Artists Archives of the Western Reserve: Celebrates Shirley Aley Campbell, Members, and Military Veterans

This spring marks a time of celebration and collaboration for the Artists Archives. We begin the season honoring one of the region’s most important figurative painters, Archived Artist Shirley Aley Campbell (1925–2018). Campbell’s attentive portraits of marginalized subjects earned her a respected place in the Cleveland arts community for over fifty years. In tribute to Shirley’s legacy, a pop-up exhibition […]

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Continuum: Art of the Cleveland School and Beyond

In partnership with the Canton Museum of Art, ARTneo presents Continuum: Art of the Cleveland School and Beyond. In the 1920s, Cleveland’s position as the center for American watercolor painting and its strong connection with commercial and fine art ceramics helped to define what is commonly known as the “Cleveland School” of artists. The newer generations of artists continue to […]

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Abstraction

For several months, Art House had a high school project hanging on our largest wall. Living with these works over an extended period led to comparing them to some of the others that had been part of the 2018 Urban Bright Exhibition. Eight paintings focused on nature, technology, and augmenting human capacity. The students used various acrylic painting techniques and […]

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Art At The Schoolhouse presents Parker, Sargent, Hot Glass

Art at the School House presents our 2019 lineup of exciting exhibitions, culminating with Cleveland’s first soon-to-be-announced Photo Festival opening in July. Zinsmeister Parker Through April 1 Born in Cleveland in 1934, Patricia Zinsmeister Parker’s active career as an artist and teacher began in 1976 and hasn’t stopped since. PZP has participated in nearly a hundred individual and group exhibitions […]

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Nick Cave, Joe Vitone, and Mernet Larson at Akron Art Museum

Nick Cave: Feat. Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries February 23–June 2 Nick Cave’s (b. 1959) dazzling trademark soundsuits were originally conceived as a kind of protective armor in the wake of Rodney King’s 1992 beating by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. “I started thinking about myself more and more as a black man—as someone discarded, devalued, viewed as […]

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On Deciding If We Should Write for CAN Journal

We know what you want. You want our thoughts. You want our feelings. You want our stories. You want our ideas. You want our solutions. You want our frustration. You want our angry-artists-of-color voices represented in this publication in order to soothe white guilt. You want us to entertain to you. But, it’s cool. We see right through your offer. […]

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Charles Burchfield at the CMA: The Ohio Landscapes

“A house is often more moody than nature …. They are built by men as dwellings, and this strange creature results. In the daytime they have an astonished look; at dusk they are evil; seem to brood over some crime. . . . Each one is individual.” – Charles Burchfield, 1916   On view until May 5 in the CMA […]

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An Interview with Artist Nick Cave – Feat. Opens 2/23 at Akron Art Museum

Tomorrow (Saturday, February 23) the new exhibition Nick Cave: Feat. opens at Akron Art Museum – showcasing some of the artist’s most iconic bodies of work, including his signature soundsuits. These dazzling sculptural costumes are made of thousands of found objects, buttons, old toys, and other everyday items, but their visual brilliance conceals a darker message. Cave made his first […]

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The Print Club of Cleveland: A River through History

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The Spring 2019 issue of CAN, forthcoming March 1, includes an essay by gallerist and regional art historian William Busta, surveying artists’ treatment of the Cuyahoga River as a subject through the centuries. When we went looking for examples to illustrate the essay, we struck it rich with the Print Club of Cleveland. Coincidentally, there’s an exhibit of Print Club […]

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Form and feeling: John W. Carlson and Steven Standley at NY’s Field Projects

This Valentine’s Day, two Cleveland-based artists will open an exhibit in the nation’s art capital. Next week, The Carlson/Standley Experience will open at Field Projects Gallery in New York. The show is named for the contributing painters, John W. Carlson and Steven Standley. Though the style and content of both artists diverge from one another, they complement one another. Based […]

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