Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios and museums in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN.

THROUGH MARCH 14

7th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Triennial

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

THROUGH MARCH 15

The Distance of the Moon

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH MARCH 17

Celebrate Women’s History Month—From WOMAN XIII…created by women, for women and about women. Curated by Mary Urbas.

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

THROUGH MARCH 22

AMALA: She Could Not Stay (in Their Black Bodies)

“This work examines the relationship between loss, displacement, relocation and the cost of accumulated histories on black gendered bodies that birth,” says Cleveland visual artist/writer/educator M. Carmen Lane about her new show. The mixed-media installation uses FEMA body bags to suggest the dual role of water as a womb and a tomb; it explores loss and dislocation, and confronts the legacy of slavery in influencing such outcomes as minority infant mortality.

PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

THROUGH MARCH 22

Fuse: New Works by Deb Pinter

MASSILLON MUSEUM

THROUGH MARCH 28

The Me I Seldom Share, a Portrait Project by Don Parsisson

ARTISTS OF THE RUBBER CITY BOX GALLERY

THROUGH MARCH 30

Work by new faculty member E.J. Bocian III
ORANGE ART CENTER

THROUGH MARCH 31

Evita Tezeno: Whimsy

FRAMED

THROUGH APRIL 2

Women in Conversation: Work by Gail Crum, Jill Milenski and Gayle Pritchard

Closing reception 4-7 pm Thursday, April 2

LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER ART GALLERY

THROUGH APRIL 3

John W. Carlson: Blues: New Paintings, with photography by Shari Wilkins

HEDGE GALLERY

THROUGH APRIL 4

Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes

ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH APRIL 5

Creative Roots: Celebrating Ohio Through the CMA Collection

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH APRIL 11

Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea, and Sky

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

THROUGH APRIL 12

Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet

For photographers who worked in the era of film and negatives, this exhibit will be a nostalgic journey back to the time when contact sheets provided them with a tool to see all their exposures laid out so they could pick out the winning shots. For nonphotographers, this exhibit of almost 200 contact sheets and finished prints is heavy on celebrity photographers such as Irving Penn, Philippe Halsman and Richard Avedon, giving viewers some insight into what it took to get that iconic image of Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dali or Groucho Marx.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH APRIL 12

Table for Two

CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY

THROUGH APRIL 15

The Garden of Old Age

Poetry by Nina Gibans, photography of Shaker Lakes by Abby Star

GEORGE S. STREETER GALLERY @ JUDSON PARK

THROUGH APRIL 16

Human Figure exhibition and art sale

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

THROUGH APRIL 18

Trade Marks II

Co-hosted by Worthington Yards residents Geno Apollonaire & Trevor Yasinow

WORTHINGTON YARDS

THROUGH APRIL 19

Members Show 2020

HEIGHTS ARTS

THROUGH APRIL 20

Bellamy Printz: Time Elastic monoprints

FOOTHILL GALLERY OF THE PHOTO SUCCESSION

THROUGH APRIL 24

Submissions accepted March 1-April 24

The Sixth Annual Peer Show juried exhibition

Show dates June 5-July 18

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

THROUGH APRIL 30

International Artist Residence: Alberto Daniel Zamora Bravo

Aguafuerte Taller, Santiago de Chile

ZYGOTE PRESS

THROUGH MAY 1

Community: Together We Can: 2nd Women’s History Month Student Art Showcase

URSULINE COLLEGE WASMER GALLERY

THROUGH MAY 17

Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is.

San Francisco-based Margaret Kilgallen was trained as a printmaker. She combined influences ranging from graffiti to southwest American folk art, with a strong interest in lettering and signs, in her mixed-media pieces, which have a deliberately rough-edged handcrafted quality. Kilgallen passed away from breast cancer in 2001 at age 33 just as her work was starting to attract attention. MoCa’s chief curator Courtenay Finn came to the institution in late 2018 from the Aspen Art Museum where she created this show. It features pieces from West Coast institutions and previously unseen works from Kilgallen’s estate.

MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH MAY 17

Signal Noise: Aaron Rothman

TRANSFORMER STATION

THROUGH MAY 17

Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom

MOCA CLEVELAND

THROUGH MAY 24

Afterlives of the Black Atlantic

Works by artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas explore impacts of the Atlantic slave trade and its unresolved legacies.

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH MAY 24

Elias Sime: Tightrope

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JUNE 14

Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JUNE 14

Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JUNE 28

Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JULY 12

Boredom Aesthetics: The Early Videos of Zhang Peili

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JULY 19

The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection

Glimpse into a different world where the everyday object became something magical in the hands of artisans working in gold, ivory, jade, and cloisonné.

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH JULY 26

Golden Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH JULY 26

Monkeys, Apes, and Mr. Freer

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

THROUGH AUGUST 2

Ana Mendieta: Ochún

Legendary, groundbreaking Cuban-American artist Mendieta was one of the few women working adjacent to the macho conceptual/land art scene of the ’60s & ’70s. She brought a distinctly womanly viewpoint to that work, which drew on video and performance art to center the female body and its concerns. The 1981 video Ochún is one of a series which used organic materials to suggest the female form; in addition, Ochún is dominated by water imagery to evoke a link between her native country and her adopted one.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH AUGUST 9

Objects to Be Destroyed

AKRON ART MUSEUM

THROUGH AUGUST 20

A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 6

Laura Owens: Rerun

TRANSFORMER STATION

JoAnn: Months

MARCH

6

CAN Journal Spring Issue Launch Party

6-8 pm

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

6

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Members Show 2020

Reception 6-9 pm

Through April 19

HEIGHTS ARTS

10

Human Figure Exhibition & Art Sale

Through April 16

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

13

Andy Sweet’s Shtetl in the Sun

In the ’70s, before money and gentrification, Miami’s South Beach was a refuge for elderly Jews from the north, many of them Holocaust survivors. That culture was captured by documentary street photographer Andy Sweet, a Miami native who began the project in 1977. He intended to work on it for the next decade, but he was murdered in 1982, and his negatives were lost—and later found by his family and restored. Many of his images, which—unusual for the era—were in color, became the 2019 book Shtetl in the Sun. This show features a selection of those photos.

Opening reception 5-8 pm March 12

Through April 17

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM

13

Walkabout Tremont

6-10 pm

TREMONT

Note to JoAnn: in the following title, there is an underlined space between loci and toward–if you can.

13

Exhibition: Genius loci toward understanding of place

Tressa Jones and Arron Foster

Reception 6-8 pm

Curator Talk 6:30 pm

Through April 17

ZYGOTE PRESS

14

ABC Chili Cook-Off

1-4 pm

ART HOUSE

18

The City of Hope documentary screening

5-8 pm

Doors open at 5 pm; event starts at 6 pm

TRI-C METRO CAMPUS MCC 201

20

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

Oppositions: The Secessionists vs. The Cleveland Society of Artists

Through May 15

20

ARTNEO

Spotlight: Stephen Calhoun

Reception 6-9 pm

Through May 3

HEIGHTS ARTS

20

Intimate Regard

Reception March 20

Through April 29

VALLEY ART CENTER

21

Encore: Act 2

7-10 pm

BAYARTS

21

Art/Ventures Studio Talk and Tour

Meet at Worthington Yards for a talk with Bob Peck, who started out as a graffiti artist before expanding into DJing, painting murals, doing art workshops for kids, and showing his street-inspired painting in galleries. He works with the nonprofit Graffiti HeArt, founded in 2013 to find opportunities, such as commissions and scholarships, for street artists. The second stop of the morning will be at Graffiti HeArt’s new permanent space at 4829 St. Clair Avenue to meet founder Stamy Paul, learn more about Peck’s work and see some of the other work being done by area graffiti-based artists.

10 am

WORTHINGTON YARDS

22

Celebrate Women’s History Month: From WOMAN XIII … Created by Women, for Women and About Women. Curated by Mary Urbas.

