Category: Articles

This summer at the Cleveland Print Room, you can become a member, develop film, make a pinhole camera, join our Social Club, take a class to learn wet plate collodion or cyanotype photo techniques, take a plastic camera or photogram workshop and show your work in our gallery. Our multipurpose photography center has something for everyone.   In its first […]

  For almost half a century, the Cleveland Arts Prize honored the city’s artists one at a time in an annual ceremony. But on May 2nd the venerable organization’s interim director Alenka Banco announced the names of no less than nine honorees for 2014. The artist/winners are spread over five disciplines, and all receive a monetary award that has grown […]

Most of us started creating art in our parents’ basement, in our bedroom, or maybe on the dining room table if there was a dining room. So actually to have a studio is within itself a dream come true–let alone to have a community of artists and their studios!   On any floor of the building that’s home to the […]

“Fluxus: a loose international group of artists, poets, and musicians whose only shared impulse was to integrate life into art through the use of found events, sounds, and materials, thereby bringing about social and economic change in the art world.”—Encyclopedia Britannica A surprise gift is arriving in the mailboxes of thought leaders throughout Ohio. Engaging, visually arresting, tactile, and full […]

Summertime and Lincoln Park have gone hand-in-hand since July 4, 1880, when the park was first opened to the public. The Independence Day celebration included a barbeque and remarks by numerous local dignitaries. More than a century later, after Tremont Art Walkers braved months of 2014’s fierce winter, their patience will be rewarded as the arts in Tremont head for […]

  The Bonfoey Gallery will be exhibiting the paintings of George Kozman, Thomas McNickle, Stephen Pentak, Robert Roth, John Sargent and Kim Zarney. The exhibition, Altered Scapes, will be on view in our street and lower level galleries from May 9 to June 7, 2014.  Works in the exhibition vary as much as the artists themselves. Beginning with the landscape […]

Summer 2014 is packed with events at BAYarts,including the annual Art and Music Festival. Here’s what’s coming up in our galleries and on our stage.   June 6 – 30 A Place for Everything: Craig Mains Photography Noticing associations and messages, intended, unintended, misread. Preston Buchtel, curator. Information at craigmains.com.   June 6 – 30 Collectors Show Friends of BAYarts […]

“I can’t draw a straight line!” “A child could do better.” “I am not an artist.” As an art therapist, I hear these unfortunate phrases uttered by adults whose judgmental attitudes hold them back from deeply creative experiences. Sometimes our biggest disability is the inner critic. In the Art Therapy Studio, however, we find crafty ways of pushing past blocks, […]

Interview with new St. Clair-Superior resident Jessica Newell  ArtSpace Cleveland: Where did you live before moving here? Jessica Newell: Before moving to Cleveland, I was biking from Cleveland Heights to my teaching job at Cleveland State.   AC: Why choose a live/work space in Cleveland? JN:I decided to move to Tower Press to be closer to CSU and to be surrounded […]

  As part of Art House’s mission, we strive to make art accessible to children and adults throughout Cleveland. Art House outreach programs have been a part of several unique projects around the city, including a partnership with Literary Lots, a free, two-week, open camp in Ohio City.   The brainchild of Kauser Razvi, Literary Lots brings the power of […]