Language rills like the always-moving water that flows through “ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak),” a documentary film about the work of Cherokee activists, artists, and educators fighting to save the Cherokee language. “ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)” premiers at the Cleveland International Film Festival with one live screening only, on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 7:30 pm at the Allen Theater (Q&A […]
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Magic Mountains, Magic Cities by Tia-Simone Gardner is on view through April 28th at SPACES. The body of work came from conversations that Gardner had with her mother about Fairfield, Alabama, where they both grew up. Fairfield is located at the Western border of Birmingham and was an experiment in spatial-racial-class separation and segregation. According to Gardner’s artist statement, “these […]
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Kristen Cliffel’s delightfully textured ceramics are familiar around northeast Ohio in group shows, galleries, and museums. At William Busta Projects, Cliffel’s solo exhibition, Working from Home, occupies two rooms and is poignant in all the right ways Cliffel’s work is an exploration of what she calls “domestic mythologies.” According to her website, “our culture surrounds us with pervasive archetypal myths […]
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I’ve wanted to see artistic commentary on Amazon’s pervasiveness for a long time. I’m certain that nearly everyone reading this has made a purchase from Amazon at some point in their lifetime (myself included). As I write this article, I’ve already looked out the window and watched the Amazon truck pass by my apartment building. Whether you’re an enthusiastic Prime […]
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To be polite and understated, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture has a lot going on right now. The organization that administers public funding for the arts is facing criticism from artists over the way it has handled individual artist grants in recent years, and a discrepancy between amounts budgeted for individual artist grants and the amounts actually spent. In discussion of […]
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The nonprofit advocacy organization Assembly for the Arts rolls out a new grant program for individual Cuyahoga County artists this week, supported by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Assembly for the Arts Executive Director Jeremy Johnson and Chief Community Officer Deidre McPherson spoke about the program via Zoom. Assembly joins Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, Karamu House, and SPACES Gallery […]
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Lori Kella’s Shifting Ground depicts the severe erosion affecting the shore of Lake Erie and the Great Lakes. The scenes depicted feel delicate, with spindly tree branches and structures on the brink of crashing down. In this exhibition, Kella captures that moment of holding your breath and clenching your fists before another wave careens into the shoreline. Custom dioramas stand […]
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Root Matter by Amanda D. King, curated by Amber N. Ford, positions Christian mythology in relation to the Black experience. The exhibition examines religion through moments of both hope and macabre, walking the line between repression and release. King is a conceptual artist, cultural strategist, and social justice advocate who uses arts and culture to envision possibilities for transforming individuals, […]
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Watershed by Taryn McMahon, on view through March 4th at the McDonough Museum of Art, visually depicts the imperfect relationship between humans and nature. Initially, the works appear subdued, but the longer you spend with them, the more you’ll notice discrete nods to our increasingly polluted waterways. These works quietly portray the defilement of natural environments, a process that is […]
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As artists of all kinds navigated the pandemic, online communities became a thing—not only as a way to conduct business, but to keep in touch with collaborators, and even to bring art to the public. Online performances by orchestras, for example, became emblematic of the era: a matrix of individual frames on a computer screen, one musician in each frame […]
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