Artist reception 3:30-5 pm

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

25

Stark County High School Exhibit

Through April 5

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

26

T   ITL E   TB  D

Reception 6-8 pm March 26

Workshop 12:15pm March 27

Through June 12

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

27

Members Exhibition

Campus-Wide Opening Reception: 5:30-8 pm March 27

Closing Reception & Awards Ceremony: 6:30-7:30 pm May 1

27

National Juried Exhibition

Reception 6-9 pm

Through April 25

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

27

Chelsea A! Flowers: Laughing Out Loudly

Detroit artist Flowers’ work uses a variety of strategies that draw on installation, video and performance art, including comedic troupes, physical play, nostalgic memorabilia and participatory performance to explore issues of popular culture, race, politics and personal insecurity. Her topics range from how the policies of Ronald Reagan still affect us today to finding her own place in the art world as a young, black, art school graduate. This exhibit centers on the uses of laughter. She says, “Laughter is bodily, visceral, reactionary. It’s the final cop-out. In these stream of conscious conversations I let go of my laughter.”

Reception 5:30-8 pm

Through May 22

THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES

27

Emily Duke: Careless Water

Reception 5:30-8 pm

Through May 22

THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES

28

The Kids Are Alright

Through August 9

AKRON ART MUSEUM

JoAnn: APRIL

3

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

3

Tiffani Glenn: Femininality

Reception 6 pm

FRAMED

3

Dale Roberts Encaustic Demo and Talk

6-8 pm

VALLEY ART CENTER

4

Works of John Saile

818 STUDIOS

4

Cut Up/Cut Out

Some 50 artists from across the country and around the world (Mexico, Canada, France, the UK, Australia, South Africa, Finland), who cut and pierce their materials to create their work, are represented in this travelling show. Expanding the ancient art of paper cutting, they also work in plastic, rubber and metal, transforming their media through the painstaking and time-consuming process of removal to create patterns, designs and three-dimensional shapes.

Through August 23

MASSILLON MUSEUM

5

Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition

Artist Reception and Awards Ceremony 7-9 pm April 9

Awards presented at 7:30 pm; reception to follow

Through April 29

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

5

Peg & Deb: Two Divorced Moms Take On Art!

1 pm

Local celebrity divorcées Deb & Peg (performance artists Marcia Custer & Ben Oblivion) lead a guided tour of the National Juried Exhibition. Mimosas included!

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

9

LCCC Student Art Exhibit

Artists reception 5-7 pm

Through May 7

LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER ART GALLERY

10

Walkabout Tremont

6-10 pm

TREMONT

10

Coming Home: Drawings and Sculpture by Terry Klausman

Reception 5 pm

Through May 9

ARTISTS OF THE RUBBER CITY BOX GALLERY

10

Regional Juried Show presented by Artists of the Rubber City

Reception 5-8 pm

Through May 9

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

10

David King: Time Travel

Painter David King’s work features vivid, unnatural fluorescent colors, odd croppings, unusual arrangements of pictorial elements and seemingly random splashes of paint to cause viewers to look at the typical family snapshots we’re all familiar with in a different way, suggesting new ways to interpret those nostalgic scenes. There’s something a little off in most of his paintings, with characters lost in their landscapes, seeming about to disintegrate or engaged in some inexplicable scenario verging on surrealism.

