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Read moreCAN Journal Benefit and Cornhole Tournament
TONIGHT (Friday, July 25) at the Morgan Conservatory from 6-10pm – Cornhole tournament (sign your team up below!) featuring boards that will be up for auction & have been designed by some of your favorite local artists! – Silent Art Auction curated by Loren Naji – Live Bluegrass music by the Spyder Stompers – Cookout featuring hot dogs, s’mores…and more! […]
Read moreUNDERCURRENT: Peck, Ehret, and Copeland at Loren Naji Studio Gallery
“Graffiti artist” is an easy label, and a tenacious one. It sticks like wheat paste to any artist who was ever known for illegally painting on other people’s walls. Such is the case for Bob Peck, Ron Copeland, and Steve Ehret, who all have some measure of street art in their pasts. Peck is surely the best known of […]
Read moreLines and Folds: Third Friday at 78th Street
As a theme for an art exhibit, “Lines and Folds” could include absolutely anything. But the show of that name at Hilary Gent’s HEDGE Gallery gathers four artists who specifically work with the power of lines and the dimensionality of folds in defining ways–not simply as boundaries or profiles, but as the substance of the works. Zachary Whitehurst, Christine Mauersberger, […]
Read moreMotivation…The Key to Effective Advocacy
Why do I advocate for arts and culture? For me, the reason is simple. The arts have the power to impact the whole – the whole human being and the whole community. From my view at the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, I see this every day. For example, Michelle Muldrow’s paintings offer a conceptual exploration of the […]
Read moreWestlake-Westshore Arts Council offers a boquet of arias and an Italian feast
Tues., Apr. 1, at 7:30 p.m., at Westlake Porter Public Library, the opera wisdom of Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater Artistic Director David Bamberger creates a backdrop for a performance of various arias by gifted CIM voice students, with CIM Music Dir. John Simmons on piano. This free FYI:Opera program previews CIM’s performance of Spring Scenes Apr. 11 to […]
Read moreSix Questions with Michael Loderstedt
Looking ahead to his Spring exhibition, William Busta asked artist Michael Loderstedt some questions about putting together a show. William Busta: When you schedule an exhibition of your work, what is important to you as you think of presenting it? Michael Loderstedt: Generally speaking, I think most about the overall theme of the works I plan to include and […]
Read moreReal Art in a Real Neighborhood.
Last year over coffee, Cleveland Institute of Art professor Lane Cooper succinctly summarized my babbling by saying, “Oh, so you are about real art in a real neighborhood.” As we head into spring and the street comes to life again, I found myself reflecting on our changing community and what that tag line means. The words ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ […]
Read moreThe Sculpture Center’s W2S Series: packed with sculpture, installation, performance
Don’t miss the W2S series of dynamic and provocative new sculpture, installations and performance by some of the very best early career sculptors of our region. Sara Holwerda explores the structure of female identity: there is a jam-packed performance at her opening and a week of feminist events with the CIA in April. David Colagiovanni’s work investigates time and […]
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