Tr. Damaris Punales Alpizar A medida que las elecciones para la alcaldía y el Congreso en Cleveland están más cerca, comienzan a aparecer más y más letreros que promueven a los aspirantes a esos puestos. Este año, además, los letreros añaden competencia visual adicional debido al trabajo de los artistas participantes en el proyecto “Una señal de estos tiempos”, patrocinado […]
Read more
Tr. Damaris Punales Alpizar Era un miércoles de julio. Ana Quiroz estaba en su segunda semana de trabajo con estudiantes de la Academia para Recién Llegados Thomas Jefferson. El salón estaba repleto con las voces de los casi 25 chicos de escuela secundaria; la mayoría de ellos hablaban en español, aunque otras lenguas podían también escucharse. Quiroz les pidió […]
Read more
On a Wednesday in July, Anna Quiroz was in her second week with students of Thomas Jefferson Newcomers Academy. The room was filled with the chatter of about 25 middle schoolers, mostly speaking Spanish, but several other languages too. Quiroz had them working on memory atlases, collaging their own drawings with paper mache casts made on plasticine forms, and other […]
Read more
When you walk past Praxis Fiber Workshop’s front windows in the Waterloo Arts District, you’ll see bright blue child-size body bags mounted elegantly on the walls. If that’s not enough to pique your curiosity about this community-based studio space and gallery, I don’t know what is. Praxis owes this not-quite-living enticement into their space to their current gallery exhibition, AMALA: […]
Read more
Myoyoung Kim remembers that she first saw the term “info-graphic” in an article in The New York Times in 2001. It caught her eye because it perfectly described something she had been doing on her own, as a way of communicating research data while she pursued her BA at the Korea National University of Arts. Myoyoung was studying Interaction Design, […]
Read more
The Galleries at CSU are pleased to present a number of significant exhibitions this winter season. Shows open with a gallery conversation with artists and curators at 4pm followed by a reception from 5 to 8pm on the first day of the exhibition. The first four exhibitions run through December 9 and focus on abstraction. Dark Pronoun, paintings by Mark […]
Read more
In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other. – José Martí, Cuban national hero Sometimes, the imaginable is so deeply entrenched and taken for granted that when the unimaginable finally does occur, it almost seemed inevitable. A week before Christmas in 2014, two sovereign presidents, each in televised fanfare from […]
Read more
Cuba is not on the list of countries from which the current US administration has banned travel. However the relationship between the island nation and the US is dominated by our partisan politics. And there are whole lot of people with families, jobs, and other professional relationships on both sides of that border who even now are awaiting news about […]
Read more
Capping Loreto Greve’s three month-long artist residency at Cleveland Print Room as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s ongoing Creative Fusion Program, Tiempo Fragmentado is an exhibit of photographs, photograms, drawings and prints, all produced during Greve’s stay here. Photographs were processed on site at the Print Room, several lithographs were made under the direction of Karen Beckwith at the Cleveland […]
Read more
Fall 2016 Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Artist Ananda Nahu is just a few weeks away from completing the largest mural in the state of Ohio. Located in the Lakeview Terrace Estates at the West 28th Street on ramp, the vibrant mural draws inspiration from youth who live in the community and participate in Cleveland Public Theatre‘s Brick City Theatre program. […]
Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.