Summer 2024 Events

Alison Bogard Hall’s Alchemy Dreams, the BAYarts choice for a CAN Triennial 2022 Exhibition Prize Show, opens June 7 – July 6 in the BAYarts Sullivan Family Gallery.

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.

These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Check the CAN Weekly e-newsletter for the most up-to-date information. To subscribe to the free CAN Weekly, visit CANjournal.org and look for the “Join Our Email List” button on the right side of your screen.

CONTINUING EVENTS

Cleveland Print Room Member Darkroom Hours at CSU Middough Building,Room 221

Open 4-9pm Tuesdays & Thursdays; 12-4pm Sundays; 12-4pm alternating Saturdays (check schedule on website)

Text darkroom monitor with questions or special needs at 216-389-8756.

B&W Darkroom Basics: Film Development & Darkroom Printing

(at Cleveland State University) Classes held twice a month. More information and registration here: eventbrite.com/o/cleveland-print-room-33421692569

More info at clevelandprintroom.com

Through May 18

StarBurst: Regional Juried High School Exhibition

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Through May 24

Discovery the Promise: Impact, Legacy & Perspective

Sponsored by the City of Cleveland, the show features work by 35 Northeast Ohio-based artists, some young and rising, such as Aja Joi Grant, Lauren Pearce and Davon Brantley; some well-established and much admired, including Dale Goode, Dexter Davis, Gwendolyn Garth, Robin Robinson, Gina Washington, Antwoine Washington and David Buttram; and several 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 24

Cleveland State University Merit Scholars Exhibition

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

Through May 24

52nd Annual Cleveland State University Art Show

BONFOEY GALLERY

Through May 26

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 Towards 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 26

Laura Ruth Bidwell: Daily Vanitas

Daily Vanitas is a collection of works on paper based on clippings from The New York Times, which the artist collages and paints to reflect on New York City’s iconic places and activities, creating juxtapositions that seem both purposeful and accidental at the same time. She uses those quintessentially New York signifiers to engage with humor in social criticism and reflections on life, death, art, history and culture through artful juxtapositions.

DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS

Through May 27

Cosmic Glow: work by Aja Joi Grant, Amber D. Kempthorn, Chen Peng, Theadis Reagins and Lyanne Torres. Curated by Thea Spittle and presented by the Museum of Creative Human Art

CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK

Through May 31

Solely Me Exhibition

EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON

Through May 2024

The Archive: Installation by Rebecca Louise Law

Maybe you’ve heard people raving about this immersive show. You should believe them and get down to see it before it’s done. The artist has filled Brett Hall, a 44,000-square-foot room on the ground floor of Cleveland Public Library’s main branch, with preserved flowers, pinecones, leaves, twigs, seed pods and other vestiges of nature, which were then sewn together and strung on strips of copper to create thick cascades of hanging streamers of plant life. Stop taking selfies for a minute; stop to drink in the array of textures, forms and muted colors Law has brought indoors for us to contemplate.

CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY MAIN BRANCH BRETT HALL

Through May

Reclipse: Photos taken during the April 8 total eclipse

BOSTWICK DESIGN ART INITIATIVE

Through June 1

Emil Robinson: Interiors

ABATTOIR GALLERY

Through June 2

To the River’s South in Japanese Painting

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through June 2

Douglas Manry: Narrative Magic

LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY

Through June 2

Sukeina: The Light of Omar Salam

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Through June 6

Membership Exhibition

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

Through June 8

Lori Kella

Kella’s work is based on photography but it’s much more than that. In recent years, she’s caught viewers’ eyes with her landscapes which on closer examination turn out to be tiny constructions she’s photographed to look real. Underlying them are themes of environmental degradation, juxtaposing natural beauty with threats to its existence. In her latest series she incorporates photographs into photographs, creating complex, layered images that require careful looking to ferret out all their meanings and references.

