The Biennial Alumni Exhibition at Kent State University is set to debut on January 17, 2025, bringing together a diverse array of talent from the School of Art’s eighty-plus years of history. The inaugural exhibition will feature works from accomplished alumni, highlighting their contributions to the art world. Curated by Wendy Earle, a noted curator from the Akron Art Museum, […]
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Lake Affect Live Concert Series Searching for an elevated live music experience? Immerse yourself in an unexpectedly intimate atmosphere as a diverse lineup of artists fills your ears, while our masterful bartenders craft signature cocktails to satiate the rest of your senses. This isn’t your average underwhelming and overplayed concert venue. Every show here is an occasion, and each performance […]
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by Diana Zubal Shake off the chill and warm up with the Morgan’s restorative artistic activities and compelling workshops. We’re using this winter’s grey weather to refocus on personal artistic growth, and we’d love for you to join us. Get creative and energized with everything paper, print, and book! Join us from 5 to 8 pm on Friday, December 6, […]
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U2’s song, “With or Without You,” quickly became a hit in the late ’80s and the lyrics are widely interpreted to begin with a romantic relationship that goes sour. Bono, the lead singer and co-writer, offers another angle—the song is really about his intense relationship with himself. He says “that tension is what makes me an artist”. The artists in […]
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Valley Art Center is thrilled to unveil the 53rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, where visual art will meet the power of poetry. Running through December 16, this year’s exhibition features an impressive selection of over fifty artworks from artists, living within a 250-mile radius, who are carefully chosen by our esteemed jury panel: Liz Burgess (former owner of Ginko Gallery […]
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Since their inception, zines have been an important—and fun—way to communicate and spread information. Emerging in the 1930s among sci-fi fans, zines have been around for almost a century. The term “zine,” first used in 1946, comes from the word “fanzine,” a combination of “fan” and “magazine,” that was first used in 1942. In 1944, the first Xerox machine was […]
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Exhibitions that invite regional and national perspectives and center student work highlight the Cleveland Institute of Art’s winter offerings. Possibility for Repair is a group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect that features work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland). Acknowledging the […]
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This January, Cleveland Print Room will be presenting special off-site exhibitions in two locations. Opening Friday, January 3 at Praxis Fiber Workshop, experimental analog photographer Mary Defer’s exhibition, Secret Family, is a photographic project using the discovery of a family secret as a springboard to explore social censorship, the region of Appalachia, and the “slow violence” (a term coined by […]
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Like lovemaking, being photographed by one’s lover is an intimate, collaborative act. This is the subject matter explored by American photographer Kelli Connell in Pictures for Charis (pronounced care-iss). Over the past ten years, Connell researched and reconsidered the lives and relationship of writer Charis Wilson and photographer Edward Weston as Connell photographed her partner at the time, sculptor Betsy […]
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The Cleveland poet d.a. levy (Darryl Alfred Levey, 1942-1968) was among the most prolific publishing poets of the mimeo revolution of the 1960s, which evolved into what is now called underground or outlaw poetry: small presses independent of the Academy. Of less renown yet as fascinating as his publications are levy’s prints and the methods he used to make them. […]
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