Category: Articles

Summer 2014 is packed with events at BAYarts,including the annual Art and Music Festival. Here’s what’s coming up in our galleries and on our stage.   June 6 – 30 A Place for Everything: Craig Mains Photography Noticing associations and messages, intended, unintended, misread. Preston Buchtel, curator. Information at craigmains.com.   June 6 – 30 Collectors Show Friends of BAYarts […]

“I can’t draw a straight line!” “A child could do better.” “I am not an artist.” As an art therapist, I hear these unfortunate phrases uttered by adults whose judgmental attitudes hold them back from deeply creative experiences. Sometimes our biggest disability is the inner critic. In the Art Therapy Studio, however, we find crafty ways of pushing past blocks, […]

Interview with new St. Clair-Superior resident Jessica Newell  ArtSpace Cleveland: Where did you live before moving here? Jessica Newell: Before moving to Cleveland, I was biking from Cleveland Heights to my teaching job at Cleveland State.   AC: Why choose a live/work space in Cleveland? JN:I decided to move to Tower Press to be closer to CSU and to be surrounded […]

  As part of Art House’s mission, we strive to make art accessible to children and adults throughout Cleveland. Art House outreach programs have been a part of several unique projects around the city, including a partnership with Literary Lots, a free, two-week, open camp in Ohio City.   The brainchild of Kauser Razvi, Literary Lots brings the power of […]

Tony Feher April 12-August 17, 2014 Spanning 25 years, the exhibit Tony Feher reveals the richness, complexity and impact of the artist’s work. In work distinguished by poetic gestures that give meaning to mundane materials, Feher emphasizes the importance of seeing familiar objects in new ways. The artist collects many of his materials—bottles and jars, plastic bags and polystyrene blocks—after […]

Works of Terry Welker May 23 – July 25, 2014 Terry Welker’s mobiles originate from his passion for architecture, poetic space and meaningful places. Welker explains that his work comes from “my memory of a shape, rather than a direct adaptation.” It is this non-literal translation of his subject that provides the simple elegance and strength in his compositions. The […]

  Now that the dust has settled on the Ohio Liquor Control raid that interrupted the opening of Undercurrents at Loren Naji Gallery in Ohio City, Naji and neighborhood officials are working to comply with the laws that came to bear. The fallout of the incident affects galleries throughout Ohio.   To review: the At 6:55 pm Friday, May 2, […]

There is a framed certificate in my office that recognizes that Fred Bidwell was awarded an honorable mention for a photograph exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 1976 May Show. It is signed by Sherman Lee, then the Museum’s director. I can’t remember a thing about that photograph. But now, by a twist of fate, I am sitting in […]

  The process unfolded dramatically, mostly via email but with important scenes taking place among the gritty realities of Collinwood and other crusty Cleveland locales. It was like the plot of an early Russo brothers movie–except that our gang had good intentions.   Before the work began, we were sworn to secrecy via PDF file. Later we assembled in propria […]