WILLIAM BUSTA PROJECTS

Through June 9

Spring Show with Meryl Engler, Gene Epstein, Boni Suzanne Gelfand & Jeff Suntala

NICHOLSON B. WHITE GALLERY, ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Through June 15

Spring Exhibitions

Happiness & The End of the World: Matt Miller

The Aunties: Sylvia Sykes

Medina County Art League Exhibition

Artists of the Rubber City Juried Exhibition

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Through June 15

Rachel Linnemann: Butterflies on Barbed Wire

alexandra virginia martin: dress rehearsal

SCULPTURE CENTER

Through June 18

Simple Pleasures

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT JUDSON MANOR – SOUTH CONCOURSE

Through June 22

I Had Been Young, Vol. 4: a solo exhibit by Meryl Engler

Following up her show I Had Been Young Vol. 3 at Akron’s East Ave Market & Gallery earlier this year, Engler’s woodcuts, mixed-media works and relief carvings explore the relationship between the environment and humans and what that relationship means to each. The California native brings to bear her background in sculpture, printmaking and papermaking to create work that expands the boundaries of traditional printmaking, as she incorporates self-portraiture, bird imagery and patterns borrowed from quilt-making.

KAISER GALLERY

Through June 22

Lisa Schonberg and Jennifer Leach

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

Through June 29

Richard Andres 2.0

WOLFS GALLERY

Through June 29

Transference & Translation: Baila Litton; Flaunt: Arabella Proffer; Floating Worlds: Jean Kondo Weigl

Three simultaneous inaugural Archived Artist solo exhibitions in AAWR’s three gallery spaces shine a spotlight on three area women artists, each of whom integrates elements of surrealism into her work in extremely different ways. Proffer brings her unique vision to lushly colored pop-influenced art, including her recent Superfine Tableau oil paintings, while Litton and Weigl both use their work to explore issues around immigration and cultural identity.

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Through June 30

Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through July 5

Emerging: Victor Welzer and Darci Gumins-Paulett

JUDSON SMART LIVING HOWSON & STREETER GALLERIES

Through July 14

Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Through July 19

The 14th May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition

THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Through July 20

The Cleveland Salon, 1920-1924

The 1920s were a time of radical change in the way Americans lived, and while some clung nostalgically to the past, artists everywhere, including Cleveland, were embracing that change. And while the Midwest might not have been a groundbreaking cultural center, Northeast Ohio painter William Sommer, architect William Lescaze, poet Hart Crane and theatrical designer Richard Rychtarik formed a short-lived “salon” of sorts that brought together new streams of visual art, poetry, theater and architecture. This exhibit from an organization that collects and shows art from this region will shed light on that brief but shining moment and the creative forces behind it.

ARTNEO

Through July 21

Africa & Byzantium

The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall

Ticket required; members are always free.

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through July 31

Precarious Legacies: Exposure of a Fleeting Landscape

MASSILLON MUSEUM

Through July 28

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

CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany

Through August 4

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through August 11

Monet in Focus

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through August 18

Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life

When Cleveland painter Lovelace passed away in 2021 at the far-too-young age of 61, just as he was starting to get wider recognition for works that were packed with closely observed details of urban life in all its beauty and decay, vibrancy and violence. While he studied briefly at the Cleveland Institute of Art, developing skills that put him just outside the boundaries of “outsider” art, he learned to paint by experience and pouring that unvarnished experience into highly specific portrayals of life on these bustling, sometimes but not always, mean streets. The Akron Art Museum retrospective offers a look at his work from 1992-2000.

AKRON ART MUSEUM

Ready, Set, Relay!

Through September 6

CIA students respond to works in the Progressive Art Collection

Reservations required: visit readysetrelay.com

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART AT

PROGRESSIVE’S CAMPUS ONE IN MAYFIELD VILLAGE

Through September 8

Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through September 29

From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings

Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through October 13

Korean Couture: Generations of Revolution

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 ’isms Part II: Flashpoints in Photography

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 30, 2025

Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts

Echoes of the Pandemic

It’s certainly natural to want to wipe our memories of the recent pandemic that killed millions of people around the world, and many of us have gone about our lives as if it never happened, reminded only by an occasional mask tossed on the ground to disintegrate. This show intends to make us stop and think about the way things changed and in what ways those changes might be lasting.

