Category: Articles

Letterpress printing is an obsolete, painstakingly slow, cumbersome technology. While moveable type once revolutionized the spread of the written word, offset lithography has been the dominant print technology since the middle of the twentieth century. But letterpress has become extremely popular in recent years. While Cleveland was not an early center for the letterpress revival–like the San Francisco Bay area […]

  Documentation is a dodgy businesses. You gather your sources. You arrange them in the way that makes sense to you. But you hardly take the first step down that road before you’re making choices and judgments about what to use, and what it means. That innuendo between facts and the stories people tell with them is well familiar to […]

As multi-media artist Kasumi’s feature-length film Shockwaves begins, we’re traveling underground in a dimly lit tunnel. Curving tracks flash on the dark road ahead. It’s a familiar and uncanny trope: for millennia human beings in search of self-knowledge have visited the symbolic core of existence via the windings of mysterious passages, twisting caverns that match up somehow with the pathways […]

  The other day, while strolling over from my office in Mather to Kelvin Smith Library, I noticed that where there used to be a neatly cut lawn, a massive boomerang of steel, glass and concrete had fallen from the sky. It’s the new Tinkham Veale Student Center, which had landed while my back was turned: a large, long and […]

Art conservator Albert Albano has directed the Intermuseum Conservation Association for 17 years, and won the Rome Prize in 2011. That took him on sabbatical in Rome, for intense study of how works of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque era have weathered the ages–including the effects of centuries-old restoration efforts. He’s also been behind the ICA’s move to (and $3 […]

Artist, Architect, Urban Designer, Renaissance man: William Gould has been making his mark on Cleveland architecture and the regional art scene for years. BAYarts is pleased to offer a look at the artist’s achievements and the vast, lasting impression he has made on greater Cleveland. Please join us for an opening reception from 7 to 9 pm Friday November 8, […]

You can get lots of things on loan: a car, a house, books, a DVD, a washer and dryer, a video game, a work of art. Say that again? Yes, even a work of art … if you attend the ArtLoan benefit on September 21, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Shaker Heights Country Club. Replace those rock band posters […]

ArtSpace Cleveland’s annual trolley tour is Saturday, October 5th from noon to 3:00pm. Board at 1400 East 30th Street and Lolly the Trolley will take you to artist live/work studios located in Cleveland’s St. Clair/ Superior Arts Quarter, including a stop at Koko’s Bakery to ‘buy a bun for the bus.’ Enjoy a fun-filled afternoon which highlights a community of […]

Rita Montlack The Incredible Brightness of Seeing Networking usually involves connections among people but in this body of work the connections manifest themselves between places and things. Since our visual culture constantly bombards us with images, it is a distinct challenge to create combinations of things heretofore unrelated. In such reincarnations, new worlds of wonder may materialize as the element […]