David Randall first took pottery lessons at VAC as a little kid in the ’70s. His mother signed him up for two weekend watercolor workshops in 1980, first with Clarence Perkins, and then with Fred Leach, both renowned painters. David reminisces, “I remember it being really different and fun at fourteen! I was in a room full of adults. I […]
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Untold Stories: The Forgotten Underclass in Rust Belt Urban Renewal is an exhibition of Mahoning Valley native and Los Angeles based new-genre artist Jennifer Vanderpool. The exhibition narrative identifies outmoded imagery of blighted “Rust Belt” cities and employs them as allegories to evoke questions about neighborhood decay and gentrification, segregation and integrated cities, generations of unemployment and economic redevelopment. […]
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Here is the story of an unconventional art gallery that took more than 25 years to develop and open in the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. In the early ’90s I was hired by Forest City to develop an art and technology exhibit at Tower City in the old Barney’s space. I worked with Richard Humphrey from New York to […]
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The 2019 spring season at Harris Stanton Gallery begins with Rhythm in Repetition: New Works by Kate Snow and Terry Klausman, which opens on March 21 at our Akron gallery location. Subsequently, our Cleveland gallery location will host the 26th Annual ART-tini Auction, April 11 through April 18. Cleveland-based artist Kate Snow studied printmaking and design at Zygote Press for […]
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Opening March 8 in the Heights Arts group exhibition space is a show that could be titled Playing. The artists in SIDEWAYS THINKING—Leslye Discont Arian, Catherine Butler, Julianne Edberg, Laurie Garrett, Jenny Mendes, and Melissa O’Grady—take us to alternate, more fantastic worlds. Guest curator Julianne Edberg says, “When we play, we let loose the inspired part of our mind to […]
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Jack Bialosky may be an architect by training, but he’s an artist by inclination. “I’ve been drawing and sketching since I was three,” says the patrician-looking 93-year-old. “I always knew I wanted to do that.” As an architect, Jack founded the award-winning Bialosky and Partners in 1951. His son, Jack Jr., took over the reins nearly thirty years ago. Thus […]
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Fabrications March 1–31 Reception 6:00 to 9:00pm Friday, March 1 Framed Gallery presents Carolyn Crump and The Storytellers: African American Quilt and Doll Guild, on view from March 1 through March 31. There will be a public opening reception Friday, March 1, from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The exhibition features Carolyn Crump, a world-renowned visual narrative artist and quilter. She captures […]
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Join HEDGE Gallery on Friday, March 15, as we reveal a new exhibition of Italian printmaker Claudio Orso-Giacone’s extensive portfolio of woodcuts and whimsical ceramic sculptures. Relief Therapy will be on view March 8 through April 5, with an opening reception Friday, March 15, 5:00 until 9:00pm. Art in itself has proven healing qualities, and in Claudio’s case he states […]
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Since I am new to this platform let me introduce myself and my non-profit organization, Kings & Queens of Art: Greetings, I am a native Clevelander, a multimedia artist of African descent, and I am a Community Activist. As a champion for myself and other marginalized artists I think of myself as the “Harriet Tubman of Artists” in Cleveland. As […]
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In December of 2018, Dayz Whun, Sano and myself (mr.soul), members of the art collective CST (Cleveland Skribe Tribe) completed a sixty-foot-by-nine-foot mural for Cuyahoga Community College’s new Metro Campus Center. This was a glorious canvas, and it was imperative for us to show up and show out. Before executing a sketch, we spent about six to nine hours in […]
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