Ali Black: You’re three months into your new role as the new executive director of Spaces. How has Cleveland been treating you? Fanna Gebreyesus: Cleveland’s been wonderful. It’s been really good. Busy, but rewarding. I’ve been humbled to see how nice and welcoming folks have been, and, there’s been more events than I can attend. AB: I love to hear […]
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Kamari Carter is a New York based multidisciplinary artist, with his latest exhibition, Dark Blue, Almost Black on view at SPACES gallery until May 10. Carter uses a minimalist, multimedia approach to tackle topics regarding Americentrism, policing, and identity through text, imagery, sound and wall work. His presentations and curatorial framework encourage the audience to reflect on what they experience […]
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In case you haven’t heard, last year Zygote joined forces with Praxis Fiber Workshop and SPACES Gallery to have a group Holiday Sale – and just recently, the Morgan Art of Papermaking joined too! That’s right, all FOUR organizations will be holding a Holiday Members’ Showcase across all four locations! The exhibitions open Friday, December 1 and run through Saturday, […]
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To be loving we willingly hear each other’s truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.” ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions. Ada Pinkston’s Searching for Mother Tongues, on view at SPACES through October 30, is a multi-media installation in […]
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In 1982 no one I knew could stop listening to Prince’s iconic record celebrating the apocalypse, 1999. The record’s title song reminded us in robotic-alien voice that no harm would come, “Don’t-worry-I-won’t-hurt-you-I-only-want-you-to-have-some-fun.” This sense of dancing on the grave of white patriarchal capitalism is at the heart of Vivica Satterwhite’s installation in Toby’s Vault at SPACES (on view through October […]
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Magic Mountains, Magic Cities by Tia-Simone Gardner is on view through April 28th at SPACES. The body of work came from conversations that Gardner had with her mother about Fairfield, Alabama, where they both grew up. Fairfield is located at the Western border of Birmingham and was an experiment in spatial-racial-class separation and segregation. According to Gardner’s artist statement, “these […]
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Friends and colleagues are invited to celebrate the life of Marilyn Ladd Simmons in a memorial gathering at SPACES from 2 to 5 pm Sunday, May 22. “Ladd-Simmons worked for SPACES and in the thick of the Cleveland arts scene for over 30 years,” SPACES said in a press release. “She transitioned from art studies at Baldwin-Wallace College to full-time […]
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Students in Liz Maugans’ Artists In Communities class at Cleveland State University are visiting Cleveland galleries to familiarize themselves and respond to the work. The following is one student’s response to Important Papers, Gabrielle Lajoi-Bergeron’s current exhibition at SPACES. — ed. In 2019 French-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Gabrielle Lajoi-Bergeron found an envelope full of documents, labled “Important Papers.” She […]
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In the first installment of Amanda D. King’s new blog series, “What’s Next”, King speaks with Tizziana Baldenebro, newly appointed director of SPACES gallery in Cleveland. In the conversation, Baldenebro shares her perspectives in the wake of recent and continuous uprisings against systemic oppression in the art world, the importance of technology in a pandemic, and her intentions for SPACES as […]
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In the middle of the perfect storm that is the COVID crisis and the reckoning with our history of racism, a number of Cleveland art organizations are facing a crisis of another kind: No less than seven important Northeast Ohio, nonprofit visual arts institutions have recently seen their executive directors resign. Most have appointed interim directors. All of them confront […]
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