It’s been no less than 20 years since Amy Casey’s last solo exhibition in Cleveland (2006, at Zygote Press.) And it’s been 12 years since she most recently shared the spotlight with just one other artist—Cathie Bleck—in a two person show at Maria Neil Art Project (2014). However, this fall, Maria Neil has ended the draught and welcomed her back […]
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It’s been an exciting and transitional year for Karen Prasser. Following the closing of Chagrin Arts at the beginning of 2026, where Prasser served as Executive Director, she had to shift her focus. Her immediate priority was to relocate a symbolic sculpture, Dean Gillispie’s Imaginal Cell, which was originally installed at the Garden of Hope in Chagrin Falls. It now […]
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HEDGE Gallery presents a dual exhibition featuring intersecting bodies of work that explore the power and complexity of aging via the voices of woman artists who are living their truths unapologetically and out loud. I Am An Old Woman Playlist features print media collages by Liz Maugans, while A Library of Selves features drawings, paintings, and silk tapestries by Rebecca […]
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In her new show at Midtown Collaboration Center, and as the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, Arts for Justice Cleveland presents works of figurative painter Judy Takács through Election Day, inspiring hope and action through portraiture. Using art as her ammunition by depicting our country’s most vulnerable citizens, Takács issues a call-to-action that presents democracy as a work in progress. […]
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In Managing the Darkness, HEDGE Gallery presents a compelling two-person exhibition featuring Hilary Gent and Edward Raffel, on view June 19 through July 25. Together, the artists explore the conceptual relationship between light and darkness, using distinct yet complementary approaches to illuminate both the gallery and the viewer’s perception. It’s a rare moment in that Gent–the Gallery Director and Owner […]
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A new retrospective at WOLFS Gallery revisits one of Cleveland’s most original Modernists and makes a strong case that Sommer is one of America’s most underrecognized artists. More than seventy-five years after his death and a memorial exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1950, William Sommer is once again commanding attention in Northeast Ohio. William Sommer: Visionary Modernist, […]
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April 16 – 19th the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ames Family Atrium will host the Print Club of Cleveland’s 41st annual Fine Print Fair. The festivities begin with a preview party for ticketed guests on the evening of Thursday, April 16, before the fair opens to the public and runs through April 19. With the exception of the preview party, […]
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As I walked through Gary Erbe: Magical World at the Butler Institute of American Art, it was immediately evident that his major influence is Pablo Picasso, emulating many of the modern master’s compositions in several paintings included in the exhibition. Yet nowhere in Gary T. Erbe’s biography or in prior exhibition reviews do the artist or scholars acknowledge Picasso, despite […]
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When you hear the words First Lady and White House, images of elegance and history arise. Jackie, Birdie, Eleanor, Michelle… women whose lives were shaped by marriage and the roles they assumed beside their husbands. Frances Benjamin Johnson was a different kind of “first lady”, however, who arrived at the White House on her own terms and made history as […]
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