Sometimes three is a crowd. Other times it is not enough. When FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art initially announced its Futures Fellowships, the commitment was that three Cleveland artists of Color would be selected as fellows, each winning significant support in the form of a $25,000 cash award, plus organized, art-related travel (both internationally and within the US), […]
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On July 12, the 46-foot catamaran, Florante Baldado, will launch from Buffalo, New York, as part of Delegation 2022, a creative journey with two main objectives. The first is obvious enough: to dock safely in Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor on July 14. The second is a little trickier; within the duration of the trip, the passengers are tasked with composing […]
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The Air Show at Doubting Thomas is the third part of a series of exhibitions curated by Shawn Mishak and Tessa LeBaron, focused on the 5 classical elements: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and the ethereal, Aether. The show asks of the invited group of artists, “What does Clean Air Mean to You?” With that in mind, one might expect overwhelmingly […]
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Paul Tikkanen loved to paint, and he did it until the last day he was alive. According to Ashtabula Art Center director of visual art Nancy Brotz, staff at the assisted living facility where the artist lived said he had been working on art the day he passed away, in August,2020, at age 94. An exhibit of his work—Paul Tikkanen: […]
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Judy Takács has been one of the most prolific and visible artists in Northeast Ohio, for years. She’s a constant presence in group and juried shows, and has had multiple solo shows as well, including a current collection titled The Goddess Project: Innocents, on view in the intimate Chagrin Arts gallery in the center of Chagrin Falls. It’s on view […]
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Where We Overlap, on view in the Lewis Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (moCa), is a shining example of the age old adage “We are more similar than we are different.” Curator Davon Brantley paired several artists with seemingly different styles and approaches, so that they could learn from each other and collaborate on works of art […]
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Momentum in the art scene or in a neighborhood is at best something that can’t be measured. The laws of physics do not apply. Still there is something to it, something precious and easily lost, but also something to build upon. KINK Contemporary co-owners Anna Young and McKenzie Beynon build on their gallery’s momentum in two ways this summer with […]
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Friends and colleagues are invited to celebrate the life of Marilyn Ladd Simmons in a memorial gathering at SPACES from 2 to 5 pm Sunday, May 22. “Ladd-Simmons worked for SPACES and in the thick of the Cleveland arts scene for over 30 years,” SPACES said in a press release. “She transitioned from art studies at Baldwin-Wallace College to full-time […]
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FRONT TRIENNIAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PREM KRISHNAMURTHY AND CURATOR ANNIE WISCHMEYER TALK ABOUT CURATION DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC Brittany Mariel Hudak recently sat down with Prem Krishnamurthy and Annie Wischmeyer in the Ames Family Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art to discuss their curatorial strategies, inspirations, and what we can expect for FRONT 2022. Their team had just held a […]
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Donald Black Jr. is a fine artist with a vision—you can ride with him or without him. We talk about selling art at an early age, what his camera is trying to say and the luxury of the (pre-assembled) Parachute Man. Also, if you make art Cleveland doesn’t see, is it still art? JIMI IZRAEL: Where you from, Mr. Black? […]
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