Stuff This in Your CV (In Support of Waterloo Arts and other Juried Regional Exhibits)

  Juried fine arts exhibitions–like the one on view now at Waterloo Arts in Cleveland, and like other all-American events–are both popular and under-appreciated by people likely to read a Curriculum Vita. Yet those shows are packed with memorable works, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the depth and variety of bodies of work developed by thoughtful people who conduct their […]

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Waterloo Arts Adds Staff, Invests in the Future

It’s been a year of existential crisis and lumbering forward. Waterloo Arts has decided to lean in by adding staff as an investment in the future. New part-time Gallery Manager Kayli Salzano oversees gallery communications, logistics, and marketing, and she’s organizing a gallery committee to guide curatorial decisions and gallery programs. Salzano says, “I’m excited to carve out space for […]

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2020: The Year COVID Drove Evolution

The novel coronavirus was not only devastating to the art world in 2020: COVID drove evolution, as well. Some strategies artists and organizations invented or embraced were not only innovative in the moment, but are likely to endure in 2021 and beyond. Here are a few innovations, adaptations, and repackaging efforts that got our attention in this terrible, horrible, no […]

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This Is Not Public Art

Nope, that is not a sculpture. It is the ravages of a car that came off the road, plowed through this concrete bench, and upended a formidable concrete planter before taking out the right half of Six Shooter Coffee, a couple doors down from Waterloo Arts. It was 7:30 in the morning and the shop was open, but miraculously no […]

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Photocentric: Hopeful

It’s rare these days for Cleveland galleries to publish catalogs with their exhibits. And while catalogs are very much not the point of art exhibits, they are excellent documents: they capture slices of history, collections of work and their relationships to the times. What happened on Waterloo in North Collinwood Friday, December 6, 2019, was one of those times. A […]

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Time Travelers: MANDEM at Waterloo Arts

The dark paintings of MANDEM have an almost cinematic power, combining traditional and digital techniques in seamless layers to create personae that bleed across emotional and historical frontiers. Beginning in earnest more than a decade ago the tightly knit group made up by Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman-Arendsee, (joined after a few years by their younger cohort Kitsuko) have evolved […]

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