Yards Projects REVEAL Showcase to benefit WEst 117 Foundation

The West 117 Foundation, Inc. was established in 2020 with a mission to provide leadership to Cleveland’s LGBTQ+ community to raise private sector funds, steward the assets received, and make grants in support of entrepreneurship, arts, culture, health and human services, and other relevant programs. From rental subsidies to arts and cultural programming to entrepreneurship and upskilling opportunities, the foundation aims to help […]

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Immmersive Extraction: Not to Be a Debby Downer, But . . .

Note: I met people who thoroughly loved the Immersive van Gogh experience. They really got lost in the atmosphere. And really, whatever you get lost in–whether it’s nature or movies or what have you– if it makes people feel better, fantastic. I resisted telling people who I knew had tickets about my response, so as not to be a Debby […]

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“You Work.” Cleveland Arts Prize Celebrates Accomplishments

Wednesday night at its annual awards ceremony, the Cleveland Arts Prize recognized 9 artists and advocates for their contributions to the arts in Cleveland. It was a joyous occasion, even if–as out-going CAP board chair Howard Freedman noted in comments–“Cleveland Arts Prize has been called “staid.” If the word “ceremony” or anything about this sounds stodgy, though, it might be […]

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Stephen Yusko: The Way Things Go, at the Sculpture Center

The Five-Mile Crib, ironically located about three and a half miles off Lake Erie’s shore, is something on which locals can depend. Every time we open a spigot, the flowing water is in part collected at the crib. Of the four Cleveland-area water intakes, it is the only one that has a visible component. Hence, while freighters and recreational vessels […]

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Lauren Kalman: Flourish, with excerpts from Devices for Filling a Void, at the Sculpture Center

As the name implies, Lauren Kalman’s solo exhibition Flourish with excerpts from Devices for Filling a Void, which is on display in the center’s Euclid Gallery, is divided into two distinct parts. In 2016, Kalman travelled to Germany for a residency at the Jakob Bengel Foundation, a jewelry factory established in 1873. There she found a multitude of the historic stamping […]

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Ron Shelton: A World Wrapped in Plastic

  Our impact on the world around is questioned in Akron Soul Train’s current exhibition, Woven: The Human x Nature Relationship, on view from September 8th through October 23rd, 2021. The exhibition features Ron Shelton and Nicole Condon-Shih. Both artists completed a residency program through the gallery with their use of plastic, tying the two bodies of work together. For […]

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Balbo Searches for A Second Moon at the Morgan

The Moon has captivated people for centuries, as myths pertaining to the celestial body are found in every culture. It continued to capture the imagination of nations during the space race and Moon landings of last century and remains both a scientific, astrological, and artistic point of inspiration. This is the case for Tom Balbo in his exhibition, In Search […]

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Kathy Skerritt, Remembered: Touch All The World

Kathy Skerritt, the Cleveland painter, installation, and mixed media artist, passed away August 28, at age 64, after resisting cancer for eight years. She was my closest art friend over the last five years. The following brief impressions are necessarily personal. Kathy’s luminous personality loomed over the warp and weft of her creative soul and work. She understood: being comes […]

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NATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AT FAVA

  For anyone interested in contemporary fine art photography, it’s well worth a trip to the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) in Oberlin for the biennial juried photo exhibition, selected this year by Barbara Tannenbaum, curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art. On view through October 31, the show brings together works by 30 artists from […]

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