Valley Art Center is thrilled to announce the return of Art by the Falls 2025, and this year’s festival promises to be the biggest and most exciting yet! Celebrating its 41st year, this beloved outdoor fine-arts and contemporary-crafts festival will once again take place at the beautiful Cleveland Metroparks Polo Field in Chagrin Falls on June 7 and 8. After […]
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by Imani Badillo This summer, Elisa Albrecht and Steven Mastroianni are transporting visitors into a world of surrealism at Waterloo Arts. These Cleveland-based artists are using highly intuitive processes to illustrate the pieces and parts of fictional realms. Elisa Albrecht’s Unearthed series explores the passage of time within a landscape, gathering inspiration from both historical and figurative structures. Working mainly […]
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LIGHT IN DARK: HILARY GENT JUNE 19–SEPTEMBER 5 AT TINNERMAN LOFTS Hilary Gent: “Light on Dark is a new series of paintings, created with latex and enamel Sherwin-Williams house paint. The meditative nature of water that I experience through Lake Erie conjures my personal connection with the lake’s surface, which I translate through the action of pouring and layering paint […]
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As part of the 2025 Pride Celebration, Zygote Press is presenting PINK INK: The Third Biannual Queer Print + Zine Fair. We are thrilled to be partnering with the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland for the first time. This outdoor vendors’ market features artists who specialize in printmaking, book and zine-making, as well as other paper goods. Zygote Press holds […]
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During uncertain and distressing times—times like these—art plays a consequential role. It reflects, shapes and contextualizes what’s happening in the world around us, giving voice to intense and sometimes overwhelming feelings. Equally significant are the ways art also can reveal different, better ways forward. However dire times like these might feel, they’re also changeable—a paradigm we’re often reminded of thanks […]
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Keen on learning about local heritage as a new Clevelander, I took up an invitation from our conservators Beth Edelstein and Colleen Snyder to visit the Rose Iron Works studio in October 2023. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collection of decorative arts, the care of which I had assumed two months prior, includes the Muse with Violin Screen(1930) by […]
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I’m talking to three different artists on three different occasions, but each of them describes their artistry as a kind of unavoidable whirlwind that overtakes them in their respective studios. They are all part of Stormy Weather, an exhibit of their new paintings hanging at HEDGE Gallery from May 14 to June 28, and pose a related question: “What makes […]
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Heights Arts student interns Antonia Casucci and Amia Frazier have curated this year’s Heights Arts student intern exhibition. Titled Visions of the Future, the exhibition is on view May 15 to June 8. The opening is 5 to 8 pm Thursday, May 15. Heights Arts started its high school internship program a decade ago because it seemed a natural way […]
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The interplay between shifting light and color sets the tone for Bonnie Dolin’s vibrant and often whimsical paintings and mixed-media pieces. Her approach involves “intuitive painting”—no prescribed plan, yet a framework inspired by structures or scenes in the natural world. “A lot of the forms I use are abstract, but they relate back to flowers or animals or buildings like […]
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by Max McMillen Unidos por el Arte is an initiative by Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center (JDBCAC) designed to uplift and support Latino artists of all disciplines and stages across Northeast Ohio. Through this program, we provide developmental opportunities, collaborative spaces, essential resources and more to help artists grow in their creative careers. One artist who found her voice […]
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