Fall 2021 Events
Melissa Bloom, CONVERGE Artist Portraits, acrylic on board, each 5 X 5 inches.
Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many art events planned for this fall have limited admission, and while almost all of them remain free, many require pre-registration. At press time, many in-person indoor events require wearing facial covering.
These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Depending on the course of the disease and trends in rates of infection, events may be added, cancelled, or postponed. Check the CAN Weekly e-newsletter for the most up-to-date information. To subscribe to the free CAN Weekly, visit CANjournal.org and look for the “Join Our Email List” button on the right side of your screen.
CONTINUING EVENTS
Through August 31
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition: Xuena Pu
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
Through August 31
The Tamir Rice Foundation + SPACES Art Supply Drive
SPACES
Through September 1
Art By the Falls Pop-Up Gallery Exhibit II
Second group of artists accepted to last year’s cancelled Art by the Falls are featured in this two-part show.
VALLEY ARTS CENTER
Through September 3
The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through September 3
Nikki Woods: Vivid Wild Things
In her second show at HEDGE Gallery, Nikki Woods, a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate who is currently the director of CIA’s Reinberger Gallery, is showing paintings that depict women, landscapes and “beautiful objects, including porcelain tchotchkes.” Her lush, impressionistic paintings use strong colors to create a powerful impact.
HEDGE GALLERY
Through September 10
The Goddess Shield: Recent Acquisitions in South Asian Art
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through September 10
How can Museum Labels be Antiracist?
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through September 10
Watercolor Ohio 2021
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND
Through September 12
Out of the Shadows: New Paintings by Eileen Dorsey, with Garrett Weider
Eileen Dorsey is best known for her slightly surreal, deeply detailed landscapes rendered in her distinctive, unreal yet realistic palette. This show includes some of those, but also extends her reach into portraits, abstracts and landscapes much looser and more gestural than her usual work, and features several collaborations with fellow painter Garrett Weider, with whom she passed the canvases back and forth.
CAIN PARK FEINBERG ART GALLERY
Through September 12
Mike Wasemann Painting
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
Through September 12
Snickers That Turn Into Livable Joy
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Through September 12
New Histories, New Futures
The impact of time on historical revisionism is the theme of this show, which includes the work of three contemporary artists, two of them from northeast Ohio. Oberlin-based Johnny Coleman creates his large-scale immersive installation from sculpture, projections and sound, using his research on a child slave who died during his journey north and was buried in Oberlin. Cleveland’s Antwoine Washington counteracts stereotypes about Black fathers with portraits of his own family. And Queens, New York, artist Kambui Olujimi’s North Star series of paintings and videos feature weightless, floating Black bodies “freed from the gravity of oppression.”
TRANSFORMER STATION
Through September 17
Cross Generations; bridging the gap of artists: MOCHA x Morgan Conservatory
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Through September 18
Davon Brantley: We Not Linkin’
BAYARTS
Through September 18
2021 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition
WATERLOO ARTS & PHOTOCENTRIC
Through September 19
Totally Rad: Bold Color in the 1980s
Totally Radical: Art and Politics in the 1980s
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through September 19
Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1889-1900
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through September 25
Crossroads: Still We Rise
The augmented reality exhibit, curated by artist/activist Robin Robinson, creates an interactive art experience that’s the first of its kind in Cleveland. Commissioned artwork is set in specific locations that give the work added context, with another layer added by viewing it through a free smartphone app. This allows viewers to explore the layered histories of neighborhoods and the reasons, often race-related, behind those histories.
Presented by the Sculpture Center in locations around Cleveland.
THE SCULPTURE CENTER
Through September 25
Uplifters: New Beginnings from Old Things
YARDS PROJECT
Through September 26
A Thrilling Act: The Art of Anthony Eterovich
MASSILLON MUSEUM
Through October 6
Judi Krew: Hoard Culture, Where Are Meets Fashion
MASSILLON MUSEUM
Through October 8
Nikki Woods: Ghost Fields
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS
Through October 10
The Weight of Time
The introspective works of Chad Eby, Danny Greene, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Matt Milligan, Haumed Rahmani and Nowhere Mountain, who hail from all over the country, explore the disorienting, surreal aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global and societal dysfunction it exposed.
