Is there a science to collecting prints or do you just jump in blindfolded? People who collect prints spend a great of time looking, listening and reading about prints and printmakers. In fact, that is one of the missions of the Print Club of Cleveland at the Cleveland Museum of Art, to offer members many opportunities to learn about the […]
Read moreBegin the evening at 5:30 PM in the Atrium of the CMA with a welcome reception, sampling the tempting delights of Provenance at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At 7:00 PM, take your reserved seat in Gartner Auditorium for the Annual Awards Event. This is your chance to see the 2013 winners as well as some of their art. The […]
Read moreIn 23 years as a curator, Jean Brandt has continually emphasized community-building over any rigid aesthetic criteria. Starting with her contemporaries in the Tremont scene, one can find a series of concentric circles that shows how Brandt envisions “community” in the broadest sense. Her inclusiveness extends to artists who maintain connections to Cleveland even though they presently work elsewhere. Our […]
Read moreBy the time this article is printed, National Preservation Week (April 21-27) will have already passed. But in the spirit of its sentiment, we at Zygote want to share some exciting news about our 17-year archive. In 1996, the Co-Founders of Zygote Press (Liz Maugans, Bellamy Printz, Joe Sroka and Kelly Novak) wanted to provide affordable facilities for artist-printmakers. Originally […]
Read moreArtists have long weighed in on the social ills of their day, and foreclosure is one of the biggest to come down the pike in a long, long time. A home is rife with meaning and purpose and when it loses both, and on such a broad scale, the loss is collective. What role can art play in piecing it […]
Read moreThis summer at the Cleveland Print Room, you can become a member, develop film, make a pinhole camera, take a plastic camera workshop and show your results in our gallery, join our Social Club, attend a yoga class, or take a class to learn wet plate collodion or cyanotype photo techniques. The Print Room is a multipurpose photography center with […]
Read more“When I am doing art, nothing exists but the work in front to me. I am barely aware of the other people in the room. There is no pain there, and no worries. Only the art.” Margot’s world changed several years ago when she suffered a stroke at age 57. “I became depressed,” she said. “I continued substitute teaching because […]
Read moreTwo diametrically opposed artistic points of view are showcased in a joint exhibition of paintings in the Cleveland Plain Dealer gallery June 24 through August 24. The artists are Gerald Kramer and Ruth B. Bercaw. Kramer was attracted to abstraction when he commenced his artistic career and shortly found himself working in a totally non-objective mode. His aim was to […]
Read moreRoss Chapin’s Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World (Hardcover, 224 pp., Taunton Press, 2011, $30 signed) “introduces an antidote to faceless, place-less sprawl: clustered groups of neighboring houses or apartments gathered around a shared open space — a garden courtyard, a pedestrian street, a series of joined backyards, or a reclaimed alley. They can be […]
Read moreThe Bonfoey Gallery, the exclusive representative of the work of Joseph O’Sickey, is pleased to present an exhibition of his work,Travels: Provence & Maine. The exhibition will be on view in our street level gallery from June 14 through July 13, 2013. An opening reception with the artist will be held at the gallery Friday, June 14, from 5-8 pm. […]
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