As mayoral and congressional elections approach in Cleveland, yard signs promoting the candidates have already begun to proliferate. This year, the candidates have some strong visual competition from artists chosen for MetroHealth’s Signs of the Times project, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation through its Creative Fusion program. In styles as diverse as the community, the artists’ signs call the community […]
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Tr. Damaris Punales Alpizar Era un miércoles de julio. Ana Quiroz estaba en su segunda semana de trabajo con estudiantes de la Academia para Recién Llegados Thomas Jefferson. El salón estaba repleto con las voces de los casi 25 chicos de escuela secundaria; la mayoría de ellos hablaban en español, aunque otras lenguas podían también escucharse. Quiroz les pidió […]
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On a Wednesday in July, Anna Quiroz was in her second week with students of Thomas Jefferson Newcomers Academy. The room was filled with the chatter of about 25 middle schoolers, mostly speaking Spanish, but several other languages too. Quiroz had them working on memory atlases, collaging their own drawings with paper mache casts made on plasticine forms, and other […]
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CONVERGE–It’s here. The massive exhibition of LGBTQ art, held in partnership with the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, Lake Erie College, Judson Manor, and Cleveland MetroHealth. Shown across five venues and featuring 71 artists, CONVERGE brings together the diverse stories of the LGBTQ community, including the historically underrepresented voices of women, transgender people, and people of color. As Chief […]
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Art Books Cleveland will have its first post-pandemic in-person show at the Morgan Paper Conservatory. Running from October 8 to November 20, the show’s theme is Leaves and Leaving and will reflect all the meanings of leaves both as noun and verb. Many of the works will feature Morgan handmade paper. Leaves and Leaving was originally scheduled for fall […]
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This fall, the Akron Art Museum’s exhibitions will allow viewers to experience art in new and unique ways. Continuum: Historical Resonances in Contemporary Art encourages viewers to enjoy the past along with the present as pairs of art are displayed together. Afterimages: Geometric Abstraction and Perception creates visual and mental experiences through glittering patterns, radiant colors, and stimulating effects. […]
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Art EverySpace is honored to partner with The East End in the grand opening of a new art gallery. The historic, mixed-use project is a 1.4 million-square-foot redevelopment of Goodyear’s former headquarters. Today, it offers Akron the newest and best live/work/play experiences. The gallery will be featured in the lobby of 1200 East Market Street. The permanent collection, known as […]
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Hot, cold, sunny or not, it’s summertime in Cleveland. Doors are opening up. Creative energy is spilling out. The day Big Creek, West Creek, AECOM, a board member and I met on at Art House (to discuss any changes to the green infrastructure proposal), the thoughtful and reserved environmental landscape designer stepped out of his car with a huge […]
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Jim Soppelsa grew up with an appreciation of art and design. Jim’s father, A.J. Soppelsa, a talented Cleveland commercial and fine artist, instilled in his son a love of line, color and shape—and a fascination with what he termed “the abstract.” Graduating from the Cooper School of Art in 1974 with a major in communication design, Jim began his […]
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This exhibition presents the work of four Northeast Ohio women who all have decades of experience in the ceramic arts. The natural world has provided much inspiration for these artists who are moved by the infinite variation in process, form, and color found in nature. Their overlapping interests and differences highlight contemporary developments in regional ceramics. Donna Webb and […]
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