We are excited to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Art Therapy Studio throughout 2017. Since being founded in 1967 we have transformed from a single, medically-focused art studio at MetroHealth into an ever-growing organization serving clients with a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges across Cuyahoga County and beyond. Our partnerships with hospitals, mental health and addiction […]
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I became executive director of Art House early in the Spring of 2016. This is a short list of highlights, both from our community-based events, and the progress of the organization during my first year: The First Annual ABC Chili Cook-Off: A very warming, fun introduction to the Art House community Making new friends (including Metro Zoo staff) Bringing more […]
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Art Books Cleveland (ABC) recently completed its first-ever collaborative project. The brain child of Tony Williams, the butterfly book represents the work of 18 artists, each creating a unique representation of a monarch. These disparate pieces were gathered into a single sculpture celebrating handmade paper, books, and the merging of creative visions. As Williams reports, “with the help of Jane […]
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Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose Akron Art Museum • Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries Through May 7, 2017 Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose showcases the work of 51 remarkable contemporary artists whose work has been featured in the pages of Hi-Fructose magazine. Informed by street art and graffiti, tattoo art, […]
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The subtitle of Susan Squires’ exhibit From There to Here: Encaustic Geometric Abstractions is on the one hand a perfectly accurate description of this work. It does consist of abstract shapes and patterns painted in wax. But the description is nothing like the whole story, and someone who reads that and expects pure, meaningless abstraction which just happens to be […]
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Keith Lemley: “Superstructure” Sculptor Keith Lemley’s installation “Superstructure” consists of four groupings of white neon tubes interspersed with chunks of wood cut in the shapes of irregular polyhedrons, faceted with prismatic reflective surfaces. Each of these stakes out a portion of the Cleveland Sculpture Center’s long interior gallery, unfolding in triangles of light across the polished concrete floor or up […]
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Miller Horns, who was born in 1948 and so came of age between the late 1960s and early 1970s, was mainly a printmaker. But he was a print maker excited by new forms and techniques available in that field, at that revolutionary time. Horns began looking for fresh means of expression just when electrostatic copy machines became widely available for […]
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Portraitist and figure painter Tricia Kaman has been developing her craft for four decades, and the results of her experiments and refinements are on display at Ursuline College’s Wasmer Gallery. “Women in Reverie,” now in its final two weeks in exhibit, gathers 52 of Kaman’s oil and pastel images of women and girls. The artist captures women in many activities—conversing, napping, […]
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Cuba is not on the list of countries from which the current US administration has banned travel. However the relationship between the island nation and the US is dominated by our partisan politics. And there are whole lot of people with families, jobs, and other professional relationships on both sides of that border who even now are awaiting news about […]
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“They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” You may have seen this popular slogan on posters at the women’s march last week. But the seeds that artist Darice Polo is examining in “Seeds of Colonialism” didn’t lead to unity and peace, but rather a century of oppression, discrimination, and exploitation. Technically, Puerto Rico is a U.S. “Unincorporated Territory”, […]
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