Heights Arts student interns Antonia Casucci and Amia Frazier have curated this year’s Heights Arts student intern exhibition. Titled Visions of the Future, the exhibition is on view May 15 to June 8. The opening is 5 to 8 pm Thursday, May 15. Heights Arts started its high school internship program a decade ago because it seemed a natural way […]
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The interplay between shifting light and color sets the tone for Bonnie Dolin’s vibrant and often whimsical paintings and mixed-media pieces. Her approach involves “intuitive painting”—no prescribed plan, yet a framework inspired by structures or scenes in the natural world. “A lot of the forms I use are abstract, but they relate back to flowers or animals or buildings like […]
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by Max McMillen Unidos por el Arte is an initiative by Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center (JDBCAC) designed to uplift and support Latino artists of all disciplines and stages across Northeast Ohio. Through this program, we provide developmental opportunities, collaborative spaces, essential resources and more to help artists grow in their creative careers. One artist who found her voice […]
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Before 2025, Shawn Mishak’s most recent solo show took place at Brandt Gallery in 2008. So for the last decade and a half, Mishak has been best known for putting together exhibitions of other people’s work, especially at doubting thomas gallery—notably his multi-year project built around the classical elements, earth, air, fire, water, and spirit—and also for his long-running band, […]
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Is there a crisis in art writing? Does the American Midwest need more art writing? More art criticism? And if so, why? For whom? And what roles do different types of art writing play? Curator and art historian Indra Lācis, PhD, has observed that urgency around the subject seems to come up every ten years or so. The rhythm may […]
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Flowers escape frames, butterflies balance between celebration and rest, and resurrection arises from grief in The Nature of Healing, a group exhibition co-curated with and presented by Deep Roots Gallery at Cleveland Botanical Garden, on view now through May 18, 2025. Works by 30 Northeastern Ohio artists inhabit the fertile intersection of nature and grief. Cleveland, historically challenged by some […]
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Anyone who has gone through the loss of a loved one will tell you that grief doesn’t come to you in expected or predictable ways. Rather, it hits you at unexpected and/or inopportune times. It also will rear its head one, two, or even twenty years after you’ve lost that special person. It is like living breathing thing that you […]
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The precipice of spring in Northeastern Ohio can be a gray and dismal place. The clouds, the Lake, the asphalt all conspire to monochrome for days that turn to weeks and resolve into months. Into this wash of wipeout inertia blasts a burst of color in Nevertheless, She Created: Encore, on view at the Bonfoey Gallery from now until April […]
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The post-industrial landscape of Cleveland is by now a familiar visual and conceptual trope in the city’s contemporary art scene. Even as Cleveland actively rebrands itself beyond its legacy of deindustrialization, the rust belt’s industrial past continues to shape both the physical environment and materials readily available to artists. In her exhibition Aggregate, on view at The Sculpture Center through […]
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Spend more than a few minutes with the 50-plus selections on view in Moments in the Spotlight: Music Photography by Anastasia Pantsios, and it soon becomes clear that a thread is woven throughout the latest exhibit by the longtime Cleveland photographer. While artists such as Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, and local favorite Michael Stanley can be found, another focus here […]
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