EVENTS Spring 2019

My Purpose? by Destinee Cruz, Project Snapshot student

CONTINUING EVENTS

THROUGH MARCH 15

Ryan Dewey: Lines of Descent; W2S 2019 New Work by Kelley O’Brien

THE SCULPTURE CENTER

THROUGH MARCH 22
Danny Volk: The News Gallery
Julia Oldham: Fallout Dogs
Johnny Coleman: Crossing the Water: Requiem for Lee Dobbins

Oberlin-based sculptor/installation artist Johnny Coleman is an associate professor of studio art and Africana studies at Oberlin College. He began his residency at SPACES Gallery in Ohio City in early December, when he began work on his immersive installation titled Crossing the Water: Requiem for Lee Howard Dobbins. It’s a reflection on the spirit of a former slave child who, while travelling with his family to escape to Canada, fell ill in Oberlin. He was left behind with a local family, died and was buried by neighbors who raised money for his burial and headstone. “This project is a meditation on an imagined place in which he might have been free,” says the artist statement.
SPACES

THROUGH MARCH 24
Aleksandra
Domanović
MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH MARCH 29
Celebrate Women’s History Month: From Woman XII… Created by Women, of Women & about Women | Curated by Mary Urbas
Reception 3:30-5pm March 24
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

*THROUGH MARCH 30
Ruddy Roye: When Living Is a Protest
Photojournalist Ruddy Roye was born in Jamaica and is based in New York. But his engagements with mostly poor communities of color has taken him all over: He’s shot dancehall musicians in his native country, protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and people on the streets of Brooklyn and Milwaukee. He often focuses on black men such as himself to show their rich variety and humanity. He’s known widely for the work he shares on Instagram where he has more than a quarter million followers who relate to the compassionate empathy he brings to his work. He returns to the Cleveland Print Room where he visited early last year, with a show of large-scale works in which he focuses on typically invisible people struggling to get by.
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

THROUGH APRIL 1
Zinsmeister Parker
ART AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE

THROUGH APRIL 7
Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH APRIL 14
Brian Bress: Pictures Become You
Brian Bress’ hypnotic films feature characters dressed in costumes and masks created by the artist, who manipulate their environment in ways that slowly evolve over the course of 15-30 minutes. The cartoonish figures attach magnetized plastic forms to their faces or use a saw to cut out pieces of scenery between them and the viewer, or draw on a glass in front of the frame and then erase their work. While they’re amusing and playful, their activities are also mystifying and even frustrating to watch, evoking thoughts of futility with their repetitiveness.
AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH APRIL 28
A. D. Peters: Eco-Conscious
JUDSON PARK

THROUGH APRIL 28
Raúl de Nieves: Fina
Born and raised in Mexico and currently living in New York, Raúl de Nieves draws on his native culture and arts for the intricate fabric and beadwork that make his sculptural objects so colorful and dazzling. This is his first museum show, which features among other things a site-specific installation that interacts with the distinctive architecture of the Transformer Station.
TRANSFORMER STATION

THROUGH APRIL 30
Claudia Comte: Zigzags & Diagonals
MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH MAY 1

Painting + Drawing Student Show

ORANGE ART CENTER

 

THROUGH MAY 5
Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915-1920
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH MAY 5

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

AKRON ART MUSEUM

 

THROUGH MAY 26
Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH MAY 26
Women Bound and Unbound
The Three Friends of Winter: Pine, Bamboo and Plum
Centripetal/Centrifugal: Calibrating an Asian American Art
The Thingness of Things: Portraits of Objects
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSUEM

THROUGH JUNE 2
Nick Cave: Feat
Like many contemporary artists, Chicago artist Nick Cave doesn’t stay in a single box, utilizing sculpture, video, installation and performance to address issues of social justice and civil responsibility, especially those involving race and gun violence. He creates sculptures known as “soundsuits”—human-like sculptures that make noise when they move. They require about seven hours to hand-sew a square foot, a degree of art-making difficulty referenced in the exhibit’s title. He says he hopes his immersive exhibit will “provide a transformative place where your narrative can be featured and your dreams can soar.”
AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JUNE 16
Nature & Nostalgia in Early 20th-Century Japanese Art
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JUNE 23
The Body Is the Map: Approaches to Land in the Americas after 1960
Art & Being in the Garden of
Ryōan-ji
ALLEN MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JUNE 30
Zao Wou-Ki: Prints in Context
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2
Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film + Video
MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Color & Comfort: Swedish Modern Design
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

