After nominating Taiwanese artists for the Creative Fusion program for more than four years, Bamboo Curtain Studio of Taipei has selected Karen Beckwith for a two-month residency there. The Taiwanese Government will fund the residency. Karen was selected for both her work as a Master Printer in the Printmaking Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art, and for taking inspiration […]
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The installation and performances of My Body is Our Body at SPACES Gallery aptly represented the culmination of the unique three-month collaboration between Taiwanese artist Hui Lin Chuang and the contemporary Inlet Dance Theatre. The result was an undulating composition of bodies and light, interacting with Chuang’s fantastical human forms. Based on a writing by Chuang of the same […]
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Connections, Bonds, and Bondage: Chains of Meaning Anila Rubiku is fascinated with the strong imagery and many symbolic meanings of chains. Her upcoming exhibition at Zygote Press, Tain’t Nobody’s Business, is a series of work depicting chains as a metaphor for the pain and sorrow that can be stirred up by love. “There are so many songs about chains and […]
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Melding art, design, and digital technology with local students You might say that DuDu Zhan has taken Cleveland by storm. Her influence has been electric. Literally. Art, teaching and digital engineering name only a few of the talents this buoyant Taiwanese innovator has brought to town during her Creative Fusion residency, her first-ever visit to the United States. […]
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The Arrival of Departure Asked about his first impressions of Cleveland, Taiwanese dancer/choreographer Meng Cheng Lee offers a surprising response. “Here, it is so big and so calm. My country is small but very busy. The cars, the people, the movement – here, it is different.” If it is a sense of calm that Lee has found during […]
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Bringing color—and cardboard—to Cleveland The chance that one of the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland’s clients or a child of a client would encounter the elaborately decorated trucks of Pakistan is pretty slim. Situated on Euclid Avenue at the eastern edge of the city, the Free Clinic provides care to medically underserved populations throughout the area. Pakistan is […]
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“We Have To Confront Apathy” Blessing Ngobeni arrived to Cleveland this past winter during one of the coldest months of the year. He had seen snow before, a few snowflakes here and there on his many travels outside native Johannesburg, South Africa, but the Cleveland weather was a different kind of challenge. The usual strategies – art residency life […]
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And the voices keep coming – Throughout Cleveland’s history our cultural legacy has been built by people from around the globe. From the dozens of immigrant nationalities that designed, sculpted, and maintain the cultural gardens of Rockefeller Park, to the music performed at Severance Hall, to the Asian collection and the rest of the vast holdings of the […]
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The work Pakistani sculptor Abdullah Qamer plans to create during his residency at the Sculpture Center deals with broad, sweeping questions, he says, about progress, and how it is defined and achieved. Using reclaimed materials, he welds and casts large metal pieces to create concave and convex forms, with the effect of turning something hard and unyielding into something that […]
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First impressions of Hui Lin Chuang’s sculptures convey delicate webs, dappled sunbeams and frilly coral colonies. Their beauty, however, is elevated to ethereal heights by the unlikely artificial materials the Taiwanese artist employs to create them, which include plastics, rubber items and paper. That ironic choice of media is informed by her homeland’s manufacturing sector, which is replete with plastic […]
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