Since 1984, the goal of the Westlake-Westshore Arts Council (W-WAC) has been to enhance and broaden cultural life in  the Westshore area through programming that will result in awareness, education, and involvement in the arts. Board  meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the first Monday of the month at Westlake Porter Public Library, 27333 Center Ridge  Road, Westlake. The following programs open the 2012- 2013 year and will […]

Arts Collinwood is in full swing this fall with monthly gallery openings, chamber music concerts, artist talks, screen printing workshops and an after school program in the Nan and Miles H. Kennedy Art Center starting up in October. On view until September 2nd in the Gallery are the exquisitely beautiful paintings of William M. Newhouse. Opening September 14th are works of Ann Hanaran and Coe Lapossy, in An Exercise […]

Expanded media and sculpture dance in a tight embrace through the kaleidoscope of contemporary art. The Sculpture  Center’s forwarding the affair this fall with its always experimental exhibitions and SculptureX symposium at the CIA. The Tragedy of the Commons, a collaboration between Ali Momeni of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Swiss  Robin Meier, uses the closely observed food choices and social behaviors of a living colony of Atta (leaf-cutter) […]

The oldest print club in the United States, the Print Club of Cleveland has educated print collectors and art enthusiasts since 1916. Over the last 96 years the club has remained dedicated to the founders’ purposes of stimulating interest in  fine prints, from old masters through contemporary artists, as well as augmenting the print collection of the Cleveland  Museum of Art. The club has purchased some of the crown […]

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s “Lunch on Fridays” (LOF) provides a nexus point between the Institute’s internal  community and the general public. An ongoing series, LOF programming includes talks, performances, and other events  originating from CIA faculty, alums, visiting artists, and scholars. As a venue, it allows creative thinking and work to be  shared broadly. Jointly sponsored by CIA’s Liberal Arts and Foundation Departments, its events are  always free and […]

For 52 years, the Cleveland Arts Prize has been honoring the very best creative artists in Northeast Ohio. In recent years  CAP has expanded its mission to all include the promotion of those artists. CAP has just announced the artists who will participate in its 2012-2013 series of five “Arts Prize Live” events. These  small group gatherings provide an opportunity for between 20 and 40 people to meet […]

BEAUTY: MEDIA OBSESSIONS, COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS Brandt Gallery’s Fall 2012 season relies upon deliberation and coincidence, as one artist’s documentary obsession with a  longtime local news anchorwoman gives way to a collaborative exploration of commercial constructions of feminine  beauty. DANA DEPEW: THE WILMA SMITH PROJECT, SEPTEMBER 8–OCTOBER 6: Having grown up on a farm in Medina in the 1980s, Dana  Depew essentially grew up with Wilma Smith. Since 1977, Wilma has provided northeast […]

“I am so glad I took my social worker’s advice and came to the Art Therapy Studio. It has helped me in more ways than you can imagine. I have regained used of my hands, and above all, I have learned patience. I look forward to coming to the studio every week!” -Dolores Williams, Art Therapy Studio student. After knee surgery led to hypertension and then a stroke […]

What happens when a new faculty member in the Printmaking Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art decides not  only to think outside the box but also move the class out of the studio into the parking lot? Barbara Chira proposed to Pr int Department head Maggie Denk-Leigh a risky project that became known as “The Big Squeeze,” and after she laid out the plans, timelines and logistics, […]