Reception 7-9 pm

Through May 1

BAYARTS

13

Spring classes begin

VALLEY ART CENTER

15

Matthew Gallagher

Preview 6-8 pm April 15

Reception 5-9 pm April 17

Through June 5

HEDGE GALLERY

17

Third Friday

5-9 pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

18

Studio Open House: Create & Take

Noon-3:00 pm

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

22

Earth Day Benefit

5:30-8 pm

BONFOEY GALLERY

24

Community Culture Night

6-8:30 pm

ART HOUSE

24

Concert: The Humbuckers

7-10 pm

BAYARTS

24

Cause for Change

Reception 5-7:30pm

Through June 6

BONFOEY GALLERY

24

Community Expressions

Artist talk at 4:30 pm in the Audra L. Rose Creative Arts Studio

Reception 5-6 pm in the 6th Floor Commons

Through July 15

GEORGE A. STREETER GALLERY AT JUDSON PARK

27

A Portrait of Americana: American Life from the CMA Collection

Patient Work: Watercolors by J.D. Titzel

Reflections: The Artistic Spirit of Merv Corning

Symbolic Narrative: Ceramics by Taylor Robenault

Through July 19

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

30

Women Picturing Cleveland

Worthington Yards residents Heidi DuBois and Heidi Quicksilver co-host this show, which was put together by Cleveland Print Room founder Shari Wilkins. It looks at the work of the increasing number of women active in Cleveland’s photography scene, until fairly recently dominated by men. Many are affiliated with CPR as staff, teachers, mentors, board members and exhibitors, encouraging younger photographers. This show highlights what they saw—good and bad, beautiful and ugly, and above all hopeful—when they turned their gaze on the city itself.

5:30-8 pm

Through June 27

WORTHINGTON YARDS

30

KSU School of Art Studio Intensive Application Deadline

May 24-June 6

JoAnn: MAY

1

18th Annual Urban Bright Exhibition

4-5:30 pm & 6-9 pm

ART HOUSE

1

Walk All Over Waterloo

6-9 pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

1

This Moment: An Artist-in-Residence Exhibition

Reception 6-9 pm

Through May 30

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

1

CSU Merit Scholar Exhibition & 49th Student Art Exhibition

Artist reception 5-8 pm

Through June 6

THE GALLERIES AT CSU

1

Screw Factory Spring Art Show & Open Studios

May 1-2

SCREW FACTORY

2

Upcycle Parts Workshop

Upcycle Parts is a nonprofit organization which conducts workshops in creating new items with recycled materials. Their shop on St. Clair and East 65th sells donated materials for projects to artists, teachers and others. They lead an off-site workshop in upcycled crafts at Bonfoey, Cleveland’s oldest gallery, including a behind-the-scenes tour of the gallery and its operations.

1-3:30 pm

BONFOEY GALLERY

2

Workshops: Traditional Japanese Papermaking

10 am-4 pm May 2-3

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

3

Submission deadline for the 11th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

Show dates May 14-June 26

8

Walkabout Tremont

6-10 pm

TREMONT

8

BAYarts 11th Annual Advanced Students Exhibit and Sale

Through June 5

BAYARTS

8

Exhibition: No(where), curator Matthew Rowe

Reception 6-8 pm

Curator Talk: 6:30pm

Through June 5

ZYGOTE PRESS

9

Mokuhanga: Traditional Japanese Woodblock

10 am-4 pm May 9-10

MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY

9

Miniature Zines

10 am-4 pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

14

The Ardent Thread, curated by Tony Williams

Reception 5:30-8 pm

Through July 3

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

14

The 11th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

Artist Reception and Awards Ceremony, 7-9 pm

Through June 26

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

15

CAN Journal Summer Issue Launch Party

6-8 pm

AMERICAN GREETINGS GALLERY W AT CROCKER PARK

16

Art/Ventures Studio Talk with Shari Wilkins

Start at Worthington Yards, then head to Cleveland Print Room to learn more about what the photography-based nonprofit does.

10 am

WORTHINGTON YARDS

16

Rooms to Let CLE

May 16-17

SLAVIC VILLAGE

20

Third Friday

5-9pm

78TH STREET STUDIOS

22

ATNSC presents: Lori Waxman, The 60wrd/Min Art Critic

May 22-24

ATNSC: CENTER FOR HEALING & CREATIVE LEADERSHIP/AHKSÓTHA GALLERY

23

Cleveland Arts Prize Art Auction & ’60s Bash

TRANSFORMER STATION

24

Kent State University’s School of Art studio intensives: ceramics, painting, print media, and sculpture and expanded media.

Through June 6

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY