Deep Roots Asks, Who Are Your Heroes?

It’s a question just about everyone faces at some point in elementary school: Who are your heroes? But if that makes it sound simple, odds are you haven’t had to think very much about who inspires you, or who to look to as a role model.  Deep Roots Experience opened Who Are Your Heroes February 20. Curators David Ramsey and […]

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Donald Black Jr.: A Day That No One Will Remember, at Shaker Community Gallery

Donald Black Jr. lives on what he calls, “the gunshot side of Shaker Heights.” Shaker Heights is adjacent to the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood—the neighborhood where he lived as a child. Black explores and photographs this neighborhood and the people around him, creating striking and bold images of black children in their natural element. He refers to this exploration as “an […]

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Creative Fusion: Rainer Prohaska at Transformer Station

At 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 […]

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