The Women’s Art Club of Cleveland, with its run of nearly 94 years, lasted longer than any of the similar clubs founded at about the same time for men. Curiously, despite outlasting the likes of the Kokoon Arts Club and the Cleveland Society of Artists, WACC is the least known of these twentieth century artist clubs today. From 1912 to […]
Read moreDresden, Germany and Cleveland, Ohio have been swapping artists annually for 19 years. Looking out from the top of the tower above the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany, you can see where the Allied bombs fell toward the end of World War II. A line of boxy architecture from the 50s and 60s runs south from the Elbe river through the […]
Read moreContinuing Through November 30 Art for the New Collector Tregoning & Company Cornerstone: 30 Years of Collection Building ARTneo at Tregoning & Company Through November 29 Anthony Mastromatteo, Frank Oriti, Michael Zigmond: The New Real Bonfoey Gallery Through December 5 True Story: Hadley K. Connor and Sarah Curry HEDGE Gallery Through December 18 Machined Senses //benitez_vogl: […]
Read moreCleveland ranks very high nationally in its support for the arts—including for individual artists. Only one or two other cities in the United States offer a similar level of support. For individual artists it comes through the Creative Work Force Fellowship Program, which since 2009 has distributed grants of $20,000 to 20 artists, writers, and performers, each year. But that […]
Read moreQuestions about the public value of art are at the core of any public funding program: If we are going to give money to support arts activity, what do we fund, and why? And when funds are limited, how should they be allocated among our priorities? Earlier this year, an evaluation of the Creative Workforce Fellowship program, and resulting modification […]
Read moreChristopher Pekoc was a high school misfit. Art was his salvation. Today his studio is in an almost windowless basement in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. It’s filled with industrial file cabinets he salvaged from a store that failed. The drawers are stuffed with photographs that he has taken, clippings from magazines, sheets of unusual paper. He has tools […]
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Last fall, ICA was retained by the City of Cleveland and The Sculpture Center to restore Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen’s monumental sculpture, the Free Stamp, to like-new condition. After years of weathering, deterioration and vandalism endured by this iconic artistic treasure, the City of Cleveland recognized the need to preserve the landmark for future generations. Project planning took place […]
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