In 23 years as a curator, Jean Brandt has continually emphasized community-building over any rigid aesthetic criteria. Starting with her contemporaries in the Tremont scene, one can find a series of concentric circles that shows how Brandt envisions “community” in the broadest sense. Her inclusiveness extends to artists who maintain connections to Cleveland even though they presently work elsewhere. Our […]

By the time this article is printed, National Preservation Week (April 21-27) will have already passed. But in the spirit of its sentiment, we at Zygote want to share some exciting news about our 17-year archive. In 1996, the Co-Founders of Zygote Press (Liz Maugans, Bellamy Printz, Joe Sroka and Kelly Novak) wanted to provide affordable facilities for artist-printmakers. Originally […]

This summer at the Cleveland Print Room, you can become a member, develop film, make a pinhole camera, take a plastic camera workshop and show your results in our gallery, join our Social Club, attend a yoga class, or take a class to learn wet plate collodion or cyanotype photo techniques. The Print Room is a multipurpose photography center with […]

“When I am doing art, nothing exists but the work in front to me. I am barely aware of the other people in the room. There is no pain there, and no worries. Only the art.” Margot’s world changed several years ago when she suffered a stroke at age 57. “I became depressed,” she said. “I continued substitute teaching because […]

Two diametrically opposed artistic points of view are showcased in a joint exhibition of paintings in the Cleveland Plain Dealer gallery June 24 through August 24. The artists are Gerald Kramer and Ruth B. Bercaw. Kramer was attracted to abstraction when he commenced his artistic career and shortly found himself working in a totally non-objective mode. His aim was to […]

Ross Chapin’s Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World (Hardcover, 224 pp., Taunton Press, 2011, $30 signed) “introduces an antidote to faceless, place-less sprawl: clustered groups of neighboring houses or apartments gathered around a shared open space — a garden courtyard, a pedestrian street, a series of joined backyards, or a reclaimed alley. They can be […]

The Bonfoey Gallery, the exclusive representative of the work of Joseph O’Sickey, is pleased to present an exhibition of his work,Travels: Provence & Maine. The exhibition will be on view in our street level gallery from June 14 through July 13, 2013. An opening reception with the artist will be held at the gallery Friday, June 14, from 5-8 pm. […]

Join us at the Orange Art Center on Sunday, June 2nd from 3 -5 pm for OAC’s 29th Annual Adult Student Art Exhibition. The opening reception, which is always free and fun, is open to the public with an awards presentation at 3:30pm. Prizes will be awarded to students in a variety of areas, including craft, ceramics, painting and works […]

Are you a clay artist looking for a functional space to work? Did you know that one of Art House’s most popular studio programs is clay? Set-up for both wheel throwing and hand-building, the Art House studio is the perfect space for clay artist of all kinds. Art House Ceramic Studio Clay Technician Billy Ritter has been managing the clay […]