This is 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.

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CONTINUING EVENTS

Through November 26
Stephanie J. Woods: The Genius of Play
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS GALLERY

Through November 27
Skull & Bones
When Mary Urbas, director of the Gallery at Lakeland Community College, was laid off this summer, a major gallery space in Northeast Ohio went dark. But she’s been looking around the area for alternative spaces to curate her popular shows, such as her biennial Skull and Skeleton Show. She’s presenting a stripped-down version this year—not quite as many artists to ride herd on—at the gallery at the University of Akron Myers School of Art where gallery director Arnold Tunstall has co-curated the Skull & Bones show, featuring the work of 20 local and regional artists as opposed to 100+. In addition, the UA art students organized a show of skull art in the atrium adjacent to the gallery.
EMILY DAVIS GALLERY AT UNIVERSITY OF AKRON MYERS SCHOOL OF ART

Through November 30
10th annual exhibition of the Beachwood Photography Group
CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY BEACHWOOD BRANCH

Through November 30
Celebrating the Cleveland School, featuring the collection of the late Albert Wasserman
WOLFS GALLERY

Through December 5
Ready, Set, Relay! An exhibition curated by Cleveland Institute of Art students based on the Progressive Insurance art collection.
PROGRESSIVE CAMPUS ONE

Through December 5
Healing Imagination 10: Courageous Hearts Rooted in Unity
URSULINE COLLEGE WASMER GALLERY

Through December 6
Jova Lynne & Alberte Tranberg duo exhibition
KINK CONTEMPORARY

Through December 6
Crossing Thresholds: work by Susan Squires and Leslye Discont Arian
ARTICLE/ART IN CLEVELAND

Through December 6
Student & Faculty Exhibition
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

Through December 6
Terra Incognita: painting by Baldwin Wallace Professor of Painting Steve Ziebarth
BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY FAWICK GALLERY

Through December 7
Open call for 13th annual juried exhibit. Works made on or of paper are eligible. Deadline 11:59 pm December 7
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Through December 7
Aggregate II: The Revenge of the Rock
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY DOWNTOWN GALLERY

Through December 8
Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through December 12
Bespoke: a student exhibition based on the research and writing of designer/artist/author Sarah Hendren
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ANN AND NORMAN ROULET STUDENT + ALUMNI GALLERY

Through December 14
22nd Annual Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition
Environ: in transport of delight | Lindsay Martin Gryskewich
Totally Stoned: Greg Caudill solo show
Ohio Reclaimed: What Once Was group exhibition
Artists of Rubber City Member Exhibition
SUMMIT ARTSPACE

Through December 15
Shawn Powell: Triangle, Circle, Square
In his second exhibition at this gallery, Powell continues to look at the artifice of painting, exploring abstraction and representation, and the subject as decoy. Zooming in mundane objects such as pencils and cigarettes, he imbues the objects with multiple meanings that reward closer viewing. Using the three figures in the show’s title as shaped canvases, he pulls away from the idea of the rectangular canvas and all the meanings and associations it brings.
ABATTOIR GALLERY

Through December 15
The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 16
Valley Art Center’s 53rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition once again invited regional artists from a 250-mile area to submit for this competitive, high-quality show for which a trio of jurors selects sixty-ish pieces in a wide range of mediums and styles from hundreds of works made by creators ranging from prominent area artists to students.
VALLEY ART CENTER

Through December 20
It’s a Christmas MiraCLE Vol. 2
E11EVEN2 GALLERY

Through December 21
Counting in Art and Math with Sol LeWitt
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 21
A New Kind of Painter for China, 1960s–1980s
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 21
Video Space: Dara Birnbaum and Kalup Linzy
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 21
Echoes of the Pandemic
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through December 28
The heART of Cleveland volume 2 Release Party
In 2018 Scott Kraynak assembled a book called The HeArt of Cleveland, assembling about 70 visual creatives to contribute. Its success spawned a second volume, which is being released with an accompanying show at HEDGE Gallery. Kraynak aimed for even greater diversity the second time around and some of the artists who contributed to the first book have done portraits of other artists they admire. The exhibition will feature work by as many of the contributing artists as were able to get a piece submitted, in a salon-style display.
HEDGE GALLERY

