In the early 2000s, Pete Dell began collecting art during weekend excursions to University Circle with his teenage son, Denver. The two would start by catching an unconventional film at Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA). Then they would visit various art galleries throughout the city. “That’s when I started buying art and gradually started spending more money […]
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In November 1952, Cleveland’s then most famous artist complained of a headache after teaching a class at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He went home to Willoughby, and immediately died of a cerebral hemorrhage. With him died any explanation of what he was striving to achieve in his work. Consistently affable yet non-committal in public, that artist never revealed his […]
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In many Cleveland neighborhoods that have been revitalized in the last twenty or thirty years, artists have led the charge with their own dollars and sweat equity. Consider Tremont, or Waterloo, or Gordon Square. Even in Playhouse Square, the arts were the point. In what’s probably the region’s largest single rediscovery of urban infrastructure, it has gone a different way. […]
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BIO Camilo Gonzalez Barragan BIO Camilo Gonzalez Barragan is an independent artist from Bogotá, Colombia, who studied film and TV at the UNITEC University Corporation of Colombia. He found interest in analog photography as a means to develop his ideas and tell his stories while working on audiovisual projects. Cinema, music and painting have been his inspiration to illustrate his […]
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It’s a precarious landscape, at once intimate and vast, that flips the uneasy switch at the back of one’s neck. It’s a magnificent wreck that somehow amplifies the joy in that moment balanced between destruction and creation. It’s the fragility of one small brick spinning out from an enormous cyclone of urban decay. As Amy Casey says about her work, […]
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At the intersection of health, wellness, and representation lies art: this winter, 21 works by Black and Brown artists living in Northeast Ohio were acquired by University Hospital’s (UH) corporate art collection. Works by Asia Armour, Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony, Dayz Whun, Aldonte Flonnoy, Jevonte “Jae Capo” King-Woods, Pahpy/SammieDoesIt, Bobbi Reagins, Vivica Satterwhite, and Emanuel Wallace are now installed in two […]
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Richard and Alita Rogers symbolize the Yin and Yang of art collecting. Rick has pursued the art of acquiring fine objects since he was a child, starting with coins and moving into antiques and furniture as a young man. Roughly a decade after marrying Alita in 1982, he had worked hard and long at B. W. Rogers Co.–his family’s industrial […]
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Photo poets launched in November 2021, featuring the work of emerging artist Vivica Satterwhite, whose work was on the cover! Since then we have featured nine artists in print, ranging from hobbyists to professionals, with styles ranging from documentary, photojournalism and architectural-based work. Each photographer states their own definition of a photo poet, taking the title and making it their […]
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When Rhonda Brown returned to Cleveland to serve as Chief Strategist for the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in the administration of Mayor Justin Bibb, it was not entirely clear what the role would mean. It was a new position. Cleveland is a city with enormous depth of arts activity in the shadow of its famous major institutions, and […]
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In the forty years since it was founded in 1984, the Cleveland Artist’s Foundation has gone through many ups and downs, but has been the one exhibiting organization in the city to focus consistently on the art-life of Cleveland. Over the years it has produced a very impressive series of scholarly and also very readable publications on Cleveland art, devoted […]
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