Artist Jordan Wong’s proposal, For Those Who Call Here Home, was awarded one of the Transformative Art Fund grants, which will enable him to design an eye-catching and engaging outdoor community space at the heart of AsiaTown in downtown Cleveland. By the time he and his team of artists throw a debut celebration event at the completion of their TAF […]
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Winner of the 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement is painter and sculptor Mark Howard. Howard’s work is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and is visible in public art around the city. He has exhibited internationally and was included in the Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, 2001. He’s currently represented by HEDGE […]
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“When I moved to Cleveland in 1979 or ’80, the mural program was just an anti-graffiti program, so it wasn’t nearly the murals that they have now,” says Impart 216 lead artist Robin Robinson. She had frequently visited Cleveland as a child of Philadelphia because she had family here. “It was just people painting over the graffiti, making that community […]
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We’re late to this party, but an exhibit recently closed at BAYarts–Erjon Hajnaj: My Light & Shadow—makes us wonder how many highly skilled artists are out there, operating below the radar, actively practicing their craft, either working toward their first shows or just rarely showing their work. Hajnaj was born in Fier, Albania—one of the Balkan countries, directly across the […]
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One of the most dazzling and best-curated exhibitions on view in Northeast Ohio in many years is the exhibition on the Cleveland firm Rose Iron Works currently in view in the Focus Gallery, just off the main entrance of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Organized by the museum’s curator of decorative arts, Ada de Wit, it’s visually outstanding, and also […]
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I walked into Ron Sims II’s current exhibition, Altars x Amplifiers, expecting to see graffiti…and a lot of it. Why, you ask? Well, it’s because that was really all I knew about the man, even though we’ve known each other for 30 years. Let me explain. In a lighthearted tone over dinner this evening, just a few days after the […]
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Nostalgia gets a bad rap. We think of it as sappy, perhaps, a self-indulgent waste of time. But there’s another aspect of reveling in one’s past, of longing for one’s roots: For a person who has left one place for another in search of opportunity, or one who has blood connection to a place they’ve perhaps never known, it’s reconnection […]
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No one goes to an art exhibition expecting to be able to touch the art. But at the 10th International Artist Book Triennial Vilnius, on view at the Morgan Conservatory, it’s necessary to remind people. The reason, of course, is that books are best experienced by turning their pages. Artist books, though, are art, and fragile, and unless otherwise noted […]
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Being lost is an unfinished business, feeling unmoored despite being somewhere specific. Lost is destruction and grief, escape and adventure, terrifying freedom. Lost inspires awe in equal parts breathless amazement and fear in the gut, yet it provides respite from daily life and ordinary identity. Explore all aspects of lost in The YARDS Project’s current show, Let’s Get Lost: an […]
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If you’re like me and spent a large part of the last twenty or so years reading books to children, then you’re going to be familiar with Oliver Jeffers. Jeffers was born in Australia and raised in Northern Ireland. He is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and writer who has sold more than ten million picture books. His books Here We […]
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