The Cleveland Museum of Art Activates Transformer Station with Community Partnerships Showcasing Local Artists

In 2025, Greater Cleveland’s vibrant artistic community is on full display at the Transformer Station. The exhibition schedule includes collaborations with the Cleveland Institute of Art, FRONT Fellows, and CMA Staff in three major art exhibitions: Love Is Resistance, CMA Artists at Work, and FRONT Fellows Show, along with a series of performances highlighting a talented array of regional artists. […]

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Attempt to Imagine: Possibility for Repair, at CIA

Possibility For Repair, on view at the Reinberger Gallery through February 9, opened just three days after the November 5 election. The show is an attempt to imagine reparations for the systemic elite white supremacy and unchecked, hegemonic European-Christian values that buttresses our collective American histories. Artists Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Mark Thomas Gibson, Sarah Kabot, M. Carmen Lane, and Jessica […]

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Local, National and Student Art Celebrated at CIA

Exhibitions that invite regional and national perspectives and center student work highlight the Cleveland Institute of Art’s winter offerings. Possibility for Repair is a group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect that features work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland). Acknowledging the […]

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CIA Students Respond to Progressive Art Collection in Ready, Set, Relay!

In Ready, Set, Relay!, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students created paintings, drawings, sculptures and digital media in response to celebrated works in the Progressive Art Collection, bringing fresh perspectives to historic works and offering the public a rare opportunity to view Progressive’s collection. Seventeen students spent the semester researching and responding to works by world-renowned artists such as Kerry […]

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2024 Student Independent Exhibition on View This Spring at CIA

Work by Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students that demonstrates their prodigious creativity; a show organized and mounted entirely by some of those same CIA students; and, Reinberger Gallery filled with work representing a wide range of mediums and perspectives. These qualities and others make CIA’s annual Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) one of the college’s most popular exhibitions. And, every […]

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Student Creativity on View at CIA

Two exhibitions will take center stage this winter at the Cleveland Institute of Art. One is an ambitious, immersive multimedia installation inspired by the wonders of the natural world. The second features artwork from CIA’s Black Scholars and Artists (BSA) club that explores the experiences of contemporary Black artists. What do they have in common? Both are student-driven exhibitions. Forest […]

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CAN Journal Announces Archiving Partnerships

Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]

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Work by New CIA Professors Always a Draw at  Annual Faculty Exhibition

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Faculty Exhibition is an annual favorite among Northeast Ohio art enthusiasts that, year after year, remains a fresh experience. That’s due in part to longtime faculty who evolve and experiment within their practices. But, CIA’s new faculty also deserve credit. Illustrator and folk artist Dinara Mirtalipova joined CIA’s Illustration Department as an assistant professor—and participated […]

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Come, Rest Here by My Side, CIA’s 2023 Alumni Exhibition, on View This Summer

Clotilde Jiménez is no stranger to the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA). The visual artist earned his BFA in printmaking from CIA in 2013. Since then, he’s established a successful practice in Mexico City and exhibited his work—multimedia collages that create visual narratives—in Paris and Chicago. In 2020, he was featured on the cover of Art in America. Now, he […]

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Heidemann Takes the Helm at CIA

When the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) went looking for a new president on the heels of Grafton Nunes’ retirement, they found the ultimate candidate in their own house, but Kathryn Heidemann only landed there after a life lived on the world stage. The Detroit native grew up at points across the globe courtesy of her father’s career with Jeep […]

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