In overwhelming numbers, organizations that make up the region’s art scene are led by women. When you draw back the camera and pan Northeast Ohio’s nonprofit arts community, one thing comes into sharp focus. An overwhelming number of these organizations are staffed and helmed by women, from Amy Callahan at Waterloo Arts to Lucinda Einhouse at the Beck Center and […]
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Most every Clevelander has passed the modest mid-century building on West 25th Street between Franklin Avenue and the iconic 1963 Riverview Tower apartment complex, but few actually see it. The landscape somehow swallows it up. Earlier this summer, that changed. LAND studio teamed up with building owner, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) to reactivate the space, which the Plain Dealer […]
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ARTISTS: Michael Tsegaye | Ethiopia Sophie Schwartz | Cleveland & New York Sharon Day | Minnesota CPR Teen Institute | Cleveland ORGANIZATION: Cleveland Print Room Four CPR projects will deliver the Cuyahoga from fresh points of view. A quartet of programs from the Cleveland Print Room for the Creative Fusion 2019 Waterways to Waterways edition will put the […]
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Initially, William Harper’s new exhibit at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery evokes the inner chambers of a pyramid wherein magnificent treasures languish in wait for their pharaoh and his concubines to arrive in the afterlife. It’s not by accident. “I wanted it to look like a tomb,” Harper says of the exhibit The Beautiful and the Grotesque. To that […]
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by Erin O’Brien Horse-drawn Amish buggies clop along lonely county roads. Pastoral farmhouses evoke cotton shirts billowing on clotheslines and the aroma of freshly baked apple pies. Gentle bovines chew grass. While it’s only about fifty miles southwest of Cleveland, Huntington Township feels very far away from, say, 78th Street Studios in Gordon Square, where Dana Depew’s edgy “Your […]
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Creative Fusion’s Waterways to Waterways is an artistic celebration of the Cuyahoga At the center of the Cleveland Foundation’s 2019 Waterways to Waterways Creative Fusion program are five grassroots organizations spearheading nine unique efforts to draw attention to the Cuyahoga River. The 2019 program will also include a Global PechaKucha Night. On June 20, “Waterways” will fill the Jacobs Pavilion […]
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The installation and performances of My Body is Our Body at SPACES Gallery aptly represented the culmination of the unique three-month collaboration between Taiwanese artist Hui Lin Chuang and the contemporary Inlet Dance Theatre. The result was an undulating composition of bodies and light, interacting with Chuang’s fantastical human forms. Based on a writing by Chuang of the same […]
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First impressions of Hui Lin Chuang’s sculptures convey delicate webs, dappled sunbeams and frilly coral colonies. Their beauty, however, is elevated to ethereal heights by the unlikely artificial materials the Taiwanese artist employs to create them, which include plastics, rubber items and paper. That ironic choice of media is informed by her homeland’s manufacturing sector, which is replete with plastic […]
Read moreby Erin O’Brien For some artists, simply depicting Cleveland in their work isn’t enough. From a metal sculptor who hand forges steel in order to evoke the Cuyahoga’s iconic bridges, to a pop artist who uncovers secret messages within our retail cast-offs, CAN Journal showcases three who literally imbue their work with essence of the city. Stephen Yusko At first blush, Stephen Yusko’s Cuyahoga Bridge series tables reflect a gossamer delicacy, […]
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Randall Tiedman’s body of work spanned nearly five decades. It began with a comic book cover when Tiedman was 15 and included forays into portraiture, abstract and experimental depictions, and romantic Hudson River School inspired landscapes. Tiedman’s most recent work featured industrial landscapes with factories bordering cascading waterfalls, unseen lighting sources spilling over sporting arenas and tumultuous lake water sloshing over entire city blocks. The dramatic industrial images […]
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