KAISER GALLERY
Through October 10
CIA Faculty Exhibition
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
Through October 10
Ohio Designer Craftsmen: The Best of 2020-2021
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
Through October 15
Blue/Black/Baby Smiles, Singin’ to an Old River—We Hear You Coming
SPACES
Through October 16
CONVERGE presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
This huge five-venue exhibition features 71 regional artists of a variety of identities, examining and celebrating what those identities mean to them personally and to the community. The lead curator is self-identified lesbian Kelly Pontoni (who works at AAWR), a nontraditional recent CIA grad in her 40s, who was inspired by a new generation of LGBTQ+ students. It includes almost 150 pieces, including painting, photography, mixed-media assemblage immersive installation, glass and textiles. Receptions and artist talks will be held at the various venues throughout the run of the show. Check the Artist Archives website at artistsarchives.org/event/converge/.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, LAKE ERIE COLLEGE, LGBT CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND, CLEVELAND METROHEALTH, & JUDSON MANOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
Through October 17
Printers Select
Spotlight: Nicole Schneider
HEIGHTS ARTS
Through October 24
Close to Me: Ceramics by Erica Sanada
Moments in Time: Watercolors by Yuki Hall
Soar, Roar, Explore: Animal Life from the CMA Collection
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
Through October 30
Best Served Cold by Shelley Benner Baird
Opening reception 5:30-8:30 pm September 4
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
Through November 7
A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920-1950
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through November 14
From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December 26
Ashcan School Prints and the American City: 1900-1940
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December
Open (End)ed Show: Works of Dragana Crnjak, Isabel Farnsworth, Michael Gable, Mark Keffer, Christine Mauersberger, Taryn McMahon, and Hui-Chu Ying
On view at The East End Collection
ART EVERYSPACE
Through January 2
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
This exhibit opens a window on the diversity of L.A.’s Chicano arts community, featuring cross-disciplinary works made from the late 1960s to early ‘90s, including painting, photography, fashion, music, video, print materials and performance art ephemera. Much of the work revolves around the civil rights, women’s and LGBTQ activism of its participants, driven by the AIDS epidemic, which claimed one of its leading artists, Edmundo “Mundo” Meza, in 1985 at the age of 29. His central role is honored in the title of the exhibit, which brings together these pioneering artists’ work for comprehensive consideration for the first time.
MOCA CLEVELAND
Through January 9
Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panama
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Continuum: Historical Resonances in Contemporary Art
Through February 27
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through May 15
The 10,000 Things by Jordan Wong
AKRON ART MUSEUM
AUGUST
27
CAN Fall Issue Release
DOUBTING THOMAS GALLERY
28
Last Saturday Higher Verse Open Mic Night @ 6 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA
Pochoir En Plein Air in-person workshop
Taught by Beth Sheehan
10 am-4 pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
30
86 Reasons for Asylum Admission
Artist Kimberly Chapman’s work examines the practice of declaring women mentally ill for reasons such as reading novels or being bored with cleaning and ironing, and sending them to insane asylums for primitive and often debilitating treatments by male doctors. “It was a convenient way for husbands and fathers to keep opinionated, unruly or inconvenient women and girls in line,” says Chapman. The exhibit includes sculpture, mixed media installations and tintype photos of the artist, a recent CIA graduate, posing as nineteenth-century “crazy” women.
Opening reception 5-8 pm September 10
Through September 24
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY
FAWICK GALLERY @ KLEIST CENTER FOR ART & DRAMA
SEPTEMBER
3
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Jim Soppelsa: Combinations Along the Way
Opening reception 6-9 pm
Through September 26
ARTICLE
Dead Wax & Distant Transmissions
Opening reception: 5-8 pm
Through October 2
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
La Cosecha Galleria Annual Halloween Emporium
Opening 6 pm
Through October 31
LA COSECHA GALERIA
Tali Weinberg
Currently artist in residence at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, Tali Weinberg’s work looks at the history of weaving as a voice for women and other marginalized groups. The climate crisis is one of her key concerns, along with health issues, and she addresses those issues in this show as she “traces relationships between climate, water, extractive industry, illness, and displacement; between personal and communal loss; and between corporeal and ecological bodies.”
