Spring 2018 Events

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 March 10

New Directions: Avin Hannah Smith, Shelby Solomon, and Kate Snow

HARRIS STANTON GALLERY CLEVELAND

Through March 10

Modernist Figurative Sculpture

KENNETH ROSS LESKO GALLERY

Through March 11

Micro/Macro: Views of the Earth by Marilyn Bridges and Jeannette Klute

Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through March 17

Inauguration Open Yards Exhibition

Worthington Yards Project Space

Through March 17

Best of Bonfoey 125 Year Birthday exhibition

BONFOEY GALLERY

Through March 18

Spotlight: Sharon Grossman

HEIGHTS ARTS

Through March 23

Mahwish Chishty: Naming the Dead; Julia Christensen: Waiting for a Break; Vault: Interpretation/Clarification, curated by Zak Long

SPACES

Through March 23

The New Masters: Women Artists of Northeast Ohio

FLORENCE O’DONNELL WASMER GALLERY AT URSULINE COLLEGE

Through March 30

Celebrate Women’s History Month: From Woman XI … Created by Women, Of Women & About Women. Each year, Lakeland College gallery coordinator/indpendent curator Mary Urbas takes on the daunting task of showcasing the work of the area’s woman artists — some well-known names and some unknown — as well as a few out-of-state contributors. Nearly 40 artists in a variety of media contribute this year’s show.

Feb 25-March 30

Artist reception 3:30-5 pm March 25

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Through March 31
J. Allon Hall
TREGONING & COMPANY

Through April 6

Painting + Drawing Student Show

ORANGE ART CENTER

Through April 14

Spitball

Opening reception 5-9 pm March 2

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Through April 15

Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs

Dana Schutz, who graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000, returns to Cleveland as a skyrocketing art-world star — and stirrer of controversy for her contribution to last year’s Whitney Biennial. Her new series of paintings, most created since the 2016 election, doesn’t directly address that event but rather deals with its fallout: the division, conflict, tension and anxiety rendered in swirls of bright, often clashing, colors that seem to embody the chaos.

TRANSFORMER STATION

Through May 6

Brett Weston: Photographs

This show features the work of major 20^th century photographer Brett Weston, best known for his nature-based black-and-white work, which blurred the line between abstract and figurative, creating formally elegant compositions from images of dunes and leaves. This show features more than 40 photos (including some atypical cityscapes) from a collection donated to the museum last year and going on display there for the first time.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through May 13

Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through May 17

A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 18

Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings

The Allen Museum has co-curated with Cornell University a showing of 60 prints by the 17^th-century Dutch master, drawn from the collections of numerous universities, museums and private collections. They give area viewers the chance to explore the scope of his subject matter, study his experiments with processes and materials, and admire his technical virtuosity and the aesthetic beauty of his work.

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 20

Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth Century Europe

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through May 27

Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through May 27

Maidenform to Modernism: The Bissett Collection

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 27

This Is Your Art: The Legacy of Ellen Johnson

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through June 10

MOCA Spring Exhibitions: Mei-Jia & Ting-Ting & Chih-Fu & Sin-Ji by C. Spencer Yeh; Zig Zags and Diagonals by Claudia Comte; The Founder’s Paradox by Simon Denny; Induction by Tauba Auerbach & Eliane Radigue

MOCA CLEVELAND
Through June 30

My City, Cleveland: The Work of Phyllis Seltzer

Satellite show in Cleveland’s AECOM Building
Sponsored by ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Through July 15

Ed Emberly: Better You Than Me

Eighty-six-year-old artist/illustrator Ed Emberly has published more than 100 books in the last 50 years (many co-authored with his wife Barbara), predominantly children’s and how-to-draw books, demonstrating his distinctive ability to create expressive art from simple forms. This exhibit, draw from the artist’s own archive, includes drawings, woodblock prints, mock-up, first edition books and even a re-creation of the artist’s workspace where visitors can get hands-on with some of his techniques.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

MARCH

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-10PM

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Claiming Our Space and Pace

Opening reception 6-10 pm March 2

Redux & closing reception 6-10 pm April 6

ARTICLE

Al Fuchs Photography

Opening reception: 6-10 pm March 2

ARTICLE GALLERY 316
Cleveland Institute of Art Alumni Exhibition

Through March 29

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Spitball, featuring photographers 30 and under

Opening reception 5-9 pm March 2

Through April 14

Artist Talk, 1 pm April 14

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Traditional and Non-Traditional Techniques in Japanese Papermaking Workshop

10 am-4 pm, March 3-4, $180

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

Early Bird Art & Craft Show

Lowe’s Greenhouse

10 am-5 pm March 3

VALLEY ART CENTER

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Curator Reto Thüring leads a tour of the Dana Schutz exhibit Eating Atom Bombs at 6 pm.

