Spring 2024 Events

Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months.

More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, and the change of seasons, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person indoor events may require wearing facial covering.

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ONGOING

Through March 10

Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through March 10

Prismatic Group Exhibition

Spotlight: Amelia C. Joynes

HEIGHTS ARTS

Through March 16

WINTER EXHIBITIONS

20th Annual FRESH Juried Exhibition

David Kruk: Nobody Here

Social Justice Student Art Exhibition

Waffle Weave Invitational Group Show

Katherine Strobel: Bad Nostalgia

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Through March 17

African American Quilt & Doll Guild Member Exhibit

This organization is based right here in Northeast Ohio, in Warrensville Heights, but many people don’t know of the elaborate skilled and creative work done by its 70+ members, whose intricate fabric-based pieces range from colorful abstractions to works that tell stories about African-American culture, history and politics. They’ve long been part of the annual Station Hope event in Ohio City, but this show, in a space that’s a natural fit for them, should expose them to a new audience.

PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP GALLERY

Through March 17

Maria McDonald: In Another Life: A Tale of Love, Loss, & Living

Large-scale oil paintings that explore the hidden aspects of love

MASSILLION MUSEUM STUDIO M GALLERY

Through March 19

Art Maker on the Move

Conceived by longtime area arts promoter/organizer Joan Perch, who now focuses her work on Lorain County, this exhibit features artists working in new technologies. It emanates from the LCCC Campana Center’s Future Artist Lab, which promotes the intersection of art and technologies and makes hybrid technologies available to working artists through programming, public exhibitions, and its LCCC mobile Fab Cab makerspace. This show features work made by LCCC’s Gregory Little, Oberlin College’s Abby Aresty and Cleveland Institute of Art’s Matthew Hollern.

LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE BETH K. STOCKER GALLERY

Through March 23

Jen P. Harris, Sam Dienst, Mike Meier: Vivid Arrangements

KINK CONTEMPORARY

Through March 24

RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore

AKRON ART MUSEUM KARL AND BERTL ARNSTEIN GALLERIES

Through March 24

from WOMAN XVII… created by women, of women and about women

This biennial show, curated by Gallery Director Mary Urbas, offers a sprawling and engrossing look at dozens of mostly regional women artists, some well-known and some not, who work in a range of mediums.

Closing reception 1-3pm March 24

GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Through March 24

Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Exhibition

BALDWIN WALLACE FAWICK ART GALLERY

Through March 30

A New Deal: Artists of the WPA

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

Through April 5

Fresh Abstraction

BONFOEY GALLERY

Through April 7

Student Independent Exhibition

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Through April 13

Zachary Smoker: Inured

Nalani Stolz: Bodies Still Becoming

SCULPTURE CENTER

Through April 14

On Intimacy

This group show, which features both emerging and established artists, local, regional and international, explores ideas of intimacy in form, scale, content and narrative, including the relationship of the viewers to the works and the artists who made them.

ABATTOIR GALLERY

Through April 14

New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through April 14

Bare My Soul

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Through April 20

The 14th May Show at Lakeland juried art exhibition call for entries

Submit entries online via ArtCall

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Through May 12

Land Jam

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through May 24

Discover the Promise: Impact, Legacy & Perspective

With the City of Cleveland announcing an expansive new public arts program and the recent hiring of an art czar, it’s making a statement with this show taking place in the generally staid confines of City Hall. It features the work of 35 Northeast Ohio-based artists, some young and promising such as Aja Joi Grant, Lauren Pearce and Davon Brantley; some, including Dale Goode, Dexter Davis, Gwendolyn Garth, Robin Robinson, Gina Washington, Antwoine Washington and David Buttram, who have long records of accomplishment and are familiar to local art lovers; and a few, alas, who’ve passed away after productive careers: Michelangelo Lovelace, Miller Horns, Charles Louis Salle Jr.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT CLEVELAND CITY HALL

