People may not consider the possibility of their cotton shirt serving as an outlet of creative expression, but the intricacies of fiber art become very clear when viewing the works shown in Layers, currently on view at the Praxis Fiber Workshop. Each artist in the exhibition is a member of the Art Cloth Network (ACN): a nationally recognized group led […]
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“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it,possibly without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”Maya Angelou At From WOMAN19, exhibiting at The Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery, the energies of the divine feminine are radiant and loud, as the artists pour their heart and soul into the pieces surrounding us. The exhibition gathers art “created […]
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When you hear the words First Lady and White House, images of elegance and history arise. Jackie, Birdie, Eleanor, Michelle… women whose lives were shaped by marriage and the roles they assumed beside their husbands. Frances Benjamin Johnson was a different kind of “first lady”, however, who arrived at the White House on her own terms and made history as […]
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CAN asked Paul Cox—writer, percussionist, former Dean of Creative Arts at Tri-C, lecturer/visiting assistant prof. of Music at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University, and even before that Associate Director of Performing Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art—to visit and write about Steve Parker’s Fight Song, on view through April 18. –Ed. So, I crossed Detroit and walked […]
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“I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legsI am doll arms, big veins, dog begsI want to be the girl with the most cakeI fake it so real, I am beyond fake.”– Courtney Love/Hole, 1994 Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Through a feminist […]
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It’s not at every exhibition that invites participation by sitting on an artist performing as a chair, but this is what visitors walked in on during opening night for Love, Sex, & The Body, an open call 18+ art show curated by Liana Gonzalez. Artist Maddie McSweeney’s performance involved impersonating a chair, their body wrapped in beige pantyhose from head […]
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It’s not the May Show, but the Cleveland Museum of Art did not beat around the bush in announcing Lake Effect—a new juried exhibition of contemporary art of Northeast Ohio, to be produced by the Museum this year at Transformer Station. In fact the Museum says directly, “Drawing inspiration from the museum’s historic May Show—an annual exhibition that for decades […]
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Walking into The Sculpture Center’s largest gallery a few weeks ago, I was startled by the clear sightline to a monumental, bare-chested Queen Victoria. She looks proudly over the exhibition space as if it were her colonial domain, full skirts belying a row of burdened, black feet. The black bodies that hold this heavy cast body upright are lined up […]
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Cleveland State University has taken a significant step toward restoring its place on the Cleveland art scene—both in providing what gallery director Kendall Christian called a “working classroom” for art students, and as a connection to the region’s art community at large: on January 7, the university’s Request for Qualifications for an architect to provide design services for a new […]
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In Cleveland, the highest recognition that an artist can receive is the Cleveland Arts Prize in Visual Arts. The Prize has been awarded for 65 years, since 1961. The Prize is awarded in other disciplines too – Music, Design, Literature, Dance – and other people are recognized for their service to the arts in our region. But it has always […]
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