Fall Art Show & Open Studios 6:00–10:00pm Friday, October 18 10:00am–3:00pm Saturday, October 19 Join the Screw Factory artists, visiting artists, and guest artists for two days of shopping, exploring, and celebrating autumn. This event will be held in the historic Screw Factory located in Bird Town, Lakewood. The Templar Automotives will be on display, studios will be open, […]
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The Sculpture Center seenUNseen OPENING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 ON VIEW THROUGH NOVEMBER 26 The Sculpture Center 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216.229.6527
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Shooting Without Bullets unveiled a design for a public artwork at a community celebration at Cornucopia. Shooting Without Bullets uses an art-as-activism model in order to shift culture, policy, and perspective. The sixteen-foot, dome-shaped installation functions as an amplifying art gallery and transit shelter. The gallery invites visionary expression from women artists of color and creates a space free from […]
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“I want to expose the human experience in all its anarchic complexity,” says artist Tabitha Soren. “At this moment in the United States, our differences are being used as a way to divide us. I aim to create solidarity by making photographs that express similarities in the human experience. My work is about bringing the morbidity, dread, and anxiety of […]
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Rob Hartshorn, artist, activist and longtime gallery owner, is leaving the Professor Avenue retail scene. Not closing up shop or quitting the business, but simply opting for a quieter open studio near Lincoln Park. In effect, he is evolving as an artist much like Tremont has evolved as an art venue. “For decades Tremont has been a go-to place for […]
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Back in March of 2018, Jolee Klugherz of Solon Center for the Arts reached out to me saying, “I noticed your work recently in the show at Lakeland Community College and was wondering if you would be interested in showing your work in our gallery? I am always looking for great local artists to exhibit in our Solon space.” And […]
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The dark paintings of MANDEM have an almost cinematic power, combining traditional and digital techniques in seamless layers to create personae that bleed across emotional and historical frontiers. Beginning in earnest more than a decade ago the tightly knit group made up by Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman-Arendsee, (joined after a few years by their younger cohort Kitsuko) have evolved […]
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Ohio has a long and important history with the world of comics. Lancaster, Ohio’s Richard Outcault is credited with creating the first successful newspaper comic strip Hogan’s Alley in 1895. Frederick Opper, from Madison, created the immensely popular Happy Hooligan which ran from 1900 until 1932, the same year that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met (CRASH!) in high school […]
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Cleveland was built off the steel industry and remains a place rich with locally-sourced goods like DayGlo paint, reclaimed wood from historic buildings, and fibers from the Kozo plants grown in the gardens of Hough. These are a few examples that found their way to this region’s artists. In Material Cleveland, artists capitalize on experimenting with raw materials like wood, […]
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This September, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in partnership with The Sculpture Center, is proud to present seenUNseen, an exhibition which combines work from the Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art and a curated response of Northeast Ohio artists. The story of the Davis Collection begins in Atlanta, where Kerry worked as a postman […]
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