Being an artist/entrepreneur takes much sacrifice and patience. Many times your mind wanders to the perspective of others: staff, artists, colleagues, and the community we reflect and serve. And then life makes things complicated, bringing personal struggles that feed our muse to absorb its blows. When I decided to reformat art shows, not only to survive a pandemic but to […]
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It is not too often that we have a weaving-focused exhibition in our gallery, despite being a textile organization with a focus in weaving. We showcase a diverse range of processes within our medium across our four to six exhibitions per year. Visitors experience works in sculpture, fashion and installation that all have a tie to the field of contemporary […]
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Sometimes visiting a different culture reveals truths about your own, but often it takes a return visit to truly begin to understand your place in the world. That’s the premise behind the service-learning trips led by Katherine Jackson, PhD, associate professor in the graduate Counseling and Art Therapy Department at Ursuline College. Since 2013, she’s brought students, faculty, alumni and […]
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This June will mark the start of the gallery’s third year. In that time, Abattoir has supported work by many young artists and introduced exciting work by nationally-recognized artists to Cleveland’s art lovers. We are proud to support Katie Butler and Max Markwald in our gallery program; they are both young artists who have been selected for the journal New […]
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The Akron Art Museum has an exciting lineup of exhibitions for the spring and summer. Beginning April 9, Reflections on Perception opens in the Judith Bear Isroff and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell galleries. In this exhibition, viewers can explore how artists employ reflection to enhance and complicate their compositions. The works in Reflections on Perceptions show how mirrored surfaces […]
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As Prussian troops prepared to crush the 1849 socialist uprising in Dresden, anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin proposed that paintings from the National Museum be placed in front of the barricades, reasoning that Prussian soldiers wouldn’t dare destroy the works to breach their defenses. Inspired by Bakunin’s never-realized proposal, artist Ahmet Öğüt has created site-specific “barricades” featuring works from museum collections […]
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As a recipient of the NEA Big Read Program award, this project has loomed large on Art House’s calendar. It has broadened our reach. Added to our regular programming, we have collaborated with numerous organizations to hold workshops, discussions, and events. Concurrently, our Urban Bright Arts-in-Education residency keeps growing as more schools request programming. Other agencies also have contacted us […]
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There’s a certain rawness to our region—one forged out of our industrial past and the ensuing decades spent forming and reforming our identity from the rusty pieces left behind. It also fuels our creativity, and perhaps no artistic medium better captures this drive to repurpose and redefine than assemblage. Whether it’s the abundance of source materials or an innate desire […]
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David Hicks draws people. His work is centered on the human figure. By using the figure or portrait in a narrative context, he metaphorically represents aspects of the human experience. The drawings reference history, myth, and pop culture. Hicks advises that the process of layering these symbolic figures and composing relationships between them is a cathartic way for him to […]
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The Time Travelers’ Garden is a group exhibition of the artwork of Dustin Grella, Christopher Hoot, Liz Maugans and Mark Soppeland. Presented at the Beachwood Community Center Art Space, the show will run from June 30 through August 28, with an artists reception from 1 to 2:30 pm on Sunday, July 10. Artists have had a complex relationship with time […]
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