5(1) Spring 2016 Archives - Page 2 of 5 - Collective Arts Network

Creative Fusion: East Meets West: a Potentially Transformational Moment / Lee Ming-Cheng / Taipei, Taiwan / Verb Ballets

Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, established in 1973, is widely considered the island’s premier dance company. The company has garnered its reputation due in no small part to the company’s founder, Lin Hwai-Min, who champions a hybrid dance of classical western modern technique and eastern movements that find their origins in the martial art of Tai Chi. It is […]

Creative Fusion Outcomes: MENG-HSUAN WU, Taiwan

Author: Brittany M. Hudak

Meng-Hsuan Wu came to Cleveland for a Creative Fusion residency at the Rainey Institute in Fall 2013. Her project—designed to engage visually impaired people in partnership with the Cleveland Sight Center– was to build an indoor pond, fill it with goldfish, and invite participants to allow the fish to nibble at their bare feet, recording their comments in the process. […]

Creative Fusion: With Breathlessly Clever Solidarity / Blessing Ngobeni / Tzaneen, South Africa / Cleveland Print Room

Author: Bruce Checefsky

Blessing Ngobeni is a South African Artist from Tzaneen. He comes to Cleveland this Spring, hosted by the Cleveland Print Room–a community darkroom that engages the public through analog photography. During his Creative Fusion residency, using the Cleveland Print Room as a base, Ngobeni will be working with students in the painting and drawing departments at Cleveland State University and […]

Creative Fusion: No Limit, but a Multiplicity of Possibilities / Jia-Hua “DuDu Zhan / Hsinchu City, Taiwan / Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Author: Andrea Levy

Taiwanese installation artist and digital engineer, Jia-Hua Zhan will arrive on her first visit to the United States with an extensive and captivating portfolio full of free-thinking constructions, 3-D interactive inventions, participatory collage, as well as virtual body movement installations. She will import a dynamic crusade for social engagement, both virtual and spiritual. Of digital space, Jia-Hua Zhan offers, ”there […]

CREATIVE FUSION: Global Artists at Home in Cleveland

Author: Lillian Kuri

In 2008, The Cleveland Foundation created an unprecedented international artist residency program that has brought more than 70 foreign artists to Cleveland. Each year, Creative Fusion brings approximately a dozen accomplished or rapidly rising artists from underrepresented cultures to Cleveland. Each is hosted by a local cultural institution during two, three-month residency periods which take place in spring (March-May) and […]

Popeye Explores Eternal Return and Monsters

Author: Josh Usmani

Eternal Return March 18 – April 15, 2016 Michael Meier and Christian Michael Mickovic both earned BFAs from the Cleveland Institute of Art—Meier in Drawing / painting in 2010, and Mickovic in Painting / drawing in 2012. Both also earned MFA degrees—Meier from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis in 2012, […]

Art Therapy Studio: Creating Art for Wellness’ Sake

Author: Graham Shippy

Marc focuses on careful, calculated brushstrokes. With delicate hand movements, Kat molds a clay sculpture. Bill is putting the finishing touches on a week-long collage project. No matter the medium, the goal of their artwork isn’t to be sold; the goal is to heal. To grow mentally and physically. To communicate feelings that cannot be expressed through words. To […]

ARTneo presents Fundamental Gestures: Figures from Life

Author: Christopher L. Richards

Drawing from observation, artists have for centuries used figures to create everything from studies and sketches, to completed works of art. Fundamental Gestures: Figures From Life looks at drawings by some of Cleveland’s most prominent artists and how each one captures the human form. The works explore different approaches to looking at and building up the figure on paper. In […]

NOIS to be Drawn & Quartered

Author: Karen Sandstrom

The room is always crowded and loud, the distractions plentiful. But when teams of artists hunker down to compete in Cleveland’s annual live drawing competition, the concentration gets fierce and the results are — well, perhaps better than you might expect. Welcome to Drawn & Quartered, the eight-year-old annual event started by artists Deb Steytler and Juan Quirarte of the […]

Orange Art Center: Return of the Snowbirds

Author: Deborah Pinter

The energy at the Orange Art Center this spring is off the charts. The snowbirds are back and the staff has diligently been working to provide a smooth transition as the OAC and the Orange Community Education & Recreation Department merge. We are happy to announce that most of our veteran instructors will return to provide the quality of classes […]

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