On Friday, June 2, the Waterloo Arts District will open a street-wide Juried Exhibition managed by Waterloo Arts. The Juried Exhibition was spearheaded by Gallery Committee member, Diane Shoemaker, in Spring 2014 and after a successful first year, the show was moved to June/July, so it would be on view during the Waterloo Arts Fest, the district’s most attended event. […]
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One advantage of a small organizations is the ability to nimbly respond to fortuitous opportunities. One of the exciting aspects of an artist-in-residence program is how often these opportunities organically develop, as did the Cuban art book exhibit coming to Waterloo Arts this spring through CAN Journal and the Creative Fusion program of the Cleveland Foundation. Laura Ruiz Montes is […]
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Driving down St. Clair Ave, approaching 45th Street, you can’t miss the electrically colored monkey painted by Scott Pickering, or the shocking pink and orange logo on DayGlo Color Corp’s building. But if you don’t drive through that neighborhood, you might miss all together that Cleveland is home to this radically fun paint company. Ironically, DayGlo is one of […]
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Every time I begin to write about Without Commercial Interruption (on view September 2 – October 30, 2016 at Waterloo Arts), I find myself whirling in the bottomless pool of the exhibit’s context– a racially inequitable society. So I’ve started this at least half a dozen times. I’m a middle aged white guy, and for me to talk about art […]
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In March of this year, Waterloo Arts facilitated a mural in the Waterloo Arts District, which caused strong community reactions and was ultimately painted over by the building owner. The mural titled, No Convictions, was of a large “137” painted vertically down the side of a two-story building. The numbers were faceted in translucent blue and red to reference police […]
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Waterloo Arts Gallery has mounted ambitious shows in its renovated storefront space since 2004, in a long foreshadowing of North Collinwood’s current fine-arts thaw. After two tantalizing decades of big promises and slow progress around the intersection of East 152nd and Waterloo, that pioneer space and the entire Waterloo Arts District are more lively than ever. And some of the […]
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Adjust the picture on a vintage TV set, fiddle with dials, swing the rabbit ears around. Aim for clarity – but what that means depends on whether you want to see the whole sitcom or a millisecond of the action, the image or the matrix from which it emerges. And if technology can achieve finer tuning, our own brains are […]
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Cleveland’s fourth DayGlo exhibit is coming to Waterloo! A show spearheaded by artist John Saile and shown previously at Doubting Thomas Gallery, the DayGlo exhibit features new work by 40 local artists experimenting with fluorescent paint. Generously donated by DayGlo Color Corporation, this paint has unique qualities that add a new dimension to every artist’s canvas and it isn’t […]
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By Amy Callahan, Hilary Gent, Michael Loderstedt, and Liz Maugans We have all been recent witness to significant development in the cultural sectors of our region, with the impressive renovation of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the new construction of MOCA Cleveland, continued development of world-class health services and the downtown corridor, the rising status of our culinary industry […]
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