TRANSFORMER STATION

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

Cleveland’s Symbol: 52 Stories of the Terminal Tower; Global Matrix IV (international printmakers)

William Barrow, the special collections librarian of the Cleveland Memory Project at the Cleveland State University Library, curates this show about Cleveland’s most iconic building which dominates its landscape, drawing on the Memory Project’s vast collection of historical photos. The exhibit is augmented by a collection of films and videos about the building, screening in the Media Room, also selected by Barrow.

Through April 21

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

Jonas Sebura: Confounded into Unitary Chaos; Anthony Warnick: Language Games

Opening reception 5:30-8 pm March 9

Artist Talks: Anthony Warnick at 6:15 pm and Jonas Sebura at 7 pm

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

Processing the Present, curated by Rebekah Wilhelm

Opening Reception March 9^th 6-8 pm

Through April 7

ZYGOTE PRESS

Jenniffer Omaitz: Constructions

Kent-based artist Omaitz shares the direction of her recent work with this exhibition of paintings, assemblages and a site-specific installation, tied together by her explorations of architecture, geometry and painterly abstraction in 2D and 3D. This is her first major work designed for this specific space.

Opening Reception 7-9 pm March 9

Through April 6

BAYARTS

Drawn Together

Opening reception 6-9 pm, March 9

Gallery talk 7 pm April 5

Through April 22

HEIGHTS ARTS

Christopher Hoot

Opening Reception (Admission Free) 6-8 pm March 9

Through May 9

LISSAUER GALLERY AT SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Papermaking with Milkweed Workshop

10 am-4 pm, March 10-11, $250

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

3D Encaustic on Paper Workshop

10 am-4 pm March 10-11, $150

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

Third Annual ABC Chili Cook-Off

1-3 pm

ART HOUSE

Kevin Greenwood, the Allen’s Joan L. Danforth Curator of Asian Art, gives a free Tuesday Tea Talk on his exhibition A Century of Asian Art at Oberlin: Japanese Prints.

2:30 pm

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Annual Members Exhibition

Opening Reception 5:30-8 pm March 15, Votes for the People’s Choice Award will be collected for the duration of the exhibition and announced at the exhibition’s closing party May 4 immediately following the annual members meeting.

Through May 4

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Third Friday

5-9pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

Don’t Be Still: Robert Banks and John Carlson

Boldly flying in the face of the controversy stirred up by painter Dana Schutz last year, insisting a white artist could not deal with black suffering, two noted local male artists —painter John Carlson and filmmaker Robert Banks — address the issue of gender inequality in their latest work. Both have created work in which women are the central subject; both depict these women with their faces obscured, engaged in some sort of abstract struggle that is open to interpretation.

Opening Reception 5-9 pm March 16

Through April 27

HEDGE GALLERY

Textures, Patterns & Repetitions group show

Gallery co-owner Rich Cihlar curated this show, which features the work of 13 artists relating to the title of the show.

Through April 20

E11EVEN2 GALLERY @ 78^TH STREET STUDIOS

AMAM in the A.M., an ongoing series offered the third Friday of each month, features a free exhibition tour by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, the Allen’s curator of Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings.

10:15 am

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Gallery Talk “Process: Big is Better,” led by Mark Masuoka

2 pm March 17

Join Akron Art Museum John S. Knight Director and CEO Mark Masuoka for a gallery talk about Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines that focuses on Kaneko’s groundbreaking ceramic art making process.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Papermaking and Pulp Painting Workshop with Anna Tarnova

10 am-4 pm, March 17-18, $180

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

Creating a Broadside Workshop with Beth Sheehan

10am-4pm, March 17-18, $250

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

Recent Acquisitions

Through June 10

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Close-Looking Session: Dana Schutz’s Eating Atom Bombs

This 30-minute session explores certain works in Schutz’s current exhibit, connecting them to the state of America today. It’s free but registration is required and space is limited.

TRANSFORMER STATION

Mother Earth, with Chagrin Arts

Opening reception 6–8 pm March 23

Through May 2

VALLEY ART CENTER

Spotlight: Jennifer Adams

Opening reception 6-9 pm March 23

Through May 6

HEIGHTS ARTS

Art Bites: Collecting Art Talks

Susan Covey & Kathy Cameron discuss collecting art for beginners with limited funds

1-3 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Jerry Birchfield: Asleep in the Dust

Through September 23

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Anastasia Pantsios artist talk & book signing

Music photographer Anastasia Pantsios’ exhibit Girls to the Front: 40 Years of Women in Rock first hung at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011 and was re-installed in January-March 2017. The show has traveled to Chicago, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa, and Lake Erie College in Painesville. She has just published a book featuring the photos in that show, plus additional photos of more than 50 influential women in music. She’ll talk about her experiences shooting concerts and sign her book.