Through May 26

JOANN, 3 separate exhibits

Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage

Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve

BlackBrain: SCRD GRDN

MOCA CLEVELAND

Through May 26

Counting in Art and Math with Sol LeWitt

Digital Reimaginings: Printing Toward Accessibility

A Passion for Prints: Works from the Elesh Collection

Raghav Kanaria: Community and Creativity/Photographs of Rural India, 1970s-1980s

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 2024

The Archive: Installation by Rebecca Louise Law

CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY MAIN BRANCH BRETT HALL

Through June 2

To the River’s South in Japanese Painting

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through June 2

Sukeina: The Light of Omar Salam

The museum at KSU, which houses a vibrant fashion school, is hosting the first exhibition in the US dedicated to the work of Omar Salam and his design brand Sukeina. Salam, whose family is from Senegal, lived and studied in Europe and New York before beginning his fashion career at Sonia Rykiel and Christian Lacroix and eventually starting his own Sukeina brand in 2012 which features clean lines, intricate handcrafting and origami-like pieces of folded neoprene. He was inducted into KSU’s School of Fashion Hall of Fame in 2023

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Through June 18

Simple Pleasures

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT JUDSON MANOR

Through June 30

Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART MARK SCHWARTZ AND BETTINA KATZ PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERIES

Through July 14

Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through July 28

Precarious Legacies: Exposures of a Fleeting Landscape

This show focuses on how photography has been used in the service of conservation, opening people’s eyes to what is beautiful and valuable to preserve through images by legendary 20th-century photographer Ansel Adams, known for his incredibly detailed large-format photos of the rugged California landscape, and his contemporary, Cleveland-born, Massillon-raised Nell Dorr, who later moved to New York and was part of the Alfred Steiglitz’s pictorial photography group.

MASSILLON MUSEUM

Through August 4

Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through September 1

Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through September 29

From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through December 8

Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through December 15

The Body, The Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 22

A New Kind of Painter for China: 1960s-1980s

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through January 18, 2025

Femme ’n isms Part II: Flashpoints in Photography

Drawn from the museum’s own collection, this show, part of a series looking at how women have impacted art, covers wide territory. Earlier work demonstrates how women photographers dealt with the argument over whether photography was art, while works from the 1920-1950s focus on how they used the medium’s new discoveries to document society’s evolution. Finally, it looks at how modern mass media drove new strategies including collage and appropriation to address issues of identity. Photographers in the show include Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cindy Sherman, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 31, 2025

Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts

Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World

New Installation / Religious Art from Asia

New Installation / Class, Colonialism, and (Over)Consumption

Echoes of the Pandemic

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

MARCH

March 1

Bryon Miller Pandemic Photography

Opening 6-9pm

Through May 3

MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT

March 1

CAN Journal Spring Issue Launch Party

5-9pm

FRAMED GALLERY

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

DayGlo Show: How Does Your Garden Glow?

For more than a decade, (mostly) local artists have been taking part in the annual DayGlo show, sponsored by the Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corp, which supplies the paint while the artists supply the creativity. In recent years, it’s been taking place at Waterloo Arts where visitors don special glasses to view the fluorescent works surrounding them in the black-lit gallery. Given this year’s show title, we expect to see it a-bloom with strange blossoms.

Opening reception 6-9pm

Through March 30

WATERLOO ARTS

Grand Reopening & Annual Members Exhibition

Opening reception 5:30-8pm

Annual members meeting 5:30-6:30pm Friday, May 3

Closing reception & award ceremony 7-8pm Friday May 3

Through May 3

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Artist Launchpad

Applications open

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Monthly MIX Party: Women on Wax

6-10pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Bonnie App: shining a light on Regenerative Agriculture

Through March 29

PINWHEEL GALLERY

March 3

No Exit presents: Aether Eos in the Heights

A collaboration between violinist/composer/visual artist Leah Asher and pianist/composer Christopher Goddard.

3pm

HEIGHTS ARTS

March 4

New Works

Through April 5

BONFOEY GALLERY

No Exit Presents: Aether Eos at Kent State University

A collaboration between violinist/composer/visual artist Leah Asher and pianist/composer Christopher Goddard

7pm

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LUDWIG RECITAL HALL

March 5

Figurative Exhibition

Artist reception 5:30-7pm March 29

Through April 18

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

March 7

Bare My Soul Artist Talk

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Sage Wisdom at Worthington Yards

Fran Belkin, Hector Castellanos Lara, David Buttram, Don Harvey, Dan Rothenfeld, John Saile, Patricia Zinsmeister Parker and Susan Squires

Artist talk and panel discussion at Worthington Yards in partnership with Artist Archives of the Western Reserve 10-11:30am March 18

Through April 8

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

March 8

Collective Proof: 2023 BIPOC Fellows Group Exhibition

Opening 6-8pm

Through May 11

ZYGOTE PRESS

Walkabout Tremont

5-10pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition

Through March 29

BAYARTS

Local Celebrity Art-Off Live Auction and Celebration

6pm

VALLEY ART CENTER

March 9

ABC Chili Cook-Off

1-4pm

ARTHOUSE INC.

