Jim Soppelsa grew up with an appreciation of art and design. Jim’s father, A.J. Soppelsa, a talented Cleveland commercial and fine artist, instilled in his son a love of line, color and shape—and a fascination with what he termed “the abstract.” Graduating from the Cooper School of Art in 1974 with a major in communication design, Jim began his […]
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This exhibition presents the work of four Northeast Ohio women who all have decades of experience in the ceramic arts. The natural world has provided much inspiration for these artists who are moved by the infinite variation in process, form, and color found in nature. Their overlapping interests and differences highlight contemporary developments in regional ceramics. Donna Webb and […]
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The Sullivan Family Gallery at BAYarts will welcome artist Charlotte Lees with Nature Reimaged, a show consisting of multi-discipline work, conceived in Lees’ wooded home environment, that took shape during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using her natural surroundings as a catalyst for her work, the pieces are inspired by the wooded landscape, pond, and wildlife that surround her. The […]
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The Cleveland Print Room presents Dead Wax & Distant Transmissions, featuring 2020 Print Room Peer Show award winners Ilenia Pezzaniti and Christine Zuercher. Ilenia Pezzaniti, a multidisciplinary artist, describes her work in this show as a view into her subjects’ lives during quarantine. “In May of 2020, three months into the lockdown, I gave twelve people living alone one […]
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When someone is murdered, it’s natural to ask why. Rarely are we astonished or perplexed when we read news reports where the motive seems to be love, hate, or money and greed. There are also atrocities by madmen and madwomen as rare and inexplicable as the people committing them. Then there are crimes with motives that read like absurd jokes, […]
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All is well at the Edward Parker Museum of Art. As a difficult year comes to an end, we are focused on what we have to be thankful for. We have experienced a slow but steady increase in visitation, and our class and program participation has grown. Our team is healthy, optimistic and looking forward to next year, with […]
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Since 2001, La Cosecha Galeria has gained a reputation for three things: being aggressively proactive, developing artists, and selling art. As we survey the landscape for the future in the arts community, many artists and arts organizations may not survive, nor will we go back to how things operated previously. The choice becomes simple—either spend our time as artists […]
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When all hope seemed lost and our gallery walls screamed for something new, we were ecstatic to begin our exhibition season this February with Navigation: Lake Erie – Great Lakes, and we’ve continued with the 2019 Artists in Residence exhibition, This Moment. The pandemic put a halt to our operations. Not too long ago our staff were furloughed, we paused […]
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The Sonata #6 Project celebrates the use of geometric abstraction to examine a variety of complex ideas in response to the music of Cleveland composer Ryan Charles Ramer in an art exhibition at Survival Kit in 78th Street Studios. Ten local artists—Amirah Cunningham, Matthew Gallagher, Tiara Grayson, Todd Leech, Katie Mongoven, Kristina Paabus, Judith Salomon, William Martin Jean, and […]
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Tremont resident Garrett Weider has been making art for more than twenty years—and making public spaces more vibrant and unique with his artwork. While Weider has been a Tremont resident for the last decade, he has been coming to Tremont for much longer to display his art throughout the community. Weider said he was drawn to Tremont because of the […]
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