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The Morgan Conservatory is the Cleveland spot where you can get your papermaking, book arts, and print fix. This year’s schedule is the best-ever, offering top caliber local and national instructors teaching a wide variety of art forms. Our workshops are designed to educate and inspire novice and professional artists alike. We have some exciting changes in store for 2013. […]

Four classroom spaces have joined the mix at the Screw Factory. The focuses are diverse, from fine craft to mind and body. Each instructor brings years of knowledge and teaching experience to the fold. Alyssa Lee Wilmot has formed the Movement Factory, a community studio that combines fitness, dance, and Pilates with art, and is accessible to a variety of […]

In the modern art movement . . .Cleveland was one of the first American cities to answer the new call, and the group that first saw the light was numerous and able. Louis Rorimer This exhibition examines an art historical process that has never been closely considered: the moment when modern art first blossomed in Cleveland, in the years from […]

I asked my female friends and family to take off their tops for me and pose holding a variety of balls to cover their breasts. Oddly enough, many of them said yes…and here’s why. These chicks really do have balls. And not just the kind it takes to have a little fun and show some skin. They are truly the […]

I rolled and pinched, fashioning the amorphous lump of clay into a smug looking elephant. Like most 7-year-olds, creating an artistic masterpiece came as naturally and unselfconsciously as breathing and eating. When my new friend emerged from the kiln, she was a bit worse for the wear, but nothing a bottle of Elmer’s glue couldn’t fix. Having been raised on […]

Spirit & Matter(May 17 –September 14) presents work that embodies the primal essence of Artistic Creation, the Alchemy of Creating Art. The ethereal, creative Spirit conjures and crystallizes an artwork into the physical realm of Matter through the medium of the Artist. The exhibition focuses on several accomplished regional artists working in mixed media, painting, ceramics and stone sculpture to […]

George Schroeder Of Scenes Opening Reception: June 21, 2013 from 7-10 PM 1point618 Gallery is proud to present works of George Schroeder in Of Scenes. The exhibition brings together a series of non-objective paintings—which investigate materiality, shape, color, form and line–with a series of playful collage works on paper. Schroeder talks about the paintings and the collage pieces as, “what […]

Waterloo Arts’ latest program, Zoetic Walls is a street art project in which artists from around the world will enliven public spaces in Cleveland with new murals.   The first paintings are concentrated in the Waterloo Arts and Entertainment District, in order to create a visual impact and further define our district as an ‘art-space’. We are thrilled to be […]

Something transformational is happening on Cleveland’s Waterloo Road. Over the next year, $5.5 million will be invested to make the streetscape more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly. Investments in a new recreation center, three lakefront parks and restaurateur Alan Glazen’s plan to open multiple restaurants in 2013 make it clear that North Shore Collinwood’s moment of rebirth has officially arrived. Many neighborhood […]

The Dress Says It All July 5 – 31 Curated by Denise Stewart Sullivan Family Gallery A woman’s dress is an extension of herself: another skin. The Dress Says It All is a celebration of women artists, individually responding to the “dress” in form and words. The exhibit originated with the theme of the LBD—the Little Black Dress, that must-have […]