Artist Malcolm Brown, who with his wife Ernestine Brown operated Malcolm Brown Gallery in Shaker Heights, passed away October 1 at age 89. Through the gallery, through his teaching at Shaker Heights High School, and in all his relationships, he had a lasting impact. We asked art collectors, dealers, former students, artists, and family members to offer their reflections on […]
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Ceramic and Fiber artist Meagan Smith is the winner of the 2020 CAN Journal Prize for a Northeast Ohio artist in the Waterloo Arts Juried Show. Her work in porcelain, Isolating, is on view in the Brick Ceramics gallery. The entire show fills the galleries at Waterloo Arts, Praxis Fiber Workshop, and Brick. Smith earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts […]
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Prama Artspace has a well established affinity for the macabre. The recent exhibit of works by Cecelia Ivy Price and Linda Mayer– Ghost Opera—was great material for the season during which the sky gets more grey, the nights get longer. Both artists celebrate the mysterious in these works, and as the title implies, they have about them the feeling of […]
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Cleveland Artists on Deck A CARD game to benefit Collective Arts Network Do you know a lot of artists in Cleveland? Can you identify Cleveland artists by looking at their work? Join us for the CARD Game! Cleveland Artists On Deck challenges your knowledge of Cleveland art and artists, and supports CAN! It also gives you a way to participate […]
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In little more than the last year, Samantha Bias’s art has become ubiquitous around Cleveland, and has been seen frequently in shows elsewhere, too, thanks to her captivating practice of Photosynthesis Photography. The unusual medium uses light from the sun to print through a positive transparency onto a natural leaf. It’s a poetic embodiment of Marshall McLuhan’s well-worn phrase, “the […]
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William Deresiewicz’s new book, The Death of the Artist, is not a who-done-it. But it moves through a slate of factors that conspired in the alleged death, as if they were characters. And there are a lot of them. This book came to our attention courtesy of the City Club of Cleveland, which presented the author in conversation with University […]
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Cleveland-based artist Ron Shelton puts the worldwide plastic problem front and center in both his own art-making and his practice as a curator / convener. His current exhibit, HAF Connects, is on view now through September 18 at RampArts Gallery, in the 78th Street Studios complex in Cleveland. It’s an exhibit that weaves together multiple threads of ongoing interest […]
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You can’t win if you don’t play. That’s the kind of flippant, easy thing people say about the lottery. But it is an important message in the midst of the greatest challenge we face in the US, which is to deal with our history of racism. We can’t deal with it if we don’t try. You are not making progress […]
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Detroit, Michigan-based artist Gisela McDaniel has been working with her partner Tony Rave on a mural that is sure to become a landmark in Clark-Fulton. Her subject is Georgina DeJesus, co-founder with her cousin Sylvia Colon, of the Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults. DeJesus is known around the world as one of three women abducted, chained, and […]
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Five months into the pandemic lockdown, it’s natural for arts addicts to be jonesing for landmark experiences. All the familiar festivals have been cancelled, and companies who have not been able to conceive a viable way to deliver performance to audiences can only wait for a vaccine, or herd immunity. Sure, galleries and museums can keep open hours and manage […]
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