Spring 2015 Events
SPRING 2015 EVENTS
CONTINUING
Through March 28
They Came. They Saw. They Printed! (19 Years of Swift, Victorious Prints)
Zygote Press Gallery
Through April 3
Process and Materials
HEDGE Gallery
Through April 10
Off the Web, On the Wall 2
Society for Photographic Education
Through April 19
Cleveland Creates
ARTneo
Through April 26
Christopher Pekoc: Hand Made
Akron Art Museum
Christopher Pekoc at Akron Art Museum
Through May 2
Process and Abstraction
Transformer Station
Through May 3
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting
Akron Art Museum
Thrugh May 24
Jessica Eaton: Wild Permutations
At MOCA Cleveland, in cooperation with Transformer Station
Through July 12
Altered Landscapes
Akron Art Museum
MARCH
March 1
From WOMAN VIII
Lakeland Community College
Reception 3:30 – 5 pm March 22. Awards ceremony at 2 pm
Through March 27
March 6
Walk All Over Waterloo
Mark Common at Harris Stanton
Charlotte Lees and Mark Common
Harris Stanton Gallery Akron
Through April 4
Contemporaries 2015
Bonfoey Gallery
Through April 11
Impermanence
Heights Arts
Through April 18
Second Orbit
Satellite Gallery is the first of Northeast Shores Lotus Project venues to open. The long awaited second installation brings to Loren Naji’s space a diverse crew. From photographer / journalist Pantsios to Negative Space proprietor Gadi Zamir, to general practicioner Tina Ripley, to Ross Bochnek, Nancy Frazier, Chris Martin, and Matthew Ryals, expect a wildly varied atmosphere as you wander from room to room. Opening 6-9 pm at Satellite Gallery, 442 East 156, Cleveland. 216.621.6644.
Northeast Ohio Illustrators Society / CAN Launch Party
Gallery Talk at 2 pm Sunday March 22
BAYarts
The Northern Ohio Illustrators Society includes a whole bunch of people who communicate with pictures, to tell stories, represent ideas, to ennoble or caricature, or simply help you understand. Odds are you’ve seen their work, everywhere from comic books to children’s books, from architectural renderings to newspapers, agazines, and greeting cards. Their “Best Of” members show opens concurrently with the launch of the Spring issue of CAN Journal. The party is 7 – 9 pm Friday, March 6 in the Sullivan Family Gallery, 28795 Lake Road, Cleveland Metroparks, Huntington Reservation, Bay Village, Ohio 44140
Works of Karen Sandstrom, part of the Best of Northern Ohio Illustrators Society exhibit at BAYarts
National Arts Program
At Waterloo Arts, through March 20
Pita Brooks & Kristin Rogers: Relentless Incongruities
Maria Neil Art Project
Opening Reception: 5 – 10 pm
Exhibit through April 19
March 7
Free First Saturdays at MOCA
11 am to 5 pm, with Highlights Tours at Noon + 2pm,
March 12
Majority Rising
Opening reception 5:30 – 8 pm Thursday, March 12.
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
Through May 2
March 13
Tremont Art Walk
Third Person: Portraits in Photography
Opening reception 5 – 9 pm March 13
Gallery talk 1 pm March 14
Exhibit through April 26
Cleveland Print Room
Douglas MaxUtter, paintings, monotypes
Through April 18
William Busta Gallery
Douglas Max Utter, Extended Family, at William Busta Gallery
Elizabeth Emery, sculpture and other works
Through April 25
William Busta Gallery
March 14
Portrait Workshop with Loren Naji
BAYarts
March 15
Surveying Local Art: Expectations, Outcomes and Funding
Since Cuyahoga County voters approved the cigarette tax to fund Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the arts have blossomed in Northeast Ohio, as you read on these pages. The tax is probably coming up for renewal in November, and it’s never been more important to understand that value. Join
Michael Gill, Editor/Publisher, of CAN Journal, in conversation with Karen Gahl-Mills, Executive Director, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture 9:30 – 10:45 am Sunday, March 15 at First Unitarian Church, 21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights. Free.
March 20
Cleveland School 2015
Through May 9
Kenneth Paul Lesko
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
March 22
W2S Sculpture Series: Derek Cote, Terra Nullius
Opening Reception 5:30 – 8 pm Thursday, March 22
Through May 28
The Sculpture Center
W2S Sculpture Series: John Douglas Powers, New Work
Opening Reception 5:30 – 8 pm Thursday, March 22
Through May 28
The Sculpture Center
March 26
Student Show and Merit Exhibition
Exhibit through May 1
Galleries at Cleveland State University
March 27
Go Figure
Through May 7
Valley Arts Center
Screw Factory Artists Open Studios 6-10 pm
Lake Erie Building
March 28
The Book of Everyday Instruction
Brooklyn-based artist Chloe Bass invites you to spend an afternoon “engaging in whatever activity the participant and the artist agree to share,” during which activities will be documented for presentation in an exhibit format at SPACES. More information at spacesgallery.org. Through July 15.
Experimental music ensemble FiveOne: 8 pm
Zygote Press
APRIL
April 2
Public Opening Reception: 6-8 pm
Exhibit through May 2
Cleveland Institute of Art Gund Building
Ekphrastacy: Artists talk and Poets Respond: 7 pm
Heights Arts
April 3
Walk All Over Waterloo
Transgender Art Exhibition
Waterloo Arts, through May 25
April 6
“Discover the Artist Within You”
Spring session April 6 – June 19.
Art Therapy Studio
Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Artist reception and awards ceremony 7 – 9 pm April 9
Exhibit through April 30
Lakeland Community College
April 10
Panel Discussion: 12:15 pm
Cleveland Institute of Art Gund Building
Tremont Art Walk
Art-tini Auction Benefitting the Cleveland Arts Prize
Through April 17
Harris Stanton Gallery, Cleveland
April 11
Monster Drawing Rally
6 – 10 pm
SPACES
4U Exhibit and open portfolio session 1-3 pm
Zygote Press
April 13
Figure Drawing with John W. Carlson
BAYarts
April 15
Basics & Beyond with John W. Carlson
BAYarts
April 16
3rd Annual Juried Exhibition
Morgan Conservatory
Zygote Editions
Noon – 4 pm Wednesday – Saturday through April 25
Zygote Press
April 17
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
Works of Michael Nekic in Landscapes Through Time, at Kokoon Arts Gallery
Landscapes through Time
Bill Scheele has an eye for landscapes, as traveler, collector, and proprietor of Kokoon Arts Gallery. This month he puts them front and center with artists who span the range of his interests—from historically significant Cleveland School artists like William Sommer and Frank Wilcox, to contemporary artists living and working in Cleveland today: beautifully nuanced realistic watercolors of Cleveland by Michael Prunty, grand, expressive, imagined landscapes of Randall Tiedman, digitally manipulated works of Michael Nekic, and more. 5-9 pm Friday, April 17, through June 27 at Kokoon Arts Gallery, 1305 West 80th Street, Cleveland. wgsproductions.com. 216.832.8212
April 17 – May 8
Cleveland Institute of Art Student Show:
HEDGE Gallery
April 18
Clevelnd Heights Poet Laureate Reading, 7:30 pm
Heights Arts
April 19
Heights Arts presents Close Encounters: Transfigured Bass, 3 pm
Herrick Mews, Cleveland Heights
April 20
CIA Spring Design Show
MOCA Cleveland
Industrial design, graphic design, and interior architecture students from the Cleveland Institute of Art exhibit their innovative work throughout MOCA’s building in this special collaborative event. Opening reception 5 – 7 pm, exhibit through April 24 at MOCA, 11400 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Mocacleveland.org. 216.421.8671.
April 24
Syncope
Reception 6 – 9 pm.
Trough June 6
Heights Arts
April 25 – 26
Filigree workshop with Mauricio Cristobal Cortes Fuentes
Flux Metal Arts
MAY
May 1
Walk All Over Waterloo
Stephen Yusko, sculpture
through May 30
William Busta Gallery
Enid Williams, paintings
Through May 30
William Busta Gallery
Andrea Joki, paintings
through May 30
William Busta Gallery
28th International Exhibition
through May 30
Harris Stanton Gallery Akron
Barbara Stanford: Imperceptible Paradigm
Opening reception: 5 – 10 pm Friday, May 1
Exhibit through June 14
Maria Neil Art Project
Mini Print Fair
10 am – 6 pm May 1 and 2
Orange Art Center
May 1 & 2
Artwalk / Artists Sale
Valley Arts Center
May 8
Tremont Art Walk
The Big Show / Zygote benefit
Convivium 33
May 8, 9, & 10
NOADA Art Expo
May 14
Phyllis Seltzer, Travis Kinchy, and HeartWorks
Exhibit through June 20
Galleries at Cleveland State University
Re Emergence
Opening reception 5:30 – 8 pm Thursday, May 14
through June 27
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
May 15
Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios
Josh Usmani’s Funny Money II at Tregoning and Co.
Funny Money II
Seen in the context of other currencies of the world, US money is noteworthily boring: no mood swings, stable value, and definitely not colorful. But no less a confidence game than all the rest of the world’s money. Josh Usmani makes it more interesting by intricately detailing bank notes with vivid color. Dead presidents get clown faces. Backgrounds bloom with flowers or ripple with curtains of color. He unveils a new collection of Funny Money at Tregoning and Company during the Third Friday festivities. 1300 West 78th Street, Cleveland. 216. 281.8626. tregoningandco.com
Drawn and Quartered Competition
through June 5
HEDGE Gallery
Preston Buchtel Solo Exhibition
through July 11
Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery
May 15
6th Annual May Show at Lakeland Community College
Artist reception and awards ceremony 7 – 9 pm May 15
Exhibit through July 10
May 16
Rooms To Let, Slavic Village
through May 17
Creative Fusion resident Mauricio Cristobal Cortes Fuentes
Opening reception 1 – 3 pm May 16. Artist talk at 2 pm.
Through through May 27
Zygote Press
MAY 21
CAN Benefit
78th Street Studios
Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond, 7 pm
Heights Arts
The Cleveland Project: Photography and Poetry in Motion
Reception 5 – 8 pm May 21
Gallery talk 1 pm May 23
Exhibit through May 30
Cleveland Print Room
May 22
PJ Rogers Tribute Exhibition
through June 20
Harris Stanton Gallery, Cleveland
May 23
Crackle and Drag: TR Ericsson
Through August 22
Cleveland Museum of Art at Transformer Station
Bastille Day, monotype by Maurice Prendergast, in Painterly Prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art
May 31
Monotypes: Painterly Prints
Most print techniques, from entching and engraving to screen printing, can be worked to surprising effect by a skilled artist. But the flow of a gesture in paint is especially difficult to capture. Printing monotypes, though, opens up a range of expressive possibility that includes printing the artists’ movements with a brush or pallet knife or any other tool. The technique dates to the 17th century and was used by Edgar Degas in the late 19th century, as well as Americans like John Sloan and Maurice Prendergast. Through October 11 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Clevelandart.org. 216.421.7340.
JUNE
June 5
Waterloo Arts Fest
Juried Exhibition: June 5 – July 17
June 6
32nd Annual Art By The Falls
10am – 7pm June 6 and June 11 am – 5 pm June 7
Valley Arts Center
June 11
After the Pedestal:
Opening Reception 5:30 – 8 pm
Through July 31
The Sculpture Center
June 12
Tremont Art Walk
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