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 31, 2025

Religious Art from Asia

Class, Colonialism, and (Over)Consumption

Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World

ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

MAY 15

Spatial Harmony: Cleveland painter Justin Brennan, with Columbus-based painter Aaron Troyer and Cleveland ceramicist Kero Johannes.

Preview reception 5pm

Opening reception 5pm May 17

HEDGE GALLERY

16

Cleveland Heights High School Student Exhibition: Unintentional Beauty

Spotlight Gallery: Juliet Duffy and Antonia Casucci

Through June 9

HEIGHTS ARTS

MAY

17

CAN Journal Summer Issue Launch

LOGO CREATIVE STUDIO

Third Friday

5-9pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

The Don’t Panic! Room

E11even2 co-owner R!ch Cihlar and street-style artist Bob Peck collectively call themselves Don’t Panic! The show blends artworks in a range of media with interactive challenges and puzzles that encourage viewers to directly engage with the pieces and includes an actual escape room.

Opening reception 5-9pm

Through June 21

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

Stitching Stories: Celebrating Our Heritage

African American Quilt and Doll Guild Show

This organization of artists and crafters based in Warrensville Heights is less well known than it should be, given the high level of skill displayed in their works and the wide range of sophisticated artistry, which embraces abstraction, scenes of, and tributes to, Black life, and political and social statement. If you’ve seen their work, it was most likely at Cleveland Public Theatre’s Station Hope, but they also recently brought it to a new part of town when Praxis Fiber Workshop’s gallery presented a dazzling array of their work that’s both colorful and subtle, as well as richly textured. This two-day show will also feature vendors, a fashion show, guest speakers, and a “make and take” quilting activity. Ticket required.

May 17 & 18

CHURCH OF THE SAVIOR, CLEVELAND HEIGHTS

Dog Days at Deep Roots

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

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

Marking Time and Space: Rebecca Kaler and Robert Wright

Opening reception 5-9pm

Closing reception 6-8pm June 19

CONTEXT FINE ART GALLERY

Battle of the Teal Art Showcase

Opening reception 5-7pm

Through May 19

FUTURE INK GRAPHICS

18

Re:Sound New and Experimental Music Festival

The Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) hosts a regular concert series, as well as this festival, of boundary breaking, experimental music, much of which also incorporates other elements such as spoken word and visuals. Various configurations of musicians create sound on an array of devices, acoustic and electronic, much of it improvised in the spaces between the players. The festival includes three evening concerts at Convivium 33 as well as sound installations at CMA’s Pivot Center space.

May 18 & 19

CONVIVIUM 33/CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER AT PIVOT CENTER

Jared Wolfert Solo Exhibition

Opening reception 5-9pm

Through July 5

KINK CONTEMPORARY

Mixed Techniques with Nicole Malcom

May 18 & 19

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Couture and Craftsmanship

Free family-friendly hands-on activities. Artist Aimee Lee will demonstrate how to make Korean mulberry-bark lace.

11am-3pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

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

19

79th Annual May Show

Artist reception & awards 2-4pm

Through June 30

MANSFIELD ART CENTER

Open Studios/Vendors in Wooltex Gallery

Noon-5pm

TOWER PRESS

21

Artistic Jungle: A Visionary Fusion of Art, Fashion and Technology

Polymath Georgio Sabino III has his fingers in a whole bunch of creative pies. He’s a visual artist known for his photography, but he’s also worked in fashion, film and technology. His work will be concurrently on display at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, and at Deep Roots Experience where his “artistic jungle series” opens May 24.

Through July 14

CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN

22

Creative Impact Fund Info Session

Assembly for the Arts provides information on applying for its unrestricted artists grants, funded by the Cuyahoga County arts levy/cigarette tax.

6pm

LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND

24

In the Shadows: Artwork of the Total Solar Eclipse

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

24

Experience the Deep Roots of Georgio Sabino III

Polymath Georgio Sabino III has his fingers in a whole bunch of creative pies. He’s a visual artist known for his photography, but he’s also worked in fashion, film and technology. This avant garde exhibition, which he’s dubbed the “artistic jungle series,” offers a taste of all of this, displaying the range of this talented creator. His work is concurrently on display at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.

