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Artists Archives of the Western Reserve: Celebrates Shirley Aley Campbell, Members, and Military Veterans

Author: Mindy Tousley | Member: M. Alves

This spring marks a time of celebration and collaboration for the Artists Archives. We begin the season honoring one of the region’s most important figurative painters, Archived Artist Shirley Aley Campbell (1925–2018). Campbell’s attentive portraits of marginalized subjects earned her a respected place in the Cleveland arts community for over fifty years. In tribute to Shirley’s legacy, a pop-up exhibition […]

Continuum: Art of the Cleveland School and Beyond

Author: Christopher L. Richards

In partnership with the Canton Museum of Art, ARTneo presents Continuum: Art of the Cleveland School and Beyond. In the 1920s, Cleveland’s position as the center for American watercolor painting and its strong connection with commercial and fine art ceramics helped to define what is commonly known as the “Cleveland School” of artists. The newer generations of artists continue to […]

Abstraction

Author: Laila Voss

For several months, Art House had a high school project hanging on our largest wall. Living with these works over an extended period led to comparing them to some of the others that had been part of the 2018 Urban Bright Exhibition. Eight paintings focused on nature, technology, and augmenting human capacity. The students used various acrylic painting techniques and […]

Art At The Schoolhouse presents Parker, Sargent, Hot Glass

Author: Herbert Ascherman, Jr.

Art at the School House presents our 2019 lineup of exciting exhibitions, culminating with Cleveland’s first soon-to-be-announced Photo Festival opening in July. Zinsmeister Parker Through April 1 Born in Cleveland in 1934, Patricia Zinsmeister Parker’s active career as an artist and teacher began in 1976 and hasn’t stopped since. PZP has participated in nearly a hundred individual and group exhibitions […]

Nick Cave, Joe Vitone, and Mernet Larson at Akron Art Museum

Author: Akron Art Museum Staff

Nick Cave: Feat. Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 23–June 2 Nick Cave’s (b. 1959) dazzling trademark soundsuits were originally conceived as a kind of protective armor in the wake of Rodney King’s 1992 beating by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. “I started thinking about myself more and more as a black man—as someone discarded, devalued, viewed as […]

On Deciding If We Should Write for CAN Journal

Author: acerbic

We know what you want. You want our thoughts. You want our feelings. You want our stories. You want our ideas. You want our solutions. You want our frustration. You want our angry-artists-of-color voices represented in this publication in order to soothe white guilt. You want us to entertain to you. But, it’s cool. We see right through your offer. […]

Creative Fusion, Breaking the Vicious Circle: Myoyoung Kim / South Korea

Author: Michael Gill

Myoyoung Kim remembers that she first saw the term “info-graphic” in an article in The New York Times in 2001. It caught her eye because it perfectly described something she had been doing on her own, as a way of communicating research data while she pursued her BA at the Korea National University of Arts. Myoyoung was studying Interaction Design, […]

If Art is a reflection of society

Author: Michael Gill

Cleveland is a city buoyed and inspired by a workforce of artists We have always contended that art is a part of public discourse, and not just the writing and conversation about art, but the art itself. It’s not merely decorative, though it can be. It is not merely promotional, though it can do that, too. Rather, by presenting the […]

Allen Ruppersberg, Then and Now

Author: Bruce Checefsky

Cleveland Museum of Art Through December 2 Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Billboards suck. That was the first thing I thought about when I read Cleveland native Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) was paying homage to his hometown in his new body of work commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, titled Then and Now. […]

Back to FRONT

Author: Douglas Max Utter

Whether or not many people, local or otherwise, actually saw any of the works and projects completed by its 111 artists, or visited some (or even none) of its 26 sites in Cleveland, Akron, and Oberlin, FRONT Triennial was a big deal. It succeeded in putting our region decisively on any map of international twenty-first century art events. Ambitious planners […]

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