A Community Art Installation Is Blooming at Valley Art Center! In celebration of Valley Art Center’s fiftieth anniversary, VAC has engaged internationally-known fiber artist Carol Hummel to wrap the trees in front of its building in a colorful display. Fantastic at Fifty – Valley Art Center’s Anniversary Community Art Project invites volunteers to create crocheted circles which will be joined […]
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Honoring the past while celebrating the present is a hot topic lately at Ursuline College. The liberal arts college in Pepper Pike celebrates its sesquicentennial this year, starting with a show in its Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery, Legacy: The 2021 Ursuline College Staff and Faculty Exhibition. With a range of artwork including photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture, this exhibition showcases […]
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Emerging from a period of global “inaction times” wherein we had all been ordered to shelter in solitude, Anna Chapman and Kristen Newell turn to nature and text to locate themselves in a shared web of renewal. Many of us have found new ways in the past year to negotiate the tension between “action” and “inaction.” We’ve reassessed and […]
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The arts, which have long promoted authenticity and social engagement, have spent the past year bravely extolling their accomplishments in transitioning from direct experience to virtual experience. It is understandable—everyone placed their best foot forward, working with what was possible. Still, as brave as everyone was, it was still life fallen apart. It has been a zombie life—not the […]
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As a general rule, nostalgia in art is frowned upon. It’s a shtick that makes people feel like they should care about your art more than they should, because it’s familiar, and sometimes stagnates as sentimentality. Nostalgia is viewed as an intellectual and aesthetic crutch that prevents cultural artifacts from reflecting their own epochs. With that in mind, we are […]
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Zygote has been closed to the general public; but that hasn’t stopped our team from offering a wide variety of virtual printmaking programs. In addition to two online exhibitions, we have offered group classes, and Pay-What-You-Can Programs featuring printmakers at work, on Zoom. We are also continuing our partnership with the Cuyahoga County Public […]
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On April 6, the Akron Art Museum launched a new exhibition titled Reconsidered: Works from the Collection. The show allows the museum to display works from the permanent collection that have not recently been on view and to create an interactive experience for visitors. Reconsidered was conceived in response to disruptions in shipping and loans from other institutions during the […]
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Thanks to a very unexpected and amazing gift from the George Gund Foundation, Art House has been able to replace the HVAC system, a much-needed upgrade. This award will also help Art House make progress towards our campus vision and work with other neighborhood organizations to find ways to better support each other. In late May, we’re launching our first […]
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LGBTQ history is our history, and the story of the community is the story of our region. Behind the jubilant parades and rainbow flags which blossom on front porches in June is a proud population who work, live, and love in Northeast Ohio, and contribute mightily to its rich visual culture. This August, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve […]
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In 1942, the Museum of Modern Art in New York showcased magic realism in a groundbreaking exhibition titled American Realists and Magic Realists. It featured works by a variety of artists, including Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Cleveland’s own Clarence Carter. In works that were often bizarre and mysterious, sometimes psychologically disturbing, the artists attempted to grapple with the frightening […]
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