Exploring Other Worlds: This Summer at Waterloo Arts

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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Tinnerman Lofts and YARDS Projects

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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CIA 2025 Alumni Exhibition Explores Present Moment, Seeks New Paths Forward

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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Rose Iron Works Exhibition Explores Cleveland’s Art Deco History at the Cleveland Museum of Art

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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Converging Storm Systems: The Art of Douglas Max Utter, Justin Brennan, and Clay Parker, at HEDGE

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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Bonnie Dolin’s Paintings on Display at Judson Park’s Galleries

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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Uplifting Local Latino Artists

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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