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CIA 2025 Alumni Exhibition Explores Present Moment, Seeks New Paths Forward

During uncertain and distressing times—times like these—art plays a consequential role. It reflects, shapes and contextualizes what’s happening in the world around us, giving voice to intense and sometimes overwhelming feelings. Equally significant are the ways art also can reveal different, better ways forward. However dire times like these might feel, they’re also changeable—a paradigm we’re often reminded of thanks […]

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SIE 79, Latinx Club Shows Highlight Cleveland Institute of Art’s Spring Exhibitions

The talent and creativity of Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students will be on full display during two spring exhibitions: the 2025 Student Independent Exhibition (SIE)and Every Day Echoes: Small Moments, Big Connections, Lasting Traditions.This year marks the 79th Student Independent Exhibition, an annual show organized and mounted entirely by CIA students. Those same students also choose jurors, and for […]

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Love Is Resistance: The Kind of Show we Need Right Now

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Love Is Resistance, which opened on Valentine’s Day at Transformer Station, is in a multitude of ways The Kind Of Show We Need Right Now. After a year with no visual art programming at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s West side exhibit space, after decades during which Cleveland artists have pined for any measure of […]

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The Cleveland Museum of Art Activates Transformer Station with Community Partnerships Showcasing Local Artists

In 2025, Greater Cleveland’s vibrant artistic community is on full display at the Transformer Station. The exhibition schedule includes collaborations with the Cleveland Institute of Art, FRONT Fellows, and CMA Staff in three major art exhibitions: Love Is Resistance, CMA Artists at Work, and FRONT Fellows Show, along with a series of performances highlighting a talented array of regional artists. […]

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Attempt to Imagine: Possibility for Repair, at CIA

Possibility For Repair, on view at the Reinberger Gallery through February 9, opened just three days after the November 5 election. The show is an attempt to imagine reparations for the systemic elite white supremacy and unchecked, hegemonic European-Christian values that buttresses our collective American histories. Artists Lyndon Barrois, Jr., Mark Thomas Gibson, Sarah Kabot, M. Carmen Lane, and Jessica […]

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Local, National and Student Art Celebrated at CIA

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Exhibitions that invite regional and national perspectives and center student work highlight the Cleveland Institute of Art’s winter offerings. Possibility for Repair is a group exhibition that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect that features work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland). Acknowledging the […]

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CIA Students Respond to Progressive Art Collection in Ready, Set, Relay!

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In Ready, Set, Relay!, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students created paintings, drawings, sculptures and digital media in response to celebrated works in the Progressive Art Collection, bringing fresh perspectives to historic works and offering the public a rare opportunity to view Progressive’s collection. Seventeen students spent the semester researching and responding to works by world-renowned artists such as Kerry […]

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2024 Student Independent Exhibition on View This Spring at CIA

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Work by Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) students that demonstrates their prodigious creativity; a show organized and mounted entirely by some of those same CIA students; and, Reinberger Gallery filled with work representing a wide range of mediums and perspectives. These qualities and others make CIA’s annual Student Independent Exhibition (SIE) one of the college’s most popular exhibitions. And, every […]

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Student Creativity on View at CIA

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Two exhibitions will take center stage this winter at the Cleveland Institute of Art. One is an ambitious, immersive multimedia installation inspired by the wonders of the natural world. The second features artwork from CIA’s Black Scholars and Artists (BSA) club that explores the experiences of contemporary Black artists. What do they have in common? Both are student-driven exhibitions. Forest […]

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CAN Journal Announces Archiving Partnerships

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Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]

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