I Had Been Young Vol. 3

Through March 29

EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON

The Gift of Art: African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker

2-7pm

Also April 13 & May 11

EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

March 13

Rebecca Cross, Mapping the Sensorial

Preview 5-7pm

Opening reception 5-8pm March 15

Live Performances April 12 & April 26, times to be announced

HEDGE GALLERY

Art Bites: How To Be a Published Author

With travel photographer Alex Shaland

5:30-8pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

March 15

Third Friday

5-9pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

BAYarts Winter Concert: Beach Stav

7-10pm, 21 & over

Tickets at bayarts.net

BAYARTS

Flourish: A Celebration of Urban and Elegant Botanical Beauty

Through April 18

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience

Through September 19

Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Textile Gallery, Gallery 234

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Irrational Objects: Looking Backward into the Future Exhibition

The No Exit New Music Ensemble is celebrating its Year of Surreality, which includes several series of free concerts taking at multiple venues around town including Heights Arts. But at Heights Arts they’ll add visual environment to sonic atmosphere with a Dadaist/Surrealist set design with art and other objects created for installation within that design.

Through May 12

HEIGHTS ARTS

Dog Days at Deep Roots

Spend a free day in the gallery with your pet every Third Friday

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

No Exit’s Year of Surreality: Piano Dada with Shuai Wang

7pm

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LUDWIG RECITAL HALL

Stark County High School Art Exhibit

Through March 30

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

March 16

Friends & Family Open Studio

1pm

ART HOUSE, INC.

More Than Crayons kids art workshops (Free for all kids under 18)

10am-noon every third Saturday

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

No Exit’s Year of Surreality: Piano Dada with Shuai Wang

7pm

HEIGHTS ARTS

March 17

Peculiar Beauty: Nature Examined

This show looks at how a variety of artists have utilized and transformed nature in their work, creating strange and surreal works that reflect on themes such as the role of art in our lives and the importance of protecting it. The works include a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation.

Through May 5

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

March 18

Sage Wisdom at Worthington Yards

Artist Talk and panel discussion in partnership with Artist Archives of the Western Reserve

10-11:30am

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

March 20

Lost and Unmade: The Films of Bruce Checefsky

Screening at 5:30pm

YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY MCDONOUGH MUSEUM

March 22

3rd Annual Emerging Young Artists Exhibition

Opening 6pm

Through May 8

VALLEY ART CENTER

2024 Studio Art Senior Exhibition

Meet the artists reception 5-8pm

BALDWIN WALLACE FAWICK GALLERY LOBBY

March 23

Friends & Family Clay Day

10am-noon

ART HOUSE, INC.

Home Again: The Embodiment of Africa through Art and Fabric

Through May 19

MASSILLON MUSEUM

March 24

from WOMAN XVII… created by women, of women & about women

Closing reception 1-3pm

GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Close Encounters Concert

Strings and Winds: Strauss, Clarke and Prokofiev

3-5pm

HEIGHTS ARTS AT DUNHAM TAVERN

March 28

Lorain County Community College Student Art and Portfolio Exhibit

Opening reception 4-6pm

Through April 26

LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE BETH K. STOCKER ART GALLERY

March 31

Monet in Focus

Through August 11

Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery, Gallery 010

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

APRIL

April 1

Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition

Closing reception 7-9pm April 25

Through April 25

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

April 4

Lisa Schonberg and Jennifer Leach

Through June 22

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

AiR Artist Talks — Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat with Lars Shimabukuro (in-person & livestreamed on Facebook)

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

April 5

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Monthly MIX Party

6-10pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

New Terrain: 12th Annual Juried Exhibition

Opening reception 5-8pm

Through May 4

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

The Cleveland Eclipse Show

Works by photographers Mary Defer and Steve Mastroianni explore time and the sun, key elements of the April 8 total solar eclipse that will be viewable in Northeast Ohio, as well as the basis of photography

Through May 3

PINWHEEL GALLERY

Spring Exhibitions

JOANN: 5 separate shows

Happiness & The End of the World: Matt Miller

The Aunties: Sylvia Sykes

Medina County Art League

Artists of the Rubber City Juried Exhibition

Starburst: Regional Juried High School Exhibition (closes May 18)

Through June 15

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Maddie McSweeney Solo BFA Exhibition

Opening reception 5-9pm

Through May 3

KINK CONTEMPORARY

April 6

Intro to Western Papermaking Part I

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Monica Frissell and Adam Scher: Portrait of US

Through May 19

MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M GALLERY

April 8

Total Solar Eclipse

Many organizations will be hosting watch parties for this rare event which will be visible throughout Northeast Ohio. Check in with them!

