Commissioned in bulk, murals have recently proliferated around Cleveland At least one thing is happening very fast at City Hall: October 19, Mayor Frank Jackson’s office announced an extraordinary opportunity for a Cleveland artist—to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of our sister city relationship with Rouen, France, by traveling there to paint a large mural, eighty feet long by […]
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The Old Brooklyn Community Elementary School no longer has an art teacher. Sadly, such is the case at many area schools—art is one of the first things cut in high-need, high-poverty, urban school districts facing difficult budget decisions. For nearly twenty years, the Art House in historic Brooklyn Centre, a nonprofit arts center, has tried to fill that gap by […]
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Darice: In inviting me to participate in the Full Fathom Five exhibit at Progressive, did you see a connection in our work, and where did that interest come in? Barry: I was moved by a lot of [what] you were posting on social media, and seeing your work at Bill Busta’s gallery. I was really curious. I also felt that […]
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Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. THROUGH NOVEMBER 24 I Scarce Can Take It In The four artists in this show fall in the general category of “outsider” artists, though each […]
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If you are a holiday gift giver, if your shopping trips are like curatorial experiences, if you like giving original, one-of-a-kind gifts, if you want to boost the local economy and support artists directly, you have never had more options. Northeast Ohio has a multitude of holiday markets, and there is at least one convenient to every neighborhood. Check websites […]
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A Tough Interrogation M. Carmen Lane is a two-spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, cultural worker, poet, popular educator and consultant living in Kahyonhá:ke (Cleveland, Ohio). Carmen is a part of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Data Art cohort. We talked about their influences, what drives them, and the artist’s work in A Color Removed, an exhibition curated by Michael […]
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Beautiful Jails Angélica Dass is no stranger to integrating art and numbers. Her best-known project, Humanae (pronounced “human eye”), involved 4,000 portraits of a wide variety of people, each staring straight into the lens and presented against a background matching the skin color of their nose, and placed and codified along the color continuum of the Pantone Matching System (PMS) […]
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Visions and Revisions Azziz Muhammad is a visual artist and community activist who grew up in East Cleveland. Comfortably seated in a window at the main branch of the East Cleveland Public Library, he spoke with CAN about his work as a part of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Data Cohort. The view along streets near the library is mainly […]
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The Rhythm of People’s Speech As executive artistic director of Twelve Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization he started in 2016, Daniel Gray-Kontar has helped to create a literary arts ecosystem for young black writers across the city. “For writers of color, it’s important to present them with models, and to connect them with older writers of color—people who look like […]
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I confess, when I see an Excel spreadsheet or a large data set, art is not the first thing that comes to mind. And while I do not personally identify as an artist, I am cognizant of the historic impact art has had on inspiring civic change and furthering critical discourse. Art has a singular power to elicit an emotional […]
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