There’s a wonderful article in ArtNet—“Back to School: 10 Famous Art Professors We Wish We Had as Teachers in College”—that speaks of the ability of some professors to take the banal and turn it such a way that captivates and challenges their students. In some respects, professors can change an artist’s life. Such is the case with Eileen Dorsey and […]
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I am so excited to announce that The Gallery at Lakeland has undergone a major makeover. Now the largest exhibition space in the Tri-County (Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula) area looks fabulous, and is ready for a new and dynamic schedule of exhibitions in 2019! As Lakeland Community College’s gallery director and exhibition curator since 2005, I have been on a mission […]
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Imagine an artist oasis where you can focus on your work while conversing with seasoned and sometimes idolized artists in your field for two weeks, without interruption. Is this just a dream or perhaps something that only exists in California or Cape Cod? Neither are true. This program exists and it’s been right here in Ohio for over fifty years. […]
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Edward E. Parker’s decades-long journey through the arts world has taken him into classrooms, studios, galleries, and museums in America, Africa, and Europe. He taught art at Cuyahoga Community College for nearly twenty years before retiring and allowing his entrepreneurial spirit to soar. Owning and operating a museum has always been a dream of the master sculptor and artist. Professor […]
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The Galleries at CSU, located at 1307 Euclid Avenue on Playhouse Square, are pleased to present the second installment of the exhibition: A TRADITION RE-INTERPRETED II: NEW WORK BY CHINESE ARTISTS March 8 to April 20 This exhibition is curated by Professor Qian Li of Cleveland State University. The exhibition features recent works by contemporary Chinese artists who re-interpret the […]
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The annual DayGloSho at Waterloo Arts is a unique gallery experience of glowing art that is as delightful for adults as it is magical for children to experience. The month-long exhibit is shown in black light, giving the fluorescent artwork an appearance of illumination from within and the 3D glasses provided for viewers at the exhibit add yet another […]
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Each year, an artist is invited to create a body of work at Praxis Fiber Workshop and to exhibit that work in our gallery. We often invite artists whose primary focus is not textiles—to experiment, learn and engage with our community. Past artists in residence have included Royden Watson and Justin Woody. This spring, we are excited to host out-of-state […]
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David Randall first took pottery lessons at VAC as a little kid in the ’70s. His mother signed him up for two weekend watercolor workshops in 1980, first with Clarence Perkins, and then with Fred Leach, both renowned painters. David reminisces, “I remember it being really different and fun at fourteen! I was in a room full of adults. I […]
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Untold Stories: The Forgotten Underclass in Rust Belt Urban Renewal is an exhibition of Mahoning Valley native and Los Angeles based new-genre artist Jennifer Vanderpool. The exhibition narrative identifies outmoded imagery of blighted “Rust Belt” cities and employs them as allegories to evoke questions about neighborhood decay and gentrification, segregation and integrated cities, generations of unemployment and economic redevelopment. […]
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Here is the story of an unconventional art gallery that took more than 25 years to develop and open in the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. In the early ’90s I was hired by Forest City to develop an art and technology exhibit at Tower City in the old Barney’s space. I worked with Richard Humphrey from New York to […]
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