MARCH

1

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

TradeMarks
CAN Launch/opening reception 6-9 pm
In this show, nine highly productive area artists—Stephen Bivens, Keith Berr, Dana Depew, JoAnn Dickey, Gabriel Gonzalez, Joe Lanzilotta, Cathy Law, mr. soul, and Jordan Wong—look at the challenges and obstacles confronting regional artists whose work crosses over between the commercial and fine-art sectors. These artists perform a balancing act of pleasing clients while remaining true to themselves. The show looks at how commercial art has influenced the avant-garde in NE Ohio, and lets the artists show how they would address these issues free from constraints.
Through April 26
YARDS PROJECT SPACE

DayGloSho 7
Reception 6-9 pm
Through March 30
WATERLOO ARTS

Presents: Fabrications, Art by Carolyn Crump & AAQDG
Reception 6-9 pm
Through March 31
FRAMED GALLERY

Visions 2019: Canton Artists League Spring Show
Reception March 3
Through April 7
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

2

Eileen Dorsey & Charles Basham: Recent Landscapes
Reception 7-9 pm March 2
Through April 20
MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M

3

Early Bird Art & Craft Show
10am-5pm
VALLEY ART CENTER

8

Walkabout Tremont
6-10 pm
TREMONT

Engaging Women
Engaging Women features eleven women artists with ties to northeast Ohio—most have studios here. They are primarily painters, both abstract and figurative, but also include much-travelled photographer Linda Butler and Cathie Bleck, known for her detailed monochrome drawings on scratchboard and kaolin clay board with ink. The show focuses on how women view the world and how they express their views through their artwork.
Through April 27
BONFOEY GALLERY

A Tradition Re-Interpreted #2: New Work by Chinese Artists
Through April 13
THE GALLERIES AT CSU

Jenniffer Omaitz: Intersections
Through May 5
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY

Capturing the Aura of the Already Said: Deborah Carruthers, Gabriel Deerman, Margaret Hart, Petra Nimm & Mark Roth
Reception & Artist Talk 6-8 pm
Through April 26
ZYGOTE PRESS

Sideways Thinking
Reception 6-9 pm
Gallery Talk 7 pm April 4
Through April 21
HEIGHTS ARTS

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition
Reception 7-9 pm
Through April 6
BAYARTS

Tell Me About Yourself: Remembering Shirley Aley Campbell
Reception 1-3pm March 10
This pop-up memorial exhibition benefits the estate of Archived Artist Shirley Aley Campbell, who died last August at the age of 93. With more than 70 years’ work as an artist, she went through many styles and phases. But most people are familiar with her large, dramatic canvases featuring vibrant, forceful portraits of offbeat people and those on the fringes of normal society: motorcyclists, prostitutes, strippers, bullfighters, or just plain, lumpy everyday folks who might be considered by some to be unworthy of artistic concern, but to whom she paid a great deal of attention.
Through March 16
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

15

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

Continuum
Reception 5-9 pm
Through May 17
ARTNEO

16

Mernet Larsen: The Ordinary, Reoriented
Through September 8
AKRON ART MUSEUM

Monthly Family Open Studio
1-3 pm
ART HOUSE

Art/Ventures: Keith Berr & Linda Barberic
10 am-noon
Meet at Worthington Yards
YARDS PROJECT SPACE

20

Stark County High School Exhibition
Through April 7
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

21

Rhythm in Repetition: new works by Kate Snow & Terry Klausman
Through April 27
HARRIS STANTON GALLERY AKRON

