The Shaker Historical Museum invites you to enjoy two captivating exhibitions in the Lissauer Gallery this spring and summer. Don’t miss a fresh perspective of Shaker Heights with Jen Adams’ A View of My Neighborhood, or Susan E. Squires’ Small Works over the Years, a retrospective of brilliantly colored mixed-media works that are typically quiet meditations with psychological and spiritual […]
Read morePatented in 1873 by the Englishman William Willis, platinum printing was immediately embraced at the turn of the twentieth century by the Pictorialist and Photo-Secession movements. This entirely handmade process exceeds all others in its physical beauty and longevity. An image made in platinum will vary in color from warm brown to cool black. Printing the image requires a negative […]
Read moreThe Sculpture Center After the Pedestal 2017 winners of the David E. Davis Award of Excellence. L to R: Kaylon Khorsheed, Untitled, ceramic and wood. James Barker, Green Trees, Red Sky; digital print on canvas, wood, found canvas, sand. Mary Skrenta, Eulogia; foam, epoxy clay, spray paint, pig intestine, liquid gold leaf. Photos by Jacob Koestler.
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The Art Gallery has moved to a new location at 38721 Mentor Avenue, Suite 1, phone 440.946.8001. Parking is plentiful. We are pleased to announce that we will be representing artist Paul Spina in a retrospective exhibit. The Art Gallery will be showing a few pieces of Spina’s work as a “tease” for the fall show, which will open on […]
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Donald Black Jr. lives on what he calls, “the gunshot side of Shaker Heights.” Shaker Heights is adjacent to the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood—the neighborhood where he lived as a child. Black explores and photographs this neighborhood and the people around him, creating striking and bold images of black children in their natural element. He refers to this exploration as “an […]
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Ceramic artists William Brouillard, Judith Salomon, and Seth Nagelberg will bring In Three Parts to River Gallery from July 28 through September 15, with a reception from 3:00 to 7:00pm on the show’s opening day. Brouillard and Salomon have known each other since 1975, when they met as graduate students. Both went on to teach at the Cleveland Institute of […]
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What is the responsibility of Praxis Fiber Workshop, a fine art textile center, towards the reversal of harmful textile and fashion industry practices? We believe it is of upmost priority and that education is a first step towards change. It is the hope of Praxis to educate our community about where fabric is sourced, exactly what is entailed in the […]
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Unknown Terrain transforms the familiar into the fantastic. Enter the Morgan, an industrial machine shop converted into a 15,000-square-foot arts center. Inside, you’ll find an environment once utilized for industry repurposed for visual arts, an evolution indicative of the very philosophy behind the show. Unknown Terrain features three-dimensional, multimedia artworks designed to invoke the varying relationships between senses, space, and […]
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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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Founded during America’s westward push in the late eighteenth century, Cleveland has traced the classic trajectory of American cities. A trading outpost, Cleveland ascended during the Industrial Revolution, playing host to John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, and General Electric’s Nela Park. The city’s rise was epitomized by development of the 52-story Terminal Tower—for decades, the tallest building anywhere outside […]
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