In these tenuous times, making art has become an altogether strange activity. I’m making small silk sculptures around rocks and sticks, as well as mixed media paintings/drawings, all largely influenced by the shores of Lake Erie: its geological formations, its flora and fauna, its water and light. These natural elements seem to share with our contemporary moment the quality of […]
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Over the years, we have represented the works of artists from many ethnicities and orientations. Our goal is to present fine quality work regardless of an artist’s background or professional training. We review the work of many artists throughout the year looking to maintain this quality level. However, this benchmark does present an encumbrance to our ability to always maintain […]
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The work of BIPOC—Black, Indigenous, and People of Color—artists in the last century has reflected the struggle of Native Americans and Black Americans to receive the legal protections, rights, and privileges afforded to white Americans. This has been seen most notably throughout the last century in the form of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the Civil Rights Movement of […]
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T ITLE TB D at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery was scheduled for spring but postponed due to COVID-19. The exhibition is now on view, and information about how to see the artwork is available at cia.edu/exhibitions. The show examines the artist’s life in 2020 and features work by ADMIN, Adult Kindergarten, Thomas Barger, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, GenderFail, Jeff Kasper, […]
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Cleveland Print Room has been building our online, remote-learning offerings for students since going into shutdown mode this past March. Our Mimicking the Masters series features short videos on ten photographers from Teenie Harris and Lorna Simpson to William Eggleston and Sophie Calle, presented in partnership with Tri-C’s Creative Arts Academy. Teen Institute youth are engaged in weekly CPR Photobox […]
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Deep Roots Experience is a gallery devoted to creating the space for Black and Brown people to be celebrated in artistic expression. That celebration happens in the form of exhibitions, education, and classes for youth and young people. The gallery exists as an extension of Higher Art Life, a nonprofit organization devoted to the education of teens and young people […]
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Navigating through the ever-changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge. The usual “more the merrier” sentiment has shifted drastically. Since arts programming is created for public consumption, it is difficult to limit the number of attendees, adjust operational norms, adhere to social-distancing requirements and provide a comparable experience while wearing personal protective gear. September is the month […]
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It’s hard to believe we opened eight years ago! So much has happened in the last year—So much. This fall things are understandably a tad different at the studio. Many of the region’s in-person local-artist sales are cancelled this year, but our artist gallery is OPEN again. Featuring over twenty of your favorite local artists from across Northeast Ohio, a […]
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the tastefully displayed works of art adorning the walls of Framed Gallery must be worthy of a thought-provoking conversation. For more than a year, the English language adage about the fact that multiple ideas that can be conveyed by a single image (“a picture is worth a thousand words”) has brought […]
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In an attempt to escape what he describes as the “Trump Nightmare,” Scott Kraynak visited Ecuador in the winter of 2019. He intended to explore the incredible nature, watch and hear the astounding array of birds, witness firsthand the beautiful art created by Ecuadorian masters, experience the culture, taste the food and simply spend a little part of his life in […]
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