Valley Art Center is dedicated to bringing joy to our community through art. In line with this mission, we are excited to announce a new public art project in celebration of both World Art Day and Earth Day. VAC is partnering with artist Ron Shelton, who creates environmental displays from ordinary objects that are often made of unstainable materials. He […]
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On view in Waterloo Arts’ main gallery through March 25 is I Paint Houses, a site-responsive collection of three-dimensional paintings by Alex Vlasov. Undercutting the art historical weight of the term “painting,” Vlasov’s newest body of work playfully constructs a relationship between raw building materials, fluorescent color, and the everyday as a canvas. Mitered angles of construction lumber halo lively […]
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Sculpting has been a thread through sculptor and ceramicist Kristen Newell’s life beginning with small animals made of Sculpey™ clay. These days, she creates larger than life figures at her studio in the Hildebrandt Artist Collective. Two figures, I know it Isn’t Right (2023) and Point of Contact (2023)—Kristen’s latest works—are of the raw clay body style that she has […]
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The artists in The Infinite Mix filter and play with the absurd in a time and space that seems so damn upside-down and surreal. It is very much like the moment in which Man Ray developed his early artistic approaches during the Dada movement. Shaped by the trauma of World War I and the emergence of a modern media culture, […]
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Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, all of Zygote Press’s 2023 residency programs are fully supported, including our Black, Indigenous and Artists of Color Fellowship—which is now in its fourth cohort. Each BIPOC fellow participates in a ten-week program that gives them the opportunity to learn a variety of printmaking techniques, including silkscreen, etching, lithography, […]
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Complex, photo-based assemblages that are equally beautiful and unsettling—telling stories that can be uncomfortable and transformative—are the thoughtful byproduct of artist Christopher Pekoc’s inventive collage works. Pekoc is widely known for his experimental mixed-media pieces that are often life-sized and incorporate stitching, paint, and polyester film that is sanded, scratched, and coated. Formerly a drawing instructor at Case Western Reserve […]
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Ruddy Roye is a documentary photographer whose editorial clients include the New York Times, Ebony, Essence, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and others. In 2016, TIME Magazine named him the Instagram Photographer of the Year. As a 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellow, he created “When Living is a Protest,” a project documenting how families who have lost family members to […]
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The 2022 FRONT Triennial, titled Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows from a short poem by Langston Hughes, engaged seventy artists and took place in more than twenty non-traditional venues, in addition to eight exhibitions and projects presented in the galleries of presenting partners. A staggering 290 FRONT-related community and educational programs and 170 events organized by FRONT staff were […]
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When the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) went looking for a new president on the heels of Grafton Nunes’ retirement, they found the ultimate candidate in their own house, but Kathryn Heidemann only landed there after a life lived on the world stage. The Detroit native grew up at points across the globe courtesy of her father’s career with Jeep […]
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Aawful Aaron Williams uses a variety of media to get inside your mind and get you to see the world through a different sense. Aawful’s works are included in the group show, The Nexus of Art and Health, curated by Sienna Brown and on view at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in Columbus, October 29 through January 6. He’s […]
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