Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. Enjoy the shows!

 

CONTINUING 

Through May 21

Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through May 21

Form and Light: Brett Weston Photograph

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through May 21

Exploring Reciprocity: The Power of Animals in Non-Western Art

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through May 21

Lines of Descent: Masters and Students in the Utagawa School

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through May 23

Blind Spot: A Matter of Perception

MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Through May 24

BAYarts’ Annual Ceramic Exhibition & Sale

Advanced ceramic students inspired by the masters

SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY at BAYarts

 

Through June 1

Women of the Western Reserve

This show of archived artists Ruth Bercaw, Lee Heinen and Phyllis Seltzer and member artist Marti Higgins from the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve takes their work out of the archives and into the heart of downtown Cleveland where more Clevelanders have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with their work.

AECOM BUILDING (formerly the Penton Media Building).

 

Through June 2

Elisabeth Cain Pressler: Enigmatic Nostalgia

SHAKER HISTORICAN SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY

 

Through June 3

Balancing Work, Family, and Creativity: Mother Artists,

SHAKER COMMUNITY GALLERY

 

Through June 4

Emergent 2017

The second iteration of Heights Arts’ Emergent show features new art from a dozen recent graduates of NE Ohio arts programs including the Cleveland Institute of Art, Kent State University, the University of Akron and Baldwin Wallace University, with the goal of spotlighting the region’s strength in educating artists of the future. The committee got recommendations from professors and studied the portfolios of these young artists to determine which are currently doing the most exciting work in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, glass, sculpture and mixed media.

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

Through June 10

Merit Scholar exhibiton/46^th Student Show

THE GALLERIES AT CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

 

Through June 12

Fred Wilson’s Wildfire Test Pit

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through June 12

Marking Time: Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Prints

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through June 12

Recent Acquisitions

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through June 16

Nesting: A Solo Exhibition by Danielle Muzina

Closing reception 5-10 pm June 16.

ZAINA GALLERY

 

Through June 16

Guest Artist Mark Common

GALLERY +

 

Through June 17

Fred Wilson: Black to the Powers of Ten

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

 

Through June 17

Indelicate Truths: 2016 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition: Alexandra Janezic, Anna Tararova, Anna Waddell

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Through June 18

Deborah Pinter: Natural Selections — A Dresden Creation

Photographer/printmaker Deborah Pinter spent a month in Germany as part of Zygote Press’ long-running Dresden Exchange Residency. There she honed his latest body of work, begun in Cleveland. Her monochrome prints render various types of plant materials in inky blacks that give their forms a sense of gravity and emphasize their shapes.

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

 

Through June 18

Spotlight: Christine Mauersberger Aquascapes

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

Through June 24

Free Style: Abstracted Actions in Cleveland, curated by Liz Maugans

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

Through June 25

John W. Carlson

STUDIO M GALLERY, MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Through June 30

Vault: Home Again
SPACES

 

Through June 30

Yoko Inoue: Tea Taste Democracy and Upside Down Objects

SPACES

 

Through June 30

The First 100+ Days

This show doesn’t refer to the first 100 days of SPACES’ new galleries in Hingetown, which opened in January, but rather to the new presidential administration, which began about the same time. In it, ten Ohio-based artists and groups respond to its policies, especially those relating to immigration, and tell the stories of immigrants and refugees, how people have responded to their treatment and how the media has influenced the narrative.

SPACES

 

Through July 1

PhotoNOW, Biannual competitive Photo exhibition September 7-October 1

Online entries only April 11-July 1 at client.smarterentry.com/aawr

TRI-C EAST GALLERY

 

Through July 7

Straddling the Great Divide: David Masters

HEDGE GALLERY

 

Through July 7

Too Much Information by Liz Maugans

HEDGE GALLERY

 

Through July 8

NewCelle. Archived Artist Bea Mitchell, John Jackson, Ed Mieczkowski & Achala Wali were part of this influential group which met regularly to draw communally in the 1990’s.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

Through July 14

The 8^th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

 

Through July 16

African Master Carvers: Known and Famous

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through July 16

Please Touch
AKRON MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through July 23