Student Juried Exhibit

Reception 5-8pm April 12

Through May 3

BALDWIN WALLACE FAWICK GALLERY

April 11

AiR Artist Talks — Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat with 2024 Morgan artist-in-residence Bob Herbst (in-person & livestreamed on Facebook)

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

April 12

Walkabout Tremont

6-10pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Edward A. Raffel: Analog Man in a Digital World

Veteran area artist Raffel, who recently won the prize for the most striking or unusual piece in the Valley Art Center juried show, incorporates all kinds of things into his minimalist, abstract pieces, which are both two- and three-dimensional. They use color and a sense of humor to engage viewers in what he calls “the inorganic man-made world, not in imitating nature.” All but one of the works on view are new and previously unseen.

Opening reception 5-8pm April 12

Through May 3

BAYARTS

Rebecca Cross, Mapping the Sensorial

Live performances on April 12 & April 26, times to be announced

HEDGE GALLERY

Aleksandra Vrebalov

7:30-9pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AMES FAMILY ATRIUM

April 13

April Exhibition

Through April 26

EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON

Intro to Bookbinding, Part I

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

The Gift of Art: African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker

2-7pm

Also May 11

EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

April 14

Africa & Byzantium

Through July 21

Ticket required; members are always free

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

April 16

52nd Annual Cleveland State University Student Art Show

Through May 24

BONFOEY GALLERY

Cleveland State University Merit Scholar Exhibition

Through May 24

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

April 18

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Irrational Objects

7pm

HEIGHTS ARTS

Community Culture Night with Herb Ascherman

7-8:30pm

ART HOUSE, INC.

April 19

Third Friday

5-9pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

Dog Days at Deep Roots

Free day to come to the gallery with your pet every Third Friday

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Sybarite5

7:30-9pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM

April 20

Friends & Family Open Studio

1pm

ART HOUSE, INC.

More Than Crayons kids art workshops (Free for all kids under 18)

10am-noon every third Saturday

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Mixed Technique: Intro to Marbling

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

April 23

A Material World: Janice Jakielski’s Impossible Objects

Beyond Worlds: Paintings by Laine Bachman

Ginni Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination

Immersive Spaces from the CMA Collection

The museum’s next group of shows are complementary, transforming natural landscapes through different mediums. There’s ceramic work by Massachusetts-based sculptor Jakielski whose manipulation of thin sheets of porcelain makes this medium attain a counterintuitive flexibility and fluidity. Her “objects” look impossible only as it dawns on you what the material is. Columbus-based Bachman’s paintings are colorful explosions of fantastic flora and fauna that feel both comfortably familiar and unsettlingly strange. And animation artist Ruffner’s seemingly apocalyptic landscape installations, created with sculpture and augmented reality, explode into vibrant life.

Through July 28

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

2024 Spring Show

Opening reception 6pm

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

April 25

AiR Artist Talks — Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat with 2024 Morgan artist-in-residence Joseph Lappie (in-person & livestreamed on Facebook)

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition

Closing reception: 7-9pm

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND

Fine Print Fair 2024

The Print Club of Cleveland’s annual Fine Print Fair features both a benefit event and a three-day free-and-open-to-the-public print fair in the Ames Family Atrium where, for three days, people can browse booths hosted by fine print dealers from around the country, offering everything from collectible vintage prints with high price tags to contemporary works that are highly affordable. Dealers on site are happy to chat about print types and artists, so it’s a great opportunity to learn more about this accessible form of art collecting.

Preview reception 5:30-7:30pm; tickets $75

Public viewing hours 10am-6pm April 26

10am-5pm April 27 & 28

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

April 26

Rebecca Cross, Mapping the Sensorial

Last live performance, time to be announced

HEDGE GALLERY

Rachel Linnemann

alexandra virginia martin

Opening reception 5:30-8pm

Through June 15

SCULPTURE CENTER

April 27

Intro to Letterpress

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Song Recital Project: Franz Schubert’s Winterreise

2-3:30pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM

April 28

Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution

Through October 13

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

2024 Congressional Art Competition

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