Michael C. Butz, Author at Collective Arts Network - CAN Journal

Faculty Exhibition, Print Conference Highlight CIA’s Fall Offerings

Printmaker Maggie Denk-Leigh, chair of the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Printmaking Department, has participated in the college’s annual Faculty Exhibition more than twenty times during her career. She finds the experience valuable. Like her colleagues, all of whom are practicing artists and designers, Denk-Leigh balances personal goals and her studio practice with responding to the learning environment at CIA. The […]

11(3) Fall 2022

Satterwhite, Alumni Among CIA’s FRONT Artists

Michael C. Butz

When FRONT International returns this summer, the Cleveland Institute of Art again serves as a partner and host site. What’s more is that CIA will be home to one of the triennial’s most anticipated exhibitions and will welcome back two alumni. Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows is the title for this year’s triennial, which opens Saturday, July 16 at […]

11(2) Summer 2022

MacPhee, Reinberger Invite Viewer Participation in We Want Everything

Michael C. Butz

The work of Brooklyn-based artist, designer, and archivist Josh MacPhee is socially engaged. So it’s no surprise that when his exhibition We Want Everything opens at the Cleveland Institute of Art, it will transform Reinberger Gallery into an active maker space and encourage visitors to be hands-on in the process. We caught up with MacPhee to learn more about […]

11(1) Spring 2022

Back in my day …, and SIE among upcoming shows at CIA

Michael C. Butz

Both an exhibition that highlights work by the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Class of 2020 and a show that represents one of the college’s most honored traditions can be enjoyed over the next several months in CIA’s Reinberger Gallery. Back in my day … Among the CIA experiences sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was the annual BFA Exhibition, […]

10(4) Winter 2021/2022

Faculty Exhibition Invites Community to Connect with CIA

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Artwork by Cleveland Institute of Art faculty members fills galleries, museums and institutions across the country. Just in the past year, their creations have been on view from New York to New Mexico and from Florida up to Michigan, allowing audiences near and far to catch glimpses of their exceptional artistry. Greater Clevelanders are fortunate, of course. For more […]

CIA Faculty’s Community-focused Projects Have Impact in and out of the Classroom

Michael C. Butz

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s world-renowned faculty are known for the difference they make in the classroom teaching and mentoring future generations of artists and designers. But their work at CIA represents only one facet of their creativity and ingenuity. They’re also highly-accomplished working artists, and their personal practices often involve projects in which community engagement is central. Interaction, connection, […]

CIA Students Make Superheroes of Children with Special Needs

Michael C. Butz

Making art brings with it many rewards. One of the biggest? Knowing your creativity made a difference to someone. Just ask Cleveland Institute of Art student Zharia Rahn. Through her community projects course in the spring, the animation major connected with The Superhero Project, a Northeast Ohio nonprofit that pairs children who have disabilities or serious illnesses with artists who […]

Reinberger’s T ITLE TB D Takes on New Meaning Post-COVID

Michael C. Butz

T ITLE TB D at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery was scheduled for spring but postponed due to COVID-19. The exhibition is now on view, and information about how to see the artwork is available at cia.edu/exhibitions. The show examines the artist’s life in 2020 and features work by ADMIN, Adult Kindergarten, Thomas Barger, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, GenderFail, Jeff Kasper, […]

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Grad Examined in Reinberger Gallery’s T ITL E TB D

Michael C. Butz

Ask someone to describe the life of an artist and you’re likely to get one of two accounts: a starving artist who ekes out a living by sacrificing everything, or a cosmopolitan artist living and working amid an embarrassment of big-city riches. Both extremes are rooted more in fantasy than fact. The reality is that there’s a vast middle ground. […]

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