Art Books Cleveland celebrates, collaborates in Octavofest

Autumn in Ohio means it’s time for Octavofest: the month-long celebration of book and paper arts. Octavofest is a massive collaboration among Art Books Cleveland (ABC), Heights Arts, the Cleveland Heights Public Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland State University, the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation, and the Cleveland Public Library. Growing tremendously in scope since […]

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NOIS presents The Selfie Show

Professional illustrators tell stories — on demand, on deadline, and usually to someone else’s specifications. But once a year, members of the Northern Ohio Illustrators Society stretch out a little to make art for themselves and for the public to enjoy. The Selfie Show runs Sept. 11 through Aug. 4 at The Art Gallery in Willoughby. Some 30 illustrators will […]

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Orange Art Center

On a cold and rainy July day, it seemed appropriate to write about Orange Art Center in the fall. It’s our most busy season, with a new schedule of classes and workshops, our revitalized Community Show on display at the Cuyahoga County Public Library-Orange Branch, and our 2016 membership drive.   The OAC Community Show is a great chance to […]

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Popeye Evolves

Popeye Gallery is very happy to announce some major changes. After three years popping up in various venues throughout the Waterloo Arts District, we’ve finally found a semi-permanent home. Beginning in September, we will begin curating regular exhibitions at Survival Kit at 78th Street Studios.   The 1500 square-foot space will allow us to feature both more artists and larger […]

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Still Standing

I’m celebrating 20 years as a resident printmaker/painter in the former Lake Erie Screw Factory, and I have thoroughly enjoyed participating in the repurposing of this still-active industrial site as a viable art community.   The emotional aspects of life have been present in my oeuvre for decades, beginning with the persistence of domesticity and the stereotypical mores assigned to […]

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LAND Studio and Cleveland Public Library’s See Also present Migration

Each summer the beautiful Eastman Reading Garden, an outdoor oasis at Cleveland Public Library, is transformed into a visually compelling space that welcomes Clevelanders to discover and explore the work of contemporary artists in a free outdoor garden. LAND studio and Cleveland Public Library have partnered to create See Also, which introduces nationally recognized artists to Cleveland. This summer, the […]

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Scott Goss: Incoherent Spaces at Maria Neil Art Project

We can’t remember everything. Many things remain with us, almost forever, yet some things get lost, disappear, or are forgotten. As our memories begin to age, relics of our past, bits and pieces of what we once knew, endure as segments, small sections of our original memory, filled in by voids of space that are often confused, blurry, and indistinct. […]

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Surrounded by the Seasons

Imagine, if you will, walking into a gallery where you are not just stepping into an exhibition, you are stepping into the exhibit. As you come in from the chill of a late fall evening, you are essentially hugged by a work of art that allows you to take in each of the seasons one at a time or feel […]

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Kokoon presents Gone But Not Forgotten

Cleveland has long been a breeding ground for Fine Artists, and this exhibition highlights several who have contributed their particular artistic prowess to the region since the early twentieth century. Frank Wilcox (1887-1964) was a longtime Cleveland School of Art teacher, book author, historian and artist. He produced prolific amounts of drawings, prints and paintings that explored the human character; […]

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