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Crossroads: Still We Rise at The Sculpture Center and on Twelve Outdoor Sites in Cleveland

The city of Cleveland and the metropolitan areas it anchors have a long history of racial exclusion and segregation. To this day, Cleveland remains racially segregated, with most of the Black population clustered in the eastern side. Compared to the rest of the country’s 100 largest metro areas, Cleveland ranks 98th in racial inclusion, with massive gaps in earnings, poverty, and employment.1 […]

Anthony Van Rooy Select Works 1994-2020 at 818 Studios in Tremont

Barbara Merritt

Photographer Barbara Merritt opened 818 Studios in 2018 in the historic Tremont neighborhood as a photography studio, with an additional desire to showcase the work of local and national artists. Perched above the iconic Fahrenheit restaurant, 818 Studio’s early shows included three featured artists: Barbara Merritt, multi‐media artist Rebecca Yody, and painter Anthony Van Rooy. Van Rooy is back with a newly-curated […]

Emily Davis Gallery—Myers School of Art, The University of Akron

by Director of Galleries Arnold Tunstall, and Arts Administration Graduate

Beginning May 3, the Emily Davis Gallery at The University of Akron’s Myers School of Art will premiere two exhibitions: Rubber City to Rust Belt: The End of Akron’s Rubber Industry 1976-1987 and Selections from the Myers School of Art Collection. Rubber City to Rust Belt: The End of Akron’s Rubber Industry 1976-1987 will feature the work of Daniel Mainzer, former staff photographer […]

Shush: Kimberly Chapman Porcelain Sculptures

Kimberly Chapman

Imagine . . . Shushing women with iron face bridles. Separating refugee mothers and daughters under the evil cloak of molestation and rape. Dressing your child in protective gear in defense of a school shooter. Or, grasping for household tools to protect yourself and your offspring from an alcoholic husband’s rage. Such are the perils of womanhood. Kimberly Chapman’s exhibition […]

Community Blooms, and Art By The Falls Evolves, at Valley Arts

Rebecca Gruss

A Community Art Installation Is Blooming at Valley Art Center! In celebration of Valley Art Center’s fiftieth anniversary, VAC has engaged internationally-known fiber artist Carol Hummel to wrap the trees in front of its building in a colorful display. Fantastic at Fifty – Valley Art Center’s Anniversary Community Art Project invites volunteers to create crocheted circles which will be joined […]

Faculty & Staff Exhibition Honors Ursuline Legacy

Ursuline College Staff

Honoring the past while celebrating the present is a hot topic lately at Ursuline College. The liberal arts college in Pepper Pike celebrates its sesquicentennial this year, starting with a show in its Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery, Legacy: The 2021 Ursuline College Staff and Faculty Exhibition. With a range of artwork including photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture, this exhibition showcases […]

The Fertility of Transformation: Anna Chapman and Kristen Newell At Waterloo Arts

Kayli Salzano

Emerging from a period of global “inaction times” wherein we had all been ordered to shelter in solitude, Anna Chapman and Kristen Newell turn to nature and text to locate themselves in a shared web of renewal. Many of us have found new ways in the past year to negotiate the tension between “action” and “inaction.” We’ve reassessed and […]

Among Other Ambitions

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The arts, which have long promoted authenticity and social engagement, have spent the past year bravely extolling their accomplishments in transitioning from direct experience to virtual experience. It is understandable—everyone placed their best foot forward, working with what was possible. Still, as brave as everyone was, it was still life fallen apart. It has been a zombie life—not the […]

Worthington Yards Presents Uplifters: New Beginnings from Old Stuff

Liz Maugans

As a general rule, nostalgia in art is frowned upon. It’s a shtick that makes people feel like they should care about your art more than they should, because it’s familiar, and sometimes stagnates as sentimentality. Nostalgia is viewed as an intellectual and aesthetic crutch that prevents cultural artifacts from reflecting their own epochs. With that in mind, we are […]

Zygote’s Virtual Programming Continues

Brittany M. Hudak

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Zygote has been closed to the general public; but that hasn’t stopped our team from offering a wide variety of virtual printmaking programs. In addition to two online exhibitions, we have offered group classes, and Pay-What-You-Can Programs featuring printmakers at work, on Zoom. We are also continuing our partnership with the Cuyahoga County Public […]

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