that was attractive to […]
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