Working from Home: Kristen Cliffel, at William Busta Projects

Kristen Cliffel’s delightfully textured ceramics are familiar around northeast Ohio in group shows, galleries, and museums. At William Busta Projects, Cliffel’s solo exhibition, Working from Home, occupies two rooms and is poignant in all the right ways Cliffel’s work is an exploration of what she calls “domestic mythologies.” According to her website, “our culture surrounds us with pervasive archetypal myths […]

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Fulfillment Center, Pt. 1, at SPACES

I’ve wanted to see artistic commentary on Amazon’s pervasiveness for a long time. I’m certain that nearly everyone reading this has made a purchase from Amazon at some point in their lifetime (myself included). As I write this article, I’ve already looked out the window and watched the Amazon truck pass by my apartment building. Whether you’re an enthusiastic Prime […]

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CAC: A Voice for Individual Artists?

To be polite and understated, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture has a lot going on right now. The organization that administers public funding for the arts is facing criticism from artists over the way it has handled individual artist grants in recent years, and a discrepancy between amounts budgeted for individual artist grants and the amounts actually spent.  In discussion of […]

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Assembly for the Arts to Announce New Grants

The nonprofit advocacy organization Assembly for the Arts rolls out a new grant program for individual Cuyahoga County artists this week, supported by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Assembly for the Arts Executive Director Jeremy Johnson and Chief Community Officer Deidre McPherson spoke about the program via Zoom. Assembly joins Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, Karamu House, and SPACES Gallery […]

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Amanda D. King: Root Matter, at McDonough Museum

Root Matter by Amanda D. King, curated by Amber N. Ford, positions Christian mythology in relation to the Black experience. The exhibition examines religion through moments of both hope and macabre, walking the line between repression and release. King is a conceptual artist, cultural strategist, and social justice advocate who uses arts and culture to envision possibilities for transforming individuals, […]

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Taryn McMahon: Watershed, at McDonough Museum

Watershed by Taryn McMahon, on view through March 4th at the McDonough Museum of Art, visually depicts the imperfect relationship between humans and nature. Initially, the works appear subdued, but the longer you spend with them, the more you’ll notice discrete nods to our increasingly polluted waterways. These works quietly portray the defilement of natural environments, a process that is […]

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Public Art Installation, They Have Landed, Disappears

For more than 10 years, Loren Naji’s iconic sculpture “They Have Landed” sat politely on a slip of greenspace in front of the West 25th RTA station, but now it’s gone. “They just threw it away,” said Naji during a Feb. 16 phone interview. “Can you imagine?” Its role as public art was clear: The sculpture was marked with a […]

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A Deep Dive into Symbolism: Orlando Caraballo and Jennifer Whitten at Akron Soul Train

Orlando Caraballo and Jennifer Whitten are a serendipitous pairing at Akron Soul Train, elevating domesticity through both subject matter and materials. Whitten’s Intricacies and Caraballo’s Capicú are on view concurrently through March 4th. Cleveland native Orlando Caraballo is the education director at the Cleveland Print Room and earned his B.F.A. in drawing and printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art. […]

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