Last year in his New Jersey studio, Cai Guo-Qiang ignited the gunpowder for his work Cuyahoga River Lightning: Drawing for the Cleveland Museum of Art. Stretching nearly forty feet long, the artist traced the familiar curving path of Cleveland’s famous river—from the site of the historic fire in the summer of 1969 to the mouth at Lake Erie—using explosions. The […]
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RIAN INTERVIEWS EVA RIAN BROWN-ORSO: I love your sculpture because it gives me this visceral reaction. The Immortal Peaches are luscious creatures, candy-like…they’re like poisonous mushrooms or frogs. You want to touch them and put them in your mouth, but you know they’re dangerous. EVA KWONG: The fact that you want to touch it is what drew me to working […]
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In collaboration with professor Damaris Punales Alpizar, we gave Spanish language students from Case Western Reserve University a task: Go out there to the real world; put the language skills acquired in the classroom to work; connect with Hispanic artists in Cleveland; talk to them; learn from them. The results are below: students sharing what they found in common with […]
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Sequoia Bostick, co-founder of the all-ages comic book anthology, VAGABOND COMICS, talks storytelling and the creation of new worlds. Sequoia Bostick quietly eats a lunch of Mediterranean food at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts where she works as a creative producer. She is relaxed here and it’s easy to see why: though she describes herself as primarily an illustrator, this space bears […]
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I recently attended the opening for a group show that had an entry category for disabled artists. I was asked dozens of times which work on the “disabled” display was mine. The confusion was understandable: My wheelchair was parked near it to avoid blocking foot traffic, and I was one of few visibly disabled artists present. Redirecting each querier to […]
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Summer 2019 Events Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. by Anastasia Pantsios CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH MAY 19 Artist in Residence: Ricardo Ruiz, Richmond, Virginia ZYGOTE PRESS THROUGH MAY 24 Work by […]
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Art and related events celebrating the Cuyahoga River, presented with support from the Creative Fusion program and Cuyahoga50. May 25–September 22 Cai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning Artist Cai Guo-Qiang makes explosive and monumental drawings with gunpowder, including one of the Cuyahoga River, commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art. CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART June 4 Curator Talk: Clarissa von Spee […]
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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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ARTISTS: Tony Williams | Cleveland Rowland Ricketts | Indiana Eduardo Portillo | Venezuela MariЗ Eugenia DЗvila | Venezuela ORGANIZATION: Praxis Fiber Workshop Half a century ago, on June 22, 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire. Environmental contamination played a significant role in that event. Now people are determined not to forget so history will not repeat itself. As a […]
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SPEAKERS: Adib Dada | Lebanon Monica Lewis-Patrick | Detroit Kizito Johnson | Uganda Sadhu Johnston | British Columbia PechaKucha founder Mark Dytham | Tokyo ORGANIZATION: PechaKucha Night Cleveland PechaKucha Night Cleveland marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire with presentations on the next half-century of water conservation. An unfolding environmental disaster may seem like a poor […]
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