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  LAND studio is partnered to bring art to an unexpected place: the new Third District Police Station. The new station recently opened its doors to the public and houses the Third District police force on Chester Avenue near East 55th Avenue. Home to over 300 police officers, the building sits on a four-acre campus and hopes to achieve LEED […]

Throughout the history of mankind, artistic images of animal life have maintained an important stature in human creative efforts. This is evident in works from the early Ice Age up to current, cutting edge contemporary artists. Ancient civilizations across the globe produced artifacts of many types that incorporated animal forms. Over time, western culture diminished the importance of animals in […]

This summer the Harris Stanton Gallery is celebrating its one year anniversary at our Cleveland location. It has been an exciting year and we have enjoyed sharing our exclusive international and local artists with the Cleveland community. Opening May 29 and running through June at our Cleveland location, is our Tribute Exhibition honoring and celebrating our late artist Phyllis J. […]

  Last month ICA conservators put the finishing touches on a truly grand treatment at Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. The ICA’s 8 month-long cleaning and conservation of the painted ceiling and clerestory walls in the King Sculpture Court, was completed on time for before the museum’s celebration of its centennial in 2017. Cass Gilbert, the architect who designed the […]

Where did we come from? It’s one of the perennial questions that we ask as children, then again as adults seeking to understand our past. Here and There, Now and Then, opening June 15 at the JCC, is a collaborative, interactive art project between Heights Arts and the Mandel Jewish Community Center which addresses this question by gathering written and […]

  This summer, the walls of HEDGE Gallery will be filled with luscious color and the intimate dialogues that are formed between paintings by Katy Richards and Nikki Woods, both graduates from The Cleveland Institute of Art. The show title, Material Girls, refers to the artists’ use of paint as a thick, gestural material and to the feminist attributes in […]

  Summertime finds the Cleveland Print Room as busy as ever, with a full slate of exciting exhibitions, compelling workshops, and no doubt a Summer surprise or two. Friday, June 12 marks the opening of our first-ever open-call, juried exhibition, The Peer Show. Judged by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Curator of Photography, Barbara Tannenbaum, The Peer Show will present […]

  After more than a decade of research, planning, designing, and fundraising, Cleveland Institute of Art is unifying its long-divided campus, and the whole region is invited to help celebrate. “It’s an overnight success, ten years in the making,” quipped CIA President Grafton Nunes as he led a group of guests on a recent tour of the new facility on […]

With the Banner Project a great success, artists from City Artists at Work and The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve joined together with Frontlines Services, an assessment and intervention organization to create four workshops for the clients from social services in monotype, painting, card creation and keepsake box design. Although the weather on Saturday, February 21st was nippy, creativity […]

  On their first day of work as ArtWorks apprentices, new students enter a room filled with strangers, artists, and goals: learn to work with other students from across Northeast Ohio to create new art. On the last day they leave inspired to pursue bold ambitions. ArtWorks employs high school students from diverse backgrounds in paid, arts-based apprenticeships that develop […]