Arnold Tunstall recently accepted the position of Director of the University Galleries at the University of Akron. His appointment comes and the end of a 25-year career at the Akron Art Museum where he served in multiple roles, most recently as Collections Manager since 2008. Lauren Hansgen: So you’ve been at the Akron Art Museum for your entire career… […]
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Humans are complicated, flawed, and nuanced beings. Artists are no exception, and oftentimes personal struggles, even mental illnesses, are central to our fascination with them and their creations. We make sense out of the world through narratives, and artists are our cultural alchemists, transforming emotion and thought into physical form, which are beautiful, and often emotionally evocative. To know […]
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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. Enjoy the shows! Continuing Through November 23 Loreto Greve, Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Artist-in-Residence exhibition. CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM Through November 25 The […]
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Eleven artworks by local and international artists were commissioned through the Creative Fusion program this season, but murals do not make a place. It’s the new businesses that have cropped up–bringing with them vibrant storefronts, picnic tables, and more activity on the street–that make a place. It’s the residents who sit at those tables eating those artisanal bagels, and who […]
Read moreArtist Corrie Slawson and writer Marc Lefkowitz met Tijuana (via Beijing) artists Daniel Ruanova and Mely Barragan when they were Spring 2013 Creative Fusion residents at Zygote Press. The four participated in the Rooms to Let project in Columbus, exploring pre-conceived notions attached to places, especially those that have had infamous moments in their past. After their time at Zygote, […]
Read moreAt Play, with Ideas and Objects International exchange programs like Creative Fusion give Clevelanders a window onto the wider world, and they give international artists an intimate view of Cleveland. But of equal value is the way in which they give Clevelanders a fresh perspective of themselves and their city. When Rainer Prohaska came to Cleveland from Europe (he’s from […]
Read moreWith love from Berlin and Cleveland: Artists leave their mark in Hingetown On a sunny Sunday in mid-October, artist Ryan Jaenke stands in the bucket of a hydraulic lift, putting brush to brick to finish his mural on an old apartment building on W. 25th Street. His blazing black and red design shouts FULL TILT. A barber pole, a pigeon, […]
Read moreLondon-based painter and muralist David Shillinglaw joined the Creative Fusion project only recently, stepping in at the last minute when two other artists selected by Ohio City Inc. were unable to commit to the residency. So while the rest of the visiting artists were settling in and making progress on their murals, Shillinglaw was organizing his plans to live on […]
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When considering one’s personal evolution over time, it is easy to conceive of the journey in terms of a straight line. A line would make sense; it has beginning and end points that appear simple, direct, and finite. It may go up or down, as the trajectory of one’s life is wont to do. But when Luis Ituarte reflects upon […]
Read moreLoreto Greve came to my studio one afternoon, We played around with an old Epson Photo Scanner 2450, resulting in an odd but interesting series of self-portraits of her which morphed the otherwise attractive young artist into slightly grotesque and oddly shaped facial pictures. She was amused by the process. “Another one,” she said after we loaded her portrait […]
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