Rebekah Utian, Author at Collective Arts Network

From Studios to Sidewalks: Art in Tremont This Summer

WALKABOUT TREMONTSecond Fridays, May–OctoberProfessor Avenue, 5-9 pm Walkabout Tremont is a street activation highlighting artists and makers from across Northeast Ohio. From lively street performances to artist pop-ups, Walkabout celebrates the creative spirit that characterizes the Tremont neighborhood. This year’s programming includes guided local history tours, live performances, a pop-up museum in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Education […]

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Threads of Influence: Renaissance to Runway at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Rebekah Utian

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses reads less like a conventional museum experience than an imagined passage through the studio of an Italian fashion house. One readily envisions sumptuous textiles transformed into exquisite garments and ensembles, animated by mannequins and staged against the backdrop of Old Master paintings. Forgoing heavy-handed interpretive framing, Associate […]

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Confronting Our Wastescapes: Everlasting Plastics in Cleveland

Rebekah Utian

Two thousand years ago, a story circulated in the ancient Roman world about a moldable, yet unbreakable, material unlike anything that had come before. In the 7th century, the bishop scholar Isidore of Seville featured this tale in his Etymologies: “They claim that under Tiberius Caesar a certain craftsman devised a formula for glass so that it would be flexible […]