THE NINE: The Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association in the 2nd Year of its Rebirth

How many serious commercial art galleries are there, here in northern Ohio? Venues that aren’t museums or college  campuses, but where people actually make a living by selling art? Places an exhibiting artist, or an aspiring collector, or  any informed visitor might find to be professionally impressive? Maybe 50, 100? Probably less.     Of course the nation’s heartland isn’t its artistic epicenter, not by the […]

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DIRTY ART AND DIRTY HANDS Examining what puts the “porn” in Ruin Porn

Ruin porn–that much-maligned meme for artistic depictions of abandoned buildings–suffers from one intractable problem. Most of those who decry its gratuitous revelry in the abandonment of our cities also participate in it. James  Griffioen coined the term to deride those who fly into Detroit with expensive cameras to take photos they then sell for  thousands of dollars to non-Detroiters, exploiting the city for its horribly beauty […]

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Frank Green (July 28, 1957–January 23, 2013)

In art and in life, Frank Green made it his mission to push boundaries and make people uncomfortable. In the early nineties he butted heads with Thomas Mulready, director of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, over the length of his performances. Frank wasn’t interested in editing his work to fit anyone’s schedule. While this made for a tense  relationship between two doyennes of the city’s performance […]

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WWAC Winter Programs

A more than 15-year tradition of Presidents’ Day programs for children continues with “Fit, Fun & Frolic” on Monday, February 18, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Westlake Porter Public Library, a 45-minute program. The Westlake-Westshore Arts Council (W-WAC) and Porter Library sponsored program brings MorrisonDance from the Teaching Artist Roster of  Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio for children ages 3 to 5 years. The color, rhythm, and repetition of popular  children’s […]

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Between Thoughts… Notes on an Architecture of Development: Sai Sinbondit at William Busta Gallery

There is always something missing when an artist portrays a place visited during vacation or sabbatical. And there is  often something spectacularly present when an artist’s work responds to the cultural and visual landscapes with which  they identify. The best of these works have a way of becoming insistent in the culture, forever shaping how everyone  understands that landscape. This fall, three exhibits at William Busta Gallery present the artists […]

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Frack This? The Wyoming Artist Expedition Examining the Collision of Art, the Environment, and Our Economy

The Wyoming Artist Expedition brings together 6 artists from Wyoming, Ohio, and Oregon to see Wyoming’s rarely visited Wilderness Study Areas and Citizen Proposed Wilderness Areas, to better understand and document the energy  boom, and to use art to communicate Wyoming’s special places at the center of oil and gas drilling. Artists will meet with scientists, meet with oil and gas industry experts, and camp and hike in some […]

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The Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association

In April 2012, the Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association (NOADA) organized an Art Expo at the Museum of  Contemporary Art’s former location on Carnegie Avenue. The three day event was a great opportunity to showcase  some of the area’s most well-established galleries and art dealers. Having so many art dealers come together under one roof provided attendees a rare chance to see a diverse group of  powerful artwork while […]

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Drawing, Opera, Sculpture, Lithography in Fall Programming For Westlake-Westshore Arts Council

Since 1984, the goal of the Westlake-Westshore Arts Council (W-WAC) has been to enhance and broaden cultural life in  the Westshore area through programming that will result in awareness, education, and involvement in the arts. Board  meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the first Monday of the month at Westlake Porter Public Library, 27333 Center Ridge  Road, Westlake. The following programs open the 2012- 2013 year and will […]

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Shining Light on Creativity in the Heights

GALLERY In September, Heights Ar ts gallery launchesi the fall season with Paperworks, an exhibition presenting regional artists who work rigorously on or with paper. Curated by artist / Heights Arts program director Andrea Joki, the show  lluminates paper as a carrier of artists’ symbols and as a medium in itself with processes including drawing, cut paper, collage, sculpture and pulp. The show coincides in its closing days with Watermarks, […]

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