22
Spotlight: Michelangelo Lovelace
Reception 6-9 pm
Through May 5
HEIGHTS ARTS

23

Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was one of the best-known photojournalists of the 20th century, working for premiere photo magazine Life. And being African-American, he could move more easily in and among the black community and relate more empathetically with its denizens. He spent time in Chicago in the ’40s and ’50s, an era when that city had an arts scene on the south side—what’s now Bronzeville—that rivaled the Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s. Although he did work in many fields, such as fashion, sports and theater, he’s most remembered for his powerful documentary photography of segregation and the civil rights movement. This show looks at a time period when he was working on discovering the subjects that engaged him and was influenced by writers such as Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison who were friends of his.
Through June 9
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Looking at Appalachia: Contemporary Photography curated by Roger May
Through June 2
MASSILLON MUSEUM

Family Clay Day
10 am-noon
ART HOUSE

24

Celebrate Women’s History Month: From Woman XII… Created by Women, of Women & about Women
Reception 3:30-5 pm
Curated by Mary Urbas
Through March 29
THE GALLERIES AT LAKELAND

29

7th annual National Juried Exhibition of paper art
Reception 6-9 pm
Through April 27
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Annual AAWR Members’ Exhibition
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Open Call! Each AAWR member can submit one piece under 24″. Votes for the People’s Choice Awards will be collected for the duration of the exhibition and announced at the exhibition’s closing reception & awards ceremony on Friday, May 3, immediately following the Annual Members Meeting.
Through May 3
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Observation/Conservation
Reception 6-8 pm
Through May 8
VALLEY ART CENTER

Work by Adam Shirley & Phillip Scarpone
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through May 24
THE SCULPTURE CENTER

30

Monster Drawing Rally
6-10 pm
SPACES’ annual Monster Drawing Rally features three hour-long shifts of local artists creating work on the spot and putting it up on the wall for attendees to claim at $75 a pop. Art lovers scope out what their favorite artists are working on so they can be first to stake their claim. And not all artists simply draw with the provided supplies—many bring their own bags of tool and materials to produce paintings, collages and multi-media pieces. There’s a room for kids to make and display their own stuff, plus food, drinks, music and entertainment.
SPACES

APRIL

4

William Harper: The Beautiful & the Grotesque
Reception 6-8 pm
Through June 14
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

Sideways Thinking gallery talk
7 pm
HEIGHTS ARTS

5

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Playing Up Downstairs: Eleanor Anderson, Artist in Residence
Reception 6-9 pm
Through May 19
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

Orlando Caraballo, Amirah Cunningham & Azziz Muhammad: What Goes Up…
Reception 6-9 pm
Through May 15
WATERLOO ARTS

7

Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Artist Reception & Awards Ceremony 7-9 pm April 11
Through May 2
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

9

Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art
Through June 30
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

11

26th Annual ART-tini Auction benefiting carta
Through April 18
Vodka-Themed Closing Party: 5:30-8 pm April 18
HARRIS STANTON GALLERY CLEVELAND

Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Artist Reception & Awards Ceremony 7-9 pm
Awards presented at 7:30 pm, reception to follow
Through May 2
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Jennifer Vanderpool: Untold Stories
Panel Discussion 6 pm, Folk Hall, room 165
MYERS SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

12

Walkabout Tremont
6-10 pm
TREMONT

John Sargent: Recent Paintings
Opening 6 pm
Through June 1
ART AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE

Nicole Schneider: The Color of Walls
Reception 7-9 pm
Schneider’s new work features overlapping blocks of bright color, some of them with markings that look like the giddy, freeform scribbles of a toddler. In fact, that’s sort of what they’re about. The artist says that they were influenced by her role as a mother socializing her toddler and the act of learning to color “inside the lines.” Order and chaos create tension in her work, which also springs from her interest in developmental and behavioral psychology and “the abstract landscapes of the mind.”
Through May 3
BAYARTS

15

Spring classes begin
Through May 25
VALLEY ART CENTER

17

Project Snapshot Student Exhibition
5-8 pm
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

19

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

Douglas Max Utter: Falling from the Sky of Now
Reception 5-9 pm
Through June 7
HEDGE GALLERY

20

Monthly Family Open Studio
1-3 pm
ART HOUSE

24

Hadley Conner, Katy Richards & Eric Rippert: Should I, or Shouldn’t I?
Reception 6-9 pm
Curated by Dawn Tekler
Through June 8
SHAKER COMMUNITY GALLERY

