Tricia Kaman, Winner of the 2023 Governor’s Awards for the Arts “Individual Artist Category”

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A tradition since 1971, the Governor’s Awards showcase and celebrate exceptional Ohio artists, arts organizations, arts leaders and patrons, and business support of the arts. Award recipients are presented with the only arts award in the state that is conferred by the governor. Awardees were honored during a ceremony on May 17 in Columbus. Cleveland-based portrait and figurative artist Tricia […]

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New Model Old School: I sat for the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists, and lived to tell about it.

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The request landed back in February. “Hi Erin,” wrote Tim Herron, cofounder of the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists (PCPA), “I am always on the lookout for interesting models.” He added the sketch group was scheduling pretty far out, into August. I blinked at the screen for a minute or two amid a vague feeling of disbelief. Me? Sit for a […]

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To Travel Like Clouds: Julie Langsam’s Landscape Interventions

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Today’s highly choreographed, plastic, bifurcated world (and all the concerns keeping us up at night) grants renewed meaning to the phrase, open road. It’s there we find freedom and a sense of escape, but also greater connection, and the inclination to understand identity—one’s own and that of others. A selection of Julie Langsam’s Landscape Interventions: 500+ Drawings, on view at […]

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Go Big: The Big @SS @RT Show

To be in The Big Ass Art Show–on view at Lakeland Community College, Valley Art Center, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and BAYarts—a piece of art had to measure at least four feet on a side. It’s a simple rule that does a lot of sorting: a lot of artists have simply never made something that large.  And for […]

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Sweet Art

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Synesthesia happens when a person experiences one sense through another: hearing Bach, you see rectangles. Or the word “table” brings purple to mind. Its Greek roots mean “senses coming together,” according to Dr. Veronica Goss at Boston University. Closer to home, artist Renee Fisher and gourmet chocolatier Ines Rehner have created a synesthesthetic experience in their collection of hand-painted chocolates […]

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Ecstatic: Keith Haring at the Akron Art Museum

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To a younger viewer, the work of Keith Haring might read more like Instagram than Street Art.  Trendy current commercial success stories like Timothy Goodman and Mr. Doodle proudly carry on the tradition of laundering the vernacular of graffiti and reselling it back to the masses as a slice of an Experience. Haring’s aesthetic is really popular again: his figures […]

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State of the State: Katie Butler at Abattoir

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Over the past two years, Katie Butler has become synonymous with her depictions of fish as a mechanism to draw political anxieties into the domestic sphere. Her latest exhibition, State of the State, at Abattoir Gallery, is a gutsy step in a different direction. She employs her tongue-in-cheek commentary through new forms and confronts the issues she cares about directly. […]

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Praxis and Practice: A Place on the Map

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Praxis Fiber Workshop hosted the inaugural ‘Praxis and Practice’ Fiber Arts Conference from June 23 to June 25, bringing together a diverse community of fiber artists and designers. At the heart of the conference was the celebrated TC2 loom, a remarkable Digital Jacquard machine crafted by Digital Weaving Norway. This computer-controlled and manually-operated loom has revolutionized the creative process for […]

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