Category: Articles

YARDS Projects Celebrates the Modern Quilt

Quilting the Commons highlights the creative energy of the Northeast Ohio Modern Quilt Guild (NEOMQG), a grassroots collective founded in 2016 as part of the Modern Quilt Guild. Modern quilting emphasizes innovation, bold design, and improvisation—often favoring solid fabrics over traditional patterns—and increasingly serves as a platform for personal expression and social commentary. Through monthly workshops, retreats, and collaborations with […]

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Zygote’s Annual Inkling of Summer Benefit Kicks It up a Notch!

For the past four years, Zygote Press has hosted an annual June fundraiser celebrating the summer solstice while supporting affordable, accessible opportunities for local artists. The event draws art enthusiasts from across Northeast Ohio, many arriving in vibrant seasonal attire to enjoy food from Cleveland Field Kitchen, music by DJ NicNacc, and a live auction featuring one-of-a-kind works. With limited […]

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Press On, Regardless

Invoked repeatedly, especially by political figures from Calvin Coolidge to Barack Obama, the encouragement to press on regardless of the odds or obstacles has been a part of military campaigns and movements for democracy and every kind of rights, probably since the first person recognized the need for tenacity to overcome any challenge. In the shadow of the nation’s politics, […]

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An Open Letter to the Middle Art Powers of the Great Lakes

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech during the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland called on the “middle powers” to collaborate for economic and military strength to counterbalance the might-makes-right attitude of superpowers, recently laid bare by the talk and behavior of US President Donald Trump. Carney acknowledged the outsized force of the US, and the historically […]

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RESILIENCE: Looking Back, Looking Forward with Pita Brooks, Executive Director at SPACES

A cornerstone of Cleveland’s art scene, SPACES–the artists’ residency center and exhibition space in Ohio City–goes into 2026 with new leadership. The organization has a rich and storied history of showing local and global artists, and a deep commitment to experimentation as a historically artist-run space. SPACES received wide recognition during the FRONT Triennial in 2018 and 2022 under the […]

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“Do I have a lot of fun ideas?” Introducing the New Director of Ingenuity, Susie Underwood

Each year, IngenuityFest creates an environment that welcomes the strange, encourages experimentation, and builds Cleveland’s creative future in real time, one immersive installation/performance/improbable idea by one. After ten years of leadership during which she brought the festival to its year-round home at 5401 Hamilton Avenue, Emily Appelbaum has moved on, accepting a position in San Francisco. Now the organization embarks […]

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Brent Kee Young Shapes Glass into Transcendent Artworks That Leverage Light and Classical Forms

With works in the permanent collections at The Cleveland Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Corning Museum of Glass; Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA; Imagine Museum: Contemporary glass art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Toledo Museum of Art; and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan, Cleveland Institute of Art professor Brent Kee […]

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Photo Poets: Ernest Hatten

Ernest Hatten is a multidisciplinary photographer with professional experience in portrait, wedding and street. He has shown work at Heights Arts. Curator’s note: Hatten’s work makes fine art out of fractions of time, utilizing a soft drop focus (or shallow depth of field—shout-out to my photo students). His methods make the image feel like a page from a storybook. His […]

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Connecting to Futures: Deidre McPherson

Deidre McPherson is a dot connector and coalition builder, deeply committed to the power of collaboration within and outside of the arts sector. For over fifteen years, she has worked in arts and culture in a variety of roles—from marketing and program management to producing and curating arts events and festivals—while remaining steadfastly rooted in community outreach and advocacy. Currently, […]

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