One advantage of a small organizations is the ability to nimbly respond to fortuitous opportunities. One of the exciting aspects of an artist-in-residence program is how often these opportunities organically develop, as did the Cuban art book exhibit coming to Waterloo Arts this spring through CAN Journal and the Creative Fusion program of the Cleveland Foundation. Laura Ruiz Montes is […]
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Cuba is not on the list of countries from which the current US administration has banned travel. However the relationship between the island nation and the US is dominated by our partisan politics. And there are whole lot of people with families, jobs, and other professional relationships on both sides of that border who even now are awaiting news about […]
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“As a former US diplomat, I can tell you that there is not a country in the world, rich or poor, that you can’t learn something from.” That’s Ronn Richard, president of the Cleveland Foundation, speaking of the Foundation’s Creative Fusion international artist residency program, and specifically its focus on Cuba this Spring. This week, a delegation of Cleveland nonprofit […]
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Eleven artworks by local and international artists were commissioned through the Creative Fusion program this season, but murals do not make a place. It’s the new businesses that have cropped up–bringing with them vibrant storefronts, picnic tables, and more activity on the street–that make a place. It’s the residents who sit at those tables eating those artisanal bagels, and who […]
Read moreAt Play, with Ideas and Objects International exchange programs like Creative Fusion give Clevelanders a window onto the wider world, and they give international artists an intimate view of Cleveland. But of equal value is the way in which they give Clevelanders a fresh perspective of themselves and their city. When Rainer Prohaska came to Cleveland from Europe (he’s from […]
Read moreWith love from Berlin and Cleveland: Artists leave their mark in Hingetown On a sunny Sunday in mid-October, artist Ryan Jaenke stands in the bucket of a hydraulic lift, putting brush to brick to finish his mural on an old apartment building on W. 25th Street. His blazing black and red design shouts FULL TILT. A barber pole, a pigeon, […]
Read moreLondon-based painter and muralist David Shillinglaw joined the Creative Fusion project only recently, stepping in at the last minute when two other artists selected by Ohio City Inc. were unable to commit to the residency. So while the rest of the visiting artists were settling in and making progress on their murals, Shillinglaw was organizing his plans to live on […]
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When considering one’s personal evolution over time, it is easy to conceive of the journey in terms of a straight line. A line would make sense; it has beginning and end points that appear simple, direct, and finite. It may go up or down, as the trajectory of one’s life is wont to do. But when Luis Ituarte reflects upon […]
Read moreLoreto Greve came to my studio one afternoon, We played around with an old Epson Photo Scanner 2450, resulting in an odd but interesting series of self-portraits of her which morphed the otherwise attractive young artist into slightly grotesque and oddly shaped facial pictures. She was amused by the process. “Another one,” she said after we loaded her portrait […]
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Since early September, Creative Fusion artist Ananda Nahu has been working on what will be the largest mural in the state of Ohio. The mural expands across a massive wall that supports the Shoreway, near the on-ramp at West 28 Street. This wall also serves as a barrier between the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Lakeview Terrace Estate and neighboring Ohio […]
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