Opening reception 6-8 pm
Through October 29
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
Béatrice Lebreton
Through September 24
FRAMED GALLERY
4
Best Served Cold by Shelley Benner Baird
Opening reception 5:30-8:30 pm
Through October 30
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
Wicked featuring artist Luz Mary T Pagan
6 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA
9
Final BAYarts Thursday Market
4-7 pm
BAYARTS
10
Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
11
BAYarts Moondance Annual Benefit
Expect BAYarts popular annual gala to be sold out in advance, after a dark year in 2020. The entire arts community gets together to party on the grounds around the galleries: dining on a variety of local food, drinking wine and beer, listening to music under the stars, and much socializing.
BAYARTS
Waterloo Arts Fest
Noon-7 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
12
The NEA Big Read Kick-Off: The House on Mango Street
1-4 pm
ART HOUSE INC
14
Virtual Program: Un(masc)ing Drag History with Dr. Lady J
One of the programs connected to Artist Archives of the Western Reserve’s huge CONVERGE exhibit is this talk with local drag artist and transgender woman Lady J. Martinez, whose thrilling performances often involve social commentary. She’s also recently earned a PhD from Case Western Reserve University called “From the Love Ball to RuPaul: The Mainstreaming of Drag in the ‘90s,” which exposes how drag went from an underground art form to being celebrated on national TV.
7-8 pm: visit artistarchives.org to register.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
16
Mark Howard: Shape Shifters
Through November 5
HEDGE GALLERY
17
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
CONVERGE, presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
Opening reception 6:30-8:30 pm
LGBT CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND
Spooky Boobs
Through October 15
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
18
Performance by Le Charme
PRAMA ART SPACE
Tremont Arts & Cultural Fest
September 18 & 19
LINCOLN PARK
Cyantific Art featuring artist Cyan Reyes
6 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA
19
Closing #namingemilysshow; the art of Emily Szalkowski
PRAMA ART SPACE
Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon
French artist Odilon Redon died shortly before the Surrealist movement was launched, but his dream-like, Japanese-influenced paintings—some of which verge on abstraction with subjects seeming to melt away, done in his final years in the early twentieth century—are harbingers of its arrival. The Cleveland Museum of Art acquired his work early, within a decade of his death, and has grown that collection over the years. This show brings together all of its holdings including painting, lithograph and pastel.
Through January 23
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
23
Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk, Poets Respond to Printers Select
7 pm
HEIGHTS ARTS
24
Ingenuity Cleveland
The Ingenuity Festival, which promotes arts and technology collaboration, was conceived as a moveable feast intended to activate underused spaces. It seemed to have finally found a permanent home at the Hamilton Collaborative on the edge of AsiaTown in 2016. But after a cancelled year and with some still cautious about large-scale crowd events that partly take place indoors, it’s again gone on the move, locating at Cleveland’s East Side lakefront Gordon Park. With new set-up challenges, the festival should look and feel very different this year. Pray for good weather!
Through September 26
EAST LAKEFRONT/GORDON PARK
Strange Devotion: Jacob Koestler & Michael McDermit
Book release & opening reception
Through November 5
WILLIAM BUSTA PROJECTS
KEEN Magazine Launch Party
6 pm
Through September 26
LA COSECHA GALERIA
Technical Specialist Exhibition
Through October 15
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ROULET STUDENT + ALUMNI GALLERY
25
Artist Inventory Challenge (hybrid event)
7-10 pm
ART HOUSE INC
30
Hush-Hush
Reception 4:40-6:30 pm October 7
Through October 29
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY COBURN ART GALLERY
OCTOBER
1
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Dualities, Sculptures by Vivien Abrams Collens
Through January
MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT
Richmond Agamelah
FRAMED GALLERY
Miguel Rivera-Vera
Through November 13
WATERLOO ARTS
2
More is More: Visual Richness in Contemporary Art
Through March 27
Afterimages: Geometric Abstraction and Perception
Through January 9
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Morgan Conservatory Benefit
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
8
Charlotte Lees: Nature Re-Imagined
Opening reception 5-8 pm October 8
Through November 12
BAYARTS
Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Leaves and Leaving presented by Art Books Cleveland
Through November 20
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Screw Factory Open House
6-10 pm October 8
10 am-4 pm October 9
LAKE ERIE BUILDING, LAKEWOOD
Lauren Kalman: Devices for Filling a Void
Detroit-based Kalman’s performances spotlight the relationship of the female body in relation to environments and wearable objects. Trained in jewelry and contemporary crafts, she’s expanded her practice to include installation, 3D printing, computer-controlled objects, performance, photography, and video, as well as traditionally-fabricated metal objects, textiles, beading, and ceramics.
Stephen Yusko
Through December 17
SCULPTURE CENTER
9
LGBT Center Heritage Day Special CONVERGE Viewing
Time TBA
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Fish Fly Fur
Opening reception noon-3 pm
Through November 20
YARDS PROJECT
14
CONVERGE, Presented by Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
Closing Reception 4:30-7:30 pm
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE
15
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Sonata #6 Project
A World Premiere performance of Sonata #6 will be scheduled during the run of the exhibition presented by Context Fine Art and Gordon Square Classical Concerts.
Through December 17
SURVIVAL KIT
Drawn to Clay: The Alchemy of the Elements
Opening reception: 5-9 pm October 15
Special Holiday Ceramics Sale: November 19, December 11, 12 & 17
ARTNEO
Davon Brantley: Familiar Phases
Through November 30
DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS
Zygote Artists Showcase
Through December 20
METRO HEALTH CLEVELAND
16
Picturing Motherhood Now
Through March 13
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Cut From the Same Cloth
In partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Art: Creativity Works Program
Through November 28
KAISER GALLERY
Workshop: Letterpress Basics, Setting Type with Wendy Partridge
10 am-1:30 pm Saturdays, October 16, 23 & 30
ZYGOTE PRESS
22
Rock and Roll Nightmare: a horror and rock-themed show featuring various artists
PRAMA ART SPACE
23
ReFuge: The Last Days of Wonder
Developed in partnership with the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, the artists in this group show created a nature-themed installation from recycled materials, looking at such issues as nature as a refuge, nature as unwelcoming to some, and the environmental impact of material use. It also includes two-dimensional work made from recycled material.
Gallery is open noon-5pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Check website for any changes in hours.
Through January 28
URSULINE COLLEGE, THE MULLEN BLDG., 1ST FLOOR
Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross
POP/OP
Tom Franco and the Ice Creams: Beyond Struggle, When the Future Hello Meets Identities Deep Roots
Bay area folk artist Franco worked predominantly with found material, including his painting surface. His work draws from his surrounding community, as well as his inner life, combining images that are both whimsical and thought-provoking. Tom Franco and the Ice Creams is a collaborative group he leads that created this show of paintings, illustrations and sculptures over the period of a year, responding to the question “Who am I?”
Through March 6
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
30
Mind Jewl featuring artist Julian O’Fray
6 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA
NOVEMBER
4
Kindred Spirits: Glass & Clay Invitational
Opening Reception 5:30-8 pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
5
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Bits and Pieces: A Collage Show with works of Susan Squires, Zoe Murphy, Kelly Pontoni, Kathy Skerritt and Kim Bissett
Opening reception 6-9 pm
Through November 28
ARTICLE
One Year, One Outfit
This intriguing show features the work of more than fifty makers who spent the year working individually or in groups of up to three people, creating an outfit of three garments and/or accessories made with materials from within the local “fibershed” (within 250 miles). It’s intended to spotlight “slow” fashion, local production and a collaborative process.
Opening reception 6-8 pm (TBD whether in-person, virtual, or both)
Through December 31
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
DECEMBER
1
Holiday Store
Open seven days a week starting December 1
Through December 31
HEIGHTS ARTS
6
Annual Holiday Market Kickoff 6 pm
Through December 24
LA COSECHA GALERIA
Two-day relief workshop intensive with Arron Foster
11 am-3 pm November 6 & 7
ZYGOTE PRESS
12
Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Community Culture Night
7-8:30 pm
ART HOUSE
14
Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain
Through January 30
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
18
David King
Through January 7
HEDGE GALLERY
19
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Holiday Showcase
Through December 17
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
20
Music performance
PRAMA ART SPACE
Holiday Open House
10 am-4 pm
BAYARTS
21
Closing of Rock and Roll Nightmare
PRAMA ART SPACE
26
Black Friday 50% OFF Seasonal Sale
6 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA
27
Waterloo Arts Holiday Coop Sale
Through December 24
WATERLOO ARTS
29
Christmas boutique
November 26-29
PRAMA ART SPACE
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