Avatars: Relics from the Future

CANTON ART MUSEUM

 

Through July 23

In Praise of Women: Works From the Permanent Collection

CANTON ART MUSEUM

 

Through July 23

Mastery: Teachers from the CMA School of Art

CANTON ART MUSUEM

 

Through July 30

Black in America: Louis Draper & Leonard Freed

As part of the yearlong celebration of the lives of Cleveland’s Carl and Louis Stokes, this exhibit features the works of two photographers who were actively documenting black life in America during the 1960s Civil Rights era. Draper, an African-American from Virginia, moved to New York where he began to produce portraits and street photography and co-founded an important collective of black photographers. The Brooklyn-born, Jewish Freed began shooting black life in New York City before travelling down south, with a mission to record black culture as well as raise awareness of how inequality impacted black lives.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through July 30

Gross Anatomies

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

through July 31

50 Years of Making Art With Meaning, Metro Health Lobby

ART THERAPY STUDIO

 

Through August 3

Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through August 6

Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

Through August 20

Family

FRED & LAURA RUTH BIDWELL GALLERY, AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

Through September 15

Workshop Instructors Exhibition (rotating)

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

 

 

MAY

 

19

Third Friday

5-9 pm

7^8th STREET STUDIOS

 

Too Much Information by Liz Maugans

The work printmaker Maugans presents in this show of new text-based collages looks around at her immediate family as well as at the larger world outside. In larger-scale works, she focuses on the chaos and overstimulation of our social environment, fueled by her personal concerns. She says, “As I pivot from mother, wife and daughter of an aging  parent, my autonomous voice delivers an invocation to interpreting  narratives. Statements cover many topics: failed relationships, lost youth, indiscretions, declining health, financial stability and parenting woes.” Her smaller scale pieces provide oases of calm and piece with simple color and organic shapes.

May 19-July 7

HEDGE GALLERY

 

Nesting: A Solo Exhibition by Danielle Muzina

May 19-June 16

Opening reception 5-10 pm May 19; Closing reception 5-10 pm June 16.

ZAINA GALLERY

 

Straddling the Great Divide: David Masters

May 19-July 7

HEDGE GALLERY

 

John W. Carlson

May 19-June 25

STUDIO M GALLERY, MASSILLON MUSEUM

 

Dingbats!

10 am-4 pm May 20-21

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Natural Dyeing

10 am-4 pm May 20-21

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

20

Free Family Open Studios

Saturday 1-3  pm

ART HOUSE

 

26

Abjectified: Works of Morgan Mansfield

Opening reception 5-8 pm May 26

May 26-June 4

LOFTWORKS GALLERY

 

27

Art Bites: Collecting Art Talks – Collecting Outsider Art with Thomas Wagner

1-3pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

 

JUNE

 

1

Akron Gallery:

30th Anniversary International Exhibition

June 1-July 15

HARRIS STANTON AKRON GALLERY

 

2

Little Italy Artwalk

June 2-4

 

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-10pm

 

Serial Intent Opening Reception
Members preview 6:30 pm, general public 7:30pm June 2

At the opening reception, visitors can meet some of the artists whose work ia featured in the exhibition, enjoy art-related activities, and get a first look at the work.  Its theme is drawings, prints and photographs that are part of a series of works which take on new meaning when viewed as a group. It features work by well-known artists such as Andy Warhol, Jacob Lawrence, Sol LeWitt and Robert Indiana as well as such northeast Ohio artists as Michael Loderstedt, Craig Lucas and Lori Kella.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

Constant as the Sun

June 2-September 17

MOCA CLEVELAND

 

Lu Yang: Delusional Mandala

June 2-September 17

MOCA CLEVELAND

 

Keith Mayerson: My American Dream

The Cincinnati artist’s first American solo show will comprise more than 100 of his paintings reflecting on this country’s sociopolitical landscape. Drawing on popular culture sources including newspapers, magazines and films as well as his own family and his personal archives, Mayerson’s paintings capture both America’s beauty and its challenges.

