The parks and public gardens movement in America started with the development of landscaped cemeteries, early in the nineteenth century. One of its most glorious products is Lake View Cemetery here in Cleveland, established in 1869 on a beautiful hillside overlooking Lake Erie. Lake View serves as the final resting place for many of the notable figures of nineteenth- […]
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In 2006, the voters of Cuyahoga County made a bold and historic decision: they approved a 1.5 cent-per-cigarette tax that generates more than $15 million each year to support arts and culture organizations and projects. The levy was an innovative idea designed to help Cleveland reclaim its historic role as a cultural hub for the nation. Its impact has been […]
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For more than two years, Eric Gulliver has been talking up Cleveland as a site for the Wood Engravers Network’s annual national conference. The letterpress artist, wood engraver, and engineer met WEN founder, Jim Horton, in 2013, when the conference was held in Asheville, North Carolina. This summer the lobbying pays off. After last year’s gathering in Oxford, England, […]
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For 28 years, the Harris Stanton Gallery has been a fixture of the Akron art scene, and the broader Northeast Ohio creative community. Last year, the boutique opened a Cleveland location. To mark its first anniversary in its second home, Harris Stanton Gallery is welcoming and re-introducing itself to the neighborhood. In late August, four painters will display visual […]
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In 2015, Cleveland Arts Prize winning architect Robert Maschke celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of his gallery, 1point618, on Detroit Avenue in the Gordon Square Arts District. The first exhibition there was Recent Works by Christos Koutsouras, which opened July 30, 2005. Since then Maschke has presented more than 80 shows. His architectural work has had aesthetic […]
Read moreShe is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag. These partial, broken images at the end of Sylvia Plath’s final poem “Edge,” written shortly before the poet’s suicide in 1963, are a patchwork of verbal shadows and flat, wounding sounds. Knowing what we do about the artist and her history, the poem can read […]
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