Our impact on the world around is questioned in Akron Soul Train’s current exhibition, Woven: The Human x Nature Relationship, on view from September 8th through October 23rd, 2021. The exhibition features Ron Shelton and Nicole Condon-Shih. Both artists completed a residency program through the gallery with their use of plastic, tying the two bodies of work together. For […]
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High Art Fridays: The Sustainable Art of Plastics will open on July 6 and run through August 26 at the Beachwood Community Center: 25325 Fairmount Boulevard. This exhibition is the third in-person display for this project. The show’s main feature is over fifty plastic-embellished Art Hats made by local, national, and international artists, along with an inclusion of Cleveland’s various population segments, such […]
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HAF Connects: The Sustainable Art of Plastics began in 2019 under the auspices of the Urban Bright Art Residency at Art House, Inc. Ron Shelton, artist and publisher of the online arts magazine High Art Fridays (HAF), engaged 23 energetic third graders about how plastics are invading our culture, our environment, and our lives. The theme of this project was centered […]
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Cleveland-based artist Ron Shelton puts the worldwide plastic problem front and center in both his own art-making and his practice as a curator / convener. His current exhibit, HAF Connects, is on view now through September 18 at RampArts Gallery, in the 78th Street Studios complex in Cleveland. It’s an exhibit that weaves together multiple threads of ongoing interest […]
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The likeness of “whiteness” has always filled our world. It is the ideal of beauty that most people strive to become. As children, we spent the entire day watching television, looking at magazines and school books void of “diversity.” Thank you, 1976 “Charlie’s Angels,” for making girls want hair that would blow in the wind. What began as a need to […]
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High Art Fridays (HAF) is an eclectic assembly of local and international artists working in a wide range of materials and iconographic ideas to address critical social, historical, and environmental issues through art, education, and community engagement. For the past four years, HAF has focused much of its attention on the current global plastic epidemic, featuring artists around the globe […]
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Multi-media artist Ron Shelton’s work is currently installed at 78th Street Studios (our plastic world, as part of CAN Triennial) and Lakewood Family Health Center (Figures in the Solstice Steppers). He talks about TV, colors, Tidy Cats, plastics, his commentary on the Midwest and why his work sometimes disappears. JI: Tell me about High Art Fridays. What was the impetus […]
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CAN Triennial curators received more than 500 applications for the exhibition and its site-specific installations. At a time when the eyes of the art world are on Cleveland, CAN Triennial is proud to put the spotlight on Cleveland Art. Profound thanks to William Busta, Angelica Pozo, Hilary Gent, and Curlee Raven Holton whose wisdom and range of perspectives have guided […]
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