Opening 5pm

Through June 15

DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE

25

Friends & Family Clay Day

10am

ART HOUSE, INC.

Marbling: Beginner to Intermediate with Jenniffer Omaitz

May 25 & 26

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

31

Little Italy Art Walk

Through Sunday, June 2

LITTLE ITALY NEIGHBORHOOD

Deadline for submissions for women’s self-portrait show for Cleveland Photo Fest, which opens September 6, 2024

BOSTWICK DESIGN ART INITIATIVE

Construction Mural Reveal

VALLEY ART CENTER AT RIVERSIDE PARK, CHAGRIN FALLS

JUNE

1

Art Bites—Art in Context Series: The Mosaic of Singapore with Irene Shaland

Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org

1-2:30pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Intro to Western Papermaking Part I with Ryan Cermak

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

A Panoply of Pamphlets with Mary Beth Boone

June 1 & 2

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Pride in the CLE

MALLS B & C, DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND

Main Street Kent Art & Wine Festival

11am-8pm

DOWNTOWN KENT

2

Protest Printmaking: Block-Print Your Own Propaganda with Tahm Lytle

5:30-9:30pm, Sunday, June 2 & Wednesday, June 5

Pay-What-You-Can

ZYGOTE PRESS

5

Assembly for the Arts Quarterly Meeting

Get the scoop on what Assembly is doing to promote the arts in Cuyahoga County and what’s going on with the arts tax renewal. It’s also an opportunity to meet other artists and people involved in the local arts scene.

6-7:30pm

HILDEBRANDT BUILDING

6

Street Sense and Sensibility

Through July 27

YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

Bella DeRose, Zelda Hansen-Thayer, Chloe Sampson: Pride Art Exhibition

Opening reception 6pm

Through July 2

LOGANBERRY BOOKS ANNEX GALLERY

Game On Double Play: Benefit for moCa Cleveland at Studio West 117. Get tickets at mocacleveland.org/game-on

7-10:30pm

MOCA CLEVELAND

7

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Beth Humphrey: New Works

Through July 21

DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS

Allison Bogard-Hall: Alchemy Dreams

In this group of new oil paintings, the Lakewood-based artist presents ultra-realistic images in settings that blur their connection to reality, causing the viewer to wonder what’s real and what’s not. This, her second solo show in the area, comes from the Exhibition Award she earned at the CAN Triennial.

Opening reception 5-8pm

Through July 6

BAYARTS SULLIVAN GALLERY

Incantations

Opening reception 5-8pm

Through August 24

Additional programming to be announced

ZYGOTE PRESS

Liminal Spaces: Art & the Environment

Opening Reception 5-8pm

Through June 27

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Dylan Rundle Solo Exhibition

Opening reception 5-9pm

Through July 5

KINK CONTEMPORARY

Picnic-Themed Group Show

Through July 26

PINWHEEL GALLERY

8

Art by the Falls Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Festival

Now in its 40th year, Art by the Falls, which typically takes place at Chagrin Falls’ downtown park, will be at the Cleveland Metroparks Polo Field this year. That should provide a bit more elbow room for this bustling event which features more artist booths than the previous space could accommodate—more than 140 in every medium you can think of! Food trucks, beer & wine, and artist demonstrations. There’s even a free shuttle from downtown Chagrin Falls but there’s plenty of parking at the polo field.

10am-7pm Saturday, June 8 & 10am-4pm Sunday, June 9

VALLEY ART CENTER AT CLEVELAND METROPARKS POLO FIELD

Jessica: A Burgess Story

Through June 28

EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY

Intro to Marbling with Ryan Cermak (2 separate classes)

Political Printing: Block Printing Protest Art with Tahm Lytle

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Collage & Journals with Doriana Diaz

June 8 & 9

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Parade the Circle

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s long-running event features community-created costumes, masks, giant puppets and more. The 2024 theme is Visions of Harmony. The parade, which steps off at noon, is followed by activities on Wade Oval until 4pm.

WADE OVAL

11

Floral & Landscape Exhibition

Through July 25

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

12

Art Bites Surrealist Game Night! Come and play with us!

Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org

7-8:30pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Rotating Exhibit of Specialty Selections

BONFOEY LOWER GALLERY

2024 Alumni Exhibition

Through August 9

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

13

Screenprinting Basics with Hannah Manocchio

5:30-8:30pm

ZYGOTE PRESS

BAYarts Thursday Market

Vendors, food truck, music

4-7pm every Thursday through September

BAYARTS

14

Walkabout Tremont

5-10pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Check It Out: A Literary Artwalk

AKRON’S HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT

Graffiti HeArt 10-Year Party with Cornbread

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, this nonprofit, whose mission is to connect street-style artists with paid work and to offer scholarships to younger street-style artists, brings to town the legendary Philadelphia graffiti artist Darryl “Cornbread” McCray for a weekend of events. He’ll do a talk Friday evening, host a youth workshop Saturday afternoon, be part of a fundraiser and auction Saturday evening, and join a street art mural tour on Sunday.

Through Sunday June 16

GRAFFITI HEART

Emergent 2024: NE Ohio Up and Coming Artists

Spotlight Gallery: Destiny Moore

Opening 5pm

Through August 11

HEIGHTS ARTS

15

3rd Annual Juneteenth Exhibit

Opening reception 5-9pm

ARTFUL

The Gift of Art

The Gift of Art is sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker. Each month, artists gather at the Creative Art Complex to network, discuss current events and art, and display a selection of their work for sale. Light refreshments will be served.  This month, they’re celebrating Juneteenth as well. Upcoming dates: July 20 and August 17

2-7pm

EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

Intro to Bookbinding with R. E. Anderson

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

16

BAYarts Summer Concert: School of Rock

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

18

Intergenerational Art Class

6-8pm Tuesdays & Thursdays through July 25

EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

21

Third Friday

5-9pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

2024 Alumni Exhibition

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Marvin Jones

Through July 12

BONFOEY GALLERY

22

BAYarts’ Annual Art & Music Festival

70+ Vendors, Small Craft Advisory, food trucks, kids activities

Free admission & parking

Vendors contact Karen@bayarts.net

10am-4pm

BAYARTS

AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (In-Person & Live Streamed on Facebook)

Isabella Myers, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Beginner Linocut Block Printing with Tahm Lytle

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Visual Art Showcase

Stop by CMA’s Ingalls Library to meet local artists Laura and Gary Dumm and Joe Zabel, and learn how they use their graphic arts talents in the context of storytelling as they share works from their collections and samples of things they’ve worked on such as Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor comics.

10am-2pm

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

23

BAYarts Summer Concert: Serious Nature

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

Design & Print a Repeating Pattern with Meryl Engler

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

26

Art Bites—Art in Context Series: The Other Side of the Spanish Avant Garde

A conversation about the art of Maruja Mallo, Angeles Santos and Remedios Varo, with Dr. Maria Alejandro Zanetta.

Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org

7-8pm

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

28

Gurushots: Cleveland Photo Exhibition

Opening reception 7-10pm

Through June 30

KAISER GALLERY

3 separate shows

Message from Our Planet

Erykah Townsend: “Happy” Holidays

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh

Message from Our Planet features 19 international artists working in video, software and light technology, proposing that technology will allow us to communicate with future generations—now where is my floppy disc player? Skinchangers is Montoya’s first solo museum show, a work of speculative fiction that will use polystyrene to create the last spaceship from an apocalypse-ravaged Earth which in inhabited by shapeshifting creatures. The whole thing is accompanied by a soundtrack the artist has created. And rising young Cleveland artist Townsend takes a jaundiced look at the commercialization of holidays originally meant to be religious or reflective, a topic well suited to her pop culture-derived work.

Through December 29

MOCA CLEVELAND

29

Plein AIR

Noon-3pm

TINNERMAN LOFTS

Rooms to Let: CLE

Once an intriguing mélange of artists claiming spaces in abandoned houses soon to be demolished to create temporary art, this festival features some of that in a handful of empty storefronts and commercial buildings, while vendors, musicians and hands-on activities, sponsored by various organizations, camp out on this central, once-vibrant, commercial intersection in Slavic Village.

