If you’ve ever received an award that’s not-quite-suitable for framing, or chucked a giveaway paperweight that was all  about the corporate logo, you might have wondered why companies throw good money after bad swag. Commemorating  achievement and loyalty is a business-world staple, but it doesn’t have to be done with boring “lumps of plastic,” says  RED DOT Project Executive Director Christy Gray. RED DOT Project, the nonprofit artist registry, helps […]

Exploring the former Westinghouse Electric Building on the eastside of Cleveland, artist Dave Desimone stumbles upon hundreds of Kodak slides scattered across the floor among broken computers and tires. These photographs were not here before. Gathering them, he assumes they are images related to the site. He takes them home and scrutinizes, at first  simply attracted to their composition. They are in fact, remarkably out […]

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, SEPTEMBER 21–DECEMBER 22, 2012: To celebrate the remaining months of 2012, Kokoon Arts Gallery presents the finest work by our historic and  contemporary artists. Brilliant watercolors depict the early Twentieth Century travels of Cleveland school artists Henry  Keller, Frank Wilcox, and Paul Travis. Animal life is rendered in bronze and enamel by Larry Isard and Mary Wawryko,  as well as the watercolors of William E. Scheele. Beautiful stone […]

CINEMA 03 SEPTEMBER 21–NOVEMBER 3, 2012 As children, we may have our favorite bedtime stories or illustrations, or even a favorite piece of music, but for most of  us, the earliest and most enduring art experience is in the cinema. Cinema is a wholly new and transportive experience,  imparting both an immediacy and a distance, almost like watching someone else’s dream. It is the ultimate expression of  the gestalt […]

Located within the Gordon Square Arts District of Cleveland’s historic Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, 1point618  presents fine art that is superior in quality and content by artists of regional, national, and international acclaim. KATHLEEN LOE SEDUCTION AND SURVEILLANCE: THE EROTICISM OF SECRETS OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 7-10PM For Kathleen Loe, being raised in the deep South was a tricky environment to navigate. From family surveillance […]

THREE VIEWS SEPTEMBER 7–30 Award winning artists David Ward, Ken Smith, Edward Beyer exhibit plein air studies and studio works from three points of view and three diverse careers: from American Greetings BAYarts portrait studio. Opening Reception September 7th, 7–9 pm 50TH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION / THRESHOLD  OCTOBER 12–NOVEMBER 2 In the Sullivan Family Gallery. Esteemed judges: Susan Channing, curator, educator and artist, and Del Rey Loven,  artist/professor […]

Each June, Zygote Press invites a nonprint artist to abandon his or her discipline and occupy the studio as Zygote’s  Artist In Residence. In recent weeks, 2012 resident artist Johnny Coleman has worked closely with Zygote’s print coordinator Paul Rogers in our non-air conditioned collective to experience fresh new approaches to his oeuvre. Coleman is a sculptor/installation artist and Professor of Art and African American Studies at Oberlin College. He […]

Stepping into Tregoning & Co.’s exhibit Red Hot transports the viewer back in time to the heyday of Abstract  Expressionism with the works of James Johnson.   In the late 1950s, Johnson moved with his wife Marjorie and their new born son from Berkeley California to Painseville, Ohio. There, Johnson threw himself completely into Abstract  Expressionism creating works that evolved […]