Maybe you remember the surveys that told us we should do this. Maybe you don’t, but you’ve been thinking about it for a long time. Maybe you even told us personally, as several of you did: CAN should review art shows. We heard you. And we have been thinking the same thing, for a long time. So at long last, […]
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After nominating Taiwanese artists for the Creative Fusion program for more than four years, Bamboo Curtain Studio of Taipei has selected Karen Beckwith for a two-month residency there. The Taiwanese Government will fund the residency. Karen was selected for both her work as a Master Printer in the Printmaking Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art, and for taking inspiration […]
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When we talk about race in Cleveland, conversation runs quickly toward headline stories, especially of white police officers and Black men or boys. Thanks to a couple of high profile shootings and the way the justice system responded, the city had a major role in the national discussion of race-related violence in 2015. That was the context in which I […]
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And the voices keep coming – Throughout Cleveland’s history our cultural legacy has been built by people from around the globe. From the dozens of immigrant nationalities that designed, sculpted, and maintain the cultural gardens of Rockefeller Park, to the music performed at Severance Hall, to the Asian collection and the rest of the vast holdings of the […]
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Dexter Davis was two years old when the riots broke out in Hough, which was his neighborhood. He has lived in Cleveland his entire life, except for some time in France back in 1987. He earned his BFA at CIA, and has worked as a security guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art for more than 20 years, all the […]
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Twenty-seven visual artists have partnered with some of Cleveland’s most creative culinary experts to transform the Heights Arts gallery into unique, themed installations that speak to the art of food and community through the materials we use to eat and drink. At Table: Cleveland Culinaria showcases the vision of chefs Doug Katz (Fire Food and Drink, Provenance); Marc-Aurele Buholzer (Vero […]
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Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series March 18 – May 20 Opening March 24 @ 5:30 to 8 PM with artists talks Jim Leach: Being Healthy Leach’s installations form a synergy of shape, color, spatial arrangement, balance, and recognizable forms that suggest all manner of both formal aesthetics, underlying meaning, and potential narratives. Ashley Lyon: Weighing the Sunset Lyon’s […]
Read morePerspectives- A Collaboration between Seth Chwast and Herb Ascherman April 1- May 4 2016 A collaboration between internationally recognized Cleveland artists Seth Chwast and Herbert Ascherman, Perspectives was conceived as way to bring awareness to the abilities of those with Autism and other developmental disabilities. Society tends to see only disability when meeting someone with developmental differences, but the show conveys […]
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Life in Tremont is surely enriched by the many professional artists of varying disciplines who live and work in the neighborhood. Angelica Pozo is one of those artists. Pozo, a Tremont resident since 1984, is a nationally renowned ceramist who specializes in tile, creating large public art works that often engages community in the process. She has worked with all […]
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Maybe this is a good time to talk. Just over 75 percent of the people who cast ballots in Cuyahoga County in November voted in favor of renewed public support of the arts and culture through its 30 cent per pack tax on cigarettes. That’s an overwhelming number. And a few months earlier, when the County Council discussed putting the […]
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