Ask someone to describe the life of an artist and you’re likely to get one of two accounts: a starving artist who ekes out a living by sacrificing everything, or a cosmopolitan artist living and working amid an embarrassment of big-city riches. Both extremes are rooted more in fantasy than fact. The reality is that there’s a vast middle ground. […]
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The holiday break in the art schedule gives us a minute to reflect on what’s been going on for the last year. While I would never sum up 2019 by saying it was the year of this or that, many of the year’s most significant exhibits and events in Cleveland point to big picture evolution in the art world. […]
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“Identity” is taking an increasingly central stage in U.S. political discourse. The “intersectional” paradigm lets us speak of the diversity within demographics which had previously been treated as homogenous. Progressives and conservatives alike are more likely to acknowledge that right-wing contrasts between “coastal elites” and “real Americans” amount to valorization of white Christian identity. “Nationalists” of lesser and greater degrees […]
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It’s one of the unofficial markers of the start of the new academic year: the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Faculty Exhibition. The 2019 show opens Thursday, August 29, and remains on view in Reinberger Gallery through October 6. “It’s equal parts a welcome-to-CIA tradition and an extraordinary overview of recent work by our current faculty,” said Nikki Woods, director of […]
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With four years of critiques and lectures and countless hours of studio work under their belts, recent graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Art are ready to dive into the real world. Meet a few of them and find out what they’re bringing to wherever they next land. Ross Brunetti Ask Ross Brunetti what industry most needs help from an […]
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Initially, William Harper’s new exhibit at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery evokes the inner chambers of a pyramid wherein magnificent treasures languish in wait for their pharaoh and his concubines to arrive in the afterlife. It’s not by accident. “I wanted it to look like a tomb,” Harper says of the exhibit The Beautiful and the Grotesque. To that […]
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The Beautiful & the Grotesque Reinberger Gallery April 4 through June 14 Reception 6:00–8:00pm Thursday, April 4 Two kinds of sounds can be on in the background when William Harper is making jewelry: classical music or tedious television. The creating side of Harper’s brain likes a certain type of side stimulation but not so much as to be distracting. Repetitiveness […]
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It’s autumn in Timothy Callaghan’s temporary studio at The Madison apartment building in Glenville. Afternoon sun illuminates a wall filled with walnut-ink streetscape studies. Around the apartment, Callaghan also has hung gouache paintings depicting scenes from the surrounding neighborhood. A large sketchbook contains the beginnings of future paintings; tubes of acrylic gouache hint at how they’ll be finished. Callaghan grew […]
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Aimed at students, artists and educators, the ThinkCraft Symposium at the Cleveland Institute of Art, September 20 through 22, will focus on issues critical in craft today. Visitors may attend one day or all three, and hear from top thinkers and makers in contemporary craft. Day One will focus on contemporary practice. Day Two will focus on education and theory […]
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As a CIA student in the 1980s, Pamela Argentieri remembers that graphic design was a common default for students who thought they needed a “real job” so they could practice their art of choice on the side. But Argentieri graduated with a BFA in jewelry and metals, and has earned her living doing the thing she most loves. She is […]
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