Cleveland dealer brokers loan of Cleveland School work to Museum of Industrial History

One of the great challenges in museums is telling a story. The recently opened National Museum of Industrial History—a Smithsonian affiliate, located in Bethlehem, PA—gets some story telling help from sculpture by Cleveland Schooler Max Kalish. The piece is on loan there from a private collector in Chicago, via Cleveland-based Corcoran Fine Arts, until February, 2017. The loan sheds interesting […]

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Must See: Lori Kella in Scale3 at Cleveland Print Room

Lori Kella is so much more than a photographer. There is a bit of magic in the images currently on view at the Cleveland Print Room. “Seven Summits” is her visual interpretation of the highest mountain peaks on each of the seven continents. If you’re not familiar with Kella’s work, she’s known for creating elaborate dioramas, including tiny trees, fake […]

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A VISION OF HEALING AND PEACE: With a gallery renamed in her honor, former art program director Trudy Wiesenberger reflects on building the University Hospitals collection

The Trudy Wiesenberger Gallery at University Hospitals may be the busiest gallery you’ve never heard of. Curator Thomas Huck says 300 to 400 people pass through every hour of every day, with greater numbers at lunch, as as patients, their families, doctors, nurses and other staff make their way between Lerner Tower, Lakeside Hospital, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and […]

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Dexter Davis: A Portrait

In the months just after I started work at the Cleveland Museum, I struck up a friendship with one of the guards who was always impeccably well-groomed and well-dressed and always had something interesting to say.  He seemed both gentle and genteel—someone with whom one might comfortably have a drink at a neighborhood coffee house.  Only later did I discover […]

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The City Life: John “Derf” Backderf talks about his his early comic strip days in Cleveland, and a new Web comic

Derf found his cartoon voice circa 1990 in the Cleveland Edition with The City, a gravelly mash of Rust Belt angst, vulgarity, vunerability and glee. He went on to draw/write the critically acclaimed My Friend Dahmer and Trashed. Sort of the Josephine Baker of the comic book world, he’s really big in France and Belgium, where he travels four times […]

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Herb Ascherman’s Life Behind a Camera

In photographer Herb Ascherman’s Shaker Heights living room, there’s what he calls his “worship wall.” It features classic photos by some of photography’s towering giants: Albert Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Inge Morath, Arnold Newman.   “Every morning I get down on my kneeler and ask for their blessing,” he says, only half joking.   It must have worked. Ascherman has had […]

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Elephants and Winnebagos: Eric Rippert takes memories down a new road

Eric Rippert’s darkling, toys-in-a-landscape photographs have for several years commented on innocence and alienation, and he has drawn some attention for those. Most visibly, two were printed large — highway scale –and installed on the West 14th Street underpass in Tremont, as part of the Cleveland Innerbelt Project Mural Art Program.  In 2014 the Progressive Insurance collection – always a […]

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Fall, 2016 Events

Fall, 2016 Events by Anastasia Pantsios   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. Enjoy the shows!     CONTINUING   Through August 28. Threads: Three American Stories: Helen Murrell, Justin Woodie […]

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The Cleveland Foundation Presents: Creative Fusion, Global Artists with Targeted, Lasting Local Impact

CAN’s coverage of Creative Fusion means to spread the word about a program that opens doors between Cleveland and the world. Since 2008, Creative Fusion has brought international artists here to create exhibits and performances with local host organiztions. In Fall, 2016 we are enthusiastic to tell you that the program is evolving in ways that will engage local artists […]

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