Artists Archives of the Western Reserve and Sculpture Center Partner to Present Davis Collection of African American Art

This September, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in partnership with The Sculpture Center, is proud to present seenUNseen, an exhibition which combines work from the Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art and a curated response of Northeast Ohio artists. The story of the Davis Collection begins in Atlanta, where Kerry worked as a postman […]

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Recast Ceramic Invitational at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) is pleased to open its fall season with Recast, an exhibition co-curated by Mary Urbas, gallery director at Lakeland Community College. Recast is the second ceramic invitational showcasing the wealth of talented Ohioans working within this versatile medium. This second casting of this exhibition features hand built and wheel thrown sculptural and […]

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End of an Era: Mansfield Art Center and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Look Back at City Artists at Work

The Mansfield Art Center is very pleased to partner with the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve to present City Artists at Work, 1998–2018. This exhibition, curated by current AAWR executive director and former CAAW co–chair Mindy Tousley, will be the first in what is hoped will be a continuing partnership between AAWR and Mansfield. It brings together over eighty […]

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In the Details, at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

The fall exhibition season at the Artists Archives opens with In the Details, a group textile show curated by independent curator and Lakeland Community College gallery coordinator Mary Urbas. The exhibition showcases the work of Libby Chaney, Juli Edberg, Sandy Miller, Jessica Pinsky, Gayle Vickery Pritchard, Susan Shie, Deborah Silver, Lilian Tyrrell, Evelyn Ward and Jennifer Whitten. This will be […]

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Miller Horns at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Miller Horns, who was born in 1948 and so came of age between the late 1960s and early 1970s, was mainly a printmaker. But he was a print maker excited by new forms and techniques available in that field, at that revolutionary time. Horns began looking for fresh means of expression just when electrostatic copy machines became widely available for […]

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Teachers and their Students Share Watershed Moments at AAWR

The conversation surrounding the benefits of art education has been in the forefront of public debate in recent years. It is rapidly becoming scientifically accepted that learning visual arts, music and dance can be instrumental in the formation of physical connections in the brain which have lasting effects on human development. Artists have always been in the vanguard of creative […]

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AAWR Presents Fragments, Photo Now, and more

Fragments: Works of Elaine Albers Cohen from the past and present opens at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Thursday, September 17. Fragments will showcase Cohen’s collage, ceramics, paintings, and prints over her career. Cohen’s work over her 50 year span of working as an artist has been inspired by her love of Southwest Indian art. “My interest in […]

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