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Inter Urban Project Rides RTA The Red Line gets a slew of commissioned murals in time for the RNC

Visitors arriving in Cleveland for the 2016 Republican National Convention –most of them, at least—will arrive at Hopkins International Airport. The candidates and their top level staffs will probably have chauffers, and lots of others will surely drive rental cars. But with Greater Cleveland RTA offering light rail service directly to the heart of downtown, it’s safe to say that […]

SPACES, on the edge of another Renaissance

Author: Brittany M. Hudak

The first time I visited SPACES was in 2007. It was a memorable night for two things: seeing the brilliant work of my high school classmate, Libby Black, and trying to hide the giant sweat stains that had formed in my armpits. The heat was unbearable. What art gallery of this size does not have air conditioning? And yet the […]

Zygote Press Anila Rubiku, Durres, Albania

Author: Deidre McPherson

Connections, Bonds, and Bondage: Chains of Meaning Anila Rubiku is fascinated with the strong imagery and many symbolic meanings of chains. Her upcoming exhibition at Zygote Press, Tain’t Nobody’s Business, is a series of work depicting chains as a metaphor for the pain and sorrow that can be stirred up by love. “There are so many songs about chains and […]

Verb Ballets Lee Ming-Cheng, Taipei, Taiwan

Author: Daniel Gray-Kontar

The Arrival of Departure Asked about his first impressions of Cleveland, Taiwanese dancer/choreographer Meng Cheng Lee offers a surprising response. “Here, it is so big and so calm. My country is small but very busy. The cars, the people, the movement – here, it is different.” If it is a sense of calm that Lee has found during […]

Cleveland Print Room Blessing Ngobeni, South Africa

Author: Bruce Checefsky

“We Have To Confront Apathy” Blessing Ngobeni arrived to Cleveland this past winter during one of the coldest months of the year. He had seen snow before, a few snowflakes here and there on his many travels outside native Johannesburg, South Africa, but the Cleveland weather was a different kind of challenge. The usual strategies – art residency life […]

TERRIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL: Darius Steward, Clotilde Jimenez, and Race as a subject for artistic dialog

Author: Michael Gill

When we talk about race in Cleveland, conversation runs quickly toward headline stories, especially of white police officers and Black men or boys. Thanks to a couple of high profile shootings and the way the justice system responded, the city had a major role in the national discussion of race-related violence in 2015. That was the context in which I […]

Artistic Languages from Around the Globe

Author: Michael Gill

And the voices keep coming – Throughout Cleveland’s history our cultural legacy has been built by people from around the globe. From the dozens of immigrant nationalities that designed, sculpted, and maintain the cultural gardens of Rockefeller Park, to the music performed at Severance Hall, to the Asian collection and the rest of the vast holdings of the […]

Creativity Matters: Grafton Nunes and the New Unified Campus of the Cleveland Institute of Art

Author: Henry Adams

“Our values today are not very different from the values of Viktor Schreckengost. We believe in discipline, a close reading of the reality around you, a connection with the viewer and end user. We give our students traditional drawing skills, and knowledge of color theory, composition, and perspective. Today these very important foundational skills are being applied to 3D animation, […]

Washing the Blues Away – Unfixed: The Fugitive Image at Transformer Station

Author: Douglas Max Utter

Fred and Laura Bidwell’s Transformer Station Museum is a particularly savvy instance of contemporary design, and simultaneously a study of fading history. Originally a streetcar power substation dating from 1924, the well-made and now restored original building is supplemented at the west end by a new minimalist structure of about the same size. It looks intriguingly like one thing […]

Artface: Dexter Davis

Author: Michael Gill

Dexter Davis was two years old when the riots broke out in Hough, which was his neighborhood. He has lived in Cleveland his entire life, except for some time in France back in 1987. He earned his BFA at CIA, and has worked as a security guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art for more than 20 years, all the […]

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