1-2:30 pm

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

Celebrate Women’s History Month: From Woman XI … Created by Women, Of Women & About Women, curated by Mary Urbas

Feb 25-March 30

Artist reception 3:30-5 pm March 25

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Portals_Thresholds: Sara Ludy, Rachel Rossin, Rafaël Rozendaal, Wickerham & Lomax

This international group of artists works in painting, sculpture, video, web-based work and virtual reality, blending the strange and familiar, fiction and reality, and dipping into science fiction, leading viewers on a stimulating quest to sort out how perception impinges on their concept of reality.

Through June 15

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

Zygote Press artist-in-residence Khehla Chepape Makgato pop-up show

Opening reception 5:30-8 pm March 29

Through April 19

HARRIS-STANTON GALLERY CLEVELAND

Ponies, Pups and Pussycats is a multi-media group show to benefit Neighborhood Pets, a nonprofit organization in Slavic Village, dedicated to providing support — including low-cost or free veterinary services and pet food and supplies — for financially challenged pet owners.

Opening reception 6:30-9:30 pm March 30

ELEVATE GALLERY

Paper Trails, National Juried Exhibition

Our 6th annual juried exhibition of works on paper

Opening Reception 6-9 pm March 30

Through April 28

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

Monster Drawing Rally

This fun and chaotic fundraiser features dozens of local artists creating work while you watch. Each works for an hour in one of three time slots — drawing, painting, cutting, pasting, photographing, even smashing tiles with the hammer! — posting the resulting work on the wall as soon as it’s done. Art patrons keep their eye on their favorites as they’re working so they can be the first to grab a coveted work, all of which sell for $75 to the first claimant. There’s also food, music and a space for guests (and kids) to create their own work.

SPACES

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Members Show

Opening Reception 6-9 pm April 27

Gallery Talk 7 pm May 24

Through June 4

HEIGHTS ARTS

The Allen’s free First Thursday series continues with a lecture, “Rembrandt: The Last Renaissance Artist,” by Catherine Scallen, associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. Museum galleries will remain open until 7:30 pm.

5:30 pm

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Art-tini Auction to Benefit a Visual Arts Scholarship at the University of Akron

April 5-12, closing reception April 12 5:30-8:30 pm

HARRIS STANTON AKRON GALLERY

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition

April 8-May 3, Artist Reception and Awards Ceremony 7-9 pm April 12

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Vases and Virtue, Porcelain and Diplomacy: The Enlightenment Journey of Henri-Léonard Bertin (1720–92) and Joseph Amiot 1718–93),” is the topic of a free Tuesday Tea Talk by Kee Il Choi, Jr. of Leiden University, The Netherlands.

2:30 pm

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

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Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

Jewelry Student Show

Through June 1

ORANGE ART CENTER

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition

Opening reception 7-9 pm April 13

Through April 27

Entry form @ bayarts.net

BAYARTS

Gallery Talk “Form: The Space in Between”

Join Akron Art Museum John S. Knight Director and CEO Mark Masuoka for a gallery talk about Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines that focuses on the forms Kaneko employs in his work to create a powerful, yet contemplative presence.

2 pm

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Moreland Courts. Legacy Fundraiser Honoring Lee Heinen

Legacy Fundraising event honoring the lifetime achievement of Archived Artist Lee Heinen and historic Moreland Courts in Cleveland Heights

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Spring Classes

April 16-May 26

VALLEY ART CENTER

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

The Lorain Legacy Show

Opening reception April 20 6-8 pm

Through June 2

ZYGOTE PRESS

Art Bites: Professional Practices — Imagination- Go! with Joseph Polovoi

A presentation on utilizing and increasing creativity

6-8 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Community Culture Night featuring Hector Castellanos Lara. This series of evenings gives artists the chance to share with community members where their inspiration comes from and how they work, in an informal setting. Castellanos Lara’s background should make for an especially interesting evening. A native of Guatemala with artist parents, he came to the U.S. as a young adult, living in New York before coming to Cleveland. His colorful work draws on surrealism, his native folk culture, and the visual and social influences of all cultures he’s encountered.

