Art Source: Conversations in Canvas and Glass

  Shayna Roth Pentecost grew up as the daughter of parents who infused their home with the idea that art could be both a vocation and avocation. Her father Sam’s career was in education. He was a photographer and painter mostly for his own enjoyment. His own father, Max, had been a metalsmith, who worked in the primitive vein – […]

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Up and Coming at The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

  The NewNow: Northern Ohio’s Premier Artists Competition. Drawn from Cleveland’s sixteen surrounding counties, The NewNow will present 75 works of painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video, and various other media by numerous NEO artists selected by Janice Driesbach, Chief Curator of the Akron Art Museum. Artwork selected for display in the heavily competitive NewNow represents the contemporary vision, cutting edge […]

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Strengthening Team Morale: Art House Corporate Retreats

  Art House Inc., always expanding its range of Studio Go programs, now welcomes Cleveland professionals to participate in corporate art retreats.   Art House believes in the power of art to strengthen team morale and create a more positive work environment. The organization works with companies, large or small, to design custom workshops. Guided by professional artists, employees of […]

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Trenton Doyle Hancock at Akron Art Museum

  This fall the Akron Art Museum presents Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing, showcasing more than 300 sketches, drawings, collages and paintings by the master draftsman and storyteller Trenton Doyle Hancock. Skin and Bones explores the genesis of the artist’s mythology as well as his development over two decades.   Early childhood notebooks and comics […]

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The Collectors: a Perfect Pairing

John Farina & Adam Tully have been collecting art together since they met nearly eight years ago. Adam actually became an instant collector when he met John, who had already begun his collecting of Cleveland art many years earlier. The collection they have amassed over this time now numbers close to 350 pieces – almost 90 percent of which is […]

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Generations

Perhaps the best known painting by an artist living in Cleveland is Archibald Willard’s patriotic painting Yankee Doodle, better known as The Spirit of 76,” exhibited at the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. This painting of battered soldiers with fife and drum, set during the Revolutionary War was popular enough in its day that Willard painted many copies (one […]

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Waterloo Arts Fest 2014

The 12th Annual Waterloo Arts Fest will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2014, and will feature an exciting mix of innovative art and music experiences for all ages–plus the hippest local art vendors, CLE’s best food trucks, and our newest ARTS ALIVE program, which encourages attendees to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty and give art a […]

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Breaking Boundaries at The Sculpture Center

The difficult subjects of psychological and physical traumas and domination of others prevail in the summer exhibitions of new artwork by two award-winning, early career sculptors from Toronto, Canada. Ryan Legassicke has traveled the world to visit government-built walls and fences and interview those directly affected by their imposition. Shadow-Wall Disease immerses the visitor in the physical and mental experience […]

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