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 […]
Read moreA 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 […]
Read moreThere 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe Glory Hole, a 1930’s grinder & polisher, slurries and shards- these are the everyday tools of the glass artist Earl O. James. Stepping into the second floor studio of the former paint factory that James shares with glass artists Linda Zmina and Michael Mikula, one can see that glass is his passion. Born in Jamaica, reared in Rochester and a 1988 CIA […]
Read moreIn 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 […]
Read moreSince 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 […]
Read moreGALLERY 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, […]
Read moreThese words all have different nuances of meaning, but a common thread or generalization is that they describe a change in the state of a thing or idea that is no longer apt or useful into a more current, appropriate one. This theme is definitely playing out during the first part of 2013 at Waterloo Arts. No, that is not a typo. After a suggestion from a volunteer […]
Read moreArts Collinwood is in full swing this fall with monthly gallery openings, chamber music concerts, artist talks, screen printing workshops and an after school program in the Nan and Miles H. Kennedy Art Center starting up in October. On view until September 2nd in the Gallery are the exquisitely beautiful paintings of William M. Newhouse. Opening September 14th are works of Ann Hanaran and Coe Lapossy, in An Exercise […]
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