26

Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Exhibition
Professionals reception 4:30-6pm
Friends & family reception 6-8 pm
Through May 3
MYERS SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

Community Culture Night with Petra Gruber, University of Akron Biomimicry Professor
7-8:30 pm
ART HOUSE

Emergent 2019
Reception 6-9 pm April 27
Gallery Talk 7 pm May 24
Through June 9
HEIGHTS ARTS

27

Joe Vitone: Family Records
Through October 27
AKRON ART MUSEUM

Donna Coleman: Three Graces & Other Beauties
Through June 16
MASSILLON MUSEUM

Through the Looking Glass
6 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA

MAY

1

Instant Foto Student Exhibition
5-8 pm
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

3

Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

17th Annual Urban Bright Exhibition, Ice Cream Social & Reception
4-9 pm
ART HOUSE

A Room of One’s Own: Artists in Residence Exhibition
Reception 6-9 pm
Through June 1
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Merit Scholar Exhibition
48th Student Show
Through June 8
THE GALLERIES AT CSU

Annual Members’ Exhibition
Closing reception & awards ceremony
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Jewelry + Metals Student Show
Reception
Through June 7
ORANGE ART CENTER

Playing Up Downstairs: Eleanor Anderson, Artist in Residence
Reception 6-9 pm
Through May 19
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

Food for Thought
Organized Ambiguity: Recent Grids of David Kuntzman
Drafting Dimensions: Contemporary Midwest Ceramics
John Jude Palencar: Between Worlds

The Canton Museum of Art opens four intriguing different shows for the summer. Project Eat! is a year-long celebration of food throughout Stark County. As one part of that project, this exhibition looks at the role food has played in American art and culture, exploring what and how we eat and with whom, using works in the museum’s collection including ones by Romare Bearden, Salvador Dalí and Thomas Hart Benton. Drafting Dimensions includes work by Midwest artists who are primarily ceramicists but also use painting, drawing or printmaking to create their work. David Kuntzman’s grids are inspired by the work of op-art legends such as Victor Vasarely and Northeast Ohio’s Julian Stanczak. And illustrator John Jude Palencar creates surreal and darkly fantastical visions in his work, which includes creating cover illustrations for books by Tolkien, Lovecraft and Poe.
Through July 21
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

5

A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland
Through September 22
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

6

Submission deadline: 10th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition
Drop off artwork May 4-May 6
Show dates May 16-July 12
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

9

Fabulism
Reception 6-9 pm
Through June 28
YARDS PROJECT SPACE

10

Walkabout Tremont
6-10 pm
TREMONT

Lila Rose Kole & Collaborations with Kenno Apatrida, Cleveland to Berlin and Back
5-10 pm
HARTSHORN STUDIOS

Jim Ptacek: A Retrospective
Through July 7
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY LISSAUER GALLERY

Spotlight: Karen Sandstrom
Reception 6-9 pm
Through June 23
HEIGHTS ARTS

11th Annual Advanced Ceramics Students Exhibit & Sale: To Have to Hold—A Marriage of Form & Function
Reception 7-9 pm
BAYARTS

15

POV Mastery Student Exhibition
5-8 pm
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

16

EVAC: Experiencing Veterans & Artists Collaboration
Reception 5:30-8pm
EVAC is a traveling exhibition organized by three artists/curators from Tiffin University. It brings together 22 veterans of different generations, from all branches of the military, and 23 artists who interpret their stories through art. Through this process, EVAC has helped to bridge the gap between military life and civilian life, combating the isolation common to veterans. Select works by veteran Archived Artists will also be included.
Through July 6
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

10th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition
Reception & Awards 7-9 pm
Through July 12
THE GALLERIES AT LAKELAND

17

Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

CAN Summer Issue Launch Party
6-9 pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA

Jack Bialosky: Retrospective
JUDSON PARK

18

Monthly Family Open Studio
1-3 pm
ART HOUSE

Art/Ventures: Claudio Orso & Rian Brown
10 am-noon
Meet at Worthington Yards
YARDS PROJECT SPACE