7-8:30 pm

ARTHOUSE

Glass Exhibition featuring Scott Goss, Marianne Hite and Timothy Stover

Through May 26

HARRIS STANTON CLEVELAND GALLERY

African Menagerie – the Inquisition

Through July 15

Canton Museum of Art

Jess Dugan & Richard Renaldi

Opening reception members only 5-7 pm; general public, 7-9 pm, April 17

Through June 17

Transformer Station

Kalman & Pabst Photo Group’s 2018 Fine Art Show

April 27-28

The staff of one of Cleveland’s busiest commercial studios has the chance to put its own creativity on display at this biennial event, taking place at the studios. More than 400 photos, drawings, paintings and illustrations will be on view and for sale to take home immediately. Opening reception with food, drinks and live entertainment takes place Friday April 27 from 5-10pm; come back Saturday April 28 from 1-6pm for a quieter browse.

KALMAN PABST PHOTO GROUP

Matt Lambert: Fun & Games and Eli Gfell: post-consumer

Opening reception 5:30-8 pm April 27 with The Artist Talks: Eli Gfell at 6:15 pm and Matt Lambert at 7:00 pm

Through June 1

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

Gallery Talk with Jess Dugan & Richard Renaldi

2 pm

Transformer Station

Encore! BAYarts Fundraiser for renovation of the Playhouse

tickets @ bayarts.net

HUNTINGTON PLAYHOUSE ON THE BAYARTS CAMPUS

MAY

Urban Bright Exhibition
Through May 25

ARTHOUSE

Purchase party with pitches by museum curators on potential acquisitions for the Allen’s collection. Museum members are invited to vote on purchases, but the event and reception are free and open to the public. Galleries remain open until 8 pm.

5:30 pm

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Lisa Eastman: Nocturne

Opening reception: 6-10 pm May 4

Redux & closing reception: 6-10 pm June 1

ARTICLE

Marbling Exhibition, curated by master marbler Antonio Vélez Celemín; Summer Workshop Instructors Exhibition

Opening reception: 6-9 pm May 4

Through May 26

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

ArtsHop

Chagrin Falls Village

May 4 & 5

VALLEY ART CENTER

Merit Scholar Exhibit; 47^th Student Show

Through June 9

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

Body of Work: Annual Exhibition & Sale of Advanced Pottery Students

Opening reception 7-9 pm May 4

Through May 26

BAYARTS

Submission deadline May 7: The 9^th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

Show dates May 17-July 13

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Walkabout Tremont

5-10 pm

Jen Adams A View of My Neighborhood

Opening reception 6-8 pm May 11

Through July 8

LISSAUER GALLERY AT SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Gallery Talk “Form: A Space for Your Mind”

Join Akron Art Museum John S. Knight Director and CEO Mark Masuoka for a gallery talk about Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines that focuses on the ideas behind Kaneko’s desire to create art that makes a “space for your mind.”

2 pm

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Art Bites: Artist Studio Tour at the Shovelworks Building, 40th Street Artists with Susan Donavon Lowe, Joanna Page, Helen Libens & Lucette Johnson

1:00-3:00 pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

THIRD FRIDAY

5-9 pm

78^TH STREET STUDIOS

Cruising in the Passing Lane

Works by Andrew Shondrick and Matt Miller are described as “an ode to the particulars of life in NE Ohio.”
Through June 15

E11EVEN2@ GALLERY AT 78TH STREET STUDIOS

Matthew Gallagher Solo Exhibition

Opening Reception 5-9 pm May 18

Through June 16

HEDGE GALLERY

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

May 18-July 14, Artist Reception and Awards Ceremony, May 25, 7-9 pm.

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan

While photojournalist Danny Lyon is mostly know for his studies of people and cultures — outlaw motorcycle clubs, the Civil Rights movement, Texas prisons — in the late 1960s he undertook a study of lower Manhattan’s doomed cityscape and it soon-to-be-demolished buildings, published in 1969 as The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. This show encompasses around 50 prints from the series drawn from the museum’s own collection, tied in with the theme of the summer’s FRONT triennial, An American City.

Through October 7

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Takács/Szalay: Secrets

Artists Judy Takács and the late Marilyn Szalay have their first show as archived artists, looking at the hidden meanings and symbolism behind their figurative work. Szalay was largely known for her charcoal drawings of animals and people, close-cropped bodies, heads and hands in dramatic and mystifying scenarios. Takacs’ realistic portraits, seen most recently in her Chicks With Balls series, burst with backstory and visual biography enhanced by her emotive use of color.

Opening Reception 5:30-8 pm May 24

Through July 14

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Call for art for Peer Show

May 24-June 1

Opening reception 5-9 pm June 8

Show dates: June 8-July 21

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM