All is well at the Edward Parker Museum of Art. As a difficult year comes to an end, we are focused on what we have to be thankful for. We have experienced a slow but steady increase in visitation, and our class and program participation has grown. Our team is healthy, optimistic and looking forward to next year, with […]
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Since 2001, La Cosecha Galeria has gained a reputation for three things: being aggressively proactive, developing artists, and selling art. As we survey the landscape for the future in the arts community, many artists and arts organizations may not survive, nor will we go back to how things operated previously. The choice becomes simple—either spend our time as artists […]
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When all hope seemed lost and our gallery walls screamed for something new, we were ecstatic to begin our exhibition season this February with Navigation: Lake Erie – Great Lakes, and we’ve continued with the 2019 Artists in Residence exhibition, This Moment. The pandemic put a halt to our operations. Not too long ago our staff were furloughed, we paused […]
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The Sonata #6 Project celebrates the use of geometric abstraction to examine a variety of complex ideas in response to the music of Cleveland composer Ryan Charles Ramer in an art exhibition at Survival Kit in 78th Street Studios. Ten local artists—Amirah Cunningham, Matthew Gallagher, Tiara Grayson, Todd Leech, Katie Mongoven, Kristina Paabus, Judith Salomon, William Martin Jean, and […]
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Tremont resident Garrett Weider has been making art for more than twenty years—and making public spaces more vibrant and unique with his artwork. While Weider has been a Tremont resident for the last decade, he has been coming to Tremont for much longer to display his art throughout the community. Weider said he was drawn to Tremont because of the […]
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During the worst, pre-vaccine days of the COVID-19 pandemic, nature became a place of refuge for many. Walking, hiking, and exploring got people out of their homes and into the fresh air, where they could feel safe breathing, and even talking with friends. This fall, Ursuline College’s Wasmer Gallery will collaborate with the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes to […]
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After eight years of inspired guidance expanding our programming, spearheading the first sanctioned outdoor mural in Chagrin Falls, forging regional partnerships, planning our fiftieth anniversary celebration, and, oh yeah, navigating a pandemic, Mary Ann Breisch is officially retired and off the clock! Although she is leaving, the work of Valley Art Center will continue on course as the VAC […]
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Drawing, painting and sculpting animals has always been a subject for artists throughout history, from the earliest cave paintings, Egyptian artists’ depictions of gods with animal heads, medieval manuscripts with mystical beasts, and nineteenth century Victorian artists creating paintings of their domestic pets. During what scientists are calling the Anthropause, the unprecedented global slowdown of human activity during the […]
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Internationally-renowned sculptor David Deming and son Michael’s eight-piece sculpture depicts continuum of care during pandemic Southwest General Health Center was founded in 1920 by local community residents in response to the Spanish Flu epidemic, which saw more than one in four people worldwide stricken with the disease. Sound familiar? Fast forward one century. At the height of the COVID-19 […]
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Item: Water-logged pages, from the personal journals of Lapine resident Ida Song 14 July 1929 The walls of this room are aglow with all the colors of the rainbow. These colors are, to me, the most nourishing morsels within the content of consciousness. This morning, a hare stopped in the swaying clover and said a prayer to the rainbow: […]
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