The multi-mural, multi-media venture known as Inspire Your City continues to grow and evolve with Mr. Soul’s ambitions. First reported in CAN Journal in Spring 2023, when the first of five murals was completed at Uniek Kreations, 12814 Buckeye Road, the project will eventually result in five murals and a documentary, and its themes are spinning into other current projects. […]
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The Cleveland Public Library is in full bloom. British artist Rebecca Louise Law has transformed Brett Hall in the Main Library with one of her signature immersive installations. Law’s work is made from tens of thousands of individual flowers and interacts with a building’s architecture, while encouraging viewers to wander among different botanical specimens. Curated and managed by LAND studio, […]
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With an impressive collection permanently on view and new exhibitions opening every semester, the Allen Memorial Art Museum is considered one of the best academic museums in the country. Visit amam.oberlin.edu for details and associated events. RELIGIOUS ART FROM ASIA A new long-term installation of religious art from Asia is now on view at the Allen, bringing together familiar favorites […]
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A tradition since 1971, the Governor’s Awards showcase and celebrate exceptional Ohio artists, arts organizations, arts leaders and patrons, and business support of the arts. Award recipients are presented with the only arts award in the state that is conferred by the governor. Awardees were honored during a ceremony on May 17 in Columbus. Cleveland-based portrait and figurative artist Tricia […]
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In May 2021, Zygote Press hosted its first cohort of BIPOC residents in what was initially a one-month program, designed to give local artists of color the opportunity to expand their artistic practice into the printmaking realm. Now, two years later, the program has evolved from a one-month residency to a three-month fellowship, with pending funding for a year-long fellowship […]
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The request landed back in February. “Hi Erin,” wrote Tim Herron, cofounder of the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists (PCPA), “I am always on the lookout for interesting models.” He added the sketch group was scheduling pretty far out, into August. I blinked at the screen for a minute or two amid a vague feeling of disbelief. Me? Sit for a […]
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Today’s highly choreographed, plastic, bifurcated world (and all the concerns keeping us up at night) grants renewed meaning to the phrase, open road. It’s there we find freedom and a sense of escape, but also greater connection, and the inclination to understand identity—one’s own and that of others. A selection of Julie Langsam’s Landscape Interventions: 500+ Drawings, on view at […]
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To be in The Big Ass Art Show–on view at Lakeland Community College, Valley Art Center, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and BAYarts—a piece of art had to measure at least four feet on a side. It’s a simple rule that does a lot of sorting: a lot of artists have simply never made something that large. And for […]
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Synesthesia happens when a person experiences one sense through another: hearing Bach, you see rectangles. Or the word “table” brings purple to mind. Its Greek roots mean “senses coming together,” according to Dr. Veronica Goss at Boston University. Closer to home, artist Renee Fisher and gourmet chocolatier Ines Rehner have created a synesthesthetic experience in their collection of hand-painted chocolates […]
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To a younger viewer, the work of Keith Haring might read more like Instagram than Street Art. Trendy current commercial success stories like Timothy Goodman and Mr. Doodle proudly carry on the tradition of laundering the vernacular of graffiti and reselling it back to the masses as a slice of an Experience. Haring’s aesthetic is really popular again: his figures […]
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