Category: 3(3) Fall 2014

Questions about the public value of art are at the core of any public funding program: If we are going to give money to support arts activity, what do we fund, and why? And when funds are limited, how should they be allocated among our priorities? Earlier this year, an evaluation of the Creative Workforce Fellowship program, and resulting modification […]

Christopher Pekoc was a high school misfit. Art was his salvation. Today his studio is in an almost windowless basement in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. It’s filled with industrial file cabinets he salvaged from a store that failed. The drawers are stuffed with photographs that he has taken, clippings from magazines, sheets of unusual paper.   He has tools […]

Opening on Friday, September 5, Heights Arts presents a special exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by artists Isabel Farnsworth and Hui-Chu Ying. This show brings together two artists and university art professors whose visual languages resonate with universal themes of human experience. Farnsworth’s sculptural forms juxtapose fragments of figuration with formal abstraction. She states, “The work emerges out […]

  Ceramic artist Angelica Pozo’s brick and glass Word Wall at the intersection of Buckeye Road and East 116 Street is built to last, and to complement its surroundings. Pozo is one of several artists commissioned to create sculptural work in the neighborhood. Once she developed the concept, she asked author and bookstore proprietor RA Washington to choose the lines […]

  For three quarters of a century, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show was an opportunity to view new works by the leading regional artists. The experience was enhanced by the context–the juxtaposition of known and unknown artists, of great works alongside lesser ones–at the most prominent art institution in the state. The May Show was a juried show […]

Artists can’t help but explore the connections between their ideas and the materials they use to express them. As we make, we test materials to see how they perform. Sometimes the material becomes the idea. We travel the same line as poets do, first delving into the relationship between what Laurence Perrine called Sound and Sense, and then maybe arriving […]

For opening receptions, hours, and other details, see each organization’s page   Ongoing   Revive & Renew: Contemporary Artists and Eastern Papers Through September 20 Morgan Conservatory   Lost & Found: Vernacular & Found Photography Through September 20 Cleveland Print Room Solid Movement, works of Jenniffer Omaitz Extended through September 30 1point618 Gallery Warm Heavy Lift, works of Qian Li […]

Waterloo Arts is gearing up for an amazing year. Opening September 5, will be the exhibition De Materia, curated by the artist and member of the Cleveland Institute of Art Painting faculty, Lane Cooper (yes that’s me). De Materia refers to Leon Battista Alberti’s historic work on painting, De Pictura. Like that seminal work, it sets forth a treatise on […]

I was the kid who never left my scabs alone: I picked at them. I’m not sure if I was attracted to self-inflicted pain, but what I do know is that I was attracted to the breaking of patterns on my skin, and the mark that would be left behind. I liked the permanence and mystery of scars. Then there […]