Since their inception, zines have been an important—and fun—way to communicate and spread information. Emerging in the 1930s among sci-fi fans, zines have been around for almost a century. The term “zine,” first used in 1946, comes from the word “fanzine,” a combination of “fan” and “magazine,” that was first used in 1942. In 1944, the first Xerox machine was […]
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Exhibitions that invite regional and national perspectives and center student work highlight the Cleveland Institute of Art’s winter offerings. Possibility for Repair is a group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect that features work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland). Acknowledging the […]
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This January, Cleveland Print Room will be presenting special off-site exhibitions in two locations. Opening Friday, January 3 at Praxis Fiber Workshop, experimental analog photographer Mary Defer’s exhibition, Secret Family, is a photographic project using the discovery of a family secret as a springboard to explore social censorship, the region of Appalachia, and the “slow violence” (a term coined by […]
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Like lovemaking, being photographed by one’s lover is an intimate, collaborative act. This is the subject matter explored by American photographer Kelli Connell in Pictures for Charis (pronounced care-iss). Over the past ten years, Connell researched and reconsidered the lives and relationship of writer Charis Wilson and photographer Edward Weston as Connell photographed her partner at the time, sculptor Betsy […]
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The Cleveland poet d.a. levy (Darryl Alfred Levey, 1942-1968) was among the most prolific publishing poets of the mimeo revolution of the 1960s, which evolved into what is now called underground or outlaw poetry: small presses independent of the Academy. Of less renown yet as fascinating as his publications are levy’s prints and the methods he used to make them. […]
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It’s been thirteen years since Northeast Ohio lost one of its biggest and brightest art shows: Sankofa Fine Art Plus’ Black Art Expo, an annual showcase of Black art that ran from 2001 to 2011 and drew national acclaim. The festival is set to return in 2025—marking Sankofa’s 25th anniversary—to the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College. The timing couldn’t […]
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Against all odds, taking no commissions, and without a website, set hours, or staff, doubting thomas art and free verse space is almost a quarter century old. No commission. No website. No set hours, and no staff to keep them. Artists on the edge of homelessness sometimes sleeping on the church pew. “Expect miracles” has become a mantra for the […]
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In the wake of the FRONT and CAN triennials, can a grassroots group of volunteers using an inclusive, democratic process develop a major new art event for Cleveland? Does Cleveland need yet another arts festival? That question was on the table this past February when Northeast Ohio artists Liz Maugans and Dave King called an informal meeting of creators and […]
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Zach Repphun’s first memory of encountering a work of art was on a field trip to Youngstown’s esteemed Butler Institute of American Art in the fourth grade. He was captivated by Madison Avenue at Speed, Peter Maier’s actual-size painting of Jeff Gordon’s #24 race car that is now part of that museum’s permanent collection. Years later, when Repphun was working […]
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Wil Frierson is a Cleveland-based visual artist with over ten years experience capturing indoor and outdoor architecture in their natural element. He aims to make you feel like you’re immersed in that environment, experiencing it from a “bystander’s” point of view. Out of the way, taking it all in. As a professional photographer and videographer, Frierson focuses on the architecture […]
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