Noon-6pm June 29 & 30

SLAVIC VILLAGE, EAST 55TH & BROADWAY

Beyond the Accordion Fold with Katie Delay

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

30

Zine Making with Sequoia Bostick & Andy Passchier

10am-4pm

ZYGOTE PRESS

30

BAYarts Summer concert: Rey Cintron’s Rice & Beans Band

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

JULY

July day & time TBD

Art Bites—Professional Practices: Popup Book History & Making with Mark Soppeland

Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

2

Woven Prints and Papers as Visual Narratives (Virtual) with Susan Fecho

July 2 & 9

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

5

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

6

Making Charcoal with Kozo with Anna Chapman

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

7

Cleveland Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Concessions, free admission. It’s outdoors; bring a blanket or chair.

7pm

BAYARTS

9

Deadline for submissions to CATography Show

In response to its show, Going to the Dogs, a couple of years ago, this year’s Cleveland Photo Fest will devote a gallery to felinity. Photographers of all types are invited to submit their best work expressing the essential nature of the cat by July 9. Find submission information here. smarterentry.com/CallsForEntry/clevelandphotofest/

CLEVELAND PHOTO FEST

10

City Stages: Pahua

The much-loved City Stages series returns for a three-concert run in Ohio City, where acts perform on a big stage set up on the corner of West 29th and Church, outside the Transformer Station, and people dance on the street, grab a bite and a drink from a local business or a food truck parked in the Transformer Station parking lot and claim a place on its lawn to eat.  The concerts showcase a variety of global music acts from all corners of the world. Mexico’s Pahua (Paulina Sotomayor) is a DJ, producer, percussionist and singer whose music is a vibrant collision of Afro-Latin beats, electronic sounds and lyrics about womanhood, nature and self-discovery. Feet will move.

TRANSFORMER STATION

11

Solo inaugural exhibitions for two Archived Artists, John Saile and Jon Barlow Hudson. Plus Book Art Uncovered, an Art Books Cleveland members exhibition.

Opening reception for all three shows 5:30-8pm

Through August 24

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (in-person & live streamed on Facebook)

Jennifer Scheuer, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Descendants

Opening reception 6-9pm July 12

Through September 7

KAISER GALLERY

12

Walkabout Tremont

5-10pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Anne Manley: Pause

Opening reception 5-8pm July 12

Through August 3

BAYARTS SULLIVAN GALLERY

Cain Park Arts Festival

Through Sunday July 14

CAIN PARK

24 in 24 Marathon Papermaking

5pm Friday, July 12 to 4:59pm Saturday, July 13

Dance party with foods, drinks, DJs starting 5pm Saturday

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Kasumi: Persistence of Vision

Through September 24

SUMMIT ARTSPACE

13

CAN Full of Summer Benefit

7 pm

BAYARTS Playhouse

Art By Jada J

Through July 26

EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON

Jason Milburn: Dual Civilizations

Opening reception 5-9pm

Through August 17

KINK CONTEMPORARY

14

Rose B. Simpson: Strata

Through April 13, 2025

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

BAYarts Summer Concert: Tweed

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

16

Tessellating Herringbone Fold (Virtual) with Paula Beardell Krieg

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

17

Nikki Woods: Conjuring Images

Preview reception

Opening reception 5pm July 19

HEDGE GALLERY

City Stage: Wesli

7:30-9pm

Free

TRANSFORMER STATION

19

Third Friday

5-9pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

Finding Joy: A Watercolor Exhibition Celebrating Life’s Vibrancy

Through August 21

E11EVEN2 GALLERY

20

The Gift of Art

The Gift of Art is sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker. Each month, artists gather at the Creative Art Complex to network, discuss current events and art, and display a selection of their work for sale. Light refreshments will be served. Upcoming date: August 17

2-7pm

EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

Cave Paper Casting with Amanda Degener

July 20 & 21

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

21

BAYarts Summer Concert: Blues Deville.

