EVENTS Spring 2020
Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios and museums in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN.
Matthew Gallagher, Growth Mantra (detail), encaustic on panel 30 x 30 inches, 2019. Gallagher is featured in a solo show April 17 – June 5 at HEDGE Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist and HEDGE Gallery.
THROUGH MARCH 14
7th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Triennial
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
THROUGH MARCH 15
The Distance of the Moon
AKRON ART MUSEUM
THROUGH MARCH 17
Celebrate Women’s History Month—From WOMAN XIII…created by women, for women and about women. Curated by Mary Urbas.
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND
THROUGH MARCH 22
AMALA: She Could Not Stay (in Their Black Bodies)
“This work examines the relationship between loss, displacement, relocation and the cost of accumulated histories on black gendered bodies that birth,” says Cleveland visual artist/writer/educator M. Carmen Lane about her new show. The mixed-media installation uses FEMA body bags to suggest the dual role of water as a womb and a tomb; it explores loss and dislocation, and confronts the legacy of slavery in influencing such outcomes as minority infant mortality.
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP
THROUGH MARCH 22
Fuse: New Works by Deb Pinter
MASSILLON MUSEUM
THROUGH MARCH 28
The Me I Seldom Share, a Portrait Project by Don Parsisson
ARTISTS OF THE RUBBER CITY BOX GALLERY
THROUGH MARCH 30
Work by new faculty member E.J. Bocian III
ORANGE ART CENTER
THROUGH MARCH 31
Evita Tezeno: Whimsy
FRAMED
THROUGH APRIL 2
Women in Conversation: Work by Gail Crum, Jill Milenski and Gayle Pritchard
Closing reception 4-7 pm Thursday, April 2
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER ART GALLERY
THROUGH APRIL 3
John W. Carlson: Blues: New Paintings, with photography by Shari Wilkins
HEDGE GALLERY
THROUGH APRIL 4
Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes
ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH APRIL 5
Creative Roots: Celebrating Ohio Through the CMA Collection
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH APRIL 11
Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea, and Sky
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
THROUGH APRIL 12
Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet
For photographers who worked in the era of film and negatives, this exhibit will be a nostalgic journey back to the time when contact sheets provided them with a tool to see all their exposures laid out so they could pick out the winning shots. For nonphotographers, this exhibit of almost 200 contact sheets and finished prints is heavy on celebrity photographers such as Irving Penn, Philippe Halsman and Richard Avedon, giving viewers some insight into what it took to get that iconic image of Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dali or Groucho Marx.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH APRIL 12
Table for Two
CONVENTION CENTER GALLERY
THROUGH APRIL 15
The Garden of Old Age
Poetry by Nina Gibans, photography of Shaker Lakes by Abby Star
GEORGE S. STREETER GALLERY @ JUDSON PARK
THROUGH APRIL 16
Human Figure exhibition and art sale
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
THROUGH APRIL 18
Trade Marks II
Co-hosted by Worthington Yards residents Geno Apollonaire & Trevor Yasinow
WORTHINGTON YARDS
THROUGH APRIL 19
Members Show 2020
HEIGHTS ARTS
THROUGH APRIL 20
Bellamy Printz: Time Elastic monoprints
FOOTHILL GALLERY OF THE PHOTO SUCCESSION
THROUGH APRIL 24
Submissions accepted March 1-April 24
The Sixth Annual Peer Show juried exhibition
Show dates June 5-July 18
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
THROUGH APRIL 30
International Artist Residence: Alberto Daniel Zamora Bravo
Aguafuerte Taller, Santiago de Chile
ZYGOTE PRESS
THROUGH MAY 1
Community: Together We Can: 2nd Women’s History Month Student Art Showcase
URSULINE COLLEGE WASMER GALLERY
THROUGH MAY 17
Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is.
San Francisco-based Margaret Kilgallen was trained as a printmaker. She combined influences ranging from graffiti to southwest American folk art, with a strong interest in lettering and signs, in her mixed-media pieces, which have a deliberately rough-edged handcrafted quality. Kilgallen passed away from breast cancer in 2001 at age 33 just as her work was starting to attract attention. MoCa’s chief curator Courtenay Finn came to the institution in late 2018 from the Aspen Art Museum where she created this show. It features pieces from West Coast institutions and previously unseen works from Kilgallen’s estate.
