Fish Fly Fur, at YARDS Project Space

  Drawing, painting and sculpting animals has always been a subject for artists throughout history, from the earliest cave paintings, Egyptian artists’ depictions of gods with animal heads, medieval manuscripts with mystical beasts, and nineteenth century Victorian artists creating paintings of their domestic pets. During what scientists are calling the Anthropause, the unprecedented global slowdown of human activity during the […]

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Southwest General Unveils COVID-19 Treatment Storyboard Sculpture

Internationally-renowned sculptor David Deming and son Michael’s eight-piece sculpture depicts continuum of care during pandemic   Southwest General Health Center was founded in 1920 by local community residents in response to the Spanish Flu epidemic, which saw more than one in four people worldwide stricken with the disease. Sound familiar? Fast forward one century. At the height of the COVID-19 […]

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A sample of recovered artifacts in Lapine, Pennsylvania after the catastrophic flood of the Allegheny Valley, 1957

  Item: Water-logged pages, from the personal journals of Lapine resident Ida Song 14 July 1929 The walls of this room are aglow with all the colors of the rainbow. These colors are, to me, the most nourishing morsels within the content of consciousness. This morning, a hare stopped in the swaying clover and said a prayer to the rainbow: […]

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Faculty Exhibition Invites Community to Connect with CIA

  Artwork by Cleveland Institute of Art faculty members fills galleries, museums and institutions across the country. Just in the past year, their creations have been on view from New York to New Mexico and from Florida up to Michigan, allowing audiences near and far to catch glimpses of their exceptional artistry. Greater Clevelanders are fortunate, of course. For more […]

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Framed Presents Béatrice Lebreton and Richmond Agamelah

  Béatrice Lebreton September 3 Inspired by the African Diaspora, Béatrice Lebreton sources both her multicultural heritage and current events as she creates work that encourages the viewer’s engagement and interpretation. Working primarily in mixed media, Lebreton combines textiles, stitched and beaded surfaces with painted sections on the canvas as a means of commemoration and interaction. The patterns, fabrics, and […]

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Mark Howard’s Shape Shifters at HEDGE Gallery

While 2020 ushered in so many unexpected changes followed by new beginnings, Cleveland artist Mark Howard had already begun shifting his practice, instilling incremental new ideas. Much of Howard’s past work maintained a Black sensibility and an urban theme, using life in the streets as his primary influence. He recently began questioning the relevance of figurative subject matter which has […]

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