Through December 29
Message from Our Planet
Erykah Townsend: “Happy” Holidays
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh
MOCA CLEVELAND

Through December 29
Where We Live: Photographs of Human Spaces
AKRON ART MUSEUM FRED AND LAURA RUTH BIDWELL GALLERY

Through December 29
Zeerak Ahmed: Amma Mein Tou Pahonee/Mother, I Am Compelled to Leave
This New York-based Pakistani native’s sound and video installation draws from the folk culture of her native region in northern India. The fleeting song fragments, in a no-longer-used language, suggest the disruptions the region has endured since the violence around the 1947 Partition, which caused the artist’s family to become refugees.
AKRON ART MUSEUM JUDITH BEAR ISROFF GALLERY

Through December 30
Heights Arts Holiday Store
HEIGHTS ARTS

Through January 3
All We Cannot Forget
OHIO ARTS COUNCIL RIFFE GALLERY, COLUMBUS

Through January 4
BE/longing: With or Without You
This show takes its title from one of the band U2’s best-known songs from its 1987 album The Joshua Tree. In it, the 15 artists take off on one of U2 singer Bono’s explanations for the song: that it’s about internal tension, his fraught relationship with himself, responding, the show’s statement tells us, “to the precariousness of life through the expression of longing, grief, and spirituality.”
YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

Through January 4
A Painter’s Painter: Artwork by Patricia Zinsmeister Parker
BONFOEY GALLERY

Through January 5
Picturing the Border
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART MARK SCHWARTZ AND BETTINA KATZ PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERIES

Through January 5
Stephen Tornero and Grant Ederer: A Fair Trade
Artists working in weaving and ceramics trade artwork to inspire one another
MASSILLON MUSEUM STUDIO M

Through January 11
Mood Swing
THE SCULPTURE CENTER

Through January 11
George Kocar’s distinctive caricature-like drawings are well known in the Cleveland visual arts community. Now, to go with his retrospective show as an Archived Artist at AAWR, Kocar has curated Funny Stuff, a survey of humor in Cleveland art. He chose more than 30 artists, including some noted names such as Laura and Gary Dumm, Nina Vivian Huryn, Angela Oster, Mark Soppeland, Scott Pickering and the late Gerry Shamray who worked with graphic novel legend Harvey Pekar, to contribute works displaying different types of humor from light-hearted and goofy to dark and ironic.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Through January 12
Stark County Artists Exhibition
MASSILLON MUSEUM

Through January 14
Wonder: The Art of Discovery. Multimedia collage works Jean Sylak
JUDSON PARK GEORGE A. STREETER GALLERY

Through January 17
Insectorum: A Metamorphosis Closing Reception
EXTRAORDINAIRE PHOTOS

Through January 18
Femme ‘n isms Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through January 20
Demons, Ghosts and Goblins in Chinese Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART FOCUS GALLERY

Through January 31
MEN | the exhibition
TINNERMAN LOFTS PROJECT SPACE

Through February 9
Glow: Neon and Light
AKRON ART MUSEUM KARL AND BERTL ARNSTEIN GALLERIES

Through February 9
Possibility for Repair
In this group show, three Cleveland artists and two Pennsylvania artists consider different approaches to the concept of “repair,” using a variety of materials and processes. Artists Sarah Kabot, M. Carmen Lane, Jessica Pinsky, Lyndon Barrois Jr. and Mark Thomas Gibson look at the problematic issues of our dominant society spotlighted by the 2024 election and use their respective media to see out new perspectives and ways to address those issues.
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY

Through February 28
Nana Kwesi Agyare: Womanism
EAST AVE MARKET AND GALLERY, AKRON

Through March 2
Imagination in the Age of Reason
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Through April 13
Rose B. Simpson: Strata
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AMES FAMILY ATRIUM

Through May 31
Inspirations: Global Dialogue Through the Arts
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through May 31
Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM

Through July
Traveling Stanzas, presented in celebration of 40 years of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, curated by Annie Cyrus
KSU HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER

Through October 12
Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ARLENE M. AND ARTHUR S. HOLDEN GALLERY

NOVEMBER

22
CAN Journal Winter Issue Launch
PINWHEEL GALLERY

The SNOW Show group show
Through January 3, 2025
PINWHEEL GALLERY

Mood Swing
Through January 11, 2025
SCULPTURE CENTER

23
Art Bites–George Kocar Curators Talk
1-2 pm
In person in the AAWR Gallery
Register on artistsarchives.org
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE

Relic Ensemble
7:30-8:30 pm
TRANSFORMER STATION

Holiday Extravaganza
3-7 pm
Community fun including tree lighting, pictures with Santa, and a bar for
the adults. See website at bayarts.net for full details.
BAYARTS

24
Genghis Con artist workshop: registration required
1-3 pm
PIVOT CENTER FOR ART, DANCE AND EXPRESSION

26
El Albañil: Artwork by J. Leigh Garcia
Arriving Somewhere But Not Here: Paintings by Kit Palencar
Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art from the CMA Collection
Bohemian Chrysalis: Unveiling Cleveland’s Infamous Kokoon Klub
Through March 2
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

30
Friends & Family Clay Day
10 am
ART HOUSE, INC.

Off Register Press book signing
Genghis Con event
5-6 pm
CAROL AND JOHN’S COMICS

Genghis Con Kick-off Party
7-9 pm
SUPERELECTRIC PINBALL PARLOR

DECEMBER

1
Genghis Con Cleveland
The annual Genghis Con independent comic and small press convention is a gathering of cartoonists, comics artists and graphic novelists, who work outside the mainstream, sharing the work and their techniques with aficionados. Aspiring creators have the opportunity to interact with their inspirations. It’s a chance to browse a wide range of offerings from small presses, meet the writers and artists, take part in a workshop, and stock up on your favorite works. A game room will be open to take a break from browsing. Admission is free.
11 am-5 pm
PIVOT CENTER FOR ART, DANCE AND EXPRESSION

5
Ekphrastacy | Artist Talk + Poets Respond
6:30 pm
VALLEY ART CENTER

6
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

Passport to Little Italy Holiday ArtWalk 2024
5-9 pm December 6, noon-9 pm December 7, noon-5 pm December 8
Stroll through the historic streets of Little Italy and immerse yourself in a festive celebration of art and community. Guests will receive a map and a special “Passport” card, encouraging exploration of our participating ArtWalk galleries and art vendors. Collect unique stamps at each stop, showcasing the creativity and spirit of local artisans.

Morgan Maker’s Exhibition
Opening 5-8 pm
Through January 10
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

7
Kids Santa Shop. Bring your little ones in to purchase special gifts for the family with the help of our personal shopping elves.
10 am-3 pm
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY AUDITORIUM

Cleveland Bazaar Holiday Edition
10 am-6 pm
LAKE AFFECT STUDIOS

7
A Very Fiber Affair
Praxis’s 9th annual benefit gala at its gallery features food, drinks, live music and a silent auction.
6-9 pm
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

8
Picasso and Paper
You know any show involving the late great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is going to pack ’em in. This special exhibition, organized by CMA with London’s Royal Academy of Art, includes a dizzying 300 of his works on paper from throughout his long career, including drawings, prints, photos, collages and paper assemblages. The work will be presented chronologically by period along with a few examples of his painting and sculpture work. Ticket required.
Through March 23, 2025
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Play Day: Glow
10 am-2 pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ATRIUM

11
Magos Herrera and her quartet
7:30-9 pm; ticket required.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM

12
BAYarts Holiday Trunk Show
Sip and shop our curated selection of fine art and craft vendors
6-9 pm
BAYARTS FULLER HOUSE

13
Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

OMF Christmas Party Concert
Join us for this 21 and up concert.
$15 in advance/$20 at door. Cash bar. Ages 21 and up.
This concert is expected to sell out!
7-10 pm
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY AUDITORIUM

Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night
6:30 pm
Meet at the Lincoln Park Gazebo with your smartphone and Bluetooth speaker to prepare for a 45-minute stroll through Tremont, while playing one of four pre-programmed tracks that comprise Cuyahoga Falls native Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night. The music has a festive and ethereal quality as the bells and chimes reverberate together in the night air. Walk steps off at 7 pm.
Info at cleveland.unsilentnight.com
LINCOLN PARK GAZEBO, TREMONT

14
Cleveland Bazaar Holiday Bizarre
10 am-9 pm
Also December 15, 10 am-4 pm
78Th STREET STUDIOS

20
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

21
Friends & Family Open Studio
1 pm
ART HOUSE, INC.

JANUARY

3
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

3
Mary Defer: Secret Family
Through March 14
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM @ PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP

10
Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Faculty Art Exhibition
Opening Reception 5-8 pm
Through February 8
BAYARTS

5X5 Biennial Emergent exhibition
Through March 9
HEIGHTS ARTS

13
2025 Lorain County Region Scholastic Art Exhibit and Awards
Artists’ Reception 1-3 pm January 19
Gold Key Ceremony 1-3 pm February 2
Through February 11
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER GALLERY

16
Loving the Local: the David Burke Collection
Through March 1
YARDS PROJECT SPACE AT WORTHINGTON YARDS

17
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

Insectorum: A Metamorphosis
Closing Reception 5 pm
EXTRAORDINAIRE PHOTOS

d.a. levy: Subversive Printmaking in 1960s Cleveland
d.a. levy was a noted Cleveland poet of the 1960s whose work bridged the Beat and hippie eras. He published a series of books and underground zines, all of which he did by hand. He was also an artist who left behind a large collection of his print work when he committed suicide in 1968 at the age of 26. That’s the aspect of his work this show at Zygote will focus on, sharing some of his (luckily) preserved cache of work and exploring his mixed legacy. Zygote is also planning special events around this show; stay tuned.
Opening Reception 5-8 pm
Through March 1
ZYGOTE PRESS

KSU Alumni Exhibition, curated by Wendy Earle
Through February 21
KSU CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS CVA GALLERY

Eli Gfell: Board Stretcher
Through March 22
KSU CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS DOWNTOWN GALLERY

Education & Family Fun
7-10 pm
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY AUDITORIUM

18
Friends & Family Open Studio
1 pm
ART HOUSE, INC.

The Gift of Art Pop-Up
2-7 pm
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

Keelyn Bradley: One Piece showing one night only
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM AT SHED PROJECTS

20
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
10 am-2 pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ATRIUM

21
Winter Exhibition
Through February 27
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

22
Larry & Joe
7-9 pm; ticket required
TRANSFORMER STATION

23
Community Culture Night
7 pm
ART HOUSE, INC.

24
SculptureX
Through February 7
SCULPTURE CENTER

25
Friends & Family Clay Day
10 am
ART HOUSE, INC.

26
Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis
Edward Weston was one of the early 20th century’s most notable photographers; writer Charis Wilson was his wife and frequent model. American photographer Kelli Connell has studied their relationship by delving into her writings and his landscape and nude photos. She mingles her interpretation of their story with her own relationship with her then-partner Betsy Odom, adding a queer, feminist perspective. Connell and Odom re-created the Weston/Wilson relationship at sites where the earlier couple had spent time. This show includes both Connell’s resulting photos and Weston’s landscapes and figure studies taken between 1934 and 1945, the years he was with Wilson.
Through May 25
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

30
ARTbar with the Cleveland Cocktail Choir
HEIGHTS ARTS

FEBRUARY

1
CIM Opera Theater: Muhly’s Dark Sisters
Also on February 2; both performances at 2 pm
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM

7
Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

8
Cleveland Bazaar Valentine’s Edition
Stop in for the Cleveland Bazaar’s Downtown Valentine’s Day event! This is the perfect one-stop shop to find the perfect gift for your special someone. You’ll also find our resident artists’ studios open on the first floor. As always, the bar will be open offering our signature craft cocktails, beer, and wine. And, we’ll also have the Coffee & Espresso bar going to keep you fueled as you wander through our maze of artists.
10 am-6 pm
LAKE AFFECT STUDIOS

9
from WOMAN 18 at 78th St Studios…created by women, of woman and about women
Curated by Mary Urbas to celebrate Women’s History Month
Opening Reception 5-7 pm February 19
Third Fridays noon-9 pm February 21 & March 21
UNDERSTORY AT 78TH STREET STUDIOS

13
Frontier or Wasteland
Opening reception 5-8 pm
BAYARTS

14
Walkabout Tremont
5-10 pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD

Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
Through June 8
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART JULIA AND LARRY POLLOCK FOCUS GALLERY

15
2025 Art by the Falls (June 7-8) Call for Artists Closes
VALLEY ART CENTER

Friends & Family Open Studio
1 pm
ART HOUSE, INC.

The Gift of Pop-Up Art
2-7 pm
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

19
Nate Smith
7:30-9 pm; ticket required
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART GARTNER AUDITORIUM

20
The Color and the Shape, the Mark and the Make – Installation by Jonah Jacobs, Paintings by Eric Rippert and Sean Wheeler
Three noted local artists combine forces for this show of striking work. Jacobs uses paint and dye to transform pieces made from cardboard, single-use packaging and other waste into evocative sculptures that mimic organic forms. Wheeler’s large, colorful paintings draw on textures that suggest the weathered surfaces of old Rust Belt buildings and the weighty, looming presence of those structures. Rippert’s body of work has been diverse, occasionally playful, occasionally sinister. He says, “My new paintings are the result of reconnecting with the guttural intuitiveness and dissociating with structured belief systems.”
Opening reception 4-7 pm
Through March 19
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER GALLERY

21
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78th STREET STUDIOS

Megan Dardis
Opening reception 5 pm
Through April 18, Closing reception 5 pm
EXTRAORDINAIRE PHOTOS

Monica Robins and the Whiskey Kings
7-10 pm
BAYARTS SULLIVAN FAMILY AUDITORIUM

23
Heights Arts Close Encounters
Bach and his Art of the Fugue, with Stephen Tavani and Yun-Ting Lee, violins; William Bender and Wesley Collins, violas; Dane Johansen, cello
3 pm
DUNHAM TAVERN MUSEUM

26
Pipo Romero
Spanish composer/acoustic finger-style guitarist Romero blends a kaleidoscope of genres in his original music, including flamenco, tango, Celtic, folk, country and classical. His latest album Ikigai is based on Spanish folklore and its influence on Atlantic folk sounds.
7:30-9 pm; ticket required
TRANSFORMER STATION

28
Hagudeza Rullán-Fantauzzi
Through April 26
SCULPTURE CENTER

Jova Lynne
Through April 26
SCULPTURE CENTER

Seasons Change
EDWARD E. PARKER MUSEUM OF ART

MARCH

4
Figurative Exhibition
Through April 17
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER

5
Paolo Angeli
7-8:30 pm; ticket required
TRANSFORMER STATION

7
CAN Journal Spring Issue Launch
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

Walk All Over Waterloo
5-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT

13th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Interwoven Aspects: Innovation and Tradition in Paper Art
Public reception and awards 5-8 pm March 28
MORGAN CONSERVATORY

Art Books Cleveland presents 18 Years of Art Books Cleveland
PINWHEEL GALLERY

8
ABC Chili Cook Off
1 pm
ART HOUSE, INC.

13
PROOF Fellows Exhibition
Opening Reception 5-8 pm
Through May 17
ZYGOTE PRESS

14
Exploring Regional Art Today with Greg Donley
Through May 11
HEIGHTS ARTS

“from WOMAN XVIII at BAYarts… Created by women, of women & about women”
Curated by Mary Urbas
Artist reception 1-3 pm April 17
Through April 17
BAYARTS SALLY OTTO GALLERY