MOCA CLEVELAND
THROUGH MAY 17
Signal Noise: Aaron Rothman
TRANSFORMER STATION
THROUGH MAY 17
Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom
MOCA CLEVELAND
THROUGH MAY 24
Afterlives of the Black Atlantic
Works by artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas explore impacts of the Atlantic slave trade and its unresolved legacies.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH MAY 24
Elias Sime: Tightrope
AKRON ART MUSEUM
THROUGH JUNE 14
Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH JUNE 14
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH JUNE 28
Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH JULY 12
Boredom Aesthetics: The Early Videos of Zhang Peili
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH JULY 19
The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection
Glimpse into a different world where the everyday object became something magical in the hands of artisans working in gold, ivory, jade, and cloisonné.
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH JULY 26
Golden Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH JULY 26
Monkeys, Apes, and Mr. Freer
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
THROUGH AUGUST 2
Ana Mendieta: Ochún
Legendary, groundbreaking Cuban-American artist Mendieta was one of the few women working adjacent to the macho conceptual/land art scene of the ’60s & ’70s. She brought a distinctly womanly viewpoint to that work, which drew on video and performance art to center the female body and its concerns. The 1981 video Ochún is one of a series which used organic materials to suggest the female form; in addition, Ochún is dominated by water imagery to evoke a link between her native country and her adopted one.
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH AUGUST 9
Objects to Be Destroyed
AKRON ART MUSEUM
THROUGH AUGUST 20
A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 6
Laura Owens: Rerun
TRANSFORMER STATION
JoAnn: Months
MARCH
6
CAN Journal Spring Issue Launch Party
6-8 pm
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
6
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Members Show 2020
Reception 6-9 pm
Through April 19
HEIGHTS ARTS
10
Human Figure Exhibition & Art Sale
Through April 16
CUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER
13
Andy Sweet’s Shtetl in the Sun
In the ’70s, before money and gentrification, Miami’s South Beach was a refuge for elderly Jews from the north, many of them Holocaust survivors. That culture was captured by documentary street photographer Andy Sweet, a Miami native who began the project in 1977. He intended to work on it for the next decade, but he was murdered in 1982, and his negatives were lost—and later found by his family and restored. Many of his images, which—unusual for the era—were in color, became the 2019 book Shtetl in the Sun. This show features a selection of those photos.
Opening reception 5-8 pm March 12
Through April 17
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
13
Walkabout Tremont
6-10 pm
TREMONT
Note to JoAnn: in the following title, there is an underlined space between loci and toward–if you can.
13
Exhibition: Genius loci toward understanding of place
Tressa Jones and Arron Foster
Reception 6-8 pm
Curator Talk 6:30 pm
Through April 17
ZYGOTE PRESS
14
ABC Chili Cook-Off
1-4 pm
ART HOUSE
18
The City of Hope documentary screening
5-8 pm
Doors open at 5 pm; event starts at 6 pm
TRI-C METRO CAMPUS MCC 201
20
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78TH STREET STUDIOS
Oppositions: The Secessionists vs. The Cleveland Society of Artists
Through May 15
20
ARTNEO
Spotlight: Stephen Calhoun
Reception 6-9 pm
Through May 3
HEIGHTS ARTS
20
Intimate Regard
Reception March 20
Through April 29
VALLEY ART CENTER
21
Encore: Act 2
7-10 pm
BAYARTS
21
Art/Ventures Studio Talk and Tour
Meet at Worthington Yards for a talk with Bob Peck, who started out as a graffiti artist before expanding into DJing, painting murals, doing art workshops for kids, and showing his street-inspired painting in galleries. He works with the nonprofit Graffiti HeArt, founded in 2013 to find opportunities, such as commissions and scholarships, for street artists. The second stop of the morning will be at Graffiti HeArt’s new permanent space at 4829 St. Clair Avenue to meet founder Stamy Paul, learn more about Peck’s work and see some of the other work being done by area graffiti-based artists.
