What’s more fun than a group of illustrators meeting for an evening of drawing and a few local brews? Can’t think of much, except for seeing the fruits of this seriously creative group’s labors in one exhibition: “The Best of NOIS” will be in BAYarts Sullivan Gallery through April 3. Comprised of illustrators, fine artists, designers, students and instructors, […]
Read moreScott was diagnosed with hearing loss at age four and lives with severe depression, social anxiety disorder, general anxiety disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder. An art therapist at RAP Art referred Scott to Art Therapy Studio in 1995. There, he found a welcoming, supportive studio in which students–many who were also dealing with cognitive, emotional, and/or physical challenges–shared his […]
Read moreSinead Vilbar, Cleveland Museum of Art curator of Japanese and Korean Art, tells why she chose her live-work space in the city. The main reason we chose to live in the 1400 building was the promise of a community of people who are also active in creative fields–and we have not been disappointed. We really enjoy our time with […]
Read moreOn February 20th, 2015 ARTneo opened Cleveland Creates, a juried exhibition of Northeast Ohio artists on the second floor of 78th Street Studios. First introduced in 2011, the exhibition reached out to members of the organization and those interested in joining ARTneo to submit up to three works of art to be considered. For the second iteration of the show, a […]
Read moreWhen Arists Archives of the Western Reserve executive director Mindy Tousley asked me to curate a figurative show to honor Women’s History Month in March 2015, and to include my own work, she didn’t have to ask twice. Eagerly and quickly, I chose my dream team of Archived Artists for the exhibition we call Majority Rising. Feminist issues […]
Read moreThe exhibition currently on view at the Akron Museum of Art celebrates the exoticism, exuberance and optimism found in the work of thirteen contemporary abstract painters. Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting (January 24-May 3, 2015 in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries) offers viewers visual pleasure, with each artist approaching ideas about beauty in different ways. […]
Read moreThree Cleveland nonprofit organizations are mission-driven to recognize, preserve, and collect the art of Northeast Ohio. They are not the city’s biggest institutions, but three relatively small ones, with staffs of one or two people: ARTneo, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. They are completely separate organizations, but taken together, their […]
Read moreShe is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag. These partial, broken images at the end of Sylvia Plath’s final poem “Edge,” written shortly before the poet’s suicide in 1963, are a patchwork of verbal shadows and flat, wounding sounds. Knowing what we do about the artist and her history, the poem can read […]
Read moreSPRING 2015 EVENTS CONTINUING Through March 28 They Came. They Saw. They Printed! (19 Years of Swift, Victorious Prints) Zygote Press Gallery Through April 3 Process and Materials HEDGE Gallery Through April 10 Off the Web, On the Wall 2 Society for Photographic Education Through April 19 Cleveland Creates ARTneo Through April 26 Christopher Pekoc: […]
Read moreAnyone who has tried painting in watercolor at all—let alone painting complex urban landscapes crawling with dozens of figures–will appreciate the work of the late artist and Cleveland public school teacher Moses Pearl. A recent exhibit of his work at the Artists Archives of the Western revealed an artist who used watercolor, not with pallid delicacy, but with the […]
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