Based in Austin, Texas, Steve Parker is an artist and musician who creates sculptural ecosystems that transform spaces into large-scale collaborative performances. He is the recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital Award, the Rome Prize, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a Fulbright Scholarship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Parker is associate professor of instruction at the University of […]
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Power Exchange Rate examines how intimacy is shaped, regulated, and contested within capitalist systems. Through a feminist and queer lens, this exhibition traces how personal experiences—relationships, gender, pleasure, and the body—are shaped by broader economic and political forces. It exposes intimacy as a site of exchange. These works show how systems of control dictate and commodify personal experience. The exhibition […]
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I am excited to curate and present four exhibitions, complete with artist receptions, to Celebrate Women and Their Art—“From WOMAN 19, in 2026… Art created by women, for women and about women.” What started out as a small presentation by local and regional artists in 2008 has grown impressively to a series of four exhibitions throughout Northeast Ohio in 2026—exhibitions […]
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This exhibition is not just about seeing art, but about experiencing the creative spirit of Northeast Ohio. It is proof that art here continues to thrive, surprise, and inspire. Valley Art Center is thrilled for the 54th iteration of their Annual Juried Art Exhibition. As the longest-running juried art exhibition in Northeast Ohio, this show has provided local artists with […]
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To start the new year, the Waterloo Arts Gallery and Cafe will feature the work of Dana Lynn Harper and Brian Fencl in January. Dana Lynn Harper is a mixed media artist based in Columbus, Ohio. In Veiled Histories, Harper combines the evocative and tactile textures of paper clay, velvet, rice, pearls, dried flowers, and masses of glass beads to […]
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Past Present Portraits from the LAND reimagines the portrait as a living archive—a space where identity, place, and memory intersect. The exhibition considers how Cleveland’s artists chronicle both individual lives and collective histories, shaping a visual record of resilience, creativity, and transformation. The featured works traverse time and medium: black-and-white film, digital photography, hand-tinted images, and experimental processes converge to […]
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The federal government of the United States shut down as I write this, now in the sixth week, and funding for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program has run out, and the president has been bombing small boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, accusing them—so far without evidence—of smuggling fentanyl into the US. Meanwhile Israel says the cease fire […]
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The idea that Ohio’s art scene looks to New York for validation has some sad truth, but sometimes Ohio brings both the spark and the fuel, and New York is just the place where they meet. Such was the case for an upcoming exhibition at moCa Cleveland, which was conceived during a conversation at Frieze—the international contemporary art fair that […]
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Despite having made more than 35 films, Robert Banks still has a couple more celluloid/cinematic mountains he wants to climb. Despite all of the compelling and entrancing images he’s put on film, whether for motion pictures or still photographs, he remains haunted by the litany of needling comments from his colleagues, fans and followers for the last thirty years: Why […]
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Aireonna McCall-Dubé proceeds at full throttle: as the founder and owner of three intertwined businesses—Extraordinaire Photos, EP Events, and EP Studio—she also holds a full-time day job as community manager for a Tremont real estate developer, Sustainable Community Associates. “Going into every day with open arms is fun,” says McCall-Dubé. “It keeps me excited about what I do every day.” […]
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