10 am
WORTHINGTON YARDS
22
Celebrate Women’s History Month: From WOMAN XIII … Created by Women, for Women and About Women. Curated by Mary Urbas.
Artist reception 3:30-5 pm
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND
25
Stark County High School Exhibit
Through April 5
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
26
T ITL E TB D
Reception 6-8 pm March 26
Workshop 12:15pm March 27
Through June 12
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
27
Members Exhibition
Campus-Wide Opening Reception: 5:30-8 pm March 27
Closing Reception & Awards Ceremony: 6:30-7:30 pm May 1
27
National Juried Exhibition
Reception 6-9 pm
Through April 25
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
27
Chelsea A! Flowers: Laughing Out Loudly
Detroit artist Flowers’ work uses a variety of strategies that draw on installation, video and performance art, including comedic troupes, physical play, nostalgic memorabilia and participatory performance to explore issues of popular culture, race, politics and personal insecurity. Her topics range from how the policies of Ronald Reagan still affect us today to finding her own place in the art world as a young, black, art school graduate. This exhibit centers on the uses of laughter. She says, “Laughter is bodily, visceral, reactionary. It’s the final cop-out. In these stream of conscious conversations I let go of my laughter.”
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through May 22
THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES
27
Emily Duke: Careless Water
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through May 22
THE SCULPTURE CENTER GALLERIES
28
The Kids Are Alright
Through August 9
AKRON ART MUSEUM
JoAnn: APRIL
3
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
3
Tiffani Glenn: Femininality
Reception 6 pm
FRAMED
3
Dale Roberts Encaustic Demo and Talk
6-8 pm
VALLEY ART CENTER
4
Works of John Saile
818 STUDIOS
4
Cut Up/Cut Out
Some 50 artists from across the country and around the world (Mexico, Canada, France, the UK, Australia, South Africa, Finland), who cut and pierce their materials to create their work, are represented in this travelling show. Expanding the ancient art of paper cutting, they also work in plastic, rubber and metal, transforming their media through the painstaking and time-consuming process of removal to create patterns, designs and three-dimensional shapes.
Through August 23
MASSILLON MUSEUM
5
Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Artist Reception and Awards Ceremony 7-9 pm April 9
Awards presented at 7:30 pm; reception to follow
Through April 29
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
5
Peg & Deb: Two Divorced Moms Take On Art!
1 pm
Local celebrity divorcées Deb & Peg (performance artists Marcia Custer & Ben Oblivion) lead a guided tour of the National Juried Exhibition. Mimosas included!
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
9
LCCC Student Art Exhibit
Artists reception 5-7 pm
Through May 7
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER ART GALLERY
10
Walkabout Tremont
6-10 pm
TREMONT
10
Coming Home: Drawings and Sculpture by Terry Klausman
Reception 5 pm
Through May 9
ARTISTS OF THE RUBBER CITY BOX GALLERY
10
Regional Juried Show presented by Artists of the Rubber City
Reception 5-8 pm
Through May 9
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
10
David King: Time Travel
Painter David King’s work features vivid, unnatural fluorescent colors, odd croppings, unusual arrangements of pictorial elements and seemingly random splashes of paint to cause viewers to look at the typical family snapshots we’re all familiar with in a different way, suggesting new ways to interpret those nostalgic scenes. There’s something a little off in most of his paintings, with characters lost in their landscapes, seeming about to disintegrate or engaged in some inexplicable scenario verging on surrealism.
