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A Tale of Regeneration Through Metal Sculpture: Michael Marras, at Summit Artspace.

In his upcoming solo exhibition The Bottom of Reality, Akron artist Michael Marras is getting back to the joy of creating.Marras is best known for his large-scale public artworks—including the recently completed twenty-foot sculpture on The University of Akron’s campus—and his anthropomorphic and fantastical figures, created from found metal and featured in acclaimed exhibitions like Art Basel Miami. After years […]

14(1) Spring 2025

Community When We Need It Most: Eileen Roth’s Spirit Houses, at UH Wiesenberger Gallery

Casey Monda

When entire cities go up in flames, when institutions betray the public’s trust, when senseless acts of violence result in the deaths of Innocents time and time again, we search for stability, for community, for a place or a space that feels safe. Eileen Roth’s Spirit Houses provide the antidote we need in these terrible times of trouble. Now on […]

14(1) Spring 2025

V&A Art Gallery: Asquith, Vega, Ginley and Zelenka at 78th Street Studios

Brian Asquith

V&A Art Gallery—a collaboration between Hector Vega and Brian Asquith—is a recent addition to the 78th Street art studio complex. In addition to Vega and Asquith, the gallery also hosts photographic treatments by Bridget Daryl Ginley and glassworks by Mike Zelenka. HECTOR VEGA is a well-known, self-taught Cleveland artist, born in Puerto Rico, with a signature artistic style featuring bold […]

14(1) Spring 2025

Dual Exhibition: Paula Damm and Eileen Woods, at VAC

Julie Polsinelli

This spring, Valley Art Center proudly presents Dual Exhibition: Paula Damm and Eileen Woods, a captivating showcase featuring two acclaimed artists whose work explores storytelling, personal history, and the intersections of ancient art forms with modern life. Opening March 28, this exhibition unites Paula and Eileen—both former winners of the Annual Juried Art Exhibition—for a powerful dialogue of art that […]

14(1) Spring 2025

How Do We Look? at Waterloo Arts

Imani Badillo

Waterloo Arts is excited to host the upcoming exhibition How Do We Look? this April and May. Exploring the translation of nature to abstraction, Ohio-based artists Elizabeth A. Emery (Cleveland) and Laura Bidwa (Columbus) will exhibit work which gains inspiration from breathing, looking, and moving outdoors. While both artists excel at creating abstract paintings, How Do We Look? will showcase […]

14(1) Spring 2025

Cleveland Bouquet at YARDS; LAND at Tinnerman Lofts

Liz Maugans

Cleveland Bouquet at Worthington YardsMarch 13–April 26Flowers have a long history soaked in both sadness and beauty. They are linked to death with the funerary practice of presenting memorial wreaths and sympathy bouquets in tribute to loved ones who are no longer here. Flowers also are linked to being joyously alive. They seed, grow, peak, wilt, die and reseed themselves […]

14(1) Spring 2025

In(k)spire: Zygote’s New Printmaking Workshop Scholarship

Jacqueline Feldman

Many nonprofits are facing uncertainty in the current political climate and Zygote Press, as an Ohio-based arts nonprofit, is no different. But while the expectation may be a reduction in services and programs, our plan is to fight. With our In(k)spire Scholarship, we are ramping up our 29-year legacy of serving the Cleveland arts community. In January of this year, […]

14(1) Spring 2025

Which Came First? Harminder Judge: The Bootstrap Paradox, at moCa Cleveland

Michael Gill

The excellent title of Harminder Judge’s exhibition, The Bootstrap Paradox (on view January 24 – June 1 at moCa Cleveland) might seem at this point in history to be an economic reference to the elusive American Dream. In this country we have the illusion that poor people can “lift themselves up by their bootstraps” and start companies, work hard, and […]

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Love Is Resistance: The Kind of Show we Need Right Now

Michael Gill

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Love Is Resistance, which opened on Valentine’s Day at Transformer Station, is in a multitude of ways The Kind Of Show We Need Right Now. After a year with no visual art programming at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s West side exhibit space, after decades during which Cleveland artists have pined for any measure of […]

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Narrative Power: Earl O. James at Akron Soul Train

Anderson Turner

Sculpture has a unique narrative power. The physicality of an object in three-dimensions taking up space and demanding gravity pay attention to it can help create an impact on the viewer that is more rare and even guttural than the most vivid graphic image. Pathways and Passages by Earl O. James on view at Akron Soul Train through February 15th […]

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