The Akron Art Museum has an exciting lineup of exhibitions for the spring and summer. Beginning April 9, Reflections on Perception opens in the Judith Bear Isroff and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell galleries. In this exhibition, viewers can explore how artists employ reflection to enhance and complicate their compositions. The works in Reflections on Perceptions show how mirrored surfaces […]
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As Prussian troops prepared to crush the 1849 socialist uprising in Dresden, anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin proposed that paintings from the National Museum be placed in front of the barricades, reasoning that Prussian soldiers wouldn’t dare destroy the works to breach their defenses. Inspired by Bakunin’s never-realized proposal, artist Ahmet Öğüt has created site-specific “barricades” featuring works from museum collections […]
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As a recipient of the NEA Big Read Program award, this project has loomed large on Art House’s calendar. It has broadened our reach. Added to our regular programming, we have collaborated with numerous organizations to hold workshops, discussions, and events. Concurrently, our Urban Bright Arts-in-Education residency keeps growing as more schools request programming. Other agencies also have contacted us […]
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There’s a certain rawness to our region—one forged out of our industrial past and the ensuing decades spent forming and reforming our identity from the rusty pieces left behind. It also fuels our creativity, and perhaps no artistic medium better captures this drive to repurpose and redefine than assemblage. Whether it’s the abundance of source materials or an innate desire […]
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David Hicks draws people. His work is centered on the human figure. By using the figure or portrait in a narrative context, he metaphorically represents aspects of the human experience. The drawings reference history, myth, and pop culture. Hicks advises that the process of layering these symbolic figures and composing relationships between them is a cathartic way for him to […]
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The Time Travelers’ Garden is a group exhibition of the artwork of Dustin Grella, Christopher Hoot, Liz Maugans and Mark Soppeland. Presented at the Beachwood Community Center Art Space, the show will run from June 30 through August 28, with an artists reception from 1 to 2:30 pm on Sunday, July 10. Artists have had a complex relationship with time […]
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There is something about how we remember things, and then there is something about how we wish to remember things, and then there is something about how we wish things that we remember were different. These are some of the lenses of history. Mary Jo Bole draws upon her experiences, wide-ranging around Cleveland since childhood, while just a little drunk […]
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When FRONT International returns this summer, the Cleveland Institute of Art again serves as a partner and host site. What’s more is that CIA will be home to one of the triennial’s most anticipated exhibitions and will welcome back two alumni. Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows is the title for this year’s triennial, which opens Saturday, July 16 at […]
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Cleveland Print Room announces artists Christopher Mason and Keelyn Bradley as the 2022 Stephen Bivens Residency recipients. Started in 2021, this memorial fellowship is an ongoing program housed at the Print Room that provides two artists with space and funding to focus on their practice for two months. The residency is paid for in partnership with art.BIV and the Print […]
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The Galleries at Cleveland State University are pleased to partner with Collective Arts Network as a venue in the presentation of CAN Triennial 2022. Strategic scheduling to coincide with the 2022 FRONT Triennial presents an opportunity to highlight local and regional artists, capitalize on efforts of FRONT, and introduce an international audience to our great Cleveland neighborhoods and communities. The […]
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