The typical high school art class tends to offer limited experience with clay. “You make a cheeseburger, you make a dragon, you make a girl with really, really big eyes, and then you say I love ceramics,” says Seth Nagelberg, chair of Ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Yes, students do tend to love it—even when they know only […]
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Center for Arts-Inspired Learning (CAL) is pleased to announce the launch of STEAM Saturdays—the first programming to be hosted in the new CAL headquarters in University Circle. The free hands-on STEAM workshops were developed for middle and high school students and emphasize the arts and individualized creative thinking within traditional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) subject matter. Students participating […]
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I want to talk about…Art. I know…surprised, right? But first I want to take a minute to share with you something I read recently on a scrap of paper found amongst Dan Tranberg’s things that his friend shared with me. “For me, the thing that seemed to ignite my imagination at an early age was abstract painting.” “With my work […]
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Natural Order and Chaos, a series of monoprints by Deborah Pinter, explores a merging of the organic plant life and imperfect happenstance with the artist’s seasoned expertise. “I have always been one who looks for the order in things, but as I have gotten older it is the imperfections, the happy accidents, that I appreciate,” Pinter says. This led her […]
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The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve is pleased to open its fall/winter exhibition season with Visual Emotions, The Way I Remember You, the inaugural show of Archived Artist Augusto C. Bordelois. A native of Havana, Cuba, Bordelois paints in a Magical Realist style which weaves together rich psychological symbolism with lush sensual imagery. His fantastical narratives speak to the […]
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Since 1987, numerous Cleveland artists have shared an expansive co-operative studio on the 6th floor of the ArtCraft Building at 2570 Superior Avenue and ever since have hosted the annual ArtCraft Studio Show. This December marks the 30th anniversary of this well-attended and much-anticipated Cleveland art show! The roots of today’s annual show can be traced back to 1981 to […]
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Art House is now working with a new road map that emerged from the strategic plan process (much thanks to Carol Murphy) conducted during the first part of 2017. This also included an exciting campus expansion component developed by the KSU Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Urban Bright Arts-in-Education Program, Fall 2017: In conjunction with our budding partnership with Cleveland Metroparks […]
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Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 17–May 27 Undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed artists working in contemporary ceramics today, Jun Kaneko has spent decades pushing the boundaries of ceramics, sculpture, painting, the abstract and the figural, and has repeatedly blurred the lines that have traditionally separated the world of fine art and craft. Jun Kaneko: […]
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You’ve seen at least one variation of this idea expressed on bumper stickers: Think Globally: Act Locally. That may mean something different to everyone who reads it, but when it’s stuck on the back of an old, fuel-efficient car along with a bunch of other bumper stickers that say things like “Imagine Whirled Peas,” and “Coexist” (spelled out in the […]
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It could happen here: In 2014, two New Orleans photographers—the husband-and-wife team Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick—showed a series of photographs of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana as part of the art triennial, Prospect. Speaking of their exhibit, called “Slavery: The Prison Industrial Complex,” Calhoun told the New Orleans Times Picayune, “Angola is still pretty much run like […]
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