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

Picturing the Border

Amid all the political posturing about “the border! the border!” this exhibit takes a long look at the much-maligned demarcation between Mexico and the US from the 1970s to today, with photos taken by residents and outsiders. Some depict humanizing portraits of the individuals involved while others zoom out to focus on protests and clashes at the border. The show aims to provide a thread of continuity in border issues across the decades, offering context for the exaggerated, negative, and often flat-out wrong claims being made today about southern border migrants in order to serve ulterior motives.

Through January 5, 2025

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

26

ARTFUL Open Studios/P.E.A.C.E. Pops

6-9pm

COVENTRY P.E.A.C.E. CAMPUS BUILDING

27

Friends & Family Clay Day

10am

ART HOUSE, INC.

Variations in Long Stitch with Jenniffer Omaitz

Intro to Letterpress with R.E. Anderson

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

28

BAYarts Summer Concert: Kingfish

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

Coptic Bookbinding with Jenniffer Omaitz

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

30

39th Annual Juried Exhibition

Through September 5

CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

31

City Stages: Bia Ferreira

7:30-9pm

Free

TRANSFORMER STATION

AUGUST

August day & time TBD

Art Bites—Artist Talks with John Saile & Jon Barlow Hudson

Eventbrite registration at artistsarchives.org

ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

1

AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (in-person & live streamed on Facebook)

Danqi Cai, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

2

Walk All Over Waterloo

5-9pm

WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Antwoine Washington: 2024 AIR at the Deep End

Through September 22

DEEP DIVE ART PROJECTS

3

Book Repair with Daniel Colvin

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Marbling: Intermediate to Advanced with Jenniffer Omaitz

August 3 & 4

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Lakewood Arts Fest

The 47th Annual Lakewood Arts Fest offers everything you always come for at this one-day event: food, drinks, music by a variety of the area’s best performers on multiple stages, information booths from local organizations, and lots and lots of art, with more than 150 local and national artists in a wide range of media.

10am-6pm

DOWNTOWN LAKEWOOD

4

BAYarts Summer Concert: Hoodoo BBQ

7-9pm

Concessions, free admission

BAYARTS

7

Tricia Kaman: Painting from Life: A Retrospective

Opening reception 6-8pm August 9

Through August 30

ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER

9

Walkabout Tremont

5-10pm

TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Shifts: Chris Kaspar & Greg Martin

Gallery opening 5-8pm

Through October 5

BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY GALLERY

10

David Buttram

One of the elders of the Cleveland art scene, Buttram is a graduate of Cooper School of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State University and a retired art educator. He’s been painting his highly realistic, slightly nostalgic scenes of urban life for more than 50 years. His works glow with warmth, basking in his skillful use of light and shadow, color and design, as his people go about their humble activities—playing, shopping, chatting with neighbors, riding the bus, walking the dog, going to church, hanging out—and he finds beauty in the most ordinary scenes.

Through August 30

EAST AVE MARKET & GALLERY, AKRON

Intro to Western Papermaking Part II with Ryan Cermak

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

11

BAYarts Summer Concert: OMF

Concessions, free admission

7-9pm

BAYARTS

16

Third Friday

5-9pm

78th STREET STUDIOS

Expectations of Growth: Student Exhibition

Reception 5-8pm September 6

Through September 27

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

16

BARK in the PARK Benefit for a new kennel

Vendors, music, lots of dogs!

Free admission

Noon-4pm

BAYARTS

17

The Gift of Art

The Gift of Art is sponsored by African American Artists of Cleveland and Edward Parker. Each month, artists gather at the Creative Art Complex to network, discuss current events and art, and display a selection of their work for sale. Light refreshments will be served.

2-7pm

EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

Intro to Bookbinding II with R. E. Anderson

Suminagashi: Japanese Marbling with Linh My Truong

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

18

Linoleum Printed Zine with Emily Tamulewicz

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

23

CAN Journal Fall Issue Launch Party

Hosted by Deep Roots Experience

BLACK LIVES MATTER OFFICE

24

Natural Dyes with Maggie Latham

August 24 & 25

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

29

AiR Artist Talk: Talking Paper: Lunchtime Chat (in-person & live streamed on Facebook)

Lari Gibbons, 2024 Morgan Artist-in-Residence

12:15pm

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

2024 Faculty Exhibition

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Leave a Reply