Art Therapy Studio, Healing Through Art

“The aim of art is to represent NOT the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle   For nearly 50 years, Art Therapy Studio has endeavored to make visual arts accessible, meaningful, and useful to individuals throughout Northeast Ohio. Central to our mission and organizational philosophy is the belief that, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, abilities, socio-economic […]

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A Celebration of Cleveland’s Women Artists

For over a century, the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) has provided essential training for many of Northern Ohio’s most vibrant and productive women artists. Their artistic work encompassed a wide range of media: oil and watercolor, sculpture, illustration and design, silversmithing and jewelry-making, enameling, ceramics and textiles. Many of the women had successful careers as designers and illustrators; some […]

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Artists Archives Ceramics Invitational

When I moved from Western New York to Cleveland Ohio, I was extremely impressed with the both the quantity and quality of work being produced by Ohio ceramic artists.  After 23 years my enthusiasm and admiration for these artists has only increased. So I am thrilled to begin our summer at the Artists Archives with a Ceramics Invitational Exhibition. Works […]

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ARTneo Presents Locus of Transition: Works by Jason Milburn and Laila Voss

  ARTneo is pleased to present Locus of Transition featuring the work of Jason Milburn and Laila Voss, the second and third prize winners from ARTneo’s 2015 Cleveland Creates juried exhibition. A consummate observer of human behavior, Jason Milburn’s work has revealed the psychological disjuncture within which people exist, even as they may be in close proximity to and interact […]

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Art Books Cleveland and Octavofest Connect to the Community

The annual Octavofest celebration of book and paper arts is preparing to kick off its 2016 season, featuring a line-up that’s more extensive and engaging than ever. As always, two major shows—a themed show, this year focused on the number 100, and an Abecedarium show emphasizing alphabet-related works—serve as centerpieces for the month-long event running throughout October.   Among the […]

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Akron Art Museum and MOCA present Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia

  Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries, Akron Art Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland May 29-August 28, 2016 Equal parts engagement and provocation, the art of Akron native Mark Mothersbaugh investigates the tension and interplay between order and freedom, repetition and play, technology and individuality and mutation and conformity. Beginning as an art student at Kent State […]

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TERRIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL: Darius Steward, Clotilde Jimenez, and Race as a subject for artistic dialog

When we talk about race in Cleveland, conversation runs quickly toward headline stories, especially of white police officers and Black men or boys. Thanks to a couple of high profile shootings and the way the justice system responded, the city had a major role in the national discussion of race-related violence in 2015.  That was the context in which I […]

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Artistic Languages from Around the Globe

And the voices keep coming –     Throughout Cleveland’s history our cultural legacy has been built by people from around the globe. From the dozens of immigrant nationalities that designed, sculpted, and maintain the cultural gardens of Rockefeller Park,  to the music performed at Severance Hall, to the Asian collection and the rest of the vast holdings of the […]

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Creativity Matters: Grafton Nunes and the New Unified Campus of the Cleveland Institute of Art

“Our values today are not very different from the values of  Viktor Schreckengost.  We believe in discipline, a close reading of the reality around you, a connection with the viewer and end user.  We give our students traditional drawing skills, and knowledge of color theory, composition, and perspective.  Today these very important foundational skills are being applied to 3D animation, […]

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Washing the Blues Away – Unfixed: The Fugitive Image at Transformer Station

  Fred and Laura Bidwell’s Transformer Station Museum is a particularly savvy instance of contemporary design, and simultaneously a study of fading history.  Originally a streetcar power substation dating from 1924, the well-made and now restored original building is supplemented at the west end by a new minimalist structure of about the same size. It looks intriguingly like one thing […]

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