Cleveland ranks very high nationally in its support for the arts—including for individual artists. Only one or two other cities in the United States offer a similar level of support. For individual artists it comes through the Creative Work Force Fellowship Program, which since 2009 has distributed grants of $20,000 to 20 artists, writers, and performers, each year. But that […]
Read moreQuestions about the public value of art are at the core of any public funding program: If we are going to give money to support arts activity, what do we fund, and why? And when funds are limited, how should they be allocated among our priorities? Earlier this year, an evaluation of the Creative Workforce Fellowship program, and resulting modification […]
Read moreChristopher Pekoc was a high school misfit. Art was his salvation. Today his studio is in an almost windowless basement in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. It’s filled with industrial file cabinets he salvaged from a store that failed. The drawers are stuffed with photographs that he has taken, clippings from magazines, sheets of unusual paper. He has tools […]
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Last fall, ICA was retained by the City of Cleveland and The Sculpture Center to restore Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen’s monumental sculpture, the Free Stamp, to like-new condition. After years of weathering, deterioration and vandalism endured by this iconic artistic treasure, the City of Cleveland recognized the need to preserve the landmark for future generations. Project planning took place […]
Read moreOpening on Friday, September 5, Heights Arts presents a special exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by artists Isabel Farnsworth and Hui-Chu Ying. This show brings together two artists and university art professors whose visual languages resonate with universal themes of human experience. Farnsworth’s sculptural forms juxtapose fragments of figuration with formal abstraction. She states, “The work emerges out […]
Read moreCeramic artist Angelica Pozo’s brick and glass Word Wall at the intersection of Buckeye Road and East 116 Street is built to last, and to complement its surroundings. Pozo is one of several artists commissioned to create sculptural work in the neighborhood. Once she developed the concept, she asked author and bookstore proprietor RA Washington to choose the lines […]
Read moreFor three quarters of a century, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show was an opportunity to view new works by the leading regional artists. The experience was enhanced by the context–the juxtaposition of known and unknown artists, of great works alongside lesser ones–at the most prominent art institution in the state. The May Show was a juried show […]
Read moreArtists can’t help but explore the connections between their ideas and the materials they use to express them. As we make, we test materials to see how they perform. Sometimes the material becomes the idea. We travel the same line as poets do, first delving into the relationship between what Laurence Perrine called Sound and Sense, and then maybe arriving […]
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