Reception 7-9 pm
Through May 1
BAYARTS
13
Spring classes begin
VALLEY ART CENTER
15
Matthew Gallagher
Preview 6-8 pm April 15
Reception 5-9 pm April 17
Through June 5
HEDGE GALLERY
17
Third Friday
5-9 pm
78TH STREET STUDIOS
18
Studio Open House: Create & Take
Noon-3:00 pm
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
22
Earth Day Benefit
5:30-8 pm
BONFOEY GALLERY
24
Community Culture Night
6-8:30 pm
ART HOUSE
24
Concert: The Humbuckers
7-10 pm
BAYARTS
24
Cause for Change
Reception 5-7:30pm
Through June 6
BONFOEY GALLERY
24
Community Expressions
Artist talk at 4:30 pm in the Audra L. Rose Creative Arts Studio
Reception 5-6 pm in the 6th Floor Commons
Through July 15
GEORGE A. STREETER GALLERY AT JUDSON PARK
27
A Portrait of Americana: American Life from the CMA Collection
Patient Work: Watercolors by J.D. Titzel
Reflections: The Artistic Spirit of Merv Corning
Symbolic Narrative: Ceramics by Taylor Robenault
Through July 19
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
30
Women Picturing Cleveland
Worthington Yards residents Heidi DuBois and Heidi Quicksilver co-host this show, which was put together by Cleveland Print Room founder Shari Wilkins. It looks at the work of the increasing number of women active in Cleveland’s photography scene, until fairly recently dominated by men. Many are affiliated with CPR as staff, teachers, mentors, board members and exhibitors, encouraging younger photographers. This show highlights what they saw—good and bad, beautiful and ugly, and above all hopeful—when they turned their gaze on the city itself.
5:30-8 pm
Through June 27
WORTHINGTON YARDS
30
KSU School of Art Studio Intensive Application Deadline
May 24-June 6
JoAnn: MAY
1
18th Annual Urban Bright Exhibition
4-5:30 pm & 6-9 pm
ART HOUSE
1
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-9 pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
1
This Moment: An Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
Reception 6-9 pm
Through May 30
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
1
CSU Merit Scholar Exhibition & 49th Student Art Exhibition
Artist reception 5-8 pm
Through June 6
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
1
Screw Factory Spring Art Show & Open Studios
May 1-2
SCREW FACTORY
2
Upcycle Parts Workshop
Upcycle Parts is a nonprofit organization which conducts workshops in creating new items with recycled materials. Their shop on St. Clair and East 65th sells donated materials for projects to artists, teachers and others. They lead an off-site workshop in upcycled crafts at Bonfoey, Cleveland’s oldest gallery, including a behind-the-scenes tour of the gallery and its operations.
1-3:30 pm
BONFOEY GALLERY
2
Workshops: Traditional Japanese Papermaking
10 am-4 pm May 2-3
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
3
Submission deadline for the 11th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition
Show dates May 14-June 26
8
Walkabout Tremont
6-10 pm
TREMONT
8
BAYarts 11th Annual Advanced Students Exhibit and Sale
Through June 5
BAYARTS
8
Exhibition: No(where), curator Matthew Rowe
Reception 6-8 pm
Curator Talk: 6:30pm
Through June 5
ZYGOTE PRESS
9
Mokuhanga: Traditional Japanese Woodblock
10 am-4 pm May 9-10
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING CONSERVATORY
9
Miniature Zines
10 am-4 pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
14
The Ardent Thread, curated by Tony Williams
Reception 5:30-8 pm
Through July 3
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
14
The 11th Annual May Show at Lakeland Juried Art Exhibition
Artist Reception and Awards Ceremony, 7-9 pm
Through June 26
THE GALLERY AT LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
15
CAN Journal Summer Issue Launch Party
6-8 pm
AMERICAN GREETINGS GALLERY W AT CROCKER PARK
16
Art/Ventures Studio Talk with Shari Wilkins
Start at Worthington Yards, then head to Cleveland Print Room to learn more about what the photography-based nonprofit does.
10 am
WORTHINGTON YARDS
16
Rooms to Let CLE
May 16-17
SLAVIC VILLAGE
20
Third Friday
5-9pm
78TH STREET STUDIOS
22
ATNSC presents: Lori Waxman, The 60wrd/Min Art Critic
May 22-24
ATNSC: CENTER FOR HEALING & CREATIVE LEADERSHIP/AHKSÓTHA GALLERY
23
Cleveland Arts Prize Art Auction & ’60s Bash
TRANSFORMER STATION
24
Kent State University’s School of Art studio intensives: ceramics, painting, print media, and sculpture and expanded media.
Through June 6
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
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