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CIA Students Respond to Progressive Art Collection in Ready, Set, Relay!

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In Ready, Set, Relay!, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students created paintings, drawings, sculptures and digital media in response to celebrated works in the Progressive Art Collection, bringing fresh perspectives to historic works and offering the public a rare opportunity to view Progressive’s collection. Seventeen students spent the semester researching and responding to works by world-renowned artists such as Kerry […]

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The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Monumental Sculptures by Rose B. Simpson

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“I think in clay,” said Rose B. Simpson in an interview with The New York Times. One of their Breakout Stars of 2023, the Native American sculptor has envisioned a site-specific project for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ames Family Atrium this summer. Commissioned specifically for the museum’s expansive, light-filled space, the two monumental figural sculptures, titled Strata,are constructed from […]

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Spatial Harmony: Justin Brennan, Aaron Troyer
and Kero Johannes, plus Nikki Woods:
Conjuring Images, at HEDGE

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HEDGE Gallery opens two exhibits this summer season, and kickstarts new programming that includes group exhibitions, which will be an up-and-coming part of our regular scheduling in 2025 and 2026. Spatial Harmony opens May 17, featuring recent paintings by Justin Brennan, with Columbus-based painter Aaron Troyer and Cleveland ceramicist Kero Johannes. Abstracted scenes, spirited color palettes and optical illusions create […]

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Street Sense and Sensibility, at YARDS Projects

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Street Sense and Sensibility | June 6–July 27 The photographer Garry Winogrand disliked being called a street photographer. He maintained that photography is finding a way to transform something from the real world into a distinctive image. He said: “Great photography is always on the edge of failure.” Street photography was pioneered by maverick photographers who built bodies of work […]

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Zygote Showcases Queer Artists This Summer with Incantations

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This June, building upon the success of last year’s Queer Letterpress Exhibition and the Queer Print + Zine Fair, Zygote Press will continue to celebrate and promote queer artists with the exhibition Incantations, conceived by Cleveland-based artist Jen P. Harris. Incantations centers queer artists who engage with process-centered art practices that question form, presence, identity, and world-building. This exhibition includes […]

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Celebrating our Members & Three Newly-Archived Women Artists

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 The Archives is revealing its new look, with a Grand Reopening on Friday March1, from 5:30 – 8:30pm at the opening reception for our 2024 Annual Members Exhibition.  Now in its 10th year, this show has become the museum’s most anticipated yearly event. Active members are invited to contribute one work in any medium including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, assemblage, […]

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Spring 2024: Infrastructure Repair

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The early February news that neither FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, nor CAN Triennial will take place in 2025 marks the end of an era. From 2016 (when FRONT began planning, and visions of CAN Triennial began to percolate) to January 2024 (when both organizations were still making plans for their third exhibitions), Cleveland had a place in […]

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Wellness, Represented: University Hospitals and Deep Roots Experience

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At the intersection of health, wellness, and representation lies art: this winter, 21 works by Black and Brown artists living in Northeast Ohio were acquired by University Hospital’s (UH) corporate art collection. Works by Asia Armour, Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony, Dayz Whun, Aldonte Flonnoy, Jevonte “Jae Capo” King-Woods, Pahpy/SammieDoesIt, Bobbi Reagins, Vivica Satterwhite, and Emanuel Wallace are now installed in two […]

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