As spring winds down and summer begins, the Artists Archives wraps up a busy spring schedule of exhibitions and programming. Thanks to our patrons and the artists of Cleveland, we had record breaking attendance for both the historic Pearls of Cleveland Exhibition and consciousness raising Majority Rising. We held three programs in our Collecting Art Series, starting with Dr. Marianne […]
Read moreWhen Arists Archives of the Western Reserve executive director Mindy Tousley asked me to curate a figurative show to honor Women’s History Month in March 2015, and to include my own work, she didn’t have to ask twice. Eagerly and quickly, I chose my dream team of Archived Artists for the exhibition we call Majority Rising. Feminist issues […]
Read moreThree Cleveland nonprofit organizations are mission-driven to recognize, preserve, and collect the art of Northeast Ohio. They are not the city’s biggest institutions, but three relatively small ones, with staffs of one or two people: ARTneo, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. They are completely separate organizations, but taken together, their […]
Read moreI asked my female friends and family to take off their tops for me and pose holding a variety of balls to cover their breasts. Oddly enough, many of them said yes…and here’s why. These chicks really do have balls. And not just the kind it takes to have a little fun and show some skin. They are truly the […]
Read moreThe Dress Says It All July 5 – 31 Curated by Denise Stewart Sullivan Family Gallery A woman’s dress is an extension of herself: another skin. The Dress Says It All is a celebration of women artists, individually responding to the “dress” in form and words. The exhibit originated with the theme of the LBD—the Little Black Dress, that must-have […]
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