June 2-September 17

MOCA CLEVELAND

 

8

In Dad’s Chair

Opening reception 6-9 pm June 8

June 9-August 13

FOOTHILL GALLERY

 

30th Anniversary Regional Artist Celebration

June 8-July 15

HARRIS STANTON CLEVELAND GALLERY

 

9

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

Relics of Memory

Assembled Visions by Chad Cochran and Debra Sue Solecki

Opening reception 6-9 pm Friday June 9

June 9-July 8

BAYarts

 

Peer Show

Opening reception 5-9 pm June 9

June 9-July 1

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

After the Pedestal: The 10^th Exhibition of Small Sculpture from the Region

Opening reception with talks by jurors Steve Locke and artists 5:30-8 pm June 9

June 9-August 4

SCULTURE CENTER

 

Encore: A Heights Arts Invitational

Opening reception 6-9 pm June 9

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

Sarah D. Johnston: The Romantic Garden

June 9-August 20

SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY

 

Costumes Hidden in Plain Sight: Photos by Chuck J. Mintz

Opening reception 6-8 pm June 9

June 8-25

CAIN PARK FEINBERG ART GALLERY

 

Rasmusson artist Michael Conti Residency Exchange artist talk

10 am-noon June 10

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

Artists working across media with Steve Locke, Irina Koukhanova, others

Cleveland Sculptors Network panel & networking

6:30-8 pm, June 10

SCULTURE CENTER

 

11

Summer Concert Series
School of Rock: The Committed

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

12

Campcreate Summer Art Camp

Art Explorers I: Funky Flubber Sculptures and Pop Art Potions

Suitable for campers ages 6-8; Children age 5 welcome to attend with caregiver present

Dock those devices and stretch that brain! We’re bending the rules of making art with a week of action packed, multi-sensory challenges for campers big and small. Take the experimental process to a new level with our first annual Splatter Games. Build with a team in Minute-to-Create-It. Hike the galleries with your art survival pack and tell tall art tales in the Garden. On the last day of each session, campers will host their family and friends at an artist’s reception!

Register online AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration, or call 330.376.9186.

June 12-June 16, Monday – Friday, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

15

BAYarts Farm & Art Market starts

Every Thursday 5-8 pm through October

BAYARTS

 

16

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78^th Street Studios

 

ARTmeow: The Cool Cats of Cleveland

Given that only porn outpaces cats as the most popular subject on the Internet, expect this show to be ARTneo’s all-time blockbuster!

Opening: 5-9 pm June 16

June 16-August 4

 

Guest Artist Elaine K. Dowling

June 16-July 23

GALLERY +

 

17

MONOTHON: 24 hours of extreme printing by local artists

10 am June 17 through 10 am June 18.

Print Party and Mono-sale benefit

6-10 pm June 17

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

Free Family Open Studios

Saturday 1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

 

19

Summer adult classes & kids’ camps

June 19-August 13

VALLEY ART CENTER

 

23

Neck of the Woods: Samantha Parker Salazar (cut paper, collage), Andrea Peterson (paper, book, print), Gaylord Shanilec (engraving), Lisa Schonberg (print)

June 23-July 29

MORGAN CONSERVATORY
Hong Hong: 2017 Artists-in-Residence talk

7 pm June 23

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Samantha Parker Salazar (cut paper, collage), Andrea Peterson (paper, book, print), Gaylord Schanilec (engraving), Lisa Schonberg (print)

June 23-July 29

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

24

Zygote Press Ink House Open House and art activity

Noon-7 pm June 24

ZYGOTE PRESS INK HOUSE

 

Family Clay Days, $20.00 for family of four

Saturday 10 am-noon

ART HOUSE

 

26

Campercreate Summer Art Camp

ART EXPLORERS II: Art Miner 101: Gem-Digging, Land Altering Excursions

Suitable for campers ages 9 – 12. Registration required. Register online AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration, or call 330.376.9186.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

30
Annual Student & Faculty Art Exhibit

June 30-August 2

VALLEY ART CENTER

 

 

JULY

 

1

Collective Wisdom, Beachwood Community Center

through July 31

ART THERAPY STUDIO

 

6

Encore: A Heights Arts Invitational

Gallery talk 7 pm July 6

HEIGHTS ARTS

 

7

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-10 pm

 

Rasmusson artist Michael Conti Residency Exchange Exhibition

July 7-28
ZYGOTE PRESS

 

Maria Neil Art Project

Bryon Miller Photography

Opening reception 5-10 pm July 7

July 7-August 13

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

 

Wildlife in Wax, A solo exhibition by Derek Brennan

Opening Reception 5-9 pm July 7

Artist Talk and Demonstration 1 pm July 8

LOFTWORKS GALLERY
Coloring Outside the Lines: Work by Students from the Cleveland Institute of Art

For the third time, the summertime gallery at Cain Park presents the recent work of CIA students who are pushing the limits in their chosen media. They are in the process of moving from being students to becoming full-time artists and defining what that designation means to them.

Opening reception 6-8 pm July 7

July 7-August 20

CAIN PARK FEINBERG ART GALLERY

 

8

Caturday Night Fever: A Disco Party with cat-themed silent auction

7-11 pm July 8

ARTNEO

 

9

Summer Concert Series
The Portersharks

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

14

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

 

Farm to Table Benefit Dinner Honoring Tom Balbo and our ten-year anniversary

5:30-9:30 pm July 14

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

Cuban Art Invitational, curated by Augusto Bordelois

Opening reception 6-9 pm July 14

July 14-August 5

BAYARTS

 

Double Edges

Opening reception 5-9 pm July 14

July 14-August 19

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

15

Free Family Open Studios

Saturday 1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

 

16

Summer Concert Series
The HeBGBz

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

20

Word. palabra, ,كلمة字, Wort, mot, ワード, слово, parola

Opening reception 5:30-8 pm July 20

July 20-Sept 9

An exhibit disposed/preferential to the subject/object of WORDS.  The exhibition will be inclusive of but not restricted to their use in media and or as an aesthetic vehicle for communication and expression.  In other WORD(S) an exhibit exploring WORDS.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

 

21

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78^th Street Studios

 

Justin Brennan: Paintings and Drawings; Stephen Kasner: Homecoming Preview

Opening reception 5-9 pm July 21
July 21-September 1

HEDGE GALLERY

 

Guest Artist Allison Liffman: July 21-August 20

GALLERY +

 

22

Family Clay Days, $20.00 for family of four

Saturday 10 am-noon

ART HOUSE

 

23

Summer Concert Series
Great Lakes Light Opera

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

30

Summer Concert Series
Brent Kirby & New Soft Shoe

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

 

AUGUST

1

Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present

August 1-October 3

Timed to coincide with the annual enshrinement festival at Canton’s Pro Football Hall of Fame, the museum explores how various prominent artists have treated football as subject matter. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture and video from artists ranging from Winslow Homer to contemporary artist Catherine Opie. This is the first such exhibit to examine football imagery in depth in a scholarly manner.

 

4

5-10 pm

Walk All Over Waterloo

 

Below the Surface Intaglio Exhibition

August 4-September 15

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

 

5

ZPASS Residency Artist Talk with Jordan McQuaid

10 am-noon August 5

ZYGOTE PRESS

 

6

Summer Concert Series
Chris Allen Band

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

11

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

 

Equal: Jessica Pinsky

Jessica Pinksy, founder of Praxis Fiber Workshop in Waterloo, creates her own exquisite textile works that display a well-honed sense of color, light and balance. Here she plays off the idea of parts that are equal in some ways while displaying various types of differences created by manipulating different types of fibers to cause them to react in different ways.

Opening reception 7-9 pm August 11

August 11-September 23

BAYARTS

 

Teacher Tell Me a Story: The Made Side of Wonderland

Opening reception 7-9 pm August 11

August 11-September 23

BAYARTS

 

18

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78^th Street Studios

 

Guest Artist Anthony Mitri

August 18

GALLERY +

 

19

Free Family Open Studios

Saturday 1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

 

Summer Concert Series
Open mic night

7-9 pm

BAYARTS

 

 

26

Art of Dissent

August 26-October 7

SHAKER COMMUNITY GALLERY

 

 

SEPTEMBER (10)

 

1

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-10 pm
Northern Ohio Illustrators Society
Common Ground
6-10 pm September 1
CANOPY COLLECTIVE

 

7

PhotoNOW

Biannual competitive Photo exhibition

Opening reception 6-8:30 pm September 7

Sept 7-Oct 12

TRI-C EAST GALLERY

 

8

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

 

Beautiful Boy/Song Of Desire

This two-artist show features the work of Brooklyn-based artist Lissa Rivera, whose show Beautiful Boy focuses on her domestic partner as her muse, “tapping into deep-seated narratives about desire, beauty, freedom and cultural taboo.” “I am using photography as a testing ground for my partner, who is genderqueer, to visualize multiple feminine identities,” she says. “The photographs provide a canvas to investigate the visual language of womanhood that I was raised with, and that my partner is only beginning to explore.” It’s paired with Laura Ruth Bidwell’s Song of Desire from her Gratiot series, which explores the lives of a fictional immortal couple “who have navigated by and thrived by night across three centuries.”

Opening reception, 5-9 pm September 8

September 8-November 10
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

 

9

Art Therapy Studio 50^th Anniversary Gala

September 9

ARIEL PEARL CENTER, OLD BROOKLYN

 

14

33^rd Print Club of Cleveland Fine Print Fair

September 14-17

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

 

 

 

FESTIVALS

 

May 20

Rooms To Let

Cleveland’s Slavic Village was once a bustling ethnic enclave, but it was ravaged by the foreclosure crisis of the 2000s, and frequently referred to as “Ground Zero” for the crisis. In 2014, the debut Room to Let: CLE featured teams of artists taking over and temporarily transforming vacant homes slated for demolition with installation that reflected on vacancy and loss. Edition No. 4 should be both nostalgic and celebratory with new businesses and development starting to revive the area. Zygote Press offers hand-on activities from 1-5pm.

May 20 ^–21

SLAVIC VILLAGE

 

June 3 & 4

Art in the Village Art Festival

Legacy Village

 

June 10

Parade The Circle

Now in its 28^th year, Cleveland’s unique celebration, Parade the Circle, girds Wade Oval with a riot of colorful units entirely created by the community. You won’t see politicians, businesses or high school bands here — just families, scout troops, school and neighborhood groups and others who have joined together to create costumes, puppets, floats, masks and other colorful props, many of them in the workshops at the Cleveland Museum of Art which sponsors the event.

WADE OVAL

 

June 10 & 11

Crocker Park Fine Art Fair and Craft Marketplace

 

10

Art by the Falls in Chagrin Falls

For 34 years, Art by the Falls, sponsored by Valley Arts Center, has been attracting patrons to Riverside Park in downtown Chagrin Falls to browse the vast swath of tents in the bucolic small-town setting. It also features food, music, art-making opportunities and the chance to sign up for Valley Art Center’s summer camps and adult classes.

June 10-11

DOWNTOWN CHAGRIN FALLS

 

June 17

BAYarts Annual Art & Music Festival features more than 75 vendors in a variety of media, as well as local food and live Afro-Cuban music by Rey Cintron’s Rice & Beans Band from 10-4 pm.

BAYARTS

 

June 24

Waterloo Arts Festival
July 7-9
Cain Park Arts Festival

The Cain Park Arts Festival brings together artists and craftspeople from around the country as well as northeast Ohio for a three-day event that fills the Cleveland Heights park’s leafy paths with booths. There’s also nonstop entertainment in the pavilion ranging from kids’ performers to folk singers to jazz and plenty of food from local restaurants.

CAIN PARK

 

July 16

Taste of Tremont

Professor Avenue

 

August 5

Lakewood Arts Fest

 

August 19-20

Second Annual Flats Festival of the Arts

East Bank of the Flats

 

September 16 & 17

Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival

Lincoln Park
September 16-17

Chalk Festival

Cleveland Museum of Art