Maria Neil: Welcome Back, Vivien

  Vivien Abrams Collens, a Hudson Valley-based artist, returns to her native Cleveland with new work at Maria Neil Art Project. The exhibition explores dualities found in both her work and her life. Collens finds that she faces what has until recently been a distinctly female predicament. In the 1970s, she established her artistic career in Cleveland as Vivien Abrams. […]

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Waterloo Arts Adds Staff, Invests in the Future

It’s been a year of existential crisis and lumbering forward. Waterloo Arts has decided to lean in by adding staff as an investment in the future. New part-time Gallery Manager Kayli Salzano oversees gallery communications, logistics, and marketing, and she’s organizing a gallery committee to guide curatorial decisions and gallery programs. Salzano says, “I’m excited to carve out space for […]

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Meet Jackie Feldman: Zygote’s New Executive Director

Interview by Zygote Press Senior Program Manager Brittany M. Hudak Jackie Feldman joined the team at Zygote Press in February 2021. Before working at Zygote, most of her professional career was focused on bringing services to low income and marginalized communities through local organizations such as the Jewish Community Center, Council Gardens, and Cuyahoga Community College. In the short time […]

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The Power of And: Daniel Levin’s Violins and Hope

Sometimes an otherwise inconsequential word has major impact, and that is the case in the title of photographer Daniel Levin’s new book, Violins and Hope: From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall.  The title refers to a collection of violins that survived the Holocaust, and were restored to their best playable condition by the Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein. Levin’s choice to […]

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James March: Blending Logic with Emotion

The emotionally expressive brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism collide with the programmatic hard-edged lines of Op art in James March: Op Expressionism (at BAYarts thrugh August 7). Together, the two modes of painting balance internal and external perceptions of the artist’s psyche, each creating a dynamic energy of their own. Used together, March brings order to chaos and conflict to structure. […]

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Like a Prophecy: Private Lives of the Nabis

At the time of its conception more than five years ago, no one could have conceived the ways the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibit Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis would coincidentally connect to contemporary experience in 2021. Private Lives gathers paintings and prints from a group of late 19th-century artists in Paris. Members of […]

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Themes and Multitudes: Cleveland Photo Fest

Having opened the first Cleveland Photo Fest Photothon in October 2019, just 9 months after conceiving it, founders Herb Ascherman, Laura DelAssandro and Jim Szudy immediately began to look ahead to a second series of exhibits the following year. Plans were interrupted by the Pandemic. As anyone who plans periodic events knows now, a forced hiatus can be either a […]

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