As with nearly everything in 2020, the coronavirus took some of the celebratory verve from the opening of Cleveland Institute of Art’s annual Faculty Exhibition. The show itself goes on, however; and even without a party, there’s plenty to celebrate. On view in the Reinberger Gallery through January 29, the exhibition includes work by photographer Barry Underwood, whose Linear Constructions series features […]
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The Cleveland Institute of Art has always touted the problem-solving skills of its artists and designers. Coronavirus gave the CIA community a dramatic chance to prove it. When the virus first hit Ohio in March, state restrictions on public gatherings affected everything from the education of its bachelor’s degree students to delivery of continuing education and Cinematheque films in the […]
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It’s one of the unofficial markers of the start of the new academic year: the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Faculty Exhibition. The 2019 show opens Thursday, August 29, and remains on view in Reinberger Gallery through October 6. “It’s equal parts a welcome-to-CIA tradition and an extraordinary overview of recent work by our current faculty,” said Nikki Woods, director of […]
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With four years of critiques and lectures and countless hours of studio work under their belts, recent graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Art are ready to dive into the real world. Meet a few of them and find out what they’re bringing to wherever they next land. Ross Brunetti Ask Ross Brunetti what industry most needs help from an […]
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The Beautiful & the Grotesque Reinberger Gallery April 4 through June 14 Reception 6:00–8:00pm Thursday, April 4 Two kinds of sounds can be on in the background when William Harper is making jewelry: classical music or tedious television. The creating side of Harper’s brain likes a certain type of side stimulation but not so much as to be distracting. Repetitiveness […]
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It’s autumn in Timothy Callaghan’s temporary studio at The Madison apartment building in Glenville. Afternoon sun illuminates a wall filled with walnut-ink streetscape studies. Around the apartment, Callaghan also has hung gouache paintings depicting scenes from the surrounding neighborhood. A large sketchbook contains the beginnings of future paintings; tubes of acrylic gouache hint at how they’ll be finished. Callaghan grew […]
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New shows on view at the Cleveland Institute of Art this season celebrate the college’s legacy and seek to explore our perception of our present and future reality. The CIA Alumni Exhibition is on view March 2–29 in the Ann and Norman Roulet Alumni + Student Gallery and the Gary Johnson and Brenda Ashley Central Corridor. And opening March 29 […]
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Cleveland artist John Carlson was in Manhattan years ago, pounding the pavement to make connections in galleries he hoped might show his paintings. Buoyed by recent acceptance into a well-respected show in Ohio, he made a point of dropping into a gallery owned by the very selective New Yorker who had juried him into it. Carlson introduced himself to the […]
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The typical high school art class tends to offer limited experience with clay. “You make a cheeseburger, you make a dragon, you make a girl with really, really big eyes, and then you say I love ceramics,” says Seth Nagelberg, chair of Ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Yes, students do tend to love it—even when they know only […]
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In May 2014, artists Sequoia Bostick and Amalia DeGirolamo earned their BFA degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Art and walked out into that vast expanse called the real world. Like some of their friends, they didn’t yet have jobs, but they had creative energy. “A lot of people wonder what to do next,” Bostick said. “We wanted to do […]
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