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CIA Faculty’s Community-focused Projects Have Impact in and out of the Classroom

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s world-renowned faculty are known for the difference they make in the classroom teaching and mentoring future generations of artists and designers. But their work at CIA represents only one facet of their creativity and ingenuity. They’re also highly-accomplished working artists, and their personal practices often involve projects in which community engagement is central. Interaction, connection, […]

A Deep Dive into a Dream

Bellamy Printz

My headlights are the only source of light on the heavily wooded forest road. There is no moon, and I am starting to get nervous about what may—or may not—be in front of me. At one point, I stop the car and get out, engine running. I have stopped only a few feet from a precipice. There is a diving […]

EEPMOA: “Art for Social Development”

EDWARD E. PARKER CREATIVE ARTS COMPLEX

As we settle into 2021, we have a lot to be thankful for. Even with the reduction of programming throughout the arts community, we have been able to remain open for business, our staff has remained healthy, and we are optimistic about what the future holds. In distancing ourselves, we have been given time to reflect on the past, present, […]

Portraitures: Discoveries Through the Canvas Mirror—Framed Presents Annan Affotey and Baba Musah

Framed Gallery Staff

This spring, Framed Gallery extends its international reach, bringing works by two artists of Ghana, West Africa, to Cleveland—on view starting March 5. Francis Annan Affotey While the scenes are often familiar to the millions of Africans whose daily existence reveals the realities of contemporary life and culture, Francis Annan Affotey presents to the world the joys, and sometime secrets, of […]

Karen Beckwith and Amber Ford at HEDGE Gallery

Hilary D. Gent

HEDGE Gallery has been hosting a Printmaking Spotlight exhibition for the past three years. This March, artists Karen Beckwith and Amber Ford will be featured, showing powerful printmaking and photography that portrays the evidence of human existence in our natural surroundings. Beckwith and Ford examine the impressions people leave on their environment, whether it be faded signs, graffiti, or remnants […]

Heights Arts Celebrates Community with Three Exhibitions

Heights Arts Staff

Heights Arts presents its group and accompanying Spotlight exhibitions on Friday, March 19 through Sunday, May 16. Group Show 2021 features work across various mediums, allowing gallery visitors to experience work submitted by local artists and curated by Heights Arts’ Exhibition Community Team. The exhibition features artists Dante Rodriguez, Julie Friedman, Paula Izydorek, Mark Keffer, and Alessandro Ravagnan, with an […]

Art Every Space

Liz Maugans

Art Every Space (AES) has been busy, and we wanted to celebrate our exciting new projects. Our scope is wide and connective, and we are diligently working to support local artists and our clients. We design art-rich experiences in Northeast Ohio, enhancing people’s everyday lives, which is especially important in this isolating pandemic environment. Our services include art advisory, consulting […]

A Shout-out from Art House to Volunteers

Laila Voss

Many words have been used to describe 2020: unprecedented, challenging, tough, exhausting, uncertain, disorienting, depressing, stressful—the list goes on, but I want to use the rest of my allotted word count to talk about something else. Unsolicited, volunteers contacted Art House offering to help in any way that they could. Some were strangers or former interns: others, our teaching artists. […]

Mauersberger and Graham: Screenscapes at ARTneo

ARTneo Staff

ARTneo’s CAN Triennial exhibition prize was awarded to Christine Mauersberger in July 2018. The exhibit opened November 20, 2020, and remains on view this Spring. CAN Journal spoke to Mauersberger when she and collaborator Evan Graham were in the process of creating new work, via screen print. They have recently migrated from printing on paper to printing on wood. The silkscreen prints in […]

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Megan Alves

Supporting local art starts with supporting local artists—all of them. Regardless of their level of critical acclaim or time spent in the professional art world, for artists to flourish they need spaces and exhibitions, which allow them to experiment, cultivate a sense of community, and yes—have their work actually seen. The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve’s (AAWR) Annual Members […]

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