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Digital Storytelling Helps Students “Find a Voice”: Center for Arts-Inspired Learning’s Partnership with Cleveland Metropolitan School District and the Ohio Arts Council Gives Platform for Social Issues

Immigration. Bullying. The dangers of taking the perfect selfie. Students are faced with a number of social issues that impact their lives, tap their curiosity, or make them examine their place in a larger world. But when do we ask young people their thoughts on what happens in their world? This fall, Center for Arts-Inspired Learning asked those questions of 6th, and 7th […]

BAYarts Galleries: Memories Deconstructed

Nancy Walters Heaton

Denise Stewart and Pat Pitingolo: T42, 24T Using stained tea fiber and remnants of deconstructed tea bags, blurring the line between textile and fine art. Sullivan Family Gallery. Eliza Wing: Memory Serves Oil paintings and 3-D box constructions based on lifelong sojourns to on Monhegan Island; a haven and inspiration for artists since the early 1900s. Dianne Boldman […]

Into the Canvas: Post-Painterly Abstraction in Cleveland

Christopher L. Richards

Abstract painting in the late 1950s and 1960s developed beyond the realm of the action painters’ exploration of expressing raw internal emotions. A number of American artists, including Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Lewis, began allowing diluted paint soak into unprimed canvases, removing the physical gestures of painting and creating the flattest paint surface possible. Art critic Clement Greenberg called these […]

Teachers and their Students Share Watershed Moments at AAWR

Mindy Tousley

The conversation surrounding the benefits of art education has been in the forefront of public debate in recent years. It is rapidly becoming scientifically accepted that learning visual arts, music and dance can be instrumental in the formation of physical connections in the brain which have lasting effects on human development. Artists have always been in the vanguard of creative […]

Music and Corporeality are Twin Muses in Judit Reigl Retrospective

Denise Birkhofer

The Allen Memorial Art Museum presents a survey exhibition of the work of Judit Reigl, one of the foremost figures of European painting to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. Judit Reigl: Body of Music is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a United States museum. Born in Hungary in 1923, Reigl escaped from behind […]

Akron Art Museum Explores Geometric Abstraction by Northeast Ohio Artists in NEO Geo

Akron Art Museum Staff

NEO Geo Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries November 21, 2015 through April 24, 2016 In the 1960s and 70s, artists in Northeast Ohio garnered international attention through works featuring hard-edged geometric forms or complex illusory patterns. NEO Geo examines geometric abstraction’s continued relevance in the region through the work of eight contemporary artists. Responding directly to this history, Michelle Marie […]

Looking Forward: The Art History of Cleveland’s Future

Henry Adams, PhD

As noted in a previous issue of CAN, ARTneo—which could colloquially be described as the Museum of Northeast Ohio art—has recently been through significant changes in its staff, board, and even its location. At its 2015 benefit, the organization recognized the contributions of scholar, curator, and professor Henry Adams, who has written extensively on American art, including art of Northeast […]

Masked Men, Hatchets, and Bombs: Frank Oriti’s Clarity, Rodin’s the Thinker, and the Silencing of Art Vandalism

Brittany M. Hudak

It all started on Twitter, of course. A disturbed visitor to a London museum wrote: “I hope the @metpoliceuk deal with the masked balaclava ‘protestors’ in the national portrait gallery #London bloody terrifying :-(“. This was posted moments after a disturbance on the afternoon of July 5, and the event was made even more unnerving by its proximity to the […]

Artists and Curators Gather Good Things To Life

Joseph Clark

Artist Kim Schoel remembers her friend and colleague Roy Bigler as a constructive critic, who always strived to learn from others’ work and seek understanding. “He was one of those rare people who would always find something positive to say. He was always respectful and curious,” Schoel said. Bigler passed away in March of 2014, aged 58 years old. Since […]

WINTER 2015-16 EVENTS

Michael Gill

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 this site. Enjoy the shows! CONTINUING Through December 4 Jenniffer Omaitz: Folding Gesture Gallery 1point618 Through December 4 Susan Squires: Geometric Suggestions Gallery 1point618 Through December 5 Buoyancy: Aimee […]

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