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Nobody Knows the Glory: Karamu Artists Inc. and Cleveland’s Black Art Resurgence

Eighty years after Karamu Artists Inc.’s 1941 exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, CMA highlights the collective’s role in shaping Cleveland’s Black arts scene and its broader cultural influence, with Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community. The exhibition opens March 23. In 1938, the United States was enmeshed in unflinching racial segregation and widespread poverty. Black Americans, already […]

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Love Is Resistance: The Kind of Show we Need Right Now

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Love Is Resistance, which opened on Valentine’s Day at Transformer Station, is in a multitude of ways The Kind Of Show We Need Right Now. After a year with no visual art programming at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s West side exhibit space, after decades during which Cleveland artists have pined for any measure of […]

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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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A Tale of Two Love Stories: The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis

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Like lovemaking, being photographed by one’s lover is an intimate, collaborative act. This is the subject matter explored by American photographer Kelli Connell in Pictures for Charis (pronounced care-iss). Over the past ten years, Connell researched and reconsidered the lives and relationship of writer Charis Wilson and photographer Edward Weston as Connell photographed her partner at the time, sculptor Betsy […]

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The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Picturing the Border Presents Politically Engaged Photography

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“Photographs look like the truth, but they feel like a memory.” This quote, by photography scholar Alison Nordstrom, well articulates the evocative realism depicted by more than four dozen photographs featured in Picturing the Border. The exhibition aims to spark vital conversations of what constitutes citizenship, as well as complex negotiations of personal identity as it relates to the border. […]

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Beneath the Beautification: An Exhibition by the Currently Under Curation Students at the Cleveland Museum of Art

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A signet ring that might hold an inside joke. Tessellated mosaics comprised of stolen chips of ancient marbles. A delicate bowl with its gilt rim dappled by wear. Twenty-one artworks are presented in Beneath the Beautification: Selections from the Education of the Cleveland Museum of Art, curated by the 2023-2024 cohort of high school fellows from CMA’s Currently Under Curation […]

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The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Monumental Sculptures by Rose B. Simpson

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“I think in clay,” said Rose B. Simpson in an interview with The New York Times. One of their Breakout Stars of 2023, the Native American sculptor has envisioned a site-specific project for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ames Family Atrium this summer. Commissioned specifically for the museum’s expansive, light-filled space, the two monumental figural sculptures, titled Strata,are constructed from […]

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Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow at the Cleveland Museum of Art Explores Light in Alignment with Total Solar Eclipse

“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” This quote by director Agnès Varda refers to the connectedness between people and place. Barbara Bosworth’s landscape photographs acknowledge this bond between humans and the natural world that often goes unnoticed. Timed to coincide with the total solar eclipse visible in Cleveland in April 2024, Sun Light Moon Shadow explores Bosworth’s photographs […]

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