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. 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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“If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism) – what it is, and how it works – everything else that you understand, will only confuse you.” –Neely Fuller Jr. I have found myself in the middle of what I would call an all-out war against people of color in Cuyahoga County. I have been learning the city’s history on racism. […]
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 […]
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Every time I begin to write about Without Commercial Interruption (on view September 2 – October 30, 2016 at Waterloo Arts), I find myself whirling in the bottomless pool of the exhibit’s context– a racially inequitable society. So I’ve started this at least half a dozen times. I’m a middle aged white guy, and for me to talk about art […]
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