John Mellencamp’s career as a rock and roll musician has been familiar since he was known as Johnny Cougar, and his 1978 song “I Need A Lover” became a hit. He subsequently wrote and recorded many more beloved records full of songs set in the heartland, about regular people with names like Jack and Diane. His most recent album, Strictly […]
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Generations April 29–May 22 Artists are invited to create work with their children or parents, completing the circle of generations in art and creativity. Throughout the run of this show, there will be artist talks with engagement activities for families. REMIX June 3–July 3 Artists create reimagined visuals of album covers that shaped their worlds. SheArt: B.A.P.S. July 16–August 14 […]
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This summer, HEDGE Gallery is proud to host recent work by our represented artists in a group exhibition. In 2015, HEDGE began promoting local regional artists, whose number grew to a roster of eighteen—all featured in this summer’s show. They are Justin Brennan, John W. Carlson, Rebecca Cross, Sarah Curry, Matthew Gallagher, Hilary Gent, Dale Goode, Meghann Hennen, Mark Howard, […]
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Greetings My CAN Family and Friends! Can you believe that April 15 marks a year since Kings & Queens of Art moved into a new studio space both physically and spiritually???? And I am loving our new studio space at 1385 East 34th Street–still! In November 2021 we launched Artist Play Date on the first Sunday of each month, and […]
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Being an artist/entrepreneur takes much sacrifice and patience. Many times your mind wanders to the perspective of others: staff, artists, colleagues, and the community we reflect and serve. And then life makes things complicated, bringing personal struggles that feed our muse to absorb its blows. When I decided to reformat art shows, not only to survive a pandemic but to […]
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It is not too often that we have a weaving-focused exhibition in our gallery, despite being a textile organization with a focus in weaving. We showcase a diverse range of processes within our medium across our four to six exhibitions per year. Visitors experience works in sculpture, fashion and installation that all have a tie to the field of contemporary […]
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Sometimes visiting a different culture reveals truths about your own, but often it takes a return visit to truly begin to understand your place in the world. That’s the premise behind the service-learning trips led by Katherine Jackson, PhD, associate professor in the graduate Counseling and Art Therapy Department at Ursuline College. Since 2013, she’s brought students, faculty, alumni and […]
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This June will mark the start of the gallery’s third year. In that time, Abattoir has supported work by many young artists and introduced exciting work by nationally-recognized artists to Cleveland’s art lovers. We are proud to support Katie Butler and Max Markwald in our gallery program; they are both young artists who have been selected for the journal New […]
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The Akron Art Museum has an exciting lineup of exhibitions for the spring and summer. Beginning April 9, Reflections on Perception opens in the Judith Bear Isroff and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell galleries. In this exhibition, viewers can explore how artists employ reflection to enhance and complicate their compositions. The works in Reflections on Perceptions show how mirrored surfaces […]
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As Prussian troops prepared to crush the 1849 socialist uprising in Dresden, anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin proposed that paintings from the National Museum be placed in front of the barricades, reasoning that Prussian soldiers wouldn’t dare destroy the works to breach their defenses. Inspired by Bakunin’s never-realized proposal, artist Ahmet Öğüt has created site-specific “barricades” featuring works from museum collections […]
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