SPACES gallery is pleased to initiate a new experiential residency and installation by artists George Harb and Leila Khoury. Their residency will begin on May 5 and a completed gallery-wide installation—A Single Word—will open on June 27. Come celebrate the artists and our broader SPACES community with a free and open public reception. Details below. Describing their collaborative exhibition, the […]
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UNDERSTORY, an artist-run gallery championing new and emerging voices, is dedicated to driving discourse with Your Attention, Please, opening June 18. Political commentator Chris Hayes writes, “every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.” This exhibition, showcasing the work of eight regional and national artists, asks what […]
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Valley Art Center is thrilled to announce the return of Art by the Falls 2025, and this year’s festival promises to be the biggest and most exciting yet! Celebrating its 41st year, this beloved outdoor fine-arts and contemporary-crafts festival will once again take place at the beautiful Cleveland Metroparks Polo Field in Chagrin Falls on June 7 and 8. After […]
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by Imani Badillo This summer, Elisa Albrecht and Steven Mastroianni are transporting visitors into a world of surrealism at Waterloo Arts. These Cleveland-based artists are using highly intuitive processes to illustrate the pieces and parts of fictional realms. Elisa Albrecht’s Unearthed series explores the passage of time within a landscape, gathering inspiration from both historical and figurative structures. Working mainly […]
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LIGHT IN DARK: HILARY GENT JUNE 19–SEPTEMBER 5 AT TINNERMAN LOFTS Hilary Gent: “Light on Dark is a new series of paintings, created with latex and enamel Sherwin-Williams house paint. The meditative nature of water that I experience through Lake Erie conjures my personal connection with the lake’s surface, which I translate through the action of pouring and layering paint […]
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As part of the 2025 Pride Celebration, Zygote Press is presenting PINK INK: The Third Biannual Queer Print + Zine Fair. We are thrilled to be partnering with the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland for the first time. This outdoor vendors’ market features artists who specialize in printmaking, book and zine-making, as well as other paper goods. Zygote Press holds […]
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During uncertain and distressing times—times like these—art plays a consequential role. It reflects, shapes and contextualizes what’s happening in the world around us, giving voice to intense and sometimes overwhelming feelings. Equally significant are the ways art also can reveal different, better ways forward. However dire times like these might feel, they’re also changeable—a paradigm we’re often reminded of thanks […]
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Keen on learning about local heritage as a new Clevelander, I took up an invitation from our conservators Beth Edelstein and Colleen Snyder to visit the Rose Iron Works studio in October 2023. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collection of decorative arts, the care of which I had assumed two months prior, includes the Muse with Violin Screen(1930) by […]
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I’m talking to three different artists on three different occasions, but each of them describes their artistry as a kind of unavoidable whirlwind that overtakes them in their respective studios. They are all part of Stormy Weather, an exhibit of their new paintings hanging at HEDGE Gallery from May 14 to June 28, and pose a related question: “What makes […]
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Heights Arts student interns Antonia Casucci and Amia Frazier have curated this year’s Heights Arts student intern exhibition. Titled Visions of the Future, the exhibition is on view May 15 to June 8. The opening is 5 to 8 pm Thursday, May 15. Heights Arts started its high